This beautiful interpretation of the Blights was drawn by @rooby-the-rapscallion , who has magic hands when it comes to art. Let’s break this piece down!
Firstly, the face of the big one (which I am assuming is the Papa Blight) Look at that sweet little face! If I had to guess the animal it was based off of , I'd say a ferret or a hamster. One of the things I have never considered for the Blights is their ears, because I had tried different ear designs and they didn't seem to work with them, BUT Rooby over here had the idea of making teeny fluffy ears, and it actually works!!
Note the cheek scruff/pouch. You can see its clearly fluffy, like real small mammal cheeks, and you can see the nose and the mouth and WHISKER LINES. Best of all from what I can see, ever look at a critter and see lumps on the face above their eyes and on their nose? Those are the bony structures of their face, and she remembered that! Look at the nose, look above the eyes and tell me that those aren't part of the facial structure. Speaking of the eyes, LOOK AT THEM! Big and wide, a characteristic of the Blights, and it looks so focused too.
The neck for this Blight is proportionate, and it has a little chest scruff! Most fuzzy animals I have owned has had a scruff. They LOVE being scratched there, and there's shading and lines to show that its indeed fur.
Oh my goodness, these glorious archangelic wings. Blights have wings of various sizes, and right here is the biggest pair one can get for it's size!! Look at him in mid-flight, getting ready to land!! You can see he's getting ready to just drop the food and land on his graceful little paws, and with the tips of the feathers, you can see how most of them are pointed in one direction to give the image of the wings in action instead of just being there, and Rooby drew them almost exactly where I think Blights would have their wings jutting out at! The feathers are nicely detailed-not to the point where it pops out from the rest of the body but just enough to give them a sense that those really are feathers.
Look what he has! He has a fish! This Blight has caught what seems to be a minnow. He’s such a good Blight! Rooby even remembered that they’re omnivorous!!
Look at this other Blight- You can see how consistent Rooby keeps her designs for them, making the differences enough to where its not sameface but also you can still recognize that its a part of the same species. She’s got the cheek fluff/jaw, the brows and those cute little ears!! Look at the way her neck slopes gracefully, like an arch on a horse neck, and due to the shading on the eyes, she’s looking upwards at the other Blight instead of just staring off into space.
Looking at this from a anatomic point of view, its perfectly reasonable for her back to be up like that for a number of reasons:
-She could be arching it from looking up
-It could be from how she has her wings
-Its floof
-It’s her back and bone wings
AND HOLY SHIT THAT CUTE LITTLE TAIL, LOOK AT IT! CAN YOU IMAGINE A CUTER TAIL? SOFT FINE FEATHERS!
Beautiful leggies. They remind me of either a cat’s or a rabbit’s leg, the majority of animals have that big curve, and if you can just imagine bones in that, you can see how it’d work for the Blight. Very fuzzy too, great floof detail. You can also see the three toes for the paws!! You see, the reason why the Blights have legs like these is because they’re also scamperers, they scamper and crawl and run and do all sorts of leg things as well as flying, and these legs were made for scampering!
Look at that wing, just like the other in its perfect detail.
Also, pay attention to the full image of how she has her whole body in relation to the wings. She’s excited or at least paying attention. Okay, you as a human probably have subtle bodily cues when paying attention that you don’t realize. Be aware next time-do your shoulders feel a little strange because you push them back? That’s what’s going on with this Blight right here.
Behold, the fluffiest of the fluffs.
ITS A BABY BLIGHT!! Look at those itty-bitty wings, they can’t fly until they’re a little older, and LOOK AT ITS STUMPY LEGS :D Because of lack of flight they must scamper, and they’re going to be stumpy to support a bumbling baby Blight.
As you notice, Rooby drew it with more floof than the adults-because baby Blights grow a downy coat, and can we PLEASE look at how its looking straight at us, like “hi!” and LOOK AT ITS TWITCHY LIL NOSE!! Big bright eyes, ears are so small, and look at its stance in the grass! It’s pigeon toed for balance!