#bird contest

[hanniebones]

Reintroducing my old Storm Hawks OC, Captain Rosin, for @far-side-skies challenge! An osprey was so fitting for him, it was the perfect opportunity to push his design.

Species : Skog

Occupation: Captain of the Nightingales.

Age: Early 40's.

Skogs in Atmos are a race wrapped in ambiguity and mystery; keeping to their own, a quiet lot, have a habit for lurking, and becoming livelier only when the sun goes down. These traits haven't gained them a very friendly reputation and work can sometimes be hard to find, but o'l Roisin found opportunity in this misfortune. Gathering his most trusted companions, be formed a crew and marketed themselves as the most skilled professional carriers of precious relics, artifacts, and treasures for high paying customers of Atmos. Who better to transport the rarest, most coveted, most "steal-able" of crystals and baubles than the masters of stealth themselves? Although they refuse to do business with a certain empire...

Traveling only under the guise of darkness, Roisin and his all skog crew, except for the twilight crooner, Ichabod, in the hold, have seen just about all there is to see and the mere mention of their names keeps most Murk Raiders and challengers at bay. However, beneath Roisin's intimidating, wily facade, is the best crazy uncle you never knew you needed. He has a tender spot for children and like most other skog, has a deep love of music and storytelling. He values the lives of his crew and few others closest to him above all else. They're all he has left.

[happypanda101]

Hewo! Here’s my entry this month for @far-side-skies bird contest!

Meet Yang and Yin, twins of Arygyn. As you can see, they both take after their father in some way.

Yang was born during the day while Yin was born during the night. Yin was gifted with ice powers, while Yang was gifted with ink powers.

Still working on their exact abilities, but one of Yin’s jobs is to frost/defrost certain plants/habits of the like while one of Yang’s jobs is to help his father out with training the Sky Knights.

Both of them have healing abilities.

I wanted to do a full body for this month but unfortunately I got sick and lost all motivation ;w; I hope ya like them!

[knights-of-the-sky]

Bird challenge time bird challenge time challenge time-

Here’s my character for June’s bird month for my friends @far-side-skies bird challenge!

Meet Pandion, a talon solider that specializes in stealth and robbery. When there’s a mission that requires stealth and secrecy, she’s usually sent in. She does well in battle too, having been taught by the Dark Ace himself.

Pandion was born on Terra Simian, a Terra full of ape and monkey species. The Terra was well known for their trading systems, and thought of very highly by Atmosia.

That is, until, it was found out the Terra was also making trades with Cyclonia. Out of rash fear of having information shared with Cyclonia, the Council sent their Sky Knights to attack and raid the Terra. For simply also doing business with the enemy.

And who should show up at the right time to fend off the attack? A very young Dark Ace.

He and some other Talons were able to to fend off the attacks, but the raid didn’t come without causalities. Pandion’s parents were killed in the attack. She clung to Ace, and not knowing what to do, he took the young child with him.

The young monkey swear revenge on the Sky knights, for tearing apart her home and her family. Which is why she has no problem in helping in raids on Atmosian Terra’s. She sees it as justice for what those has wronged her had down.

Pandion is very talkative, sneaky, and she often curses a lot. She likes to pull pranks on her fellow talons and mostly enjoys being in her coworkers presences. Ravess and her get along fairly well, sometimes having girl nights together.

Her closest relationship is with Ace though. He’s the man that saved her life, after all. He allows himself to open up with her, and her to him. She’s blindly loyal to him, and hopes that one day, she’ll be just as good a solider as him.

Hope you like her!

[far-side-skies]

Storm Hawks OC Contest - January '22

So, 2021. One hell of a year, right? Well, here's hoping this year is at least marginally better.

Time to commence the new year with a new bird prompt for the contest! This month it's the White-Faced Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna viduata.

These ducks inhabit sub-Saharan Africa and much of South America, which according to Wikipedia is rather unusual, and possibly the result of being transported to one of these areas by humans. They also sound like squeaky toys!

Due to the delay in getting this prompt out, the deadline has also been pushed back to the 29th of January.

Rules are under the cut:

Minimum requirements to be put in the final collage and contest will be a name, occupation and where they fit in the Storm Hawks universe, and the character’s home Terra (if they’re a wanderer, then use the Terra they were born on).

Art is not mandatory, but written entries should have a few paragraphs of backstory and a physical description of the character. Feel free to make a mini-fic out of it; use whatever medium you want!

Elements of the chosen bird’s appearance should be included in the character’s design.

The deadline for entries is usually the 24th of the month, but once again, due to this month’s delay the deadline has been pushed back to the 29th. Things will return to their usual schedule of running from the 1st to the 24th each month starting February.

Entrants who are part of the Storm Hawks discord server will have the chance of getting a custom role for the next month! If you’re not part of the discord server, please ask for an invite if you’re interested.

Make sure to tag me when you finish your characters so I know to put them in the collage! Unfortunately Tumblr's been dumb with tags over the last few months, so you might want to DM me to let me know about your entry.

[happypanda101]

Bird contest bird contest bird contest bird contest-  Another character for @far-side-skies monthly bird challenge! This month, we have Jules Philip Marigold Goldcap! But you just call him Jules lol

He’s currently 20-21 during the events of the show and was born on Terra Rex, where he would began his own cosmetics company! He’s also an adventurer, liking the thrill and finding new ingredients for his products. 

Jules was adopted by a rich family, who were family friends of his biological parents, who unfortunately couldn’t take care of him, and soon later died under “mysterious circumstances.” 

He is a vampire. One with Jaguar shape shifting abilities to be exact. Because of the cubs being born in animal form and can not shift fully into their human form until the age 6, his family had to lie about him being a sickly child and having to send him out into the country so he could get better. 

The Rex Guardians are in on the secret because of an incident when Jules and younger, and he become incredibly close to Harrier, who he will refer to as his Uncle. 

Jules had to use makeup since the age of 6 to hide the markings on his face, which are pictured in the drawing above. It sparked his creativity and his drive to make people more confident in themselves. He opened his company when he was 19.  As for the adventor part, because having to be constantly be supervised and watched, he didn’t get to get out much as a child, which was the start his want to see more of the world. He loves the thrill of it. I would even say he gives Domowick a run for his money lol. I hope you all like him!

[far-side-skies]

So here are my first couple sketches for my character this month. This is General Deo Topelia, right hand to the Dark Ace and fellow traitor.

She's part of a species created by the wonderful @grimm-the-6th called dawnrunners, which she was nice enough to let me use for this concept.

Story below the cut. Warning for themes of familial abuse.

Deo is the younger sister of a Sky Knight named Fides, conceived by their parents after Fides left to train to be a knight and they caught a case of empty nest syndrome. She grew up spoiled and idolising her older sister, and as soon as she was old enough, she joined her sister's squadron as a squire.

Unfortunately, Fides turned out to be a bitter, spiteful person who resented Deo's existence. She only saw this "runty little brat" as a burden and was unreasonably hard on her in all aspects of her training. All the while, Deo continued to put her on a pedestal and passed off the overly rough treatment and harsh words as training and "Fides' own brand of sisterly love". She was finally proven wrong in an incident where Fides broke off her horn and left her visually impaired. Part of her died that day, and that hopeful, overeager young girl who only saw the best in her sister was gone.

A week later, Deo killed Fides during a battle on Cyclonian territory, and pledged her allegiance to the Dark Ace himself. She's gone on to become one of Cyclonia's most formidable fighters, specialising in taking out other dawnrunners from Atmos's skies and other covert operations.

[far-side-skies]

*passes you a lesbian*

Some first concept sketches for my own Snowy Owl character. As a character she's been in the works for a long while, but I took this as my chance to give her an actual design.

This here is Daisy-Mae, a maned Tundra Blizarian and wife of Suzy-Lu. She was an architect and infrastructure manager for several communities on Blizaris. When Cyclonia invaded, she managed to make it off the Terra and now helps her wife take care of the refugee group they're a part of.

Originally, Daisy was born to a nomadic community and grew up on the move, and she learned a lot about building homes and keeping them comfortable from her own parents. She only recently settled four years ago after marrying Suzy-Lu. In contrast to her wife, she's not overly fond of the wild stunts the Absolute Zeroes are known for, but has grown equally protective of the younger members of their community. While not a trained fighter, she's still fully capable of defending herself, and her bite is much worse than her bark. Her hope is to return home to Blizaris and start expanding her family with Suzy.

[far-side-skies]

European Robin OC Challenge WINNER

Once again, this is overdue, but at least it's out! This was a tough one to pick, especially when I had two tied entries and had to find a tie-breaker. But in the end, a winner has been found.

@wozzmeyer, congratulations! Tau won the vote!

https://wozzmeyer.tumblr.com/post/671146536961490944/meet-researcher-tau

Please DM me to talk about what sort of prize illustration you'd like :D

To everyone else, thank you so much for participating, and I'm looking forward to what you all come up with for the White-Faced Whistling Duck this month. And fingers crossed I get back to the regular schedule by February.