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Updated reference sheet for my Pernese Green, Seaforth. Her wing panels have cartilaginous reinforcement but are fully connected by elastic skin membrane. She is a sea-foam green with darker points and some white scarring on her muzzle from foraging in sharp coral.
My first Art Fight was lots of fun. Here's all the cool characters I drew!
Brand new reference for my fursona/online namesake, an Egyptian Vulture/Painted Stork/Caracal gryphon. Her behavior takes after her component species, heavy emphasis on the Egyptian Vulture. A scavenger and collector, crafty, inquisitive, exploratory, and fond of sunbathing.
Two fantasy felines.
Top: The Shadowcat, native to Westeros, found in montane ecosystems from the Vale to north of the Wall. Their black and white striped pelts are prized for cold weather garments.
Bottom: The Hrakkar, or White Lion of the Dothraki Sea, Essos. Presumably a separate population or subspecies from the tawny lions found elsewhere in Essos and formerly (?) in Westeros, where lions may now be extinct.
A few Pernese dragon head concepts, based on different animal skulls, the author's descriptions, and Michael Whelan's art. To meet the book descriptions, Pernese dragon must have eye ridges, head knobs instead of ears, a wide field of vision through multifaceted eyes, smooth suede-like skin, and jaws capable of both grinding stone and predating large animals. I also decided to play around with the spectrum of Bronze while coloring the designs. I decided the Bronze palette should be a blend of Gold, Green, and Brown.
Equine: Classic horse headed Pernese dragon. Anne McCaffery described her dragons as having 'horse-like' heads, which could mean anything from wedge-shaped with large cheeks to recognizably equine.
Giraffine: This is how I pictured the dragons while reading the books as a kid. Giraffe and Okapi skulls look very draconic, have both knobs and ridges, and big globular eyes.
Ursine: Leaning more into the predatory nature of fire lizards and dragons, here is a design with bite power. Based on a Giant Panda skull with the snout elongated. This design has a bulky skull with massive jaws. A well-developed cranium, zygomatic arch and sagittal crest.
Varan: As much as Anne McCaffery insists her dragons are not reptilian, a monitor lizard skull makes a great design base. They have wedge-shaped heads with incredible bite force, perfect for crushing firestone. The fire lizard progenitor to the Pernese dragon is a coast scavenger and piscivore; a monitor head shape is perfect for both tasks. Perhaps fire lizards would look more delicate, like a tree monitor, while dragons would look more like a rock monitor.
Whelan-like: Michael Whelan's amazing cover art was what drew me to pick up Pern books in the first place. But his designs do not have head knobs and the anatomy is very 'shrink-wrapped' so I've tried to address those issues while keeping it recognizably "Whelan."
Alien: Not based on any earth skull. Bulbous eyes oriented high on the head to see Threadfall. Large surface area for nasal turbinates to warm/humidify the vast quantities of air required by a flying creature, and to filter out Thread char. Head knobs less bony, more fleshy and flexible. Still vaguely "horse-like" shape to the head.
Smaugust 3 - Chiroptera colius
Last month I asked people to send me some of their favorite animals/plants/minerals. I'm now dragonizing the items on that list for Smaugust art prompts, attempting to draw one a day through the entire month. This one is based on the prompt "white-backed mousebird."
This small dragon snaps up insects on the wing and sips nectar from flowers . Hairlike pycnofibers insulate the body, while a spiny crest and scaley back defend from the talons of larger dragons
Saw Godzilla: King of the Monsters today and had to do a speed-paint of Ghidorah as soon as I got home because everything about him in this movie was amazing.
Yaroslav - Into The Glare by Ciameth
I’m drawing dragonbirds over at dA now (dracostryx). Addictingly fun stuff.
