#hivewings

[trunswicked]

Animated SilkWing and HiveWing flight headcanons! Featuring IRL inspiration from butterflies and dragonflies. Captions under the cut:

SilkWing flight

In Lepidopteran (butterfly and moth) flight, the wings are mechanically coupled and always flap together. The downward stroke of the forewing propels the hindwing. Also, the hindwing aids in aerial maneuverability and generating lift, by contributing to the total surface area of the wing.

HiveWing flight

Inspired by Odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) who possess independent control of all four of their wings (made possible by flight muscles attached directly to the wings, versus the thorax). This gives them superior aerial capabilities, including the ability to fly backwards!

[spookys1fan]

Hey yall! Did some silhouette practice recently with anthro Wof tribes, I think they turned out really cool! Sorta zootopia-like postures, I really like these guys! Should I do more with them?

They’re all quite funky and I love them all dearly.

Edit: here are the full blacked out silhouettes!

Edit 2: someone asked for some lineart for ppl to use for their ocs! So here is the lineart! Please make sure to use credit if you use my lineart, but feel free to use it w/o asking first! Just make sure to use credit and tag me so I can see ur creations! I love to see everyone’s oc!! ^^ and I’d love to see inspired creations if you want to make your oc in this style! ^^ maybe more coming?

@gooberclown here you go! I hope u like them! ^^ have fun!!!

[devswxngs]

Pantala's broken crown

Arc 3 of Wings of fire has always been interesting to me because it involves so many cool ideas and characters, but so much is wasted or left unseen.

One of my favourite ideas was the divided rule between Hives, and I was sad we never got to see all the Ladies and how they're like. So after planning to do it for years, I finally made some design ideas AND character ideas for them, since they don't really have anything in canon, other than being "Wasp's sisters".

Also this only includes "current" rulers (so sadly no Lady Scarab, will have to draw her eventually), and lacks any royal attire since I still need practise with drawing that.

All that being said, the list of notes for these guys will be long, so that'll be under the cut ✨️

These will be listed in order of the dragons in the picture, going from left to right.

For inspiration I used what few canon mentions the Ladies have, as well as what their Hive seems to specialize on based on their respective universities.

•Lady Hornet - Hive of commerce - Blunt and irritable, but less aggressive than Wasp - No-nonsense attitude, cares about profits and efficiency -> cruelty shows in willingness to overwork her Hive's Silkwings

•Queen Wasp: Capital Hive and Queen of Hivewings - Malicious, cruel and resentful -Intelligent and deceitful, but has become more erratic and reckless with her constantly growing paranoia - Believes everyone is evil so the only way to survive is be the cruelest

•Lady Yellowjacket -Hive of engineering, architecture, manifacturing and designing -Wasp's twin sister -Matches Wasp with her bad temper and cruelty, but lacks her paranoia, thus being more "rational" -Enjoys power but doesn't share Wasp's obsessive belief of "eat or be eaten"

•Lady Mantis - Hive is the academic center of innovation (2nd largest library on Pantala) - Calm, creepy and observant - Talks little, but is very aware and insightful - Uses manipulation to keep her power

•Lady Jewel - Hive of arts and culture - Considered airheaded, vain and spoiled - In actuality is quite cunning, using the ditzy impressions as a cover to stay out of trouble - Compassionate and quick-witted, though has a bit of an attitude about her

•Lady Bloodworm - Hive of "discipline" - Known as the only one of Wasp's siblings to rival her level of cruelty. - Sadistic and cunning, she takes pleasure in shaping up future generations of soldiers who must go through training in her Hive's university. For their abilities, yes, but also to remove empathy towards Silkwings, which are used as the target practise

•Lady Vinegaroon - Hive of zoology - Headstrong, confident and cunning - "Lives for the hunt", in that she delights in hunting all sorts of beasts and has a collection of taxidermies in her Hive. - Her hobby and understanding of prey behaviors extends to the way she symbolically views her hive and subjects, a twisted sense of a foodchain, where Silkwing are the prey, etc.

•Lady Tsetse - Hive of medicine - Unnerving, inquisitive and cynical - While her Hive is dedicated to humane ways of healing, she is known to have her own secret projects and little regard for morals when it comes to conducting them - Mad scientist vibe, but more eerily quiet than eccentric

•Lady Cicada - Hive of agriculture - Levelheaded, Cicada isn't as powerhungry as some of her siblings, but the Tree Wars made her colder and meaner. - Doesn't bother with particularly tormenting the Silkwings like some Hives do, but has strict punishments for anyone who causes trouble in her Hive, hence Misbehaver's way - Wants to control any unrest in her Hive, needing the stability to ease her own mind

[cywofdesign]

Bumblebee

enlarged to show texture

[kakajoju]

I heard it might be time for a nice summer vacay-

[fiendish-illos]

i drew the Tribes

some Various Notes about each of them: - MudWings have the toughest scales out of all the tribes; they also have dorsal nostrils on top of their heads and flexible ears, allowing them the ability to breathe and listen for danger while almost completely submerged in mud - SeaWings have the softest scales, but the max brightness of their bioluminescent spots can momentarily blind a dragon (and cause a nasty headache), so other tribes try not to get too close when in combat - SkyWings can have multiple horns, though it's not uncommon for a SkyWing to only have one pair; their feathers are specifically designed to repel heat to a great degree, making them almost completely fireproof--- though, they can burn if a phoenix (what they call firescales) touches them - RainWings often have eyespots on various parts of their bodies, often to deter and confuse attacking animals (though, when they're not in danger, many probably think it looks sick---which they're right about---and keep them on) - NightWings have scutes that they shed annually (it's very itchy and bothersome, but it's made up for by the fact that NightWings have the second toughest scales out of all the tribes because of this shedding). However, these scales are covered in an extremely fine velvet, making their movements completely silent (including flight, but only with great practice and precision) - SandWings have the biggest ears out of all the tribes (aside from NightWings), which they use to expel heat from their bodies to keep cool, same for the sail along their heads and spines; they also have a hood on their necks that flare when they feel threatened to seem bigger (as they are the second smallest tribe, so they gotta take what they can get) -IceWings, as I think I've mentioned before, use the spines on their necks and shoulders to communicate with one another, similarly to tenrecs; they're also covered in a dense fur to keep warm, and their sharp spines are just specialized fur, hardened and thickened as for the Pantalan tribes, i dont know how i'll use them in my rewrite, but i think they're cool concepts, and i wanted to explore them a little bit more - HiveWings have a tough, segmented "shell", which is actually just scales fused together for optimal defense; they also have antenna right above their earholes to better sense vibrations and frequency - SilkWings, like HiveWings, also have antenna, but one set is used for sensing pheromones while the other is for vibrations; they have long, soft fur on their necks. why? dont ask me that, that's not my business. - for LeafWings, i took inspiration from leafy sea dragons for the design, meaning that they're absolutely covered in leafy camouflage; just like in canon, they can photosynthesize, but their leafspeak comes from the fact that the "plants" on their bodies (which is actually just specialized antennae) can read and respond to the frequency of other plants, which can stimulate growth and other behaviors

[mistynwindy]

Lady Jewel and Scarab (repost)

[ajfc999]

Cricket the hivewing

I have a headcanon that hivewings are naturally more bigger than silkwings, so...