#sanddollar

[iridescent-thistle]

STORM (#88100419)

[wandering-muppet]

[druidofsuburbs]

Beach Scene Diptych part 2. 4"x6" watercolor. 2023

A gift for my grandparents

[rng-scrys]

[sky] flaunt / [banana] foam / [sanddollar] capsule

[msb-lair]

Clutch #3402 - Mirella/Mireti

Mated On: 2023-11-13 # of eggs: 2 Hatched On: 2023-11-18

Progeny:

Hatchling 9044 - Sandsurge Male, Umber Giraffe/Sable Hex/Sanddollar Ghost, Uncommon - 15,000 on 2023-12-04

Hatchling 9045 (Ossa) - Sandsurge Male, Soil Ripple/Sable Hex/Sanddollar, Unusual - 15 gems on 2023-11-28

Comments: Two more fossil dragons.

[maypl-syrup]

I really adore your hybrid designs, they're incredible! How do you choose where to place the scales of both tribes, by trial and error, or another method? Would you mind showing how you draw each tribe?

While I'd love to eventually illustrate everything about my design and headcanon of every tribe, thats a long ways away so I can't exactly show how I draw every tribe but I can outline my process for making hybrids.

for the short version of my design process: i go with the flow between the two tribe's scales and lean more in the direction of the mother's tribe scales

for the long version:

Under the cut cause I love to ramble

So in canon, most hybrids look like their mothers (ie. Sunny and Darkstalker) so I usually have hybrids with the scale pattern from their mother's tribe.

so sanddollar is dominant mudwing, her father is a seawing

so her scale pattern is a normal mudwing's but her underbelly pattern is a seawing's

stareater is a more even mix of the 2, he is dominant nightwing, recessive hivewing

his scales are sectioned like a nightwing's but they also wrap around like a hivewing's do and if you look close, his front claws have nightwing patterning and his back claws have hivewing patterning and more obviously he only has 1 set of wings but they only have 3 fingers like a hivewing's larger pair of wings

it all depends on where the design takes me

[jacks-archive]

Grassland Remains

Tarnish/Moss/Sanddollar

[hoard-of-dragons]

forest/hunter/sanddollar