#sevsartstuff

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Exquisite corpse drawings I did with my friends Sev (top left top, when sev came to Portland) and Erb!

[guitarbeard]

sevsartstuff replied to your post: Martial arts was fun while I did it, but grappling...

Fair enough, if you don’t enjoy it. I enjoyed jiu-jitsu, even the ground work and the challenge of it. Doing Tae Kwon Do now, and sometimes I miss practicing close distance techniques (either throws or ground).

I may have just been dealing with a bad introduction and group to work with. I dunno, there was just nothing enjoyable for me in it. Throws and standing techniques were fun, even submissions, I just felt like I was wasting my time if I wasn’t spending more time training upright. 

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@sevsartstuff Look what came in the mail! My mailman is still mad. He chews up my mail but it’s still in good shape. Thanks :D

[guitarbeard]

sevsartstuff replied to your post “7 followers left, which of you sons a bitches wanna make me a legend”

How did that even happen?

If you make too many joke posts you pass the 1000 followers line and are doomed to spend eternity in hell

[wyrd66]

sevsartstuff replied to your post: Dragonriders and sign language

That’s a nice idea. Could some of the cleverer dragons learn/remember a number of signs too? Since (if I remember well) their intelligence level is a bit undefined but in any case a number of animals have been shown to understand sign language.

All dragons are trained with a combination of hand signals and verbal commands. How much verbal/signal ratio is used depends on the rider. Quen uses more verbal commands (mostly because he is very talkative), while Sai uses almost exclusively hand signals. It’s really a matter of preference.

The dragons are taught a lot of groundwork like horses (or dogs) are. Sit, down, stand, stay, come. Lift your foot, open/close your wing. Lower your head. Open your mouth. Walk into your harness. That sort of thing.

Riding commands are a lot like dressage-- it all depends on weight shifts, tightening of certain muscles, minute movements of the legs. All of them mean something to the dragon and can get them to take off/land, change direction, and any number of other things.

Thanks for asking!

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18 and 21 for the art ask?

18. right now I’m trying to get good at just about everything. Since I’m trained in animation but interested in illustration and comics I kind of need to be good at a lot.

21. Yes. I like to push myself to make better and better art.

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6 and 15 for the art ask?

6. If I’m not doing something intended to have a specific color scheme (like a character design) then I like to try and to use vibrant or odd color combinations. I’d say a lot of my color choice is inspired El Huervo’s illustrations and the JJBA: DiU anime.

15. I do my best to work around it. Only once have I had a serious enough mistake where I had to go back and cover it over and re-do the whole area. 

[wyrd66]

Apologies for the phone photo, the scanner is on the fritz. Next set of dragon interactions! Also, my little wyvern is now named Hue!

We’ve got the two seconds before a mid-air crash with @sevsartstuff‘s amphitere.

I know you didn’t request anything, @wolfyttwisted, but I had to draw Derrgun. I had to.

I also had to draw @greekceltic‘s Alf. Because.

@theload’s dragon thinks Hue is entirely too close and should back off.

All done! Time to rest. You can see where I got tired and gave up on the scales. XD

Thank you for volunteering your dragons (or uh, having your dragons be volunteered)!