#snakerambles

[crispysnakes]

xenopes Will she keep the cool tones in her face or will she grow out of that? Absolutely gorgeous regardless!

I think so! Her dad has a silver head.

Her mom's head is more yellow, but it's still got a bunch of silver in it.

She still has a couple years of color development, but thus far I'm hopeful her head will be silver.

[a-snake-full-of-sparkles]

You know they're procrastinating when they go through all their posts/reblogs and add organizing tags instead of sending that email. Anyways everything's been properly tagged now.

[a-snake-full-of-sparkles]

Attempting to draw a dragon traditionally

Yesterday I thought to myself "man I wanna try watercolor again with a dragon." But the process of making a dragon to watercolor has been a dang journey and I need y'all (the 4 people following me) to suffer with me.

Attempt 1:

This is the dragon I drew yesterday. At first glance, nothing wrong. But when I came back to it, I realized the proportions are all out of wack. The head's just a bit too big, the back half is too small, the hand is too big and really weird. The entire dragon is too big, I couldn't fit the wings. Since it's not a digital piece I can't just resize it. But I was meeting up with a friend so I left it for the next day (today).

Attempt 2:

No. The proportions are nearly correct, but the middle section is too short. That dragon is squished. Where are the lungs??? I didn't even bother adding the details to this one.

Interlude: Actually practicing the parts I'm struggling with

Fine, I'll friggin use references. She's got a puma body and bat wings. I realized as I was drawing I've never actually drawn a bat before, crazy.

Attempt 3:

Things are looking good...

FINALLY

Is it perfect? Of course not. That's the point. But it's something I'm much happier with.

Eventually I'm gonna put this on a lightboard and trace it onto some watercolor paper, but for now I have a headache and need to shower so that'll be a step for later.

[genderless-snake]

I’m still reeling over @reallyndacarter joining the little tumblr community. Just wanna say I love ya, and your work made my entire childhood as an afab person who needed strong women to look up to in my life 💚 you’re the certified coolest 😎😊

[genderless-snake]

You know with all the abortion bans and criminalizing miscarriages and nonviable pregnancies lately, here’s a bright idea. Since the pregnant person has no control over the fetus’s demise, shouldn’t a fetus who kills its mother in childbirth become a felon for surviving what it’s birth parent doesn’t?

I mean if that’s where pro-life bills are going now…

Same logic there.

[genderless-snake]

I keep seeing blogs that say DNI cishet men? I can understand DNI queerphobes, but one of my biggest allies(perhaps my very biggest ally) when I came out as trans was a cishet man. Their gender and orientation doesn’t automatically make them bad guys. It’s the judgement of others gender and orientations that you gotta watch out for. Isn’t this a double standard? We’re perpetuating barriers by saying “it’s us or them”. To create a more inclusive world, shouldn’t we all be accepting each other for their orientation and gender identity? If we see ourselves as right for doing the same they do to us, we’re only perpetuating hurt, instead of building a constructive future… just my two cents.

[genderless-snake]

Tfw you hear your dead name somewhere and it sends chills down your spine.