Fantasy's Reference Stash

Sideblog of itsadragonaesthetic dedicated to organizing and storing art references! Taking submissions!

[theartreferencehoard]

Blog Intro

Hello! This side blog is run by my main blog, itsadragonaesthetic. I use this blog to compile art references and give myself easy access to things I might need when I'm drawing. I'm alright with others using this blog for this purpose too, so submissions are allowed! Everything should be tagged with the vague categories that I might use something for. Many of my common tags are for dragons, birds, wings, and other such things. I'm also in the process of making a masterpost of Deviantart favorites of mine that are especially useful as references. I will post a link to that masterpost here when I got a first draft. Enjoy!

Link to my main blog, itsadragonaestetic

Link to my Deviantart

Link to my Deviantart favorites masterpost

[drreadnought]

the beeblewing

design notes and free-to-use blank base under cut

Blank BeetleWing Base / Free to Use!

Rules

Don't remove the credit!

Don't use for paid adopts!

Don't claim as your own!

For personal use only!

The design was made by reducing HiveWing and SilkWings to core traits that aren't present on NightWings. SilkWings, despite apparently being unrelated to NightWings, have the most physical similarities to NightWings compared to HiveWings. This was probably like an oversight, but i thought it was interesting (albeit a bit frustrating at times) nonetheless.

HiveWings are digitigrade whilst SilkWings and NightWings are plantigrade, although in certain illustrations SilkWings are depicted with digitigrade hind legs (but this isn't present on the official reference). Because there was a digitigrade dragon in there somewhere, I safely assumed BeetleWings likely had digitigrade hind legs.

The wings combine both the HiveWing transparent wings (the smaller secondary pair) and the opaque patterned SilkWing wings (larger top pair).

this is also like my first free base yayyyy if you use it please tag me, i'd love to see!!

[requiem-on-water]

Sulfur combusts on contact with air to create stunning blue lava-like rivers of light in the Kawah Ijen crater on the island of Java | Ph: Olivier Grunewald

[kiwi245]

SOLD SolarWing adopt!!

STILL OPEN ‼️

DM on discord if interested !! (_icewalke)

[kedamakedama]

月と鷹/柳の下

[drakeroot]

dragonposting!!

[saint-nevermore]

a better attempt at the skull of a Widewing, since im not happy about how the first attempt looked

[lichen-bones]

Barn swallow, my beloved

[thatwelshartist]

I was looking up facts about Cormorants to find a title for this and found out about the liver bird a mythological creature from liverpool that is literally just a cormorant which I find kinda funny

anyway still think what to call this maybe UKAI

[darknymfa-art]

Aviapril day 22, secretarybird. In retrospect maybe I should've picked a slightly different pose so the feet don't blend together so badly.

[theartreferencehoard]

Steve Collins on iNaturalist

Ken-ichi Ueda on iNaturalist

David Bell on iNaturalist

[souperluminal]

05.28 - Nebula

[viverridae]

i love pretending like i’m ever going to finish anything. WIP

[pigeon-butch]

I'D NEVER SEEN A SCALED PIGEON BEFORE. this thing rules so much

[herpsandbirds]

Regent Parrot or Rock Pebbler (Polytelis anthopeplus), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found across southern Australia

photograph by Jan Wegener

[herpsandbirds]

Gang-Gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum), male, EAT A TASTY FRUIT!!!, family Cacatuidae, order Pasittaciformes, Australia

photograph by Jan Wegener

[jpnostalgia]

2000s Dinosaur Books (late 90s for the last 3)