doodly things

Hi! Here’s the basics:

Tower/Karak

they/it

adult

on this blog I post drawings, maybe link my writing that goes up on AO3, and sometimes chatter about headcanons

talking tag is #chatter tag, for your filtering convenience!

And what I create about:

OCs, lots of them, always around and showing up in random batches

Warframe, pretty much entirely OCs (includes major spoilers! You have been warned!), very rare nowadays (love the game, art is difficult)

The face of a man who just realised he almost stepped in a giant hole because he wasn't looking

Playing with liquid watercolour (thanks to @revukanfendrenim loading some into their fountain pen for me <3) and sparkly acrylic ink as applied with a brush

Currently we have mostly stuff from my current focus headworld, Wolfpod, but there shall be more, always more, with time. For now:

Character introduction for K)nnuk

Some linguistics tidbits about their birth region

Unrelated to my wolf nonsense i have added a few more Free To Use stamps

Their two mundane pigments are brown (which is a sort of reddish, rusty brown similar to earth mammals) and blue (which i need to play with but i think is a cool, steely blue and does not dip into warmer tones). The absence of either creates white. The presence of both creates black, though from close up tends to have a roaned appearance, with brown, blue, and muddy black alternating from hair to hair and sometimes even on the length of the same hair

The Secret Third Option is where magic comes in. One of the places magic loves to express itself is on the outside of critters and thus it contributes to tallcrane colouration. It can be any goddamn colour it wants to be but usually follows the general flow and design of the rest of the markings on the body and is rarely a lot of different colours on one body. Glowing is rare but not unheard of. This expression is interestingly only in the hairs on tallcranes, the skin beneath the magical markings lacks any pigment whatsoever, making it pink (subject to change if i decide they don't actually have red blood)

You don't get the same degree of magic markings in smaller beasts, but tallcranes are, again, Fuckoff Huge, and magic accumulates through the food chain. Big creatures eat a lot but don't use up nearly as much magic over time as they do other forms of energy, and so it builds up, both during an individual's lifetime and over the course of evolution. Magic markings typically progress and proliferate over an individual's lifetime, with the babies having only sparse ones (and rarely none at all) at the start

Magic wolves can go hang out elsewhere and also Entirely Wolf Focused. Bc i was so excited to get to play with multiple species for the Introduced Species angle and then stopped having fun with it immediately bc 1) i can't birds, 2) i am mainly just here for the wolves and 3) dealing with sapient predator-prey interactions is a pain in the ass and i simply do not want to

Anyway

I am suffering the constant exercise of learning to have fun and not nitpick my own stuff to death

Like. Why do tallcranes have bigass pointy ears even tho they fly a lot and it'd be really goddamn loud to have bunny ears in the air? And also they are primarily sight-based predators?

Well you see. it's bc i like putting bigass pointy ears on my creatures

It's also bc their ears are Not There, they have tiny lil ear holes covered by thin hair similar to birds, and what Look like ears are actually solely display structures used to communicate with their own species over vast distances bc a lot of their hunting grounds have long sightlines and for an animal that is Mostly Wings they sure do spend a lot of their time wandering around on the ground like omnivorous magic giraffes. So they are out there doing some sort of semaphore shit. With their ears

They aren't necessarily collectors and honestly a lot of Interesting Shit breaks sooner rather than later from Them Being Interested In It. They just like messing with things. And organising them in pleasing patterns and colour combinations. There is zero need for tallcrane dwellings to be well-concealed considering in Baby Season there are always adults on guard duty and the adults have no natural predators, and outside of Baby Season the group rotates between a few established rest sites in their rather large territory. So they can just leave colourful/shiny/etc stuff everywhere without fear of Attracting Unwanted Attention

Their triad-based reproduction is also relevant here i just still need to iron out some stuff about it

Skull beating run on Dungeon Coursers using Ahun, Crest, Primula, and Pergamen. I didn't want to just draw fight scene after fight scene so instead I decided to practice drawing backgrounds from photos I found on Unsplash, switch around the skull each time, and draw my little guys tiny often

Gifts for some of my friends over on Dungeon Coursers <3