silk and nails

Hello everyone! I’ve got a new adoptable up for grabs, probably the last one until the new year! Raya is a shapeshifting insectoid dragon: a jewel-nymph, or Draconis arthroderma.    Her kind sport an exoskeleton of shining, iridescent scales over highly flexible muscles and a skeleton made up mostly of cartilage. Their strange jointed hides can move to rearrange most of their body into any shape they please (with practice) as long as it’s the same in mass. Some parts of their bodies (like their horns, wings, and claws) are too rigid to change the shape of, so those will exist in any form they take.  These dragons are one of the smaller species, about the size of an average human, and favor a diet of fish and other small prey. They make their homes in rich environments and can sometimes be seen perched on limbs of trees that overhang the water, using their heavy claws for a secure hold as they stretch down to strike at passing fish. It’s presumed that the glinting of their scales attracts their meals. Some of them may be seen sporting a long mane of gossamer fibers, often indicating status, as a dragon who can afford the inconvenience clearly holds a territory rich enough that they don’t need to go far to hunt.  In years past, nymphs who were curious about the rise of humankind learned to take their shapes, and the first ones encountered were said to be treated as ambassadors of the gods, for how brightly their hides shine.  ________________________ I had a ton of fun designing this character and figuring out how she works! (bonus thanks to my roommate for helping me design her clothing!) For now, I enjoy how she came out so much that I’m considering jewel-nymphs a new closed species, so you may be seeing more of them in the future as I develop them further! ________________________ Onto the adoption rules! - A purchased design becomes your character to do with as you please. - Feel free to make any changes to it yourself! (including but not limited to: name, colors, scars/piercings/tattoos, gender etc) - You are required to credit me for the original artwork itself and may not claim it as your own. - Trading or reselling the design is allowed, but please do not sell for any higher than what you originally purchased for. ***(Unless you are selling it with additional artwork, then please feel free to add the value of the additional art to the selling price.) - While it’s not required, I’d appreciate it a lot if you let me know that you’re selling/trading it, and who the design goes to! *** ORIGINAL SPECIES SPECIFICS *** - If you purchase a design for one of my original or closed species, I would appreciate it if you credit the species design to me. - Please do not use any of my original species in commercial works such as advertising, novels, webcomics, etc. _______________________ Raya will come with the following:   All the above artwork -3 ref sheets (a bare and clothed version of her human form, and one of her dragon form) -copies of some of the original design sketches with notes on how the wings fold and some of the features of her species. -additional copies of all of the above in higher res, and the original PSDs. (layers intact on the ref sheets) This design is $350USD. If you have questions or are interested in claiming her, please email guttertongue(at)gmail(dot)com !  Thank you! 

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I hope they don’t change a thing about this horrible bastard’s attack. 

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