There were dragons when I was a boy

My piece for the upcoming Gallery Nucleus tribute show "Together From Afar: A How to Train Your Dragon Tribute Exhibition" ! Opening Reception is on April 11th from 5–8 pm 🐉☁️

I love Astrid and Stormfly, so I was really honored and excited to get to draw them🙇 John Powell was on full blast the entire time 🙇🙇🙇

Honestly, who needs a weighted blanket when you have a dragon?

me: the sheer rawness of hiccup saying “i AM older and i still don’t understand” in how to steal a dragon’s sword in response to stoick’s defense of slavery as a necessary evil blows my mind?? the concept that loss of childhood doesn’t have to mean the same thing as disillusionment or letting go of idealism, that idealism isn’t inherently a “childish” trait to have, that you can become an adult and a leader without compromising the moral values you held as a child despite the world telling you that those moral values were a sign of immaturity and inexperience?? and on the flip side how cynicism isn’t synonymous with wisdom or experience, and in fact cynicism is more of a crutch for characters to excuse their own passivity and justify how they are complicit in an evil social structure simply by upholding the status quo?? go OFF cressida cowell

I like httyd

It stuck with me.

I just really wanted to draw some scrungly Tooths.