The Ghost Zone >:3

Figure I should probably make one of these, so it can be a bit of a guide for anyone visiting my page.

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Heyo, my name is NearNeko, or you can just call me Near :3. I’m a digital artist with a massive love for xenofiction, furry media, fantasy, and anything to do with animals. Prehistoric ones included (dinosaurs my beloved).

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Some personal facts below that I feel are important to know-

I’m 22 years old

My pronouns are she/her

I am autistic-

I’m a butch lesbian

I’m biracial, black and white

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‼️Minors, DNI with my page!‼️

While I might enjoy drawing plenty of silly art of warrior cats and wings of fire dragons and whatnot, I also enjoy media that isn’t for children. As a result I’ll definitely be doing art for those things as well, and that might not be suitable for children in some cases. There is the possibility for violent art (though not NSFW in other ways) to potentially appear on my page, and I don’t want any minors exposed to anything too graphic.

As someone who was exposed to way too much on the internet way too young, the safety of kids on here is important to me. So please make smart choices, and respectful of my wishes, thank you.

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Blister first! I wanted her to look snake-like, since she’s described like that pretty often in the books. I’ve always loved the detail of her diamond patterns, so I wanted to lean into that rattlesnake vibe.

I’ve always envisioned her being the palest of the sisters, as well as having the most muted colors. I wanted her to have this wide, unsettling gaze. And the large fangs are just a bonus design decision for me really.

Next up is Blaze! I do find her silly as a character, though of course her vapidness and ditzy behavior is a bit much sometimes. Overall I think she’s the sister in the least interested in, but I loved designing her. I love imaging her as a pale gold, almost white in certain spots like her dorsal fin. And I enjoy imagining her with blue eyes. Like she’d absolutely be a stereotypical blonde rich girl if she was a person. Plus, jewelry! Can’t forget that on a Blaze design.

Finally, Burn. Honestly I think she’s my favorite of the trio, purely because of my headcanons for her. Like my headcanon voice for her being Ambessa from Arcane. Just feels right-

I wanted Burn to have the darkest color scheme of the three. I feel like with her name, you could either do a warmer, more fiery color palette, or something that actually looks burnt. And since her father is named Char, I went with the latter. I like imagining at least one of the daughters looks more like their dad.

Shoutout to me randomly being possessed to make designs for all of Santa’s reindeer last Christmas out of sheer boredom. And also because the store I worked at wouldn’t stop playing the damn song.

Dancer and Prancer are siblings, so are Vixen and Blitzen. Rudolph gets his red nose from being piebald!

Also Comet is non-binary, Prancer is gay, Vixen is lesbian and Dancer is bisexual. (Cupid is probably pan because yes).

Dancer and Vixen are also dating because I said so :3.

These are all the original sketches that I made while at work. Plus a few extra bonus ones of Rudolph specifically, my special little guy. I imagine him sounding like Steven Universe.

Just some silly little dragons I doodled like a month ago-

They’re siblings :3

This dude is named Bluefin, and he’s a seawing obviously. Lots of my backstories for my ocs started getting longer at this point, lol. So I’ll just copy and paste it from my original post about him over on Reddit.

This is Stormchaser, my Nightwing OC. I made her like a year ago. I definitely need to redo her design though, because I don’t draw Nightwings with hooked, keratinous snouts anymore.

Anyways, Stormchaser. She was born on the volcano, like most of the other modern members of her tribe. She was a rather strong and healthy hatchling, at least as far as the volcano-born Nightwings go. So of course she was prepared for a fairly important job from an early age.

Stormchaser was a dragon who would help chart out new routes to the mainland, constantly tweaking any old ones as well. She was essentially a scout for flights across the ocean, traveling to see incoming weather and other issues hours or even days in advance. This of course meant she was one of the Nightwings that actually got to experience what the mainland was like more than many of the others, and found herself longing for it. This longing only solidified her loyalty to her tribe though, wanting desperately to make a better life for her fellow Nightwings.

This lady here is Shrike, and she’s a Skywing :). She’s a general who got real torn up during the Sandwing War of Succession, and was sort of just given an early retirement. Her being such a formidable fighter made her well-respected, but her rough appearance and gruff demeanor made her… a bit less approachable.

But then along comes this fella, Crimson! Originally I made him a Prince, but I figure that doesn’t fit into the canon timeline very well. So I prefer to think he’s more like, a sort of noble almost. Very pretty and handsome and shiny and sought after as a partner.

He’s a scholar who spends a lot of his time in the library, which just so happens to be where Shrike starts to spend her time after retiring. Crimson is completely smitten with the scarred up General, and starts courting her once he finds the courage for it.

I adore these two so much in concept, but I’m so depressed by how canon treated them. Bumble just gets attacked from every angle, and Turtle Tail is fridged for the plot so Grey Wing can have a second dead love interest. Plus the way she treats Bumble after coming back to the settlers makes me genuinely so sad-

Silly whimsical creatures-

My silly scrimblo-

Oh the Mufasa movie… I have such mixed feelings about you. I really don’t think it’s great, but some of the scenes were cute and I did enjoy a couple songs. So I made some art for it last year. Plus coming up with designs for the characters based on this movie rather than the originals was fun.

This time it’s just designs I did for the protags after reading the first book of “A Starless Clan”. So this is art of Nightheart, Sunbeam, and Frostpaw. I really do need to do a post-arc design for Frostdawn because Girliepop goes through some shit-

Dinosaur art with colors based on modern animals go brrrrrr-

The top art is older, with a very fluffy Velociraptor and a less fluffy Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Bottom art is a bit newer and has a Carnotaurus and Quetzalcoatlus (with babies in tow!). I feel like Carnos are always drawn with warmer colors, so I wanted to do a silly blue one when I made him at the time-

More old art yippeeeeeee

Mapleshade’s Vengeance designs this time around. I have… incredibly mixed feelings about most of the cats in this book ngl. I don’t think I outright love or hate most of them. (Except for Myler, Reedshine, and Perchpaw. I like them). Overall I just don’t enjoy touching this specific book and its characters because dear god the discourse around them is exhausting.

Anyways, this doodle page has Reedshine, Frecklewish, Mapleshade, Appledusk, Ravenwing, Myler, and Perchpaw.

Plus some extra older art I did of Appledusk and Reedshine before I finalized their designs. Pathetic little man and his second girlfriend that’s too good for him.