#mega noivern

(originally the pose was mostly referenced off giant bats hanging upside down and I wanted to make the art that too-- but it would make looking at the art / design just actively harder so I spun it around)

-as with the other design stuff I've done, got a whole writeup about my thought process behind designing it on the patty (for all paid members), so check that out if it's of interest

The number one thing I focused on was just figuring out a nice top heavy pose for mega noivern trying to make a subtle (?) Y shape

High key don't think I've done enough to make it feel mega??? Been jokingly calling em "Noivern+" in my head rather than mega noivern, but also it's like small things, and not all megas are like dramatic af changes? Idk man Im trying here but its hard to get the cool bat wyvern become a cooler bat wyvern

So it's a lot of little adjustments and flairs? The shiny colors is also just noivern's with the only real change being swapping out keeping the fur white colored into being black bc the contrast makes me happier lol

In retrospect, maybe I could've had fun and created distinctions via messing around with noivern's palette for this mega... whoops

On a somewhat similar note: I had the worst/hardest time tryna understand noivern's wing anatomy bc that's just not it chief, how do ur wing arms work lmao. (I think the reason why I didn't push this design too far was bc I was also just tryna understand how noivern works drawing wise to try out funky things esp when I really wanted to stick with the pose/silhouette I planned out)