#shadow speaks

album comes out, everyone like "it's her worst album" and then couple months later they realize it's not and try to rewrite history with the "I was always a fan"

It would magically be fine and dandy if we're Soap or Ghost or any other fictional character but this is real life. And I think I may have fucked mine up pretty royally.

Meet my son Crowded’Snarl! He’s a sky/night hybrid, living at the rainforest floor. Despite his rather odd appearance he’s mostly more afraid of other dragons after running away at an early age. Shunned because he isn’t “The Nightwing standard”

Take as much or as little time as you need no pressure, love your artstyle!!!

Sorry for the long wait!

I stuck closer to the ref sheet for the painting:

For the mini-comic, I drew him with my Nightwing design so that the art style looked consistent:

So, I wanted to know how you went about making yours. Mainly the RainWing one. I’m in love with that ancient style.

First off, thank you so much!

This might be a little long, but the crests are one of my favorite things to design! Feel free to DM me if something doesn't make sense.

The crests are loosely based on real-life heraldic animals; except for the Rainwing one, which is based on a foggy memory of Aztec carvings.

Heraldic animal (lion, salient):

Aztec carvings:

The first thing I thought of when designing the crests was culture. For example: Two of my designs feature a depiction of the sun. The compass sun for the Sandwings and the spiral sun for the Skywings. The compass sun is a circle surrounded by eight triangles. Sandwings consider the (equilateral) triangle to be a lucky shape, as it symbolizes an unbreakable harmony between luck, fate, and self. The triangles also symbolize directions on a compass. The cardinal directions are the same size as the intercardinal directions, because Sandwings believe that all paths in life have equal importance. Conversely, the spiral sun represents the cycle of life and death, and it's rays represent strength.

The Rainwing crest was the most difficult to design so far because I couldn't get the colors right. The design itself was based on the idea of the quetzalcoatl, which I picked because Rainwings live in the rainforest and I thought that the Aztecs did too (they didn't, they lived in high altitude valleys), so I figured their art styles might be similar. I picked bright colors and patterns because it represents the Rainwings' ability to change their scales, and squared off shapes because it looks so different from the other crests (Rainwing culture is very different from the other tribes because of their isolation). On the face, there are three teardrop shapes that represent their venom. Looking back, I wish I would have made those purple. Oh well...

Am I scary?