#snowdevil

Art fight attack number 23 goes out to @mokolat! This is their OC Connor getting barked at by my OC Snow (aka kerberos when in his doggy form). Snow doesnt trust this werewolf one bit, get the fuck out of thorn's way. Thorn (off screen) doesnt think the ruckus is necessary. Like come on snow, the guy is just walking there and enjoying a cigarette, leave him be!

Doggy snow is here. I actually finished this yesterday but i was hoping i would be able to finish his dragon ref too so i could post it all pretty together :) But alas, it wasnt meant to be. At least his dragon ref is in a useable state:

But yeah i would have liked to adjust the graphic design. It's always a lil tough for me to figure out how to lay out a ref Also here is the bio I quickly wrote for artfight:

Basics are: ancient snowdragon turned demon who somehow ended up on Isla Dracon and near Auron city (the city thorn resides). Thorn encountered him, they had a scuffle where thorn pinned him and showed him who'se boss and ever since then Snow has been utterly and completely devoted to thorn and would gladly lay down his life for thorn to protect him from harm. He will follow any order from thorn, being both his guard and attack dog, as well as an emotional support dog that makes sure thorn doesnt overwork himself too much and takes breaks. While Snow is capable of understanding all that is said to him and even has the capacity to speak, he rarely talks and if he does its usually only a few simple words at a time. He prefers to communicate through body language and noises and is in general very animalistic in nature. He is mostly driven by instinct and also isnt the brightest tool in the shed. He is easily confused/tricked though you will never be able to trick his sense of smell. His nose does not lie and he can easily identify and track scents, even if they are faint.

While Snow is dangerous and can and will absolutely eat your face if thorn would order him to do so, he also is a huge silly goober who is gentle with the people left in his care. He loves to go on walkies, run around, play with toys and receive all the pets and scritches from thorn and his employees. He also is an absolute glutton for treats and giving him one is the fastest way to get him to soften up on you. He will eat most of anything but his favorite treats are fish (especially salmon), bones/chewy snacks, frozen snacks, and anything smelly that he isnt supposed to be getting into.

During the holidays, Thorn enjoys putting him in silly costumes and have sable take photos of him to put on the casino's social media page. Snow isnt the biggest fan of this but he will do anything for thorn so he tolerates it. Plus, he always gets a nice treat after so it's forgiven.

Snow can turn into any animal he has seen before, be it in person, in photos or in video. However he does have tells. The animal will always be abnormally large for it's species/breed, have a black coat with lighter skeletal like markings, have red eyes, the same scars as his dragon form and they often have an underbite and sharp teeth/enlarged canines/tusks. Thorn just decided on a rottie for snow's main disguise as he thought it would be a suitable breed for him to be seen with as a powerful mob boss.

One of snow's lesser known magical abilities is his ability to shapeshift into any animal he has seen before, be it in person or in pictures. Most of thorn's family asume he has just two forms: Dragon and Rottie but in reality that's just what thorn settled on. In an RP I am currently doing with @blaigoo Snow is in charge of looking after and protecting kitty after Thorn saved her from her abusive manager don. Recently (as in yesterday/today) we had a situation where kitty got really really upset and Snow (being very attached to kitty at this point) wanted to cheer her up so badly that he willingly shapeshifted himself into a cute lil pomeranian in a desperate attempt to cheer her up with the power of adorableness He was successful uwu But yeah I immediately had to draw pom snow. I just had to. He normally doesn't like turning into small cute animals (he doesnt like people (other than thorn and now kitty) laughing at him or making fun of him so he tends to pick more intimidating animals. But this was an emergency unu, he will do anything to emotionally support his loved ones. Whatever form snow takes there are a few regularities: -he will always be either slightly or a lot bigger than the animal normally is

-he will always have mostly black fur/scales/feathers/what have you. his markings can differ in color and appearance but they tend to have a vague skeletal theme and certain markings (shoulders, upper hindlegs) stay the same shape always. Whatever part of him is black will have a blue sheen to it when the light hits it -His eyes will always remain red and he will almost always have an underbite. Some forms however will lack this and will just have prominent tusks instead

Happy (late) Halloween guys! I was trying to rush to finish this yesterday but alas it was not meant to be. But! The delay did mean that I now had time to render this and I honestly think it turned out so nice!

A few notes: -Thorn is supposed to be kneeling so thats how he is fitting in frame lmao -Yes his makeup took him forever thanks for asking -Stained isnt actually missing a hand, he is using one of those fake hook things (because I didnt want to draw a balled fist dkkgjdfgkgfd) -Snowdevil/kerby is so fucking done with being put into silly costumes. The things he does out of loyalty smh -Leo is dressed as a wizard and he belongs to my bestie @nerdyena21 -That is Grin's actual face, he is an undead demon dragon. He loves halloween because it's one of the few times he can be around people outside his family without people freaking out at his face. -Beck is dressed as a cyborg and also got a custom prosthetic arm made to fit with the costume it just is hidden behind grin. Yes he does in fact miss and arm, his eye is fine though.

This has to be one of my most ambitious pieces yet and it's why it took so long. I was intimidated by it as heck. I even contemplated giving up on it and drawing something else for halloween instead a couple of times. But I am glad I followed through!