Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts

Pulelehua

The pen-and-watercolor sketches for a Wings of Fire fan continent I was working on, uhh...a year ago today, apparently. Huh.

I haven't thought about this setting for a while, so we'll see if I remember any of the details. Rambling under the cut.

Skull


Drew this a couple months ago with the fancy inking pens I used for Inktober last year.

Inktober day 14

Mistwraith, from Mistborn

A mistwraith, from the Mistborn books. Prompt: amorphous, from the Cosmere list. And overgrown, from the official Inktober list. And sniff, from A.I.nktober list 1, and redeyed, from A.I. list 2, and tangentially hyper LARGE from A.I. list 3. Ha!

Raptor Dragons

Some dragons based on birds of prey. In the top set, the grey dragon in the bottom corner is the only one based on a specific species (harpy eagle)--the others are more based on the idea of hawks and eagles.

The bottom set are a little rougher, but are all based on real life species. In order of number: bald eagle, osprey, bearded vulture, kestrel.

Some Wings of Fire Pyrrhian tribe headcanons

Welp. I drew 17 dragons and only four pairs of eyes. Illustrated headcanons, yay!

No spoilers here...still.

Pictured, clockwise from top: OCs Slurry, Saffron, Delta, Ibis, Sedge, Vervain, and Kaolin

MudWings are generally more touchy-feely than the other tribes, and engage in play behaviors for more of their lives. Like cats, they can have multiple fathers for a single clutch, and as such, a sibling group can have more color variation than you might expect. They can be any color of mud, depending on the region of the kingdom their ancestors came from, and occasionally the females come in calico. They have the strongest bite force of any tribe.

NightWing eyes seem to glow in the dark, like a cat's, and they have the second-strongest bite force.

Pictured, from top:
Nobles: Queen Glacier, Winter
Commoners: OCs Iceberg, unnamed, Niveous, Rimaye 
IceWings in the noble Circles tend to be pure white, silver, or icy blue, with very few markings, while lower-class dragons have a wider variety of colors and patterns.

SandWings come in every color sand can come in, from off-white, to golden-tan, to brown, to reddish (down in the southern areas near the peninsula), to even occasionally black (cough cough melanism). Pink and green SandWings are also a possibility, although not on mainland Pyrrhia. Also, kohl markings.

This one's not my headcanon, but I've fully embraced it: SandWings have much larger ears than the other tribes. This both aids in heat regulation in their desert habitat and contributes to their excellent hearing.