The Royal Library of Non Sequitur: birds

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Griffon sisters based on tawny eagles. Their names are Goldie and Lilica.

some creature design sketches

Fun fact: this thing's filename is "dragon but its goat.png"

A griffon based on the blue-footed booby. Have I posted this before?? I don't think so....

Sketch Roundup 2019

Various sketches and doodles from throughout the year, in approximate chronological order.

Vulture painting

A sketch of a bird

Some pangolins.

Asphodel Curie. Remember her from back in February?

I have no idea what GIMP filter I accidentally used for this, but it's neat.

Some void-creatures.

Someday I oughtta finish this one...

Dragons based on draco lizards.

A setting test.

Fleck from Falconry Chronicles

Avatar: The Last Airbender characters as dragons? Heck yeah. (Ft. Zuko, Aang, Toph, Katara, Azula)

Dr. Gaster from Undertale

An unfinished piece of Princess Luna from MLP:FiM

And, finally, another setting test

Bearded vulture

Colored pencil on toned paper. Done in art class a year or two back.

Inktober FINAL!

Prompt: owl, from A.I. list 1. That's the last one! We are DONE! :D

Inktober day 9

Sorry this is a day late. We were busy all of yesterday preparing for the snowstorm that hit today, and I couldn't find a spare moment to draw.

Anyway:

Prompt for this one was vengeful moon, from A.I.nktober list 3. This drawing's a sequel to astral egg, from day 4. All these weird giant space birds are phoenixes.

Oh, and hey! This is the 100th post on this blog! That's cool.

Inktober day 6

Prompt: planetqueen, from A.I.nktober list 3. A companion to day 4's drawing, I think.

Inktober day 4

Prompt: astral egg, from the third A.I.nktober prompt list.

Fanfic talk/art: The Falconry Chronicles

These characters are my Doctor Who/My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover OCs from the fanfic me and my brother wrote when I was ten and he was twelve. I've been thinking about this story lately and I'm not sure why.

It's been quite a while since I drew ponies...also I'm several seasons behind on both shows....

These two sketch pages were done about a month apart.

The Falconress is a young Time Lord (only about 100-200 years old) who fled from the Time War and ended up in Equestria. Her name is the feminine form of "falconer" because my ten-year-old self was obsessed with falconry (which...hasn't changed). Upon crash-landing her TARDIS in Equestria, the Falconress regenerated into a pegasus; she would later end up as a unicorn. Her cutie mark is supposed to represent the Time Vortex.

Fleck is the griffon who found the Falconress when she came to Equestria. He traveled with her for a while, teaching her the ways of friendship and magic and all that, and they eventually became good friends. His empathy, levelheadedness, and caution are a good balance to the Falconress's fiery, temperamental side. His surname was Haliaeetus in the original story, but having a surname doesn't really fit in the MLP world.

Lilica is the griffon who would later end up as Fleck's wife. She's not part of the main cast.

Hephaesta is the Falconress's phoenix companion/BFF. She's named after the Greek god of blacksmiths and volcanoes, and is probably related to Princess Celestia's Philomena. She communicates with the rest of the squad through sign language (formerly a type developed specifically for her by the Falconress and co., but honestly whatever kind griffons typically use would make more sense, so that's what it is now.)

Thal is my favorite thing to come out of this fanfic. He's a Dalek who was corrupted by Equestria's friendship magic and made capable of feeling love. The Falconress hated him for being a Dalek at first, and he hated himself for being a broken Dalek, but thanks to Fleck's optimism, both of them eventually came around, and now Thal is one of their most loyal friends.

Also: a doodle of the squirrel Tippy-toe, from the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. I don't know why she's there. She's not in this story.

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.