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.

Asphodel

My fursona I guess?? And probable artist avatar? She's an oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), of course, and her tentative name is Asphodel Curie because it sounds cool and because Oncilla is a stupid name for an oncilla. I kinda like that it's got connotations of both science and mythology, too.

The hoodie and the shading were both total accidents. On the hoodie I was testing different colors to see what would work well with her fur, and it started looking like that and I rolled with it. For the shading, I was playing around with GIMP's brush shapes and transparency in the background and got a really cool effect, so I carried it over into the whole picture.

Peril

And now, back to your regularly-scheduled non-creepy fandom content.

Peril, from WoF, both with the colors plain and with a glow effect added. My design is pretty different from both the official art and most fanart, but the books describe her as having copper-colored scales, so that's what I went with. She should be a little more metallic-looking, probably.

Roses and Smoke

A.k.a. "Well, That Got Surrealist Fast."

This sketch was not intended to be this, and I stayed up an hour later than I planned drawing it, but here you go.

"I'm not really in the Warrior Cats fandom anymore," I say, coming up with a dozen OCs and half of a plot for them

ShadowClan cats shown are Hazelstar (a.k.a. our IRL cat), Cloudshadow (the medicine cat), Mothtail, her apprentice/younger sister Icepaw, and her kits Ripplekit, Sandkit, and Ashkit (name not final).

WindClan cats are Meadowstar, deputy Stormheart, Nightfeather, and Storm's apprentice Raggedpaw.

Ravenstar of RiverClan is also shown.

There's no ThunderClan here because we already have five series' worth of them.

Probably nothing will ever come of this, since I have too many projects already, but I wanted to share the designs.

Leo of Viridian

Leo of Viridian, the protagonist of one of my books. Not the same book Afinaz and Driki are from, though. Or the spirit-beasts one, which at this point is less a book and more a collection of interesting-sounding characters. No, this is a different book, tentatively titled FLAME. Or maybe Firelight.

...I have too many unfinished novels.

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.

Ripplemoth

A.k.a. my Erin Hunter Assigned Warrior Catsona, based on my username from the new Warrior Cats website.

Ripplemoth is a lynx point classic tabby and a RiverClan warrior. I'm kind of surprised by how quickly I worked out this design--I figured I'd have to do at least two or three sketches before I found something I was happy with, but this is my first attempt, and the only thing I had to try multiple versions of was the eyes.

Wow, this is the first Warriors-related thing I've drawn in years....

Pantalan Hero Squad

Design ref sheets for the three known PoVs, plus Luna and Swordtail. Still spoiler-free. I'm not entirely happy with Cricket's build, but oh well. Undersides of wings are shown at right.