Winterwatcher :D

🦖Queen of the Pack🦖

Here she isssss, I love Riptor sm she's so scrungly and sillyyy, I went through an absolute journey with this, which is why I included my practice sketches as a show of how frustrated I got. I kinda had to relearn how to draw dinosaurs, which is gonna serve me well in the future, but absolutely did not serve me well in this moment.

I had probably 2 or 3 moments where I said "fuck it, I'm doing something else" and I'm really glad I stuck it through because I'M SO PROUD OF THISSS WEEEEEEE, it left me pretty mentally exhausted because of a bunch of other outside factors.

I also tried something that I've never really done before, which is a digital background, it looks really bad in some places if you look hard enough (like her teeth in the middle one, jesus christ) but overall I think it turned out alright, it opened the opportunity for quicker background work without sacrificing too much quality. I might add a background to the physical drawing in the future if I ever get the time. This thing absolutely overloaded my brain so I would prefer to not look at it for a very long time

The sparkly boy✨

I wasn't a huge fan of Winter's character up until I reread book 7, I always thought he was an absolute insufferable prick for really stupid reasons, but looking back he has a completely justifiable reason for his hatred of NightWings outside of his IceWing culture

I so desperately want more of Hailstorm, even just a Winglet book of his life back in the Ice Palace exploring his identity crisis and choosing between the life that was forced upon him versus the life where he was truly happy and had real friends would be incredible. There's a Hailstorm/Pyrite MAP on YouTube called Once Upon a December and its SO WELL MADE AND I LOVE IT SO FRICKIN MUCH and its pretty much exactly what I wanna see from a Hailstorm POV book and here's a link to it just watch it - https://youtu.be/_duSPWJzxVk

This project was pretty straightforward; I didn't wanna do a super crazy background like my Moon fanart, so I just went with the aurora borealis and some delicious rim lighting (the aurora can go fuck itself for being so hard to draw traditionally, it kinda looks like shit ikik). I feel like I'm getting a better grasp on how to do color and pick good looking color schemes. Before I would only do complimentary and try to do as much contrast as possible, but I've learned that analogous color schemes look SOOOO GOOD and I can't believe I've done so few projects where I go for harmony instead of contrast

I also feel like I'm getting better at dragon poses and making them more dynamic, this pose isn't super crazy or anything but the head angle with the turning neck isn't something I've really done before, and I think I did pretty good

bugs of this account

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This took so long to finish because I was juggling it with a 9-5, and THEN I fucked up my wrist at said 9-5 so I didn't draw for a whole day and it made me sad. It was all worth it in the end though because I'm really happy with this, especially the pose work. The 2 days worth of practice I did last year is really paying off

I have no idea how to show this to the person I made it for, as far as I'm aware they don't have a DA or a Tumblr so I'm shit out of luck I think

kitty cat groovin'! 🐱🎶

this is actually amazing like wtf

Starting off the new year with I think the most background heavy piece I've ever made! I think Rainwings and Nightwings would celebrate their traditional holidays together after the events of The brightest night. So this drawing is meant to show their cultures kind of blending together during a very joyful time. I remember talking about this concept with someone on tumblr a year ago but when I went back through my posts I couldn't for the life of me find it - so if your reading this, I remember you and this drawing stems from that conversation so thank you!

Close-ups:

The sexy evil mastermind himself :0

Check out my DeviantArt to see all my art, including the non-fandom stuff that I won't be posting here: https://www.deviantart.com/topaztalonwastaken

small update to my patreon- someone promoted the piracy of my work on here so i have had to edit the 2$ tier to remove sketches, wips, and concept comics. i’ll keep early access work, but it’ll be watermarked. this was a low blow u_u very stressful

every tier above the 2$ tier is the same so don’t worry about those. it’s just the cheapest one that’s been changed

a few people defended it by saying culture should not be exclusive to those who pay for it- my work isn’t culture man. it’s furry art that will be posted eventually, it’s just posted early for those who support me. piracy isn’t a bad thing but when you’re taking revenue from an artist who deals with chronic pain and cannot get money elsewhere, you’re an asshole