predninja

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello fellow followers! This is an important message to everyone who is following me or is a mutual, because people have been receiving hateful DMs from people who left or was banned from the server I run.

Recently, we had a member who left, making several of the server members uncomfortable with less peaceful behavior. We've decided to ban them for safety to prevent from having them go after people associated with the server.

Unfortunately, this person has been spreading misinformation and false rumors on what has been happening and has had potential associates or multiple accounts harassing me and my own friends. They left after we have tried to de-escalate their acts of passive aggressiveness, rage baiting, and other unsavory behavior such as the screenshots below:

(These messages and users are censored to prevent sending hate or seeing iffy slurs being used. These are messages sent to me, and my friends who help me run the server when I am busy with work.)

If you see these users on any social media platform or discord, report them, DM us their username, and block them immediately.

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM.

If you proceed to repeat the cycle of hateful interactions, you are not a follower or a supporter of mine. I do not want drama and destruction to happen here.

Thank you and stay safe!

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Its cold outside so its why not warm up with a nice hot treat

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"Promise you'll stay?" "Pinkie promise, ya lug."

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“In the cold of winter, even their love burns bright. Hand in hand, they simply smile through the chills, with their love to keep them warm.”

Another wonderful art piece by @predninja of my 2 OC husbands!

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Whats your process for drawing reptilian characters? Also what are some important tips for drawing them that really helps the piece?

*cracks knuckles*

So first things first to start this all off, I use a lot of squares and triangle shapes. BG3 actually helped quite a bit with solidifying this for me too with how they went about the dragonborn in that

Here's a bit of a visual for what I mean with squares and triangles. obviously, the snout will vary, as will the mouth and head shape but its a start. Sometimes the head shape can be more of a pinched oval, or an egg shape too

What also helps me is (for side profiles at least) is knowing where the jawline is and where the cheek bone--so to speak--also is. Other features like eyes and mouth fall into place after that in where they go and such, but using a t shape for the eye and face alignment also doesnt hurt. Ya know, that one art trick everyone uses for faces

Another way to look at drawing reptilian faces (or even other races sometimes too) is like you're squishing it a bit. And using a W shape for the mouth as well.

Granted a lot of these examples I'm using are drawn on the fly and don't get into the nitty gritty details but sometimes having a visual helps cuz I'm bad at describing shit with just words, There's also the fact that I like to cover up some of my own shortcomings with ectra little details and lines so breaking it down to the basics is kinda like my way of teaching

And if some of yall wanna see what I mean with these examples and how it translates to a final product, here's the shape ot the face of one of my most recent pic/updates. Got a Y shape for the brow and nose, square ish features for everything else, and in this case the mouth is a bit more beak shape but its still got that W going

I know I've used shit like Taran Fiddler and the works of some of my friends for help with this stuff, and sometimes even looking at mammalian face shapes helps. If you wanna get freaky with it too, looking at fishy heads is always an idea

Hope that helps ^^; and thanks again for asking

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Discord comm Suffice to say, my faces have upgraded and I'm having a great time

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Conservsations last night in VC got silly and I was dared to draw this bitch How could I deny a challenge

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I just think he's neat

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some random dividers i’ve made recently:

please like and credit if you use, reblogs are appreciated! thank you! 💕

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To manipulate what is around you is to know that the gentlest touch can fracture everything

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Memes took hold xD

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what is love? Bhaalspawn boutta find out

Changed up how Vorcarion's face looks again but after some comms I did of different face shapes, and some inspiration from other artists I've been around, I got cookin'

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Everything's perfectly fine, I swear... Totally not increasing the volume of my headphones to drown out the stimulus

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I like to listen to random shit as white noise, primarily true crime documentary, analysis podcasts on movie trivia, or the occasional paranormal. Finding a show called These Woods Are Haunted has been a fucking treat with the costumes and dramatic reenactments xD

Like the first episode's monster was a dude in a gimp suit wearing a Spirit Halloween dog mask, I am not shitting you

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I got told to draw Madesi, so now there's a whole ass sketchpage, including this shot xD

Whole page is here on patreon

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Forgot to post the second one, but I commissioned @predninja again to draw Malena and my little brad birb Serafina :)

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As the sun slowly lowered, the demigod lowered his tome, looking out to observe his silver-scaled lover's progress. With the Noon light highlighting the fields, he reveled in the view before returning to his page. "Perhaps some tea might help him," Xenarus spoke, "after this next chapter..." Another amazing comm from @predninja of my 2 OCs with a focus on the recently added Xenarus! Rel's husband, and the local divine dragon of life, wisdom and vitality!