#CREATURES

[a-book-of-creatures]

Opinion posted online: you cannot draw a hummingbird/whale griffin you sick bastard. You are a monster if you draw a wretched unhappy creature. You have irony poisoning

The author of the Physiologus writing in the 2nd century AD: the antlion is half lion and half ant. The ant half can’t digest what the lion half eats and it always dies of starvation. This is the work of a loving God who wanted to teach us a lesson

The stickman I doodled in first grade about to be devoured by a dragon carried effortlessly aloft by stubby wings attached directly to its head: help

[kipine]

⭐️

[miraerufu]

KRAMPUS

[selkramazed]

LOVE the parasitic male idea for Zippleback

All the dragons from the HTTYD stream. Detailed images below.

The designs from the original movie are basically perfect, which is why I didn't really dare to touch them... until a certain trailer dropped recently.

I'm a spiteful creature.

Anyway. Some ground rules. I tried to make these creatures overall a little bit more realistic and grounded without robbing them of the inherent whimsy that the originals had. All of them are tetrapods, so only 4 limbs max.

Nightfury

These guys have no more functional limbs to move on the ground. They are living stealth bombers. Silent fast fliers.

On the ground they flop around similar to seals, forming small colonies on top of tall cliffs.

Red Death

At a certain size it becomes unfeasible to fly for even a dragon. The Red Death stays on the ground using it's heavy armor and enormous size when raiding other dragon nesting colonies. it'as wings are more like spurs, to injure rivals in combat.

Gronkle

The original had a hummingbird style in flying , something that doesn't work for an animal of this size. My compromise is to make the wings rather stout and being able to be folded a lot.

Nadder

Easiest design, take a unfeathered theropod and combine it with a bearded dragon.

Shellfire

This was the last one I made on stream, it is one of the (in my eyes) worst designs from the shows, so a nice challenge to make it work a little better.

This guy is now a filter feeder, using its large horns to funnel water into its mouth.

Zippleback

Multi-headed dragons are really tricky. In my design I made one of the heads a parasitic male, similar to angler fish, that hitches a ride on the back of the larger female.

Monstrous Nightmare

One of the most classic dragons from the original movie. Lots of crocodilian influence here. The osteoderms on its back have pores from which it produces flammable secretions.

Razorwhip

A fast an agile dragon, but the original doesn't really show that in the head shape and all these spines don't help. I put some tapejarid influence into it.

Rumblehorn

The massive neck of this dragon doesn't work well in terms of aerodynamics, unless it's an inflatable display structure ;)

Whispering Death

The giant maw of this dragon is an even greater challenge, but when you give it the gular pouch of a pelican eel and turn these eyes into eye-spots, it works quite well.

And of course the Terrible Terror!

As you can see it's in my case a close relative of the nadder.

[possumcollege]

Crittertongue. Cheap zines. Cheap jokes.

[turkitty5]

friends, buddies, pals!!

[tinybaileaf]

this clip makes me so emotional. i feel like this sometimes, at night especially. That the whole wide world may swallow me whole. That i’m wide-eyed in the face of god. that I’m not a victim of smallness but rather its loving disciple.

[lovewithoutresin]

@meaningtotellyou

How to make ice cream in Alaska

[sakrafka]

tiny girlies

[claypigeonpottery]

my friend mentioned armadillos and this immediately popped into my head for some reason

[jellyfishmakeoutparty]

I love butterfly rays because half of the images of them online come in two varieties and it’s

a) a baybey!

b) I know what you are.

[bebs-art-gallery]

Art by Emil Melmoth

[chriskotiesen]

[trans-rights-coastalmangoes]

Chestnut-cheeked Starling

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