#Smaugust 2022

[hariina]

Old dragon sketch!

[leaves-and-inks]

🌒Bad Moon Rising🌘

Finally! This piece took me a while, and involved a lot more photoshop than I originally hoped, but it done! I’m glad I was able to get at least one Smaugust piece done. This piece is on the page behind that crow piece I did last October. It left a half-moon red stain on the page, and I’ve been wanting to do a piece utilizing it in some way. Initially it was going to be something with werewolves, but smaugust rolled around and i settled on this :) I start school again in a couple of weeks, but this semester’s schedule isn’t too tough, so I plan on carving out time for art still! :D

[ID: Ink illustration of a line art, scaled dragon with a long, serpentine body and two sets of small wings where the legs would be. It’s head looks left, and it’s body twists over its left down the page. It has tendrils for horns, a plated spine, and a gold outline. The background is mostly white, but the dragon intersects with a rectangle with a gold outline filled with a night sky that starts red and fades into a reddish purple then white at the bottom. The gold outline does not extend to the bottom line, which is a jagged gradient. The dragon looks up at a red crescent moon that emits light. Stars are also on the night sky. The illustration is in a leather bound sketchbook that sits on a bed of moss.

Image 2: Ink illustration of a line art, scaled dragon with a long, serpentine body and two sets of small wings where the legs would be. It’s head looks left, and it’s body twists over its left down the page. It has tendrils for horns, a plated spine, and a gold outline. The background is mostly white, but the dragon intersects with a rectangle with a gold outline filled with a night sky that starts red and fades into a reddish purple then white at the bottom. The gold outline does not extend to the bottom line, which is a jagged gradient. The dragon looks up at a red crescent moon that emits light. Stars are also on the night sky.

Image 3: Cropped illustration of a line art, scaled dragon on a ink background. The crop includes half of the moon, some of the white background, the head, and one wing of the dragon. Part of the neck and tendrils are cropped.

Image 4: Crop of the illustration that showcases the dragon’s body, tail, and other wing. The crop cuts out the red portions of the ink background, the bottom right wing, and the left portion of the canvas.

Image 5: Photo of two partially empty sketchbook pages, the left one having bled marker, and the right page having partially bled marker and faint sketch lines. The bled marker on the left shows the outline of a crow, and two circles, a large red one in the crow’s beak. The right page has bled marker from the smaller red circle. The background is black. /end ID]

[voices-in-dark-violets-head]

On stormy days and rain-soaked nights, where songs are sung, a maiden's plights, a little town of woe and fear, a sacrifice of one most dear.

They must appease the one above, they say, and tie the one they love to stake and stay her on the hill: For beast to find, do what he will.

When they returned in morning's light, the maiden was no more in sight. They sighed and sang a song most dire, the stake thrown on the fun'ral pyre

The town was right, the beast was cruel; over the land, he wished to rule. With iron tail and glinting teeth and icy winds he gave them grief.

Mere pleasure was the maiden's fate, his hunger she would never sate. An appetizer, she would be; the land would fade from history.

But she was not to be his vice. Her wisdom great, she rolled the dice, appealed did she with beast so fierce; her words, so pure, his heart did pierce.

She saw in him a fire so deep, and she knew that she could keep it locked away, and tempered dim; she could save the world from him.

Is he still the beast so cruel? Our maiden just a death-scared fool? Our questions, they will never quell, but this is what this tale will tell...

The maiden pure, the land's great bane; the world has ne'er seen both again. While up above, twixt skin and scale- ...My friend, that's for another tale.

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Yet anout Smaugust post! Today, @pencilcat's prompts say 'Long', and I couldn't choose any different from this piece from 2022. I really wanted to get the vibe of those classic pieces in new age shops of dragons and maidens, and I'm really pleased with how it came out in the end!

[onikuma-selfships]

man im really not built for monthly art challenges...i shoulda learned my lesson back when i tried smaugust 2022 🫠

[pomrania]

Kitty Smaugust 2023

First off, I need to say that this is NOT the request post; that will be linked down below. Rather, this is the post to say in greater detail what all this art event is doing, so I don't need to put a huge wall of text on the posts for each day.

Kitty Smaugust is an art event I did in 2022, and I'm doing it again in 2023. I'm drawing cats as dragons, because cats are cute and dragons are cool, and I'm using a prompt list to guide that, because it makes things easier for me with how my brain works. (The prompts are copied out down below, but if you'd like the post with just the prompts, you can find it here.)

The normal system for my pet art events applies here. To make a request, you reblog the proper post (to repeat, NOT this post) with a photo of the critter you want me to draw. Include the critter's name in the body of the post. Once I've drawn your critter, I'll reblog your post and add in my artwork. For this particular event, it's one request per person per prompt, unless explicitly stated otherwise; that means that you can get up to 31 different pictures of your cat as a dragon (and I am perfectly okay with that happening, so you don't need to worry about it).

For each day in August, I will be making a post, with that day's prompt in the title; cats will be dragonified in ways inspired by that prompt. (If you want a future prompt, the list clearly states what day that will be on; if you want a past prompt, I might be able to mesh that with the current day's prompt.) There will be 31 different base posts by the end of the month, one for each day and prompt. You can make a request on a post so long as it's still that day somewhere in the world, because I don't want to worry about timezones.

To clarify "your cat", this can be a past or present or future cat, or the cat of a friend or relative, or a cat you sometimes visit at the local shelter; the important thing is that it's a cat you have some kind of connection to, and a cat you know the name of. (Also doesn't necessarily need to actually be a cat, so long as you can give me reasons why the creature is actually a cat despite appearances.)

If there are further questions, or I think of something else, I'll add to this as necessary.

Here's the collection of my favourite pieces from the (first) (middle) (final) third of the event.

Now, the prompts. Once each post has been made, it will be linked here.

fire-breathing

treasure

wings

hero

monster

magic

tail

domain

princess

water

pride

knowledge

ancient

sky

crest

ferocity

crystal (due to circumstances, this prompt was rescheduled to 1 September)

fairy-tale

elemental

trophies

bones

domestic

crafty

plant

smoke

tribute

sun

mountain

hide

iron

shell

[dazzling-dragon-studios]

Smaugust 08/07/23 - Storm

Old character, (slightly) revamped design!

This down here is old art from 2022 ^_^

[reidak-artcreature]

Hi there! I'm Reidak, a lil creature who sometimes does art and other stuff they are insterested in.

Toyhouse ArtFight Unvale

Projects, challenges and compilations:

Funguary (2023, 2024)

Mermay (2021, 2022. 2023)

Coral & the Cook (2023)

ArtFight (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Smaugust

StketchBooks (SB1, SB2, SB3)

100 Heads Challenge (2023)

In The Inn (Finished!)

Redrawing random images

Drawing Tablet Journey

Sewing Adventures

Character Directory

Free adopts (Toyhuse)

[daalphawolfe13]

Day one of Smaugust is Dragon of Joy. A simple design for the first dragon of the month. Continuing my theme from last year with making these little logs from an explorer charting the various dragon species around the world.

[dani-m-art]

Smaugust day 5 - "Small."

Very, very small.

Combined my love of dragons with my love of cell biology and sciart for this one!

[isvoc]

Smaugust 2022 part 2!

[saint-nevermore]

Smaugust day 17 - Volcano

outliers of the natural world, Myngo-Ahzdars are widely thought to be Dragons. their environments of choice are often considered too hostile for the average person to venture to just to see some weird beasts, that and the animal’s general unpalatability leading to a lack of knowledge. it is thought they sift volcanic material from the toxic alkaline lakes they populate, feeding their young and colouring their feathers with magma. it is even believed they can spit molten rock in place of dragonfire. indeed, these are just flightless pterosaurs occupying a flamingo’s niche, filtering tiny prey from the brine. dragonkin are theropod dinosaurs, meaning the Myngo-Ahzdar doesn’t even count as a pseudo or false dragon like a drake, though the popular opinion of lava-eating dragons still prevails in most areas. (these are a fictional design for a fantasy world-building project, not representing any real genera aside from being an Ahzdarchid!)

[paper-swirls]

Drawgust 24 - Stock Dragon

[voices-in-dark-violets-head]

It's always cold down here, a clammy dampness that gets through your shirt and freezes your skin. Pushing through the thorns and dense, broad leaves of the brushes only serves to soak through your pants and sandalled feet.

Still, 'least you won't go thirsty here. If you feel confident enough to trust this water, that is. Who knows what's leaking out of this place? You can't quite identify what it used to be. If it was a power plant, then, that's some bad juju. Strip mall? Nah. You don't have that kinda luck... but even if it was, it's not like there'd be anything left at this point. A decade and a half is a long time for anything of value to be still sitting around, rusted and waterlogged or not.

Clang.

You freeze. Ripples spread out from around your feet, trembling the surface of a small lake that covers what used to be a floor. But the sound came from above - the mist-soaked heights are indistinct, crisscrossed by vines and wires, and-

There. Movement.

It's climbing down towards you, a fleshy pink against dull girders. Long, taloned claws click along old metal. You tighten your grip on your staff, the feathers and beads on the end tinkling as your hand shudders.

It stops and tilts its head. You wrap your other hand around the beads, and stare in horror as the creature turns its head.

It... doesn't have eyes. The pale bone of what remains of a skull, but no eyes. No wonder it doesn't seem to have seen you. But that means if you make any more noise...

Scrape, scrape... it stretches its claws out, bringing itself down to eye level. Its long, sinuous body ripples with firm muscles. As it stops, it hangs on with spread thighs. Not it, you can't help but think - she.

A long snout opens beneath that skull, breath not misting in the cold air - and a long, languid tongue unfurls from behind a hundred pointed teeth, tasting the wet scents of the long-lost building. Perhaps searching for you, its intruder...

You stare, steeling your nerves, trying not to tremble even a fraction, trying not to look at the ripples spreading out from your twitching feet.

And all the while, you can't help but stare in fear... and fascination.

What... is she?

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Another Smaugust post! Today, @pencilcat's prompts say Skull, and that reminded me of this piece I got to do back in 2022. This creature came to a friend of mine in a dream, and I'm a sucker for things like that. It was so fun to bring her to life in such a way <3

[vcreatures]

I finally got around to watching “Prey” and I have to say I enjoyed it thoroughly! The entire creative team, in particular, did such an incredible job.

It got my world building gears turning... what would a "Yautja Drake" look like? Maybe they are used as an aerial steed to hunt down large game?

[jasminetwil]

Sliding in on the last day of Smaugust yet again lol. I actually had an entire line-up of dragon friends for you goblins to meet, but things have been kinda tough on my end. I'll have a life update soonish about that. 🙃

Now, onto SOME LORE!

Meet the Coral-Eater Dragon! These large yellow sea-noodles can be found pootling about the seabed whilst acting as a mobile microhabitat for fish.

As their name implies, these dragons chiefly eat coral. Armed with tails that are encased with hard, stony coral, Coral-Eaters will break down soft corals to feast on by bashing them into smaller pieces to swallow.

Both sexes of these species also boast hard coral antlers which they use for defense and courtship (a male and female will typically engage in locking of antlers to see if they are a match for each other). 💖🐉

Despite being the distinguishing features of the species, Coral-Eater hatchlings are not born with coral-encased antlers or tails. Newborns must be guided by an adult to where mass coral spawning occurs in order to let planulae (free-floating coral larvae) settle and attach onto their bare horns and tails.

Coral-Eater Dragons are a generally docile species, and it is said that wherever one dies, a coral reef will grow in its place. 🐟🐠🪸

[zerrart]

Day 24: Ancient

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