#Stellar Wings

[dinoserious]

hammerin away at him

[t3rm1n0s]

Guess who’s started listening to riptide <3

[otiksimr]

Idiot birds

[swaps55]

Anza Borrego State Park, California, March 2024

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

How the FUCK do you draw DRAGON FACES AND EYES

I can get the body and head down ya know? but its the damn FACE that fucks me up when drawing faces

So if its not to much of a burden, could you please give some tips on how to draw dragon faces?

oh boy i am the Wrong person to ask lmfao - when drawing dragon faces 90% of the time im confused and fucking it up 20 times before getting it right and the other 10% is just "wait how the fuck did i do that? nice! anyway"

i've been drawing dragons for so long that the drawing process is almost entirely subconscious! and i'm not entirely sure what you mean by Faces instead of heads! but i can still attempt to offer Some advice - specific references, that kinda thing

uh i think one thing that's good to keep in mind is that dragons (typically - dragons are a Wide range of shapes and sizes so this is technically subjective) have Binocular Vision. forward facing eyes! just like us, predator animals, birds of prey. personally i like to mainly study dinosaur skulls when working on how i draw dragons, especially raptors and tyrannosaurs. i think dinosaurs are a Really good reference since they're pretty much the closest thing we have to real life dragons. so the eyes are generally higher than the snout or level with the top of it. tldr: understanding that they have forward facing eyes helps shape and Place the eyes correctly.

i'm not sure if i can help with the Shape of eyes? i tend to draw eyes mostly the same no matter what i scribble. but Another thing i'd recommend using as a reference - specifically for the snout and how it bunches / how the muscles move - is look at pictures of wolves snarling / facially expressing. they are a Great base point.

with the eyebrows/eyeridges uh. i suppose they tend to be rectangular! or Oblong! just flexible little logs placed over the eyes. they tend to be level with where the top of the head is. again i will recommend looking up photos of Tyrannosaurus Rex Facing Forward, they have some great ridges

but yeah just! look around! play around with facial structure and what feels/looks right To You! look up those expression sheets/memes and use 'em for practice, they're great for that! and as i will always say - Dragons Dont Look Just One Way! Fuck Around And Find Out What's Dragon To You!

oh, and also look at anthro art. there's a lot of really good anthro art that can help show you how to place/move facial features on an animal with forward-facing eyes and much room for expression <3

[tachyon-omlette]

@thewiglesswonder was right, it is fun to make kids for your ships, even hypothetically

meet Kairos [she/they]

[stellarwaffles]

Movie Akita

[mylittlefusions]

Hi, it's Mod Dragonfly!

In honor of OC month, I fused together all the in-show FIM OCs, as counted in this video:

[leviathiane]

doodling while rotating the wing au in my head

[narugen]

okay if hoshina gets promoted to captain status in another division i will literally be so sad but it would be extremely fitting if he ends up nurturing a whole batch of recruits/an entire division through his kindness.. passing on the warmth that his captain showed him when they first met.. ough

[ferberus-skull]

made some mock-ups of a bug not-cat <3

[r4bbitdragon]

cryptid spotted. actually i think its funny how twincool is such a good translation for kirayaba im pretty sure its even been used officially by toei

[mars-ipan]

guys i think i have a talent for graphic eyeliner

[jon-is-blorbo]

The more I think of wing aus the more I can only see Jon with sea bird wings

[1spark1-blog]

A day of experiments!

Which one's do you like best?? I've done a mix of pass-through earrings, and deep engrave earrings. I think I prefer the deeply engraved ones as it allows for a more striking mix of colors in the positive and negative space! Leave comments down below I'd love to hear which ones spark more joy than others XD Over the past couple days I managed to take my multi layer pin setup I made and turn it into a fairly efficient way of making these earrings! It takes quite a bit of trial and error in getting a stable design that has the right amount of color balance, and works with the fragility of wood at this small size. These things are 20 mm on their longest side! I mixed and matched all kinds of different ways of painting these little guys, seeing what works and what doesn't.  I think my personal favorite is the black crow with the gold inlay. It looks very clean, and has wonderful contrast. I'm gonna have to use what I've learned here on my pins. I feel an artistic revolution coming up for me! Cutting more now to do more experiments.... These all use photos taken by me, in which I isolate the subject and some black magickery to create the outcomes you see here!

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[mayasaura]

did you see te pati maori declared independence??

I DID NOT! Holy shit! Thanks for the news!

Okay, now reporting back from one research deep-dive, the recent context as I understand it is this:

Last November, a conservative right-wing Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, assumed office. He's got a lot of less than stellar right-wing policies, and that includes making cuts to the Ministry of Social Development and opposing co-governance with the Waitangi Tribunal and other Māori leadership organisations over the administering of public services such as education, health, and infrastructure. He's been openly critical of Māori seats in Parliament, though he hasn't (yet) opposed them. Over the course of his administration, there's been an initiative to omit or cut mentions of the Treaty of Waitangi, the foundational document of New Zealand that forms the basis of arguments for Māori protections, from official language.

Which brings us to yesterday, May 30th. Budget Day. The day the new administration would announce their first budget and a day of mass action for supporters of te Pāti Māori protesting the treatment of Māori under the new government. I don't have any concrete numbers, but RNZ reports thousands of protestors, while the NZ Herald estimates "tens of thousands" turning out nation-wide, and a walking protest that delayed rush-hour traffic in Auckland for hours.

You may have already guessed that the budget was Bad. As I understand it, the budget effectively cut any kind of targeted funding for Māori health or education, and decreased funding for Māori cultural festivals and celebrations. And again, I cannot stress enough how much I am not an expert on this topic, so there's probably a lot more in there I don't know about.

In response to the new budget, Māori Party MP Rawiri Waititi issued a Declaration of Independence to the New Zealand Parliament, (video of his speech in link) with the support of his fellow te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.

There doesn't seem to be any concrete plan in place yet for the organisation of the new Māori parliament, but MPs Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer met with protestors to collect signatures for the Declaration, which they plan to bring to a hui taumata (meeting of congress) today, Friday, May 31st. The text of the Declaration can be found on te Pāti Māori website, in the form of a petition. You do not have to be Māori to sign, but I believe you do have to be kiwi.