#basilisk's art

[basiliskfree]

Tried a houndtooth pattern this go, the warp was a bit annoying to setup doing the weft was fun.

[fox-teeth]

Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.

(buy it here)

[filurig]

a longgg overdue new arvo reference for his basilisk form... he no longer symmetrical!

[endivinity]

okay here we go!!! first of the season with Sailfin! It's common along the southern coastlines to see deathclaws whose vertebrae have developed into broad fans. These are flush with blood vessels for absorbing the sun's heat.

[maratycznie]

[cupcakeshakesnake]

As a snake enthusiast it is a great shame that I have never drawn Vee and I am rectifying that now

[Image description: digital art of Vee from The Owl House in her basilisk form, smiling and making peace signs with a wink, facing the viewer. The first image has a green background. The second is the same, but the background is pink with stars. End ID.]

(ID by @anistarrose with small edits by me)

[salamander-spark]

What if Vee got adopted by the Nocedas as a baby? (She is now free from the horrors)

From an AU I'm slowly brainstorming

Floppy ears!! :3

This is an old sketch, based on a fic I read by Frog_With_A_Mushroom on AO3 (@fruity-phrog here). The concept of Vee and Luz growing up in the opposite realm they did in canon is what initially inspired me to do my AU. I still have barely written anything for it, but one of these days, I'm gonna do something with it.

[gatoburr0]

calf1sh but they're mythological

yippiee

[sashimj]

finally finished this piece😪 it's been in my gallery for two months lol

what if i make that my new profile picture🤔

[pincushionx]

Small owl house sketch dump

[crleonis]

Tom finding the basilisk.

This is my first attempt at like a comic so I rlly hope it’s not too bad 😭

[basiliskfree]

Finished my first weaving project on the loom I got for my birthday

It's pretty rough (like my poor edges at the start are a mess) but it's nice to get back into weaving

[thisartisfine]

Veesha my beloved 🙏🙏🙏 I love them sm, literally one of my favorite ships.

I head cannon that vee uses she/they btw!

[filurig]

Well i have decided to make a little silly phenomenon in pareidolia so. yes folke is used as an example for a reason no i wont elaborate... but i will elaborate about the phenomenon below...

most humans associate the scars with trolls (keep in mind this is about basilisks in the nordics so) because of the idea that trolls shapeshift (in Pareidolia Reality they don't and the "real" trolls are more baueresque than the more traditional view. but its all human terminology anyway lol). any humans with troll scars tend to try to hide them bcs of it, but it can be hard depending on how extensive they are - if you just got a scar where you have extra furring, you may just be able to shave it. if you got the feather variant, it might suck a bit more lol...

troll scars are premanent, the tissue it affects will be forever changed.

filament tends to be somewhat adapted to fit where the original tissue was. claws won't grow from random patches of skin etc.

pigment is usually inherited from the scarred individual, but on rare occasions it may spontaneously "pick up" on local bird species pigmentation like basilisks do in development (as baby)

metamorfum acid burns heal very fast - a large area can heal in about as little as a month. but that's just for the "superficial" healing, and it will appear like a normal burn scar at first until it'll slowly start to grow the new filaments or the tissue will appear to "change".

basilisk acid burns rarely ever go deeper than the skin because it stops being active fast after exiting the basilisk body.

many basilisk cultures are hesitant about interspecies relationships (with other sophonts i mean) using hastuik as a justification. interestingly enough, metamorfum accidents don't seem to affect harpies as badly, probably because the two species are related, so there's usually less of a hesitation in regards to those relationships. it may vary however from community to community

hastuik is a basilisk term (well among scandinavian basilisks) which often refers to these scars but also in other contexts and is also a combination of two words - "hastu", which is also a family suffix (used for chicks before they pick their name), whose meanings include young/youth, chick and naiveté, while "ik" can be translated to foolishness/stubbornness (specfically with the connotation that it is unreasonable). calling another basilisk hastuik is basically calling them naive/childish in a derogatory sense since the term is kind of obsolete for them anyway (the acid burns heal normally for them)

[glyretic]

Burning Basilisk

design owner: bonesparrow

[fox-teeth]

Took my beaft stickers to The Met Cloisters to meet their real medieval counterparts.

Artworks Featured:

Basilisk panel from Arch with Beasts, French c. 1150-75

Panther door mount, French early 11th century

Aquamanile in the Form of a Dragon, German c. 1200

Siren detail from Dragon fresco, Spanish after 1200

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden, French/South Netherlandish 1495-1505

(stickers for sale in my shop if you want a beaft to take to the museum)