#dragon face

[rachaelmayo]

Space weirdos, ahoy! This is Uranean Man o' War, a 2002 piece that remains one of my personal favorites.

The Portuguese Man o' War was my point of departure for this dragon. I also had been looking at graffiti stylization and... was it LA Williams' art? I think so. (It was more than 20 years ago, after all, and I don't know where I stashed my sketches and notes.) I wanted the dragon to be semi-abstract, floating into pieces. I wanted teeth and eyes and spines and frills and horns. I wanted the somewhat limited color palette so that I could concentrate on shapes, forms, and values. It worked out better than I had expected (considering that it was very experimental for me), and the original art sold, BAM, just like that, at its first showing.

Prismacolor pencil over watercolor, with India ink for the black bars at top and bottom.

[meonlyred]

22 years later and the Crows are still cringing over Zevran. Truly the man of all time.

[timethehobo]

His cute expression when Rook first started flirting tho…

[proxycrit]

Day 34– Bridge of Hylia

That gleeok is a public menace to the public infrastructure.

(This is a totk au called Familiar Familiar! Tldr, zelda doesn’t fall back in time and the two work as purah’s interns traveling hyrule together. Now with more botw influence!)

((Wanna support me? Check out my patreon, with my throw away sketches and references! Remember to use web or android folks, apple charges 30 percent tax.))

[askfordoodles]

Mages when they run out of mana 🤣

[manuart79]

(via "Komodo Dragon" Mouse Pad for Sale by Manuart79)

[mooreaux]

Love Undying

[thenevarranaccord]

What’s really jumping out at me on my second playthrough is that the writers of the first three games understood that your character was the main character. The Veilguard writers clearly thought that the main characters were their characters, the companions.

Every scene is about setting the companions up as cool or competent or sympathetic. Often, this is done at Rook’s expense. The companions get all the witty one-liners; Rook’s attempts at humor not only frequently fall flat, but are frequently called out for falling flat (even when they’re completely automatic and the player has no say in them).

The companions have all the knowledge and skills; Rook just brought them all together and gives them all pep talks so they can focus. I’m trying to edit out all of the comments where Rook is like “Um… what????” from my videos, and let me tell you, it takes WORK. There are A LOT of them. I can count on one hand the number of times when the Inquisitor or Hawke comes across as dumb, but it seems to be a built-in, unavoidable part of Rook’s character. I have not selected a single “purple” option in all of Act 1, and Rook is still coming across as the kid who tries to be the class clown to cover for the fact that he’s always confused. Rook’s role in most scenes is to say “Uhhh… what?” so that the companions look smart.

Rook is always the one offering sympathy and never the one getting it. No one actually comes to comfort you after Varric’s death. No one asks you how you’re feeling about having to lead the team now that Varric is gone. No one tries to reassure you or give you advice for dealing with the trickster god haunting your dreams. We’re told that Neve could keep Solas out of your head, but she never actually offers to do this for you. No one comforts a Shadow Dragon Rook when Minrathous is destroyed or a Grey Warden Rook when Weisshaupt is destroyed. Rook’s problems don’t matter. Only the problems of main characters matter.

Rook is a secondary character in their own story.

[manny-jacinto]

#jacaerys velaryon is canonically reading the hunger games

[jibberjibbsart]

The gang’s all here 💖

More High Rollers screenshot redraws!!! This one was too fun I’m glad I got to draw everyone 😌

[kipine]

✦ Whispers of Snow ✦

A new adoptable for sale on my Ko-Fi! A winter-y dragon..! There's also a couple of older adopts!

[eurodyne-d]

Lucanis Dellamorte

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

POV: You're petting a cat in Treviso, look up and see this.

[miyku]

[proxycrit]

Day 37– Faron Depths

Link dropkicks frog children and steals spine residue. Zelda would have more of a moral foot to stand on, but she’s the one that suggested the “let’s ride an ancient dragon like a tram, nevermind if it’s possibly blasphemous.” Oh well!

(This totk rewrite au is called Familiar Familiar! It all starts when Zelda doesn’t get sent back in time.)

((Wanna support me? Check out my patreon, with my throw away sketches and references! Remember to use web or android folks, apple charges 30 percent tax.))

[gothsylveon]