#httyd Windwalker

[always-amity]

Redesigned my beloved Anxious Horse

No wings because I can't be assed to draw Feathered wings right now, but they are shaped like a Falcons :]

Anyway! I kept the same colour palette and markings as I had in my original design since I literally can not imagine them any other way in that regard. Beyond that, I changed the shape of their head a bit, removed their horns, gave them whiskers and bigger, more expressive ears, and made them fuzzy.

Bonus doodles + colour palette

[msphagime]

*insert obligatory boy and dragons post*

Featuring Toothless (the best boy), Sharpshot (the book Toothless reference), Windwalker (the Windwalker and also a book Windwalker reference), and Thornshade (the Thornridge from Rise of Berk that gave me Windwalker vibes so I decided to add him as well)

Bonus:

Can't be book Toothless without the attitude 💅✨

[midnightcoffes]

silly httyd books doodles :] ONE EYE I MISS YOU

playing a bit with designs bc I Dont Know How To Draw Dragons

[asphodeline-lutea]

Look who's drawing httyd books fanart as sketch homework again (grins)

(the second one is based on a drawing, Springtime by Norman Rockwell, and the two dragons are just random ones I drew to replace the rabbits in the original(?))

[mrsnaildood]

Hopefully it's still February 29th somewhere in the world :] Happy Birthday, beloved Hiccup

[undercoverossifrage]

I love the little group of misfits we got to see at the beginning of book ten!

[b1asho]

So yeah, how to train your dragon is a big deal to me. I'm not going to watch the live action movie grrghhhhg

Here’s some design stuff? Headcanons?

I my head toothless is literally just that weird anchovie as a dragon. He buzzes around like a bug, and his species intentionally mimics common or gardens as a part of their life cycle on land. The only things that mark him out from the bazillion actual common garden subspecies are the blue wings and webbed feet. He looks all big headed and has no teeth because relative to that 1000 year life span, he’s just a fish fry.

Speaking of common or garden browns, I think it’d be funny if Horrorcow actually *was* herbivorous or mostly-herbivorous because that’s just what subspecies she was and the humans just can’t tell the difference because ’it’s a dragon it must eat meat duh’ and they lump all them together. Honestly it’s prolly for the best she peaces out to the caves for a bit, girl is not built for being in that close proximity to a Main Character.

Fireworm is just a bully, Rottweiler sized and classically dragonish. I tried not to think about making them all super realistic or thinking about how all their species could be related because the books don’t really do that super in depth and that’s part of the fun, so she just looks like a dragon (tm) even though the term dragon also covers things that have fur, or feathers, or produce milk, and look vastly different, Her claws are retractable and her leg spurs help fight off other monstrous nightmares. It’s so funny to me that she just immediately defects to the rebellion, it’s so in character even though she seems to have at least sorta vibed with snot.

I really liked drawing Stormfly as a kid, and the fact that she’s dragon meowth/ can just speak Norse because she can is also fun. She’s not feathery, those are like. Skin flaps or something that can move and change color. Very squirmy.

Windwalker is also one of my faves, I’m sad we didn’t get to see the metamorphosis but the mystery of it is also fun. It was also nice to see him start talking again after meeting hiccup. His ability to out-altitude other dragons is his species’ general hunting strategy and eventually his wings will straighten out (but his are in particularly bad shape because of his time working in the enclosed tunnels of the mines.) (Btw it's still crazy to me that dragon and human slavery is just a thing in the books and we just have to deal with it)

Wodensfang is that classic shriveled Old Man. I think that over time, they molt off their size (through literally freezing up, shrinking a little in a shell of their skin, melting bones and muscle and then coming out smaller, like the reverse of shedding skin to get bigger. Just don't think about it too hard, magic is basically canon here ) over time and leave the ocean to leave more room for the whippersnappers who are just coming in from the land. He’s missing most of his teeth, but the envenomed fangs still work.

I also have the book of dragons, it’d be fun to one day go through and draw all of them (I’ve already done that but those were on notebook paper and lost to time)

[scree-ming]

The instagram reposting concludes. As stated in the first post, not all instagram posts are being moved here. Check out the Linktree if you wanna see more of the art.

Depicted are Hiccup and Windwalker from the How to Train your Dragon bookseries, fleeing from a dragon's fury. I reread it recently, and it was good. Highly recommend.

Windwalker's design was inspired by a number of things, including peregrine falcons, horses, carcals, great horned owls, and pelagornis sandersi.

The other dragons in the books were also very interesting in terms of design. I'm not opposed to trying my hand at making my own interpretations of them.

[anhttydbookfan]

Just a bit of stop motion practice

[emo-sonic]

The Windwalker (again)

[reluctantlyanimating]

Wet dog energy

[httydfirefly]

Sad bois

[stargazingdustbunny]

Thinking about redrawing this digitally, but here's a picture of my favorite scene/the scene that always makes me cry in the httyd books. How to betray a dragon's hero is my favorite book in the series, largely because of Snotlout's role in it (but there are other great scenes as well).

[midnightcoffes]

modern day au where the dragons are domestic animals

–toothless is a stray cat. a kitten, that hiccup adopted right when he moved bc his dad insisted he shouldnt be alone (even though hos dad prefered a big dog or smth)

he wakes up hiccup at 3 a.m. to ask for food, destroy things on purpose, thinks the human should obey him, etc. nothing really different from the book

not sure what color he would be though. I think Calico is cool but Orange also fits.....

–windwalker is a scrawny and furry black dog, clearly traumatized and scared of humans that hiccup found on the street and thought "i need to help this thing even though i already have a cat and my apartment is not big enough"

He flinches and try to run everytime Hiccup tries to pet them on the first days, but later the dog starts to grow fond of the boy and turns inseparable

– Wodensfang is a reallly old cat that his previously owner died and he was put to adoption, but no one really wanted to adopt him, until Hiccup discovered that if no one adopted he would be abandoned and took him.

He's probably very chill, opposite to toothless chaotic energy, but would totally ocasionally act super weird like staring to the nothing for a long time and scare the shit out of hiccup

why is windwalker so dog coded

[siyi-desu]

Illustrations I did that i couldn't finish in time for hiccup's birthday

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

How to Betray A Dragon's Hero is the most amazing book in the series. Snotlout's arc is phenomenal and should be acknowledged more.