#i love night trains so much

[mizuchiwolf]

''I want you to be free. Our world doesn’t deserve you. Yet.''

[jokesboy]

im going to budapest tomorrow on a train all on my own i havent travelled alone for so long and im so nervous . ive never been to budapest and there are many train lines

[dotcircledot]

toothless doodling

[thereweredragonshere]

The devious boy. Let him snatch fish from unsuspecting villagers

[httyd-art-requests]

Ohhh could i ask a hybrid dragon?

(Night fury x DeathSong)

srry for bothering and...

I LOVE YOUR ART AND DRAGON DESIGNSSSS <3♡♡

Extremely cool dragon combination, thank you for requesting it!

Dragon #113 - Night Fury × Death Song Hybrid

I'm thinkiiing... Nightsong. Or Night Song, whichever spelling looks nicer

[neztune]

I had access to an iPad that can use a stylus, so here’s the Toothless doodles! (I’ll get a better iPad someday)

[montesmithart]

Another character introduction post :D

Meet Hachiko, my night fury oc who was created in 2015! (it’s literally the oldest character I have lol). This guy doesn’t have any specific bio, or backstory, or whatever. He just exists and I love him ;D Sometimes I also draw funny stuff with him because he’s just perfect for memes! I’ll show these to you later ^^

His old ref sheet from 2015 btw😭

[spyderschaos]

Someone has probably said this before and I just haven’t seen it, and it feels obvious and stupid that I just realized

But I can’t stop thinking about how these two scenes are parallels. As in they have the exact same line- “so why didn’t you?”

And I also like how they’re both said with emphasis in different places (at least from what i remember)

The first one was just “so why didn’t you?”

And the second Astrid asks “so why didn’t you?” first and then adds “why didn’t you?”

Idk I just think it’s so cool how that small thing changes the meaning of the sentence

[kisskissboxinggloves]

*inhale*

THE BERKIANS DID NOT NEED TO DITCH THEIR DRAGONS IN THE HIDDEN WORLD

NEW BERK WAS HIGH ENOUGH TO WHERE NOBODY CAN REACH THEM WITHOUT THE WINGSUITS OR DRAGONS. THE AWFUL NARRATIVE THAT THE FRANCHISE VER. OF THE WORLD CANNOT CO-EXIST WITH DRAGONS IS STUPID, AND THEY TRIED TO FORCE THAT "There were dragons when I was a boy" FROM THE BOOKS SO HARD, WHICH DOESN'T WORK BECAUSE THE FRANCHISE AND BOOKS DO TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS.

THW SPAT IN THE MOUTH OF THE TV SHOWS & THE SECOND MOVIE AND IT'S ENDING--

*exhale*

[quibble-auk]

Some more pet portraits I made of my fish.

And then I made one of him when he was a baby. His spots didn’t grow with him. They were still on his body, they were just the same size as they were before so they are really small.

They don’t have backgrounds because those are hard.

[thereweredragonshere]

Hi!!!!

First I just wanted to say that I love your art, and that your art of Astrid has been slowly pulling me into the Buffstrid camp!

And secondly, do you have any advice on drawing Night Furies? I've been having trouble with it (there's a 1/4 complete drawing I have just TAUNTING me) and in particular trouble with boiling it down to just shapes.

Heyy!!! :D

Thank you so so much!! <3

I find that night furies can be broken up into five basic shapes, which are then expanded upon

I will admit that it is hard to put the connection between these shapes into words. I find a lot of this comes from having traced over toothless so many times that my hand quit its job and filed a lawsuit against me. My best advice is to use those basic shapes and trace over toothless with them in mind to gain your own understanding of how he is structured, as it works differently in every artist’s mind.

- The chest is boxy and the broadest part of the torso (Think kinda like a bird, cuz they gotta have all that muscle for the wings. And the ribcage is there)

- The midsection gets increasingly thinner

- The pelvis is the pinch point where the body transitions into the tail

Another thing is the structure of the back.

I know that looks horrible and mathematical but I promise you those three red triangles are such life savers.

The top blue line is where the spine (presumably) is, so that is the most flexible part of the back. Everything will bend in accordance with it. It starts at point A of the red triangles, and ends at the pelvis. Point A to point C is on a slant, and is the absolute widest part of the body.

Because I’ve done it so many times I don’t actually draw out that triangle when I’m structuring a night fury, but it’s something that I’m always thinking about whilst plotting the important meeting points.

Another thing I tend to do is draw a line down the direct middle of the back when planning out how the pose will look

Here are a few sketches I did recently of my oc Prosper.

You can see in the first sketch that there is a directional line going down the very centre of her back. That was draw before I did any of the actual structured parts of her body.

BUT ALSO!! In the sketch closest to the right, you can see that I very obviously ignored the whole triangle shite with the chest. This is a psa that you do not under all circumstances have to stick to anatomy rules. Sometimes drawing tips do not apply and fuck yeah artistic stylisation man! That ribcage would not at all function on a real animal but does it look awful and horrible and like it should die? Nope! And- in the middle sketch, I did stick to the triangle rule. Example of selectively using drawing tips where they feel appropriate!!

Honestly there are so many points I could make when it comes to drawing these guys that there are just too many for one post. If there’s anything you want me to go specifically into detail on please do feel free to send in asks for it!

[emmavakarian-theirin]

it's probably not that deep but i'm thinking about how lucanis feels disappointed in himself that he's a bad teacher trying to teach taash the tricks of being a crow, meanwhile a lot of his training involved caterina depriving him of food/water for days and beating him with her cane when he got things wrong

[risingshards]

"Oh man this season is AMAZING so far." —me, who grades anime seasons by how much yuri is in them

[tired-all-the-time22]

Also some Cecil Palmer doodles because I am actually a big fan of welcome to night vale and I love to draw him being silly

[forbiddentaako]

more monochrome practice I suppose

[fuckyeah-bears]

Havent been on tumblr much lately, been running around helping students with their encampments