#islacura

[dire-vulture]

Islacura is my clan's resident doctor! She has healing magic and calm vibes C:

Steepe gets chronic migraines and Blessing taught me the meaning of the word scrunkly.

wishing you the best with everything!

I’m an ER boy today and it is very uncomfortable! Share your sickly dragons and doctor dragons?

[kaos-mass]

Artfight Revenge on @reallypheelingit

Her name is Islacura!

[dire-vulture]

dragon ocs i’ve turned into fr dragons..have these four in my lair so far! Isla (snapper) was the only one that wasn’t a breeding project so her colors don’t match quite as much but hey she got the ball rolling haha..

i have a few other dragon ocs i hope to get some day..Siphooskii (mirror) needs his bf Alderstrom (who matches pearlcatchers really well..shouldn’t be too hard to get him)

[reallypheelingit]

i almost never draw my original dra6ons’ human forms haha..they really are long overdue for new refs. 

so i’m starting with Islacura here, or Erica for her human version! The necklace she has on her human form has the magic that lets her transform! her dragon form should be wearing it too tbh but since she’s a dragon by default I never think to include it haha,,

[dire-vulture]

My coatl Steepe gets bad migraines, and Islacura is my clan's doctor!

I hope you feel better soon!

Hey is dragon therapy still a thing? My migraines are really bad lately, show me some dragons who get headaches or are healers or just whoever you think is cute today

[guyghoul]

I explicitly let @everysinglepheel do whatever @everysinglepheel wants wi this picture (and its art sources) in anyway anywhere anytime, including uploads to any website @everysinglepheel uses.

═══════════════════════════════ I appreciate @everysinglepheel a lot. The firs thing is that @everysinglepheel‘s blog is a neat mixture of mainstream and obscure, frequently leading me to many new art blogs. Plenty of times, the posts of the blog have a common theme. The art is also rather cute; the ‘scanned pen and crayon’ look actually helps the cute, cartoony designs of his characters, making an overall appeal.

Islacura quickly became my favourite. I always liked the look of her ventral scales, being a pattern of rounded rectangles instead of wide stripes, that pattern also lookin good when following the round underbelly.

Those ventral scales were also a delight in spriting, making a neat dither effect. I also like how she is essentially one colour, resulting i neat forms of shading and playing with different shades of pink. Add the relative simplicity of the designs and I ended up enjoying spriting her with an impressive sprite. I deliberately folder her wings, partially because they would fit, partially because I wanted something differen than the same ‘extended wing’ pose I kept doing in these sprites.

If I were to fix this, I might change the legs. ═══════════════════════════════ This was part of Artfight 2021.

Islacura → @everysinglepheel

[delyth-thomas-art]

Adorable dragon cutie Islacura for @everysinglepheel . Thank you for your generous Ko-Fi donation!

[lugiaxawesome]

oops heres some late Christmas gifts,,,

Islacura for @everysinglepheel and Chandrasekhar for @kasutamasabisu hope you guys like them!!

[dire-vulture]

woo!!! happy pride month!!

It's pride month!

YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! SHOW YOUR GAYEST DRAGONS!

YES ACE COUNTS! YES ARO COUNTS! YES BI AND PAN AND TRANS AND EVERYONE COUNTS! DRAGON IS NB? SHOW THEM! SHOW YOUR PRIDE DRAGONS!

SHOW THEM.

IF YOUR GAYEST DRAGON HAPPENS TO BE THE ONE DRAGON IN UR LAIR THAT REPS YOU YOURSELF? SHOW THEM.

Here's some of mine under the cut and no i won't elaborate on why they are

[dire-vulture]

pink!!! @goannafr

[reallypheelingit]

finally a new drawing of Islacura for 2022! i feel like i was kind of struggling with drawing my own original dragon designs but i think she came out pretty nicely this time c:

[sorrcha]

@everysinglepheel islacura :-)!

[dire-vulture]

Here's my clan's little medical crew! We have Epasias, a mostly-retired traveling healer who still likes to offer her advice when she can. And next is Islacura, a snapper with both healing magic and lots of practical medicinal knowledge as well, and lastly Zibeth, the young trainee shadowing Isla, still working on developing her own healing prowess!

share your healers/medics/comfort dragons

trying not to cough my lungs out while i am in bed so i’d appreciate any of ur dragons with their best treatments and treats

[guyghoul]

I finished ArtFight 2021.

I did 31 attacks.

11 of those were in a pack. 6 of those were in another pack.

I am planning on reuploading my attacks oon, but I am honestly tapped out of energy. These last few sprites, I found myself in longer breaks between them and needing a bit of push before getting them.

Me doing sprites was ironic all over. I nitially planned on making all of my attacks pixel art because I wanted to practise, but spriting my Gal Ghoul self was difficult, hence I decided to just do everything in Colors! 3D. However, complications wi that programme (including only being able to expor to .jpg and showing mistakes that were hidden in the app itself) combined with my ease of use with spriting meant hat I was going back to my original plan.

There was also my getting used to ArtFight. I rushed in picking whi characters of mine would get entries. This was actually the firs time some of those got drawn at all, while a few others actually got finalise designs. Even after that, I ended up going too far in bookmarking a lot of characters that I wanted to attack. That is not even counting a few real-life issues.

Despite these difficulties, I am grateful that I did this battle. I got a lot of practise with spriting, honing and experimenting. In fact, making all of my attacks ingle walkabout sprites OHRRPGCE-style (a size of 20*20 with a 16-colour maximum) wi the Famicube palette was the reason why I coul do 31 attacks in the first place. A lot of that experience came fro my normal style being inspired by the Metro UI; working at such a low resolution required simila simplification. I even got a feel at how I could normally do sprites; each sprite took around half an hour to a whole hour total. This timing helped me learn about prioritising: I eventually just reduced myself to attacking members of the opposing team that I actually knew, even i from a distance. I also learned at how capable I am at delivering.

The biggest benefit, though, was that, by the very nature of ArtFight, I was essentially allowed to do fan-art whenever. Everyone there essentially gives you permission to do fan-art, complete with necessary boundaries. I was ecstatic that I could actually do fan-art of @grosskelly ‘s Teef, @everysinglepheel ‘s Islacura, and @alicechrosnyart ‘ Stormy, all characters that I admired since a long time! I even got o give @goatpaste a birthday present! Thankfully, my spriting other’s characters always got positive feedback, too!

One bittersweet idea from ArtFight is the idea that everyone i separated into two teams and is encouraged to attack (that is, do art of the characters from) the other team, even Invoking a (positive) Cycle of Revenge. Attacking members of your own team is allowed, but you get way less points this way. Despite teams being arbitrarily set, easily switchable (up to three times), and ultimately pointless, you can easily get caught up in winning points in support of your team. Ther ends up this temptation to reserve all fan-ar to ArtFight, even waiting until next year in extreme cases. Also, the idea of revenge sets up an expectation that others attack you in response to your attacks, which would make you feel bad if you do not get any. Or again, you would feel pressured in responding any attacks with revenge. Aside from these neglecting how real-life can get in the way, you end up missing the point of ArtFight: exercising both your art skills and your appreciation to your fellow artists.

Despite these shortcomings, the team-and-point system does have some benefits. They encourage you to do a good job, mor elaborate works bringing more points. Attacking members of your own team does grant you points, even if drastically reduced, alleviating the feeling of an artist/design you like not being in the opposi team. They also let you start and stop; they narrow down your choices if you are feeling overwhelmed when taking that fir step (especially wit how ArtFight is a big event) and help you prioritise if you bookmarked too much or the deadline is approaching... something that I already mentioned.

In all, I am impressed by how much art I coul do. I feel rather bad that I could not attack all those whom I wanted, but I am definitely planning on participating next year... with opefully much better sprite art! I might fix some sprites I did in the meantime, but I need mor experience before I can do them justice.

At least I might do custom RPG spel lists and stats with each of these.

[turbo-blaze]

Happy birthday @everysinglepheel!!! Your dragons are soo cute, take this islacura!!

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Commission!

I did a non-Pokemon commission of one of my friend @everysinglepheel's OCs Islacura! She's a pink dragon 😄🐉♥️