#storm hawks bird oc challenge

[happypanda101]

“You can’t escape the sight of an owl, dear….”

My character for July’s bird month! @far-side-skies

Meet Pitta Gurney, Cyclonia’s odd gothic medic. A retired archer with damaged eyesight. Though, just because her sight wasn’t what it was, doesn’t making her any less dangerous. She now takes her terror to the medical wing, scaring unruly patients into submission.

I wanted to try and play into the bird lineage idea, and once I picked an owl, I really wanted to bring ito out into the design. Hence the creepy big eyes and beak like makeup. Thanks to @ashe-alter for the inspo!

She’s the type of person that would tell you that she watches you in your sleep, and you don’t really know if you should believe her or not cause she’s creepy enough to do it lmao.

[far-side-skies]

WIP of this month's bird OC! Colours just need refining a bit.

Spitfire is a member of the 3rd Degree Burners; their best pilot and secondary Sky Knight. When he first joined as a teenager, he had no interest in being a Sky Knight and preferred to compete in races with other squadron members. He grew particularly close to a young Suzy-Lu and Lightning Strike's co-pilot in that time, right up until the betrayal happened.

In my lore, the Sky Knight Council covered up the fact that Lightning's co-pilot was responsible for the fall of the old Storm Hawks, and branded the Dark Ace as a random rogue operative who'd come out of nowhere to win his place in Cyclonia's ranks by killing the team. Spitfire was one of the only people brave enough to contest this decision, and proceeded to spend the next few years believing that some semblance of his old friend still remained in Cyclonia's Champion.

This conviction literally came back to bite him in an incident that cost him an eye. By the time the show events come about, Spitfire has completely abandoned all hope in his old friend.

[todayis-snowy]

Enter stage left, Blood Shrike, the legacy of House Chanthara, ‘loyal’ servant to the Empire of Cyclonia, and this month’s entry into @far-side-skies’s bird OC challenge!

Third-eldest of the Cyclonian Elites, Blood Shrike primarily heads the Crystal Weaponry and Development sector for the empire’s war effort. It is better to die in a battle against Cyclonia, lest you survive as a prisoner-turned-lab rat for their experiments.

Ironically years beforehand, Blood Shrike and their siblings were test subjects for a study surrounding cures for Binding Sickness. As the sole survivor they left with crystals in their blood and back, and a heavy grudge against those with a natural attunement to the Binding.

Needless to say they do not take kindly to Emperor Cyclonis, who wears a crystal that Blood Shrike recognises all too well from the labs.

P.S: don’t get too close to them. those claws are Sharp.

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Ryder!!! He looks so good, and I love the little patterns on his sleeves 💜🩵💜

This month's challenge character for @far-side-skies is Ryder Dieder, the Talon Austry's younger brother.

He is 14, and yes, looks a lot like Aerrow.

Ryder lives in rural Cyclonia with his parents and twin sister, Chi. At first, he had no interest in the war and wanted to grow up to be a racer.

However, after an incident where he and Austry are captured by Atmosian forces and left to the chief interrogator, Ryder decided he wanted to fight. He never wants anyone to suffer the way he and his brother did.

Austry and his mother don't think he should fight. So, to compromise, they let him join the the storm hawks reserve team.

I'm sure that sounds a bit odd, but the reserve team is largely full of double agents, lead by Lynn.

[stormseclipse]

Here’s my entry for @far-side-skies oc challenge!

You get a two in one this month :b

Names: Astennu, god of death, and Femi, goddess of life

Home terra: Terra Shezmu? Or all of Atmos

Bio: About 5000 years ago, a group of humans sought to create a crystal that could give them unimaginable power and longevity, they succeeded but at a great cost. They were transformed into animalistic monsters who could only drink blood. Those that survived the rampage quickly tried to destroy the crystal to prevent this from ever happening again but it began to heal itself, pulling the pieces back together except for one shard, which was taken and hidden somewhere deep on Atmos.

Since the vampires, as the creatures came to be called, could not be killed, they were left to roam Atmos, soon turning more humans into one of their own. As their numbers grew, the gods of Atmos created new gods to govern them, one to bring them death and one to bring them life.

Astennu was created first to bring order to the land, giving the vampires their mortality and their weaknesses. Modern vampires describe him as quiet and stern, he rarely chooses to intervene on mortal affairs, choosing to focus on his main job of making sure the cycle of life and death continues.

Femi was created second to bring prosperity to the new species of Atmos. She gives them their long life as well as their ability to transform back into their human forms, should they so choose. Femi is described as cheerful and loving, often granting gifts to the mortals and keeping a close eye on them.

Astennu and Femi are also mates, with their “soul mark” being a butterfly. Symbolizing their duties to the cycle of life and death.

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I posted 86 times in 2022

That's 22 more posts than 2021!

19 posts created (22%)

67 posts reblogged (78%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@momolady

@thecaffeinebookwarrior

@gatorkid509

@far-side-skies

@gothamcitycentral

I tagged 34 of my posts in 2022

#storm hawks - 20 posts

#sticker album - 7 posts

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles - 4 posts

#rottmnt - 4 posts

#my art - 3 posts

#stickers - 3 posts

#repo mantis - 3 posts

#storm hawks oc challenge - 3 posts

#rise of the tmnt - 2 posts

#repton - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 98 characters

#even thought i now think it's portrayal of killer croc is one of the characters poorer adaptations

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

A preview of some Storm Hawks redesigns of the Raptors, I've noticed the Raptors never really get a chance to be re imagined by other SH artists despite being very well liked in the fandom, but that's all going to change thanks to me.

Here's the 4 preview sketches! Not full body because I want that to be a surprise.

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12 notes - Posted February 10, 2022

#4

Finally got a chance to enter @far-side-skies Bird Month Challenge, I’ve attempted to participate before, but usually stopped either due to art block, not finishing on time and work. But this month I was determined to actually do the art challenge, and now I have and I defiantly want participate in future Bird Moth Challenges( Assuming I don’t quit half way through -_-; ) And yes, I did color it traditionally with my markers since I’m still figuring out my new drawing tablet and a new art program. So I had to be really careful when I was coloring, as well as trying to find the right colors to fit this months Sea Hawk theme.

So allow me to introduce the famous Atmosian film star Calliope Pandion.

Age: Reported to be around her late 30s( She doesn’t like sharing her real age)

Home Terra: Terra Atmosia

Bio:

Beautiful and very talented, Calliope actually had a pretty rough start to her acting career, taking bit roles and rarely getting a speaking part. But her big break came when a then unknown movie director Carmilla de Luna chose Calliope for her then upcoming movie Desert Heat, a romantic film that needed a beautiful actress to star along side the male Raptor lead. When they finished filming and the film was released, it was a huge hit with audiences( Mainly with human women) and propelled Calliope to stardom. Since then she had starred in multiple films, and has continued to act in more of Carmilla’s films since they both wouldn’t have gotten famous without one another. And with Carmilla, she has been dubbed as “ The Woman Mates With Monsters” by her fans( Her mainly human fans) due to a lot of her films having other species as her love interests. Their are however rumors that she actually hates working with actors and directors of a different species and treats her co stars badly behind the camera and Carmilla’s back, but they have yet to be proven.

Trivia:

- She has starred in about 42 movies in her 10+ years as an actress.

- While she does have many fans, she does have her haters, may of which are of the different species of Atmos that criticize how their species are depicted in her films( One Blizzarian hater stated that the film Eternal Snow had depicted Blizzarians saying “Hoser” to many times.)

And that’s Calliope, the idea of a famous actress in Atmos that’s secretly against other species  has actually been on my mind for months, as well as @uncertainty5​‘s BMC OC AVADA also giving me inspiration as well.( And no, I don’t think Calliope would work in one of AVADA’s movies since not only she’s heard he mainly makes propaganda films for Cyclonia, but also because he’s a Merb.

And Carmilla de Luna is a female parody of actual director Guillermo del Toro.

I hope you guys like( or hate) Calliope, I had fun drawing her and again, I’m so glad to finally have a chance to enter @far-side-skies​ Bird Month Challenge.

And good luck to all the other artist who are participating 

12 notes - Posted June 4, 2022

#3

Mission to Find Lost Storm Hawks Stickers almost half way achieved!!!!

Look what came in the mail today!!

The Stickers for the Storm Hawks Sticker Album!!!

I bought them of of ebay from who I believe also sold me one of the sticker albums, they were selling them as a sort of "mystery bags" and I brought them mainly because I was curious to what they are. And I did not expect them to contain the SH Stickers at all.

Though as you can tell, 5 of them are cut in half, possibly due to them being bigger then the custom mystery bags or they're made to be like that. And I don't know what's going on with the Sky Knight council sticker, it looks really weird.

Still, I'm glad I finally got my hands on some of the actual stickers since, like I've said before, they are really rare and hard to come by.

I know I should be filling the sticker album with them, but I don't think I want to, mainly because they look so good on their own. Maybe put them on my wall via thumb tacks/push pins since I don't want to simply stick them on my wall since it would be very hard to take them off. I'm not sure yet.

Also I totally fan girled when I saw the Murk Raiders sticker since they are my favorite Squadron next to the Raptors.

13 notes - Posted June 6, 2022

#2

Yeah, I fell back into one my very first fandoms, The Batman a.k.a. an underrated gem that gave use some of the best designed villains, one of the best versions of Batman, and some of the best episodes. Though it does have a lot of flaws( I still hate that they made Poison Ivy a teen just so she can have a connection to TB Barbara. They could have obivously made Ivy a botany teacher who turns bad, I know student/teacher friendships aren't seen as much in media because of student/teacher relationships, while controversial, are more widely known, but it's still possible)

Sorry, back to subject, I absolutely love the Team Penguin episode, something about this group of Gotham misfits banding together because Penguin saw a movie about teamwork just gives me the feels, and it makes me wish they teamed up again just for fun.( Maybe without Penguin because that means they can use either Firefly or Ragdoll's names for the group, The Gotham Gangsters/ Villains United sound much more cool) and it would mean more screen time for Ragdoll and Killer Moth as they didn't really get much screen time after that episode( Ragdoll made a slight cameo in Rumors and Killer Moth got a mention, which sucks as I find his mutanted form adorable and so fluffy!!!)

So for this drawing, I was curious about whether or not Killer Moth has instincts of a moth since he's now mutated into one, and I couldn't help but think he would unintentionally annoy Team Penguin with his new habits of chewing on their clothes and attraction to bright lights( an irony because Ragdoll makes jokes if Killer Moth has these abilities when they first meet). I'd imagine he would fly behind Firefly because of Firefly's jetpack emitting a bright yellow glow and trying to get close to it that they would crash into one another when he gets too close.( And he's definitely going to apologize for it since he can't help it.)

So yeah, here he is chewing on Ragdoll's sweater, I did color it with markers and you can definitely tell I did a pretty botched job at coloring KM's fluff, mainly his neck fluff as it looks too close of a color to his outer fluff, and I made part of his antennes. I also botched Ragdoll's colors to despite having the right browns for him, I made the left patch too dark so that hides his x shaped eyes( Speaking of which, how does Ragdoll see with those X shaped eyes on his costume? do they have tiny holes that let him see? This has been bugging me since I first saw him). I took a picture of the sketch just before I colored it just in case I botched it with markers( And of course I did) so expect a digitally colored version eventually.

Though I do have to say, I did get them pretty accurate to how they look in the show, Moth was, of course, really hard because of the fact I don't usually draw insects, but his fluff was really fun to draw. And Ragdoll was surprisingly easy for me, maybe it's because he's not as complex as other versions of him.

And might I add that Team Penguin was very close to becoming an all animal themed team if they included an acrobatics villain with an animal theme. Though I will let it slide as the only other animal themed villain that knows acrobatics is Catwoman and I don't think Penguin was willing to ask her join due to the last time the 2 teamed up.

Now I want to write headcannons for Team Penguin, doubt I'll actually do it, but who knows.

And so, I think that's pretty much it, tell me what you think.

18 notes - Posted January 22, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Guess what came in the mail today!!!

A official Storm Hawks Sticker Album!!!!!

I saw on the official Storm Hawks Wiki that there was a photo of a sticker album cover that was released in I believe Germany by a company called Panini. I thought " Whoa! Cool!!" And immediately went to eBay to see if someone was selling one! And their were two!! Both from different sellers, and I bought from both because I have no self control!( Actually the one you see here was more pricey, the other less pricey one with hopefully arrive in about a week, but I'm a bit concerned since they didn't give a tracking number, I hopefully find out soon)

And when I opened it I was both amazed and confused.

Amazed because I was looking at years worth of unseen pages that went right under Storm Hawks Fans noses.

And confused because they're wasn't any sheets that included the stickers like most sticker books I've seen/had, most of them either have the stickers at the end or in the middle. Does that mean I have to do more hunting for the actual stickers? UGGGGGHHHH!!!!!! Nooooo!!! I actually wanted those stickers!!

But... on the bright side, it has a POSTER!!!!!!

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26 notes - Posted March 18, 2022

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[happypanda101]

Finally got around to finishing up my character for this months bird challenge! @far-side-skies

Delphus Dove Cyclonis, the second born and first son of Piper and Cyclonis for the next generation era stuff I got going on!

While being a mix of both of his mother’s, Del takes more after Piper. Being the more responsible, calm and a bit nick picky one out of his siblings. He still has her excitement for crystals though lol.

He’s a little bit shy and can come off as a know it all sometimes, but he really does mean well. He has to be my favourite design I’ve done in awhile!

[far-side-skies]

Aaaah this is cool! I love seeing more people come up with backstory for Aerrow's mother :3

Finally made a design for Ruby!!

For @far-side-skies challenge

Name: Ruby Burrows

Occupation: Nurse

Terra: Atmosia

A farmer from the outskirts of Atmosia, she often helped her parents with chores as she grew up, before moving closer into town for her job.

And it's at that very hospital where catches word of the legendary Storm Hawks coming in for a check-up.

Unlike most people, however, she could care less about them, especially about their leader, Lightning Strike. She knew that behind that mask of heroism was just a vain, vile, and misogynistic man.

Or so she thought.

After seeing him express genuine concern for his squad mates, and letting small children hop onto his shoulders made her realize that, maybe, she was wrong.

As time went on, she decides to date him, and Axel vows to keep their relationship away from the public, as she wished.

They promised to love each other, and future child, for all their life on their wedding day.

And so they did, until their very last breaths.

Thinking about adding some more tidbits about her after the comic's done

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Spitfire is finished! Super proud of this one, I put a lot of focus into making him look like a cohesive member of the team as well as his own individual character. Super interesting team lineup to work with.

[sarahtunn]

All of my Storm Hawks Bird OC Challenge entries. I know, so few! I'll get round to drawing Cass myself at some point, I swear.

[akhumahx13]

My entry for the @far-side-skies oc bird, I had wanted to participate so much but for one reason or another I couldn't, I hope to be able to participate in future contests. I have been very inspired, well here is the info.

Name: Kirie

Age: 15 years

Race: Human

Height and weight: 1.62m 58kg

Terra of Origin: Sama, One of many terras that was thought to be uninhabited, but with a warm climate and good resources, mainly raw crystal mines, being invaded first by the Raptors but in the end being part of the Cyclonian territory.

Occupation/Position: Talon

Squad: Cyclonians

Description of his personality: Having the character of cheerfully obnoxious, dedicated, joker, he was a person who could relax the environment when they were not on duty, being a good companion but his high loyalty to Cyclonia became too dense to the point of going out of his way for the ideals.

Status: Unknown possibly deceased

History:

Born in a tribe in Terra Sama with ease, it was not until the age of 6 when the Raptors attacked his tribe, arriving by simple chance to find some warm place, taking the advantage because the people of Sama did not have great technological advances reducing The number of people was very large, not much happened until the word spread by reconnaissance of the island by soldiers from Cyclonia, when they came across the town they easily manipulated the people with promises of protection and progress.

And so it was the first weeks after the people were taken from Sama, some to the factories, others secretly thrown into the Wastelands and the youngest being instructed as Talons, among them Kirie, advancing impeccably, they spent years where they did the will of that then Master Anarchis.

Some time passed until new young people arrived for the ranks, being Fenix ​​a red-haired boy from terra Glockenchime with whom he would form a friendship to a certain extent, have a more relaxed season for both, have a bit of childhood in that military and dark environment, but As time went by, Kirie's devotion to Cyclonia, rude attitudes, even putting down lands and races, began to tire the redhead, he had a very different vision of the circumstances, even with the friendship that little fractured.

Being a confrontation against the Sky Knights, the fight was close, however, Kirie's Switchblade began to fail, taking out smoke going into a tailspin, the boy managed to jump for Fenix's Skimmer but in the attempt to climb the ship he had a struggle that It ended in a direct blow to Kirie's face, letting go of his partner's unexpected attack, trying to get his parachute out but it didn't open, he just looked up seeing his friend sabotaging his own ship, jumping out of it and surrendering to the Sky Knights, only the screams calling him a traitor could be heard until he was lost at the bottom of the Wastelands.

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💜���THEM!!💜💜

This bab was so much fun to work on with you Grimm!

I hope you guys love them as much as we loved making them!

This months a collab character for @far-side-skies oc challenge with @far-side-skies

Their name is Jewel and they are very rare hybrid of Nightcrawler and Dawnrunner. The two species are natural enemies and despise one another despite many similarities between them.

Jewel was born (hatched) in a traveling circus and has no home terrar.

Their father, Romeo, is a Dawnrunner and has raised them on his own with the help of their cirus.

Their mother, Juliet, is a Nightcrawler, or in far-side-skies' lore a night elf queen.

No we were not subtle with the names.

Jewel is the main trapeze performer with their father being a strong man and knife thrower.

They love preforming and their giant weird family.

Check out far-side post for more info and an awesome mini fic!

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Hi! Here is my entry for January’s Storm Hawks OC Challenge (Great-Eared Nightjar) from @far-side-skies

Name: Jarita Loxia

Nickname: Jari

Age: 18

Sex: Female

Occupation: Hunter

Position: Sharpshooter and markswoman

Weapon of choice: Rifle, bow and arrows

Family: Carolina (mother, ✝), Garuda (father, 40), Garuda (brother, 22)

Background: His mother was a cyclonian refugee who escaped to Terra Coriolis when her family became political enemies, but her family didn’t manage to escape. At Vellum, Carolina met Garuda and fell in love, marrying a few years later. When she was 7, their mother died in childbirth. His brother Gam was stillbirth. This turned Garuda Sr. into a taciturn man. She learned to hunt with her father and Hirundo, but when her brother moved from home, she started to hunt along with their father, so they would sell the meat.

Personality: She speaks always straightforward but with empathy and care of her words. Her friends and family are the most important to her and she’ll fight for them and be unconditional to her loved ones. She’s quite an introvert, enjoying the days she spends hunting in the forests all alone, so she can come back to Velum, with her batteries totally charged.

Abilities: She’s the best shooter of her team (still she has a competitive relation with her brother when they’re training), using rifle, bow and arrows, but she prefers rifle.

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@far-side-skies that moment when you find out your great something something grandma is now a guardian of Atmos lmao

Meet Hymala Montel, my entry for this months bird month! She was an apprentice of Arygyn, as well as a form Empress of Cyclonia, having the title of Master Flanaris. One which usually threw people off after seeing how bright and kind the royal actually was. She was both beloved for her overwhelming warming and caring presence. But resented for her apparent naivety and attempts to make peace with Atmosia, as at that point in the war tensions had grown high.

It’s definitely an awkward family reunion for Cyclonis lol. I mean put the two side by side.

Her design was really fun to work on, I hope you like her!

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Storm Hawks Bird OC Challenge - July 2024

Pride month is over, time for wrath month!

This month's bird is the Gurney's Pitta (Hydrornis gurneyi)!

This specific species of Pitta bird is located around Thailand, with populations mainly in Myanmar. For a time it was believed to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1986, and had as few as nine breeding pairs in 1997. To this day it is still considered critically endangered.

I've had the palette for this bird lined up since May, I'm very excited to get to use it. Can't wait to see what y'all come up with!

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Oh my god this?? Holy shit and you got it done in a day.

This looks absolutely amazing! I'm honestly beyond words.

Holy hell, I got this beauty done in one day woooo! now my arm and hand hurt XD worth it (4 hours of work). These two badass’s are Chieftain Lupin of the Leperi race (custom race by one my friends, Thanks Grace!) and his trusty and ‘terrifying’ Wyvern Da’gar, and they are for @far-side-skies monthly bird challenge

Race info (currently wip)

The Leperi (or Leperians) are a semi tribal people of anthropomorphic bunnies and/or hares known for their bond with the noble Wyvern and their skilled archery. They are agile and quick thinking but prefer to keep to themselves. Living peacefully in the mountains far away from everyone and everything, they rely on the natural resources the land provides. They live in mound shaped burrows in the snowy mountains. Appearance Females are smaller with droopy ears and fluffier neck and chest while the males of the species are larger, have erect ears and less fluff on their chest and more on there face, resembling facial hair.