#the narwhal's wips

[luwyv]

I have 4 more scenes to clean up and all my animation will be done!!

heres the last one i did!!

[lettherebepain]

I wasn't tagged but this looks fun, so I wanted to do it for my wip (Wicked Amends)

1. Villian merges fae and things

2. Meet-Cutes and Dragon Attacks

3. No good deed goes Unpunished

4. Oh shit, magic actively hurts mages!

5. Villian Lied, Mages Died

6. Relearning to fight plus frustration

7. Save Loki and fight fenrir

8. Fight thor and odin

9. Betrayal! Plus injury to everyone

10. Realization of being used/conditioned his whole life

11. Boyfriend is a jarl again, neat

12. Protags a viking and vikings raid churches

13. Dragon 2.0

14. We are in Hel

15. Revenge is a dish best served cold

I don't know who to tag so I won't :D

I need to interact with people more so I can make friends and learn who liked to do these things lol.

I wanna add more in, but I hit the 15, so I'll stop. Especially since this is a summary and not like, a full disclosure XD

Vaguely Summarised WIP Tag

Thanks for tagging me, @faeriecinna! :D

Rules: summarise your WIP in 15 2-5 word bullet points (as if you were trying to summarize it in 15 seconds). I'll do this for Like Snow on Hungry Graves:

Merfolk

Dragons

Various undead people

Black comedy

Starts out as psychological horror

Turns into a grim rom-com

Then the eldritch abomination appears

Somehow this is all Rusudan's fault

Everyone has chronic backstabbing disorder

Communication? They don't know her

Aww how cute-- OH NO

At least five people at any given time: Elamirja NO!

Considering the people involved this is the healthiest relationship possible

What do you call it when a dead person excavates the city they lived (and died) in? Self-archaeology?

ELAMIRJA. ELAMIRJA PUT THE KNIFE DOWN.

Tagging @autumnalwalker, @revenantlore, @illarian-rambling, and anyone else who wants to do this! :D

[quotidianish]

Courtesy of @some-pers0n that audio KILLED me

WIP of an winter and narwhal father-son bonding time animation I might get around to finishing

[ms-scarletwings]

Aberrant Fish

Updated November 2024

The first hint many an angler will get of the dark, insidious secrets these waters hold,

and yet, they are the first thing to be accepted as only another flavor of mundane.

The game text calls them grotesque. The fishmonger calls them corrupted. You get to call them a bonus. Rather than fear and revile them, tradesmen will pay a shiny extra penny to add them into their stock. They are gestured to and spoken of, but never truly elaborated on by the townsfolk. They have probably been here long before most of them, and so will be here long after they are gone. They were certainly here before you. Maybe you don’t need their answers, and yet if you are like me, you still witlessly question and keep dredging for more.

Like many things pulled from those cursed depths, they whisper flecks of madness from an impossible voice. What messages do they carry, and what forces do they play vessel to? Are they the lingering embers from a long-extinguished calamity, or are they harbingers of the next one to come?

I believe we have already seen signs of fire with our own eyes- impossible, great beasts that prowl the four (now five) coasts, the dying cult, gibbering fog…. That damned book. These tortured creatures are but another form of the same smoke.

To the question of where they came from, if your fisherman pokes around enough and braves the darkness, he may have already found a response in one of the many obelisks scattered around the map. Specifically, I refer to this.

This would suggest the aberrants themselves are what leaked in through the cracks that the largest of all monsters wants to rend apart? Not entirely, but in part. For the researcher at the Stellar Basin came to her own conclusion I want to factor in.

Her words give credence to the possibility that it is actually those greater beasts themselves at the heart of the corruption. I think she was half onto something, because what if these twisted forms, both large and small, were blooms along the same set of festering roots?

The more dark stones you disturb in the frenzy of your own madness, the more you learn about the age before your arrival, about the islands, and especially about their current guardians. The Mindsuckers- carrion puppet masters given a home, the Basin creature- a spore that miraculously survived its dive to the abyss, and the Serpent- lifeless stone made animate and malicious, all had their creation remembered in great detail by the obelisks. Some hints point that their emergence was rather recent, relative to even more powerful beings, such as the leviathan.

Maybe there are even more unseen horrors far below, blessedly out of our reach, for now. My view is that the malformed beasts are the aimless children of such unfathomable things waiting beyond the veil. With them came its influence, and its corruption, and from them it continues to spread to all life surrounding. The smaller rifts were always a transformative disease upon the harbor’s fish, but with the rise of the new monsters, the sickness runs farther and less avoidably than ever. Whether these aberrant spawn are a gift to the worthy, or another deceptive evil that leads to madness remains left to be seen.

I have given a spotlight to each of these fascinating specimens at the back of Dredge’s encyclopedia, including those found in the Pale Reach and Iron Rig expansions, for further comment, ponderance, and appreciation.

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[#230]

[Bonus I. Night Angler]

[Bonus II. Serpent]

[Bonus III. Basin Creature] (WIP)

[Bonus IV. Mindsuckers] (WIP)

[Bonus V. Unseeing Mother] (WIP)

[Bonus VI. “Narwhal”] (WIP)

[Bonus VII. Gleaming Goliath] (WIP)

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

hi! I wanted to ask questions about how you proceed to write:

Do you have a general idea with plot twits and such figured out? like general guidelines and then go crazy and write these amazing fics or you just go with the flow?

How do you establish world building? Like, all the fics I've read from you (which are more than great) got lots of info in the world building though strangely enough (in a good way) I wasn't lost on it? Like Cyanide Narwhal has crazy lore to it with lots of characters and stuff going on but as you read you get what happens even though hundreds of stuff happen at once. HOW DO YOU DO IT :0

How do you write so smooth also? Like going from one scene to another makes total sense without there being a cut? (idk if i make any sense sorry ^^').

Finally, how do you explain feelings so well? Well not explaining directly but making us FEEL *looking at cyanide narwhal and i think you're so good (and i'm nothing like you)*. I think that the description of them interacting helps w it (like the way Zhongli looks at Ajax (i am melting please thats so cute-) but even the interaction between Ajax and the kids (big brother behavior)

oh god

i do always have a general idea on how the story is going to go, like what plotbeats i want to hit and what i want to happen. but since it's not a good idea to marry to one path, the details for how things happen or how we get from point a to point b specifically i usually come up with on-the-go, and i do leave room for modifications. like i have a million fic ideas and scenes i want to write but i never actually write any if i cannot picture two things: 1, what the point of it is (the main climax, the main mystery, etc), and 2, how it ends. (the reason why most wips don't make it past a couple chapters is bc i struggle to picture the ending accurately, or how to get there)

i genuinely have no idea how to explain the world building, i'm sorry lmao. if i really had to think about it, no joke, i think i'd say this was stardew valley's fault. yes you read that correctly. more specifically, the earmuffs item. now- it might not be evident as it is rn w the way i write, since it's been a while since i've started doing my worldbuilding like this and obviously it's evolved and gotten more complex w time, but- for those unaware, stardew isn't a game you play for the worldbuilding per se. for the deep world lore. especially pre-ginger island update (1.6?). but there IS worldbuilding, it's just you don't really see it, it's not the point of the game. you're there to grow crops tend to animals suffer in the mines and get a partner. that's it. but you know there's more outside the town and the valley. you know the biggest city nearby is called zuzu, you know what the sea is called, you know there is a war going on in the background, you know there is an empire involved, you know lewis might be the mayor of the town but he's still under the governor of the region. you know there's witches and spirits and elemental beings and aliens n shit. the fucking earmuffs were sort of like my epiphany years back bc their description says they're lined w artisanal velvet from castle village. what the fuck is castle village?? were you ever going to tell me about it outside of those fucking earmuffs? does it even matter? no. it doesn't matter. but just because it doesn't matter doesn't mean the earmuffs stop being an artisanal item from castle village. just because it doesn't matter what the sea is called doesn't stop it from being the gem sea specifically. the fact that you only care, gameplay-wise, about your farm and pelican town- it doesn't stop your country from being at war, from being called the ferngill republic. the world of the game exists outside of what matters to you for the plot. and so even if you're never going to find out some of these things if you don't look, they're going to be there anyway.

i don't know if that makes any sense. it probably doesn't LMAO a probably better way to explain it is like- write stuff the same way you hear our own world being talked about irl. does it matter for the 'plot' of your day if your mother says she's going to one specific supermarket? no. does she still call it by name? most likely. that's just how it works. you know it exists because this is the world you live in, regardless as to how much it matters to the actual 'plot'. it's not there exclusively to serve the purpose of aiding the plot, but because it's a part of your world and therefore must be connected to the world beyond you. the world will only read like it's lived in if the characters speak about it like they actually live in it.

i'm not actually sure that answers the question now that i think about it. it's just- i trully don't know how to answer it. i don't know what i'm doing that makes it interesting and not a complete mess to read even if it IS a complete mess. the only explanation i can think of is that: that i write the characters interacting with their world as though they actually live there. the plot is just something that happens to an already existing, already established world.

also i think you might be merging lore and worldbuilding with plot. yes, the worldbuilding and lore in my fics are absurd, but that alone i don't think would be hard to keep up with. it's the plot also being absurd what makes it seem like there's a lot going on at once (there is, just- in two different fronts). like there's not a million things happening at once in the worldbuilding - there's a million things happening at once in the plot. you're finding out a lot of stuff about the world at the same time, is the thing. anyway,

scene transition without the cuts being smooth i also am not sure how to explain. that's probably on me for not following scene structures properly tbh. so uh- no clue here chief, i'm sorry. i don't even have a guess as with the worldbuilding.

with the writing feelings i do have somewhat of a guess- it genuinely might be some undiagnosed brain fuckery i have. kinda like how the inside joke of asexuals being shockingly good at writing sex scenes goes. if you have a different-than-intended perspective on the stuff, it would probably lead to a different approach to writing it. but other than that i also am not sure

i think the main takeaway is i don't know shit LMAOOOOO

[stkarmi]

wip :D

small tid bit from one of my last posts i dont think anyone noticed. instead of the cat photo sebastians torso strap, its my oc narwhal!

[weirdenbyferret]

Sketchy for a thing im drawing for @zus-a-fungi that I've been thinking about since they posted that young narwhal Moon with his mom! Sketch is unfinished, just decided to take a picture and show the wip so far! And also talk about it a bit lmao

He is not a moon that I own, as again @zus-a-fungi was the one who drew him, but the struggle is real as I force myself to not think of a story. Though I failed to think of a backstory where his mom dies in someway because of humans, leading to him despising humanssss and having his moms tusk. Annnnnnd when his hat grew too big for him he made/got/found a shawl made of seal and polar bear furs, and sewed stars made of his old hat onto it <3

Very likely that I wont be continuing onto lining it with my pen until @zus-a-fungi notices this XD

[skywalking-through-life]

for the wip title game - Whale pregnancy wip lololol 👀

Lmaoooo, I was really hoping someone was going to ask about this, because it sounds bonkers, but it's actually just a half-formed, fluffy little idea about Annabeth's first pregnancy, whenever that is. Percy and Annabeth have talked about having kids multiple times in the books, and I think that's an adorable topic to explore, so at some point I'll probably write it! But this very basic outline of a scene is all I have so far 😂:

"Gods, I look like a whale."

"What kind of whale?"

She gives him a sharp look, but no reply. He grins.

"Mmm… I'm gonna say narwhal. Definitely a narwhal."

"Percy. You are supposed to be telling me that I am beautiful and perfect, not feeding into my delusions!"

"Wow, you don't think narwhals are beautiful? I'm hurt on their behalf."

She gives him a sharper look, and again, no reply. He grins wider.

"See? Narwhal! Adorable, squishy, and absolutely capable of stabbing me if I don't shut up."

A satisfied nod. "And don't you forget it."

Annabeth looks pensive, Percy comes over and kneels in front of her, rubs her belly.

"Why does it bother you so much? You've got a whole new life in there, of course it's gonna need space to grow." He pauses and presses a kiss to her belly. "And, for the record, I DO think you're beautiful and perfect."

"Well, if you think it's all so wonderful, YOU can carry the next one."

He gives her an impish grin. "I'm not a seahorse, babe. But you know I would if I could."

I hope you enjoyed it, my friend! 😂💙 I really would like to write it someday!

[theoddholloway]

Some lighting and atmosphere practice, because I suck at it for now.. I get burnt out too quickly with projects now a days. So I’m just gonna post sketchy/unfinished WIPs until I feel like I can start finishing things again..

Wanted to finally start drawing my boys: August, who is on the right (deer), I’ve already sort of introduced, and his pal Clyff on the left (narwhal.. no, that isn't a horn on his head, that's a tooth..)... They’ve been living in my head for years.

[akoyaxs]

NEW WIP ANNOUNCEMENT 🍒 Tì'Eylan

Everyone get pumped; THIS IS ANOTHER AONUNG X HUMAN READER FIC WITH FRIENDS TO LOVERS!!!!!!

Based off a thought that kept distracting me during my literature study - I finally have time to do some PROPER writing so I'm getting on my grind to do this one 🙃

Alr, see you soon and let me know if you'd like more details or a teaser to tie you all over in the meantime. Love you pookies 😘

@hadesbabygurl @wavesarchive @kqlopsia @tadomikiku @ntymavtr @mommyanddadskiller @thehoneymushroomhealer @tsireyax @integers @tiyawnyana @whatevenisagrapefruit @oakbuggy @sunsetviper @blue-slxt @simplyawh0re@yootvi @narwhal-swimmingintheocean @vminlvxr @elegantfankidsoul @pandorxxx @hotdsworld @tojisun @xylianasblog @aperiraa @blue-slxt @neteyamssyulang

[wof-headshots-daily]

Hello! Welcome to my blog! You can refer to me as “Clownfish” or “Mod clownfish”! :D

Every day I’ll try to draw a headshot of a *canon* character from the book series “wings of fire”! Please feel free to recommend characters as it will be greatly appreciated!

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Quick reminders:

-I am a minor! Please no inappropriate asks directed towards me (or anyone else, for that matter)

-I made inevitably end up missing a day or two here and there; but please don’t fret as I will be back sooner or later!

-characters don’t have to be in any specific order! Suggest whoever you want!

-any bullying and/or harassment will result in a ban! Please keep rude comments to yourself! (Criticism is always welcome however!)

-you are free to use any designs shown on this blog, they are all original by me! credit is not required but it would be appreciated. so long as you aren’t claiming you made the design it’s fine

-you can suggest multiple characters! Whether it be In the same ask or multiple asks

-you are free to suggest pride icons! Just state the name of the character you want and whatever flags you want with them!

-have a great day/night and remember to stay hydrated ^^

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Thank you and enjoy!

[WIP]Below I have listed all the characters I have already done, not that it’s any bother when you request a character that I have already done, but I figured this would make it easier now that it takes quite a while to scroll through all the days just to check if a character has already been done! (May not be in the order of which they were drawn)

•Clay

•tsunami

•glory

•starflight

•sunny

•moonwatcher

•winter

•turtle

•peril

•qibli

•kinkajou

•cricket

•sundew

•snowfall

•Luna

•blue

•Lynx

•kestrel

•webs

•dune

•morrowseer

•dusky

•queen coral

•whiteout

•riptide

•typhoon

•swordtail

•malachite

•Reed

•marsh

•pheasant

•mangrove

•Jambu

•orchid

•Darkstalker

•foeslayer/hope

•pineapple

•auklet

•bumblebee

•Cliff

•peacemaker

•Liana

•fathom

•indigo

•Lionfish

•wharf

•Queen ruby

•(ex) Queen scarlet

•mink

•carnelian

•hawthorn

•anemone

•tamarin

•ostrich

•bullfrog

•Fatespeaker

•flame

•squid

•ochre

•midge

•sky

•hawker

•freedom

•vulture

•Queen battlewinner

•viper

•hailstorm

•icicle

•narwhal

•tundra

•pyrite

•burnet

•SilverSpot

•Caribou (princess)

•caribou (bard)

•caribou (bard’s friend)

[will add the rest later]

[luwyv]

Going insane animating 5 scenes at a time!

Have a little WIP!

[red-water-dragon]

Snap Turtle Monster Design

Earlier this week I came across Romeck_ Art's channel on youtube they are a professional illustrator and designer. They uploaded this video documenting their process of designing a cow-like creature called a Mludhuz. Though not a full on tutorial, its a well documented close-up into designing a unique critter with commentary. I would definitely recommend giving their vid and channel a look.

Reminded me I haven't done any creature designing of my own in a while so this guy was born. He's not finished yet, but I've got his basic look down enough to share.

Process and wips under the cut

Basic Idea:

alligator snapping turtles

(loosly) narwhal / whale like

salt water or fresh water

easygoing lumbering giant

could kill easily but would most likely run away

Sketch and base shading

Everything is loose and proportions aren't correct. I'm not concerned with accuracy at this stage, my focus is on nailing down the basic form im going for. Shading is soft to lock down values, parts that are further away are lighter, closer parts are darker, that sort of thing. The texture is minimal and will be used as a foundation for scales, spikes, and other details later on. All of the shading is beneath the sketch layer.

Texture and correcting the pose

At this stage I merge the sketch and base together. I'll blend the sketch layer into the softer values already established and start blotting in more detail on top. First by sketching the square scales on the limbs and adding paneling to the shell and underbelly.

I made a custom brush for the square scales that made my life easier:

I also changed the leg placement and squished in the dino's torso. I decided I didn't really like the snakelike appearance the sketched shell had. With his hind legs more bulky and the turtle shell more round he seemed closer to the tortoise look I was going for.

More touch up work and color

To pull the values together I move to a separate layer and go over the ref with a soft circle brush. I'll add the highlights and darker shadows with black and white. Then use multiply, screen, and overlay to get the effect that I want.

Color is added with the color layer mode. Ill keep the colors muted and grey for most of the base only adding saturated values where I know I want them. In this case the horns, crest, beak, and tail are most saturated, added color to attract a mate maybe?

Thats it for now :)

[aquixoticwrites]

writeblr reintroduction <3

hello, everyone! this is a reintroduction / announcement that i've moved blogs. i have been away from tumblr for a while and wanted to join the writeblr community again and think i want to have a clean slate to start on! my old blog is @writings-of-a-narwhal !

i'm elle (she/her) and i am twenty years old! i have ben involved in writeblr on and off for a few years, more off than on in the past couple just because of a lot of things happening in my life. i honestly don't know how active i will be but please know that i want to hear about your wips and ocs always! feel free to send an ask or dm anytime to talk about writing or anything at all!! <3

i have a good handful of wips myself but i'm only going to list my two big/main ones and then the concept that currently has my brain in its grips.

and the moon sets - (warnings: war, death, trauma, blood, nightmares, ect) a fantasy story based in a setting akin to sengoku era japan. yamatochi has been at war for generations. currently, one of the biggest forces in the war is the takeda clan. genkei takeda rules as warlord with his grandchildren; the eldest is a pretty and kindhearted young woman named hoshiko, the younger is known simply as 'young lord takeda' by most and is the heir that genkei always wanted. hoshiko loves her younger sibling and it's undeniable that young lord takeda loves her, too.

however, as the war effort intensifies, so does the resistance, and the relationship between the two becomes strained as secrets are revealed and rash decisions are made...

broken thrones - (warnings: fighting, drinking, kidnapping, trauma, bad dreams, blood, ect) rosar, the youngest princess of feria, is kidnapped. her eldest sister, amary - a bounty hunter and disgraced princess - goes on the hunt for her and ends up entering the country of issera. during her search, amary stumbles upon a young rebel leader - culraes - and his forces. she gets tangled in his dealings and he in hers. they make a deal- he helps her find rosar and she helps him take out the tyrant queen.

meanwhile, in feria, the queen is now a widow and her middle daughter is trying to pick up the pieces of the shattered peace and make her country a better place, including an attempt to make magic legal within feria.

will any of them succeed in their efforts?

falling - (post and the moon sets, contains some spoilers. warnings: depression, dark thoughts and actions, trauma, mentions of war, gods) akasuki nakamura is struggling. life after the war isn't easy. she had looked so forward to the peace that would come, but now that it's here...she just feels empty. she had everything when the war first ended; her siblings, a wonderful spouse, her dream job, peace. she has lost one of those things, though, and now everything is...empty, numb.

one day, however, she comes across a strange person who tries to change her view of everything.

[prettybbychim]

i had been hoping the 4.2 questline would inspire me to continue this wriolette wip but what it actually did is inspire me to create an entirely new work focusing on the aftermath of childe’s battle with the narwhal (and unresolved tensions between childe and zhongli following the liyue fiasco, as a little flavor)

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Hello!!! I gotta say I am absolutely LOVING Jadeite Ginkgo so far, I loved keeping up with Cyanide Narwhal when it was still a WIP! When it end I was so sad to not a have those updates to look forward to, so I was thrilled when you busted out JG!!! It’s such a unique and beautiful concept!!!

I noticed l your designs for the Clan Uniforms had a detail that made me go feral!!!! For the pants for both Qingce Chen & Tianheng Bai, did you unintentionally make them up or purposefully use those symbols?

Because they are/look like the Trigram symbols from the Korean Flag!!! I know Trigrams are mainly a Taoist thing, but it made me so excited to see them because I’m half Korean lol! When I saw the Gon on QC’s pants which I know represents earth I was like “WAIT A MINUTE!!!”. Seeing the Gam (water) on TB only confirmed it, but I don’t know the outer two Trigrams, did you take them from the Taoist version? I do think the Josen Dynasty Flag for Korean had all of the Trigramd but also I cannot remember!! But you were so big brain when you put those on the uniform!!! Sorry for the long post lol!!!!

no worries, and yeah! they're indeed from bagua, obviously for the taoist aspect but i did always find it interesting that the skorean flag had them as well

to be fair chongyun's in-game design has them also, and that's mostly what had me adding them onto the designs hahaha

the ones on the tianheng bai uniform are the exact same ones from chongyun's canon outfit and in the same order, while the ones on qingce chen are gèn and kūn, which if i'm not mistaken are for the mountains and the ground