#this sounds super deep and dramatic but its just got the hiccup dramatic flair thrown in lol

[dragondingus]

It begins..

The final stretch. The last wait.

I’m doing a 365 day countdown leading up to the U.S. release of HTTYD 3. I didn’t think I was actually do it when having the idea in January, but here we are Ayanna (viking oc) kicking it off at day 0.

As an ode to the films that have inspired me, and to the franchise that touched my heart I am committed to following through with this self-challenge. It’s not going to be easy, with college classes going on and time managing but I’m going to give it my best shot. Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.

The longest art challenge I’ve done up to this point was inktober last year and that was the first time I had participated. At the end of it I felt a little drained but a strong sense of accomplishment. I have little experience with drawing all the HTTYD characters (outside of Hiccup and Astrid), especially the dragons, so the drawings aren’t going to be perfect but I hope to learn from my mistakes as I go and perhaps over the course of the countdown you’ll see improvement. (I think I might make it into a small art/sketch book at the end as well, that might be cool).

Anyway.

I’m not just doing this for myself but for all that the films has taught me, for the rad people and fellow fans I’ve met online/offline because of it, the artists who’ve poured their hearts into the films, and for the artist, writer, and inspiring storyteller of it all, Dean DeBlois.

HTTYD is what inspired me to pursue animation, it is what got me into being so passionate about it. I just want to give back in some way for the last time before the films’ final conclusion. 

This should be fun, I’m excited.

Bring on the boy and his dragon.