#will this make me be consistent with the design ? probably not-

[calc1fers]

marauders at university part 1

james - business

u cannot tell me james isn't a finance bro who exclusively wears collared ralph lauren shirts and sambas/clogs

probably president of the business society, too. he's known for organising the most chaotic parties/pub crawls

plays rugby for the university team

sirius - quantum engineering/music composition

overachieving little fucker just had to do a double degree with the least compatible degrees ever

i can imagine sirius, sat at the potters' kitchen table with his hair in a messy bun and drinking straight from a bottle of red wine while working through a coding task

always hands all his assignments in seconds before the due date (which gives remus a heart attack)

remus - history/english

he gives ancient history professor so of course he'd have to study something to do with history

ended up writing his doctoral dissertation on old welsh civilisation

has a crazy arsenal of historical facts that he'll share if one (1) drop of alcohol enters his system

peter - education/arts

does NOT gaf about becoming a teacher but chose it to 'keep his options open'

majors in polish

probably a part of the riot gaming society icl 😭

lily - pharmacology

i feel like muggle lily would do med/pharm bc witch lily did healing/alchemy

tortured academic who does all the extra reading. she brought a sleeping bag to the library during exam season

mentors younger students in biology and anatomy

mary - fashion design and textiles

for mary, university is a Very Serious outfit competition and she must look hot Always (except there are people like peter rocking up in their pjs)

lugs her portfolios around in her shoulder bag bc she refuses to wear a backpack (it would kill her swag)

marlene - media/film studies

either this or zoology 🤔🤔

part of the theatre society and acts in their plays/skits

also leaves all her assignments to the last minute and pulls all nighters with sirius

most of which just consist of gossiping and making faces at each other then yelling at the other to lock in (they're both living off 4 coffees and an iget bar)

[foldingfittedsheets]

Both of those dragon designs are Very Cool and I love them both but in different ways

Anyway this is probably me being an overthinker but I feel like which one is better depends on like, context? Like what type of composition or design or merch you're planning to make with them. Because like I said they're both amazing but the poses have very different vibes

I don't want to pressure you to share like. Art plans or anything though. Idk I have no idea what I'm talking about. Your art is lovely though

Y'know, fair.

So waaaay back in the day I made this. It was a repeating tile pattern of Ghibli characters. The style was different than other stuff I made and it sold pretty well for a while.

Eventually it got removed from Redbubble for uhhhh IP infringement reasons and I let it rest. My post-art school brain could only see the problems anymore anyway.

But after going to a convention I started to entertain the idea of someday doing a booth at a con. I'd always liked this design and started to revamp it. So the style will be somewhat consistent with this simplicity, but here's where Haku is gonna be: surrounded by a bunch of amazing ladies.

[zoomzooml]

Dragons:TNR Jörmungandr redesign (rework?) concept

(Also I know that my design pushes beyond limits of TNR animation in more than one way but here I just had fun lol)

I feel like he is not intimidating enough in original. He is very small for an "Apex predator of all dragons" (and let's remember that TNR has Giants Realm so-). I expected him to slide way longer when he was escaping his prison. He also had a lot of troubles with catching dragons (it was honestly sad to watch) And yes, as far as I know snakes are expecionally challenging to rig and animate and TNR doesn't have movie-level budget, but c'mon. It's The Final Boss. (*I think that in concept art he actually is longer so perhaps they shortened him to make animation easier (and cheaper??) considering mad speed seasons were coming out)

Sidenote - that poor danger noodle had so little of any kind of build up. It's really sad. And the first time we see him live he: did shitty jumpscare (build up was actually decent imo, but sound effect and bad animation humbled it), had short, off-screen fight with Sky Torcher after which he didn't even kill him (though he did at least leave some nasty scars and broke Torchie's tooth), and then fucked away. For me it was very underhelming.

Low quality clip for those who didn't watch (I hope Tumblr won't take it down).

Coming back to the design. I really don't like his colors. He got wings but to compensate I decided that he's not a good flier. In my mind he is an ambush hunter. And I know that THE Jörmungandr, the spawn of Loki from the myths, did not have wings, and this is pretty consistent as far as I know, but it is not THE Jörmungandr, so yeah

He is in some way mix between King Cobra, Moray Eel and sea snakes (Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait mostly). I changed his hood to be more similar in construction to a king cobra. In short, it is a bit of loose skin and ribs with the ability to move. In my design, the tips of some of the ribs poke through the skin. Now I don't think TNR would be able to animate it (But i'm not very familiar with 3D animation, especially for shows) so in show he probably would just have hood always flared. His head and sail are inspired by mooray eel because they are dope and I love them. I feel that aspects of sea snakes have died in design - they have a paddle at the end of the tail, but this has already been included in the OG design, so I don't feel the need to talk about it. However, like Sea Krait, Jörmungandr is semi-aquatic. He is much slower on land than in the water, but the difference is not as great as with Sea Krait.

I increased his size - and if he wasn't inprisoned he probably would be about 15-25% longer by now. He's old enough to be a Titan Wing but he isn't normal size - he stopped growing a bit after outgrowing average dragon of his species (let's remember that Red Death is Titan Wing as well!).

*Jörmungandr is longer but Red Death is more massive. Avarage serpents are slightly shorter than Red Death as well.

To be honest, I'm not sure if I didn't overkill it with his size. On the one hand he is large, on the other hand he is mostly long and not that massive. Idk

In addition to the scars, I think Jörmungandr would also be covered with small amounts of moss and other vegetation that started growing on him when he wasn't really active (his cave is very wet/moisty). To survive he spent almost his entire life in a state of brumation, being more active when he sensed meal approaching his reach.

Now, in my mind The Jörmungandr is the name of this particular dragon, not the whole species (Midgard Serpents? IDK), and at the same time he is not a "real" Jörmungandr from the myths. Because words cannot describe how I hate that plot.

I don't know how exactly he got his name but I think it was not because of how big he is, but because of his intelligence and mischievous soul. Again, idk.

Jörmungandr is a tragic dragon. In my version he was not trapped by Hiccup (in my version Hiccup never come back to Hidden World, because c'mon. I don't really like THW but if TNR is continity to that franchise they should follow established canon and not wreck last movie and make it completely insignificant. It loses all it's value if Hiccup, his family and perhaps other vikings, just come back and maybe even lived in the Hidden World anyway! If we have to have human marks and structures, etc. in the Hidden World, I would do it more in the style of “Haddock's Cycle” than “Hiccup and Tom.” Essentially, the creator of these changes is perhaps one of Hiccup's descendants, Tom's ancestors - the "soul of the dragon" that Hiccup and before him his mother had, summoning them to the world of dragons to see "Is it finally time? ”, but it never is, not yet anyway. Idk, I'm trying lol)

I have two concepts: There was once a main entrance to his part of the Dark Realm accompanianed by the waterfalls of magma, but now there's only basalt wall. This would make the closure possible for natural reasons and give Tom an opportunity to show off his geoligical knowledge some more.

Or he was caged in human-build prison, but not by Hiccup. I did that little sketch of how his page in Dragon Book could look in this scenario. Clearly different artstyle than Hiccup's to show that he was not the one to write about this individual (tho in show there's already different styles so--) But at the second thought it can be just illustration for species as whole, so anyway

In both cases, there are ways to enter his personal prison but he is too large to use them. They are still usefull as this is the only way prey will come to his reach. Not many dragons can escape his jaws.

He has spent most of his life in a rather hostile environment to which he was not adapted, which has left scars on his body and psyche. When he's not hunting, he sleeps. Hunger has halted his growth.

Jörmungandr is a damaged, dangerous dragon, the victim of fate and unknown past.

The psychological damage has made him hyper-aggressive, even by the standards of an already aggressive species. I don't think he could ever satiate his hunger either - if he could he would hunt and eat until he consumed everything in range or died of overeating.

For this dragon, it seems too late for a happy ending, unfortunately.

Now about the Midgard Serpents (placeholdern name, I have no idea how to name them) as a whole. Apex Predator may be a bit much, given the existence of dragons like Red Death, Purple Death or Bewilderbeast. However, Midgard Serpents remain one of the dragons that feed almost exclusively on other dragons (and sometimes even other members of their own species - they're cannibalistic), and they're damn good at it. When they feel best in the water, they can follow their prey in the sky or on land. They grow quite large and still are able to take down prey more massive than themselves (mostly thanks to venom and poisonous gas).

I think they are the main predators of 'Deaths and Bewilderbeasts (and other equally large dragons) in the earlier stages of life.

[shapelytimber]

I finaly did it, I stopped running from my responsabilities and made a ref sheet for my Maul's tattoo designs

If you're an independent artist and want to use these, as is or as inspiration for your art : go ahead ! Maul is for the people <3 (credit is always appreciated ofc)

[kheprriverse]

Upcoming Ballad changes 👀?

[sea-jello]

Day 23/October 23: Crawl || Burn || "I am not touching that."

say it with me guys it is still the 23rd somewhere

uhh something something what if morro met lloyd as a kid when he was still training with wu idk how to draw children

bonus

don’t worry about the hands it’s 5am

[tyranitarkisser]

Hi

[ardenrosegarden]

slowly making my way through more

part 1

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Was soooooo happy with this phase 1 which is what made it so much funnier that I was immediately clapped by his phase 2 😂

[kerosene-spill]

Haven’t had much motivation to draw recently but I make this doodle :>

Kinda just brainstorming a design for human Pharma

Also some silly headcannons I though of 💀

[milkweedman]

Bought a pair of pants at goodwill earlier but all the ones I've been to have had their changing rooms closed the whole pandemic so couldn't try them on... did pull out my measuring tape that's on my keys and they were pretty much my size, but I have discovered that while they would fit well if they had a normal waistband, they actually have a stretchy waistband (like, strip of elastic sewn the whole way around) and thus are so big that they're falling off me, because their own weight kind of pulls them down so that the cuffs drag on the ground. Unclear if they're intended to be high waisted and just too big or for someone bigger in all dimensions than I am, but not the point.

I've been trying to figure out how to fix this, bc they're very comfy. I kinda wish I could just take out the elastic and do a drawstring but there's 2 buttons and a zipper that would definitely complicate things. Could also wear a belt, if I had one and if they weren't the worst sensory experience since not wearing socks.

[swinging-through-the-stars]

movie scenes i felt like sketching

[arolesbianism]

Ok yeah I’m a little obsessed with them

[keeps-ache]

today! on the agenda we have [tears paper away to reveal the single word 'do'] ...

[chibishortdeath]

Yay rpg maker stuff :3. I should make more updates that aren’t just little concept doodles cause I have gotten a couple rooms to work, but eh. The game itself is still in like the getting the whole map figured out stage, then I’ll have to go through and plan where story specific events will happen, what characters appear where, major puzzles, whether or not there will be a battle system, etc etc. but I do have a lot of things down and have figured out how the program works for the most part! You guys get to see the map planning page early hehe, also the little girl character (who I still need to figure out the name of whoops—)

Anyway, these two are some main characters, Layne and Reid. I don’t wanna spoil too much about them, but they are also med school students and test subjects like Miran. Layne is the one with their hair to their right and spiky ends, Reid is the one with their hair over their left eye and a rounder style.

Ok yeah that’s it bye—

[lemonlumens]

redid this from a good while back with (yet again) updated designs for menthe and coffee

+ making menthe’s hair make some sort of sense. kinda