#winged moomins

[bex-inxo]

fuzzy Fuzzy mom

[flowerbloom-arts]

Guess who finished Dungeon Meshi and who their favorite character is.

[moominpopzz]

@sa2-astral Some small little Water Fairy doodles!!

Your water fairy design is in fact the only one that’ll ever be canon to me so I hope you don’t mind the fact it’s… basically your design..

[mew-less]

garden au snufkin i drew yesterday during math. might render this later :3

[lowstakesvampires]

not quite a mansion.

all of this is old btw, and it Will be updated with a newer version in the very next sketchbook. the ship's design and location will change, the circumstances will change, even some character designs may change subtly...

for now you may enjoy this :3

oh wait, there's more-

[azurei]

A friend-shaped OC of mine named Ferfer! They're pretty much just a cute fella.

[espadieros]

Because everyone needs a Moomin gazing upon glorious artificial wings on their dashboard

[sincerelywhistler]

⟡⋆ WOLF-RAYET ⋆⟡

Reclusive Misery Demon

My Redacted demonsona!

barcode: chase it down

Pinterest board:

⟡⋆ More about Wolf-Rayet under the cut! ⋆⟡

- Magically enhances natural medicine from the earth to cure the ill patients that seek out his aid, which of whom are also considered Wolf-Rayet’s charges. He feeds from their misery, providing his services in return

- Naturally super keen to perceiving illness and life threatening health conditions in humans, somewhat akin to a cadaver dog spotting out the deceased, therefore taking on canine-like physical features

- Ironically, their first encounter with death that made them want to become a doctor was watching a deer get attacked by a wolf

- He cried while holding its mauled body, swearing that he would be a loyal dog, good to those he fed on which kept his own self alive and sated

- Takes payment in the form of bartering once (or if) his patients are healed

- Typically keeps his horns cloaked because he’s always knocking them into whatever he’s working on

- He has a large wing built a ways a bit from his home that serves as an infirmary for his patients so they have a place to recover

- Victorian meets southern gothic aesthetic

- Special interest in mortality, physical anatomy, life science, and the process of death and decay

- Smells like petrichor

- Prefers to speak very minimally, soft and shy voice (voice claim is Snufkin from Moomin Valley bc just listen to him)

- A Pepsi would kill him I think

- Very gentle and attentive to his recovering patients, always humming or reading to them one-on-one, feeding them homemade meals daily

- Lays outside in the rain whenever the chance arises

- Kinda guy to cover his mouth when he giggles

- Skin and hair always impossibly soft

- Finds peace tending to his two gardens— one for the human’s food and the other for medicines. His favorite garden bed is one that houses his toxic, deadly plants.

- He named his raven companion, Belladonna, after his favorite toxic flower

- Buries the patients they lose themself if no next of kin reaches out beforehand by hand as to properly pay respects. They keep that graveyard in pristine condition

- Guilty pleasure is going to the movies, which he still calls the cinema or “picture shows”

- Gets his eggs and meat from local farmers only to avoid people as much as he can

- Doesn’t have a lot of time to spend on Aria because they are always caring for their patients/charges, but they enjoys the feeling of stretching their astral legs on occasion

- Weaponizes the puppy eyes

- His devout desire demon boyfriend (my husband’s demonsona) is soon to be introduced ;)

Spotify playlist:

[anniflamma]

HELLOOO!!! I really love how you designed Hermes a lot!!! He looks so mysterious and somebody you wouldn't want to cross with when trading lol. Idk how to ask this properly but what made you want him to be cover in shadows? Like is just for fashion sense/choice or is there headcanons/lore for this? If you domt know how to answer this thats fine Im just here just enjoying your design so much [insert Hermes laugh] hahahahahahaha!! ^o^

HELLOOO!!! :D

So I use a lot of different factors for inspiration when designing the Greek gods. For Hermes, I really wanted to highlight his role as the god of thievery and travelers, which I think is such an interesting aspect of his character. He reflects what it means to be a pilgrim but also an outlaw in the wilderness. He is pretty much the personification of the stranger you meet across the street. But he is also the stranger who asks you for hospitality and refuge, and he is the host and protector of the home from thieves and burglars. He is the coin and he is BOTH sides!

My first step was to make him look like a traveler with a coat and hat. AND I LOOOOOVE characters that have a simple body silhouette with a big wide hat. Snufkin from Moomin and even La Muerte from The Book of Life were huge inspirations!

However, I initially designed him without a shadow, so he had a face and all, and I drew him with different hairstyles and even experimented with whether he was going to have wings on his head or not. Like this! Here are some dumb scrapped sketches XD

But I also really liked how the Epic fandom pretty much unanimously decided that Hermes' eyes were always covered with a shadow. So I started to just fill in the shadow like in the final design. And that helped reinforce the idea of him being "the stranger." You don't know who it is until you come up close!

One thing, though, that I am a little bit bummed about with his design is that it doesn't really fit the vibe of the song "Wouldn't You Like." Yeah, he does bring out the same energy with his creepy smile, but oh well! I do have some ideas that he may "flash" himself and even remove his hat, because if he's gonna dance...? That hat will fly off!!

[cheapsweets]

The Xerocolous Hraetnug

My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge, from @maniculum

Pencil sketch, then lines in Pentel brush pen. Originally meant to be a single image, but didn't work with the cropping...

Reasoning below the cut…

"It has wings but does not fly, and its feet are like those of the camel. When the time comes for it to lay eggs, it raises its eyes to the sky and looks to see if the star called Vergiliae, the Pleiades, has appeared, for it will not lay its eggs until that star has risen. When the Hraetnug sees the star, around the month of June, it digs in the ground, deposits its eggs in the hole it has made and covers them with sand. When it gets up from the hole, it immediately forgets the eggs and never returns to them. The effect of the calm, mild air seems to be that the sand in the summer heat hatches the eggs, bringing forth the young."

Honestly, it's been a week, so just a quick one this time. I genuinely had no idea what creature this this prompt related to, until last night I was lying in bed trying to sleep, and suddenly it seemed So Obvious… Curious if I've guessed this one right!

I ended up taking this one pretty literally. I was originally planning on drawing some manner of Beast, but the wings AND the egg-laying made me lean away from this. Rather than a bird, I ended up going for a fairly generic dragon (with That Head which keeps on coming up for some reason on the most unlikely creatures); many dragon illustrations don't look like they could fly anyway, so maybe the wings are more for balance (or cooling, perhaps?). The feet are taken pretty much directly from camels (including the pad underneath that is just visible on the raised foot); this along with the sand makes me think this is a desert dwelling creature.

I genuinely can't work out what Vergiliae relates to, but we also have the Pleiades in the sky.

I'm never going to miss the opportunity to draw cute baby animals, so have a trio of baby Hraetnugs clawing their way out of the sand once they have hatched :)

I think it ended up looking a bit like something from the Moomins...

[bex-inxo]

Some kind of Wing AU??

I just needed an excuse to draw Fuzzy with wings actually

[bex-inxo]

OH MY STARS SHE'S GORGEOUS

I thought i was dreaming when i saw that, thank you so much qwq

tbh i couldn't find long tailed wren with open wings too x>

A little birdy Fuzzy from this post by @bex-inxo because I loved her and Muddler's designs so much!!

I wanted to see what a "long tailed wren" looked like but I could only find results for "Naga wren-babblers" and even then I couldn't find any pictures of them with their wings open so I guessed that they had those small bird wings

[andordean]

tag game: pick stuff from your room and have people vote on which one they want to take home.

Tagged by @softest-punk from whom I stole empty Fortnum and Mason chamomile tea tin (tell me more about the biohazard bit!)

Let's see what I have around me... (Many things are Troll's collectables like PipBoy and Roci model, so won't enrage him by offering those.)

Tagging (no pressure as always): @traumschwinge @kuwdora @bittersweetbark @itsnotzka @keyrousse @valandhirwriter @justanotherdmdammit @dclcq @disdaidal @ginstermoff @jikanet-tanaka @sar-kalu

[spiribia]

it will look different for everyone but i think the biggest FOMO hurdle in sky cotl could be during your moth-hood when opening your in game wallet causes nothing but a lonesome fly to waft out and they force you to wear a brown paper bag everywhere. it is to be clear a cute design but once you encounter the diversity and self determination of other players your own assigned defaultness will start to tug at you. the map constellations provide a steady option for non-default cosmetics, but much of these are just recolors of what you are wearing, while out there are the players with cloaks shaped like jellyfish or feathered wings. traveling spirits will blow through every two weeks selling an exorbitantly priced mask but not a cape, an exorbitantly priced cape but not pants, drip feeding you scraps you can slowly, geologically exchange fractions of your default appearance with. and if you do not have the funds or if the article of clothing is not part of your vision, it passes you by. meanwhile, the developers say: here is our shop, and items you can have right now, beautiful and interesting outfit pieces. and you resist and say i will wait it out. and then in time you have an outfit you like put together and it matters less if you miss out on something. why fret so much over a cape when i already have a cape? and then one day months later you crack in half and buy the moomin tail bundle microtransaction nullifying your own theory on your own post

[mew-less]

did a doodle with gold pen of my au snufkin today :3

[mushroomskykid]

Moomin season (Part 1)

So Season of Moomin begins! My third season and first collab season. Let's see what's up.

Here we go!

It's still a void but-

LOOK TREES????? REAL TREES???? It doesn't look like forest trees...

I feel like i would never experience the fun of reliving season spirits...oh well.

Also new light wing! But blocked by wind, so i guess we'll get it in the end of season.

First quest soon...!