#wof Hivewing

[glassshine]

[snallyghaster]

hivewing design, now with approximately 400% more bug

[the-ancient-dragons]

HiveWing study!

Featuring the mysterious Tiphiid/Bee.

Details, explanation, and more art below. Otherwise, next week are the LeafWings. See you then!!

More Tribe Studies

I had a lot of fun with the action pose. I wanted to really exaggerate the wrist stinger and I think I got it good. Both tail stingers were fun, too, but I think the dragonet pose is my favourite. It's just a little baby...

[otiksimr]

Round two of funky dragons! (1) This time featuring a whole lot more bugs.

[devilfromtheriverstyx]

Hive

[tobuzzu]

Lady Bloodworm

[chocochocowell]

"Angry"

[endxin]

Probably, my favorite WoF couple: Harvester the HiveWing and Aconite the LeafWing.

[i-eat-candles]

A very buggy HiveWing

[laweema]

I fantasized a little about what one of the first children of the Clearsight and Sunstrike could be like. The dragonets are not related to the canonical ones mentioned in the book, here I was just thinking about the design.

Pantala dragons are quite different from Pyrrhyans, and because of this, it seems to me that the first cubs could turn out to be either deformed or with some mutations, defects. I also took into account that the genes in the wof are mainly from the mother, and my own design of beetlewings. First Dragonet He is devoid of any abilities, he does not have star scales and antennae have not grown, in the future there will be a very thick horn on his forehead, some scales have not grown evenly and fall off from the general group.

The second Dragonet: He has grown a second pair of small wings that prevent him from flying, but he is trying to learn. Small wings don't move well. It also turned out to be a dirty color.

And the third one: He was born under two full moons, but cannot perceive other dragon's thoughts in words, sees only pictures that often confuse him. Mutated horns with growths and too small wings, with large wing elytras, most likely he will not be able to fly. There is a poisonous thorn on the tail.

[teethwitheyes101-blog]

Here’s a lil piece for u guys <3

She gets mistaken for a hive wing a lot

[glassshine]

Queen Wasp smoking a royal blunt as requested by reddit

[flawseer]

Some of you may be aware of this new fad that is going around. The kids refer to these newfangled things as "blooks"; they are kind of like scrolls, but rectangular and heavy.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that this is dangerous and wrong. I don't know what kind of warped mind looked at something as wonderfully elegant as a scroll and decided to fashion it into an instrument of bludgeoning.

If you see someone who tries to get you hooked on "blooks", you should run away and stay inside for the next three days. They probably drank the Seawing pond water.

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I had a bunch of friends twisting my arm and telling me to draw Cricket. All right already, geez, here she is. Hivewings do not have an official graphic novel design yet, so I tried to do some kind of homemade interpretation of what it might look like. It's not the best concept, but for a first attempt it seems adequate.

[the-ancient-dragons]

HiveWing. Overcomplicated. But also not?

Joy and Tui, y'all cooked, I just put my own spin on it.

Details and explanation below.

Otherwise, next week are LeafWings! See you then!

More overcomplicated dragons.

I thought I had fun with the RainWing.

I was wrong. This was FUN.

Of all the ones I've done this design is nearly identical to the original. I'm not saying that to toot my own horn, it just somehow came out like that because I found the perfect references (and avoided altering the skull too much lol). Let's talk about them!

First, an unlikely one: iguanas. I originally picked them for their spines, but when I saw their eyes and large jaw scale (or whatever it is) I knew I'd found the new reptile base for the HiveWings. I also included the little snout and under-the-chin spikes they have; it just fits perfectly for a beetle-and wasp inspired dragon.

Speaking of beetles and wasps: I took heavy inspiration for the HiveWing's 'beak' from wasp mandibles. I love the way the mouth looks originally and wanted to preserve and exaggerate it. So, when creating the beak, I combined the jagged jaws of wasps with the curved beak of an African fish eagle. To top it off I referenced the rhinoceros beetle (obviously) for the horn on the nasion.

(The nasion is a point where your nose meets your forehead between your eyes). The HiveWing's horn isn't directly on it but I couldn't think of another word.

I actually wanted the entire head to have an insect-like feel, that's why the snout and forehead are built from large plates (once again referenced from rhino beetles).

Lastly, besides the lion-inspired teeth, an incredible animal called the nyala was responsible for the back horns. Whoever photographed that bull in that exact angle: thank you.

Let's see how badly I mess up the LeafWings next week. If you've read this far, perhaps let me know if you would like to see all of my personal headcanons for the LeafWings? For Alate Atta's Ascension I use a design where they have four wings and extra frills to look like leaves. I can do one closer to canon where they're more like a Pyrrhian tribe and another where they visually fit in with the other Pantalan tribes. Let me know!

[otiksimr]

WASPED

[zuxver]

More Cricket! cuz you all seemed to like her last time!^^ (click for better quality- 😭)

She would deff be either a writer, documentor, or journalist.