#wof SkyWing

[i-eat-candles]

Hc that skywings that are wyverns are considered “true skywings” and are looked highly upon in skywing society

[mee1414]

Doodling some more old wof ocs

[glassshine]

Kestrel and Webs assess the no skywing egg situation

[chocochocowell]

The me inside of me

[the-ancient-dragons]

How to Spot a Dragon Before it Spots You!

(Written by a human for humans in the Wings of fire universe).

Transcriptions of my chicken scratch and closeups of each tribe can be found here (two separate posts)!

Otherwise, next week I begin Overcomplicating the Pantala tribes. See you then!

I was inspired by a bird of prey identification poster at my sister's school. It had a very similar layout. I really loved the coloured poses and the multiple silhouettes and thought it would work so well for the Wings of Fire dragons. I'd seen another artist experiment with their wings shapes and wanted to give it a try myself. This is the result! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

All the designs you see here are not final - I drew these without properly planning their full bodies, but the final versions I will try to keep as similar as possible. The only change I might make is the position of their wings. I also won't go back and change this because it doesn't need it. They look good enough like this and, who knows, the changes I make might not be enough that the final designs would be any different. I will be doing a lot of muscle and skeletal anatomy, possibly written in the perspective of a NightWing since they seem like the type to explore the insides of a dragon for science.

This, however, is written in the perspective of a very lucky human who saw these dragons and lived to tell the tale. Or maybe it was a collaborative effort between multiple people adding their own wisdoms, like the Dragon Manual in HTTYD 1. I haven't read Dragonslayer but I think they refer to the dragons as '[element] dragon' (not [Element]Wing at least). I also think that they're not sure RainWings exist (at least according to the 'Here Be Dragons?' over the rainforest, but I didn't want to exclude them from this piece).

The main purpose this guide would serve in-universe would be to help humans identify dragons, preferably before ever being seen. That's why I used a lot of auditory and movement descriptions unique to each tribe, ways that a person could identify a dragon without needing to be close.

I'll be splitting the closeups into 3 and 4 tribes each following this post so you're not scrolling for 10 years (you still will be but I'll try to keep it brief. Will I succeed? No!

Stay tuned next week for the beginning of Overcomplicating the Pantalan Tribes: SilkWings!!!

[goosehadfood]

That one scene from Escaping Peril actually goes so hard I love it.

Shout out to my camera man @only-a-spoon

[hyerratia]

Eagle(s)

Skywings have a common scale mutation which makes their scales thicker and 'plated.' Making them appear to be 'feathered'.

But because their scales overlap in such a manner it can cover up their heat vents, causing them to overheat. Though it isn't enough to be fatal it can make them smoke after extended flame usage, which is both annoying and a bit of safety hazard (as smoke is coming out of their heat vents excessively, which can cause breathing and sight difficulties).

[flawseer]

#22 - "Misshapen"

Smaugust 2024

This one goes out to all the Bigtail fans out there whose names start with the letter "O".

When I imagine Bigtail, I don't know why, but I think he is into pottery. He's not very good at it and all of his creations turn out as weird lumps, but he keeps trying. What a trooper.

Also, it turns out that some of these prompts are fertile grounds for recycling ideas I've so far only put into ramshackle 15-minute idiot comics and then dumped into some folder without showing more than a handful of people. I guess I can show one of them off now.

[semolinaart]

Peril from Wings of Fire

She is so normal. I love her

[lackablazeical]

Struggled so fucking much with this UGH

Anyway Skywings are my fave tribe 1000% so had to redesign my old skywing oc!!!

He grew up in da mountains so that's why he's good at rock climbing, not very connected to their rainwing side at all, kinda does view em as lazy vegans n such

Uhhhh yeah idk what else 2 say lolz

[car-gin-fer]

The gang

[miscellaneous-dragon-art]

sorry these are so late! Here’s a Viperwing and a Flamewing with a bonus Skywing!

edit: the Viperwing is NOT a Sandwing, it’s an early ancestor of them, same with Flamewings vs Skywings

[glassshine]

Queen Scarlet before the scar

[the-reel-albacat]

Queen Scarlet my beloved <3

I love her so much she is so evil

[impaladin]

redraw? study?? of scarlet from the back of the limited edition tdp, because i’m obsessed with her expression/eyes on there. joy ang’s scarlet my beloved

speedpaint and comparison under the cut

[drawerofdragonsss]

More redesigns! Planning on doing the rest of the Jade Winglet (+Peril) later