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!!! DESIGN A STORY CHARACTER CONTEST !!!

Finally, it’s here! To celebrate 400 PLUS followers now, I’m hosting a WOF design challenge/contest! Your mission is to design a character that’s going to appear in TBoFS 2. The character is already decided, and you’ll be given information/prompts to design them. First place winner will have their design be the official design for the character, and anyone who doesn’t win can keep theirs! So keep in mind that if you win, I’ll be the ‘owner’ of your design and the character.

!!! GENERAL INFO !!!

- 1ST PLACE PRIZE: Your design will be the official design in the story! You also get a free dumb doodle from me of any OC (or character) you want.

- 2ND PLACE + 3RD PLACE: You’ll each receive a doodle, as well as being featured as winners when they’re announced! Of course!

- Anyone else who submits a design will get honorable mentions, and your design will be linked when winners are announced.

- Very little artistic bias is involved. Not being able to ‘draw well’ isn’t an issue, as long as you have good ideas and a good imagination!

- DESIGNS ARE DUE BY [ Friday, December 20th ] !!! I’ll have results by December 25th!

- I’ll personally be picking the top 3, then put a poll up that lasts for 1 DAY. This will determine the winners.

- TO SUBMIT YOUR DESIGN: Either tag me in a post or send in my asks inbox! I will be reblogging/posting with the hashtag #TBOFS2DESIGNCHALLENGE (and you can post with the tag too ofc!)

- Please ask questions if you have them!

!!! RULES !!!

- I have faith in people but PLEASE BE NICE! I don’t want fighting for any reason, I don’t want unwanted criticism of people’s designs, etc. I want this to be enjoyable for EVERYONE, even if you don’t win!

- Another reminder that the first place winner gives me ownership of the design, and I’ll put them up on my Toyhouse folder. Please don’t submit to win if you’re uncomfortable with this!

- I have faith about this too, but just in case: don’t submit inappropriate art. If I find out you draw gross feral art/sexualize dragons I won’t accept your design and you’re blocked.

- Similarly, no design you submit should be offensive or hateful in any way.

!!! DESIGN INFO !!! finally the fun stuff

- The character is a PURE NIGHTWING.

- I prefer to stick to MOSTLY canon color choices, but some deviation from this is welcome! Ask if you aren’t sure, but feel free to look at the character designs in my TBoFS Toyhouse folder. That should give a good idea.

- Adding accessories and even little headcanons for the character are fully welcomed and encouraged (keeping in mind that some headcanons may not end up to be true, lol!)

- Name ideas are welcome, too!

- YOUR GENERAL PROMPT IS: a snobby, intelligent, standoffish Nightwing who does not believe in animus magic as it exists.

- Keeping my prompt pretty vague so you can have fun! The best designs (to me) are ones that’re recognizable. Not necessarily jam packed with accessories and colors and stuff… just recognizable.

- Your designs may be sketched, lined, etc, but my main requirements are that it’s at least a fullbody + colored. You CAN add more visuals to the design if you want (front face view, mouth view, paws, wing view, etc etc). It does NOT have to be digital!

Woo hoo! Have fun and thank you again for your support!

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

If I wasn't paying attention to the road today I'd have some venison in a pot and a rack on my wall. Sassy buck did a gay little walk across the road

It's weird hearing from my mutuals and followers that they've never seen a ton of wildlife before. A couple months back I saw a moose just crossing the street. Just today I encountered a family of deer just walking along a couple feet away from me. People in concrete jungles are missing out

Impulsive shihosaki drawing

them

Whew!

An animation I've been working on for a while now. Fully colored!

Don't like these wings yet. Need to redesign them for flight.

Oh yeah, this is a Darkstalker design I've been working on. Still needs some details added before it's done but thought I'd share my progress.

Shout out to the time I attempted to photoshop together a hyperrealistic SeaWing and it was the most horrifying thing I’d ever made.

I also made a hyperrealistic HiveWing but I think I should keep that one to myself. Lotta bugs.

Uhhh I’m still chipping away at my Indigo design. I think I’ll do a piece with her and Fathom.

yes or "remind me later" NO LET ME SAY NO I WANT TO SAY NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no, I seem to have spilled all of my soda, oh dear, I'm so sorry, I'll clean this up right away

I like the body shape

Progress sketches of Miller

becoming an adult cheat sheet!

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how to take care of yourself when you’re sick

what you should bring to a doctor’s appointment

what’s a mortgage?

how to pick a health insurance plan

hotlines list

your first gynecology appointment

what to do if the cops pull you over

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my moving out masterpost

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recommended reads for surviving adulthood (video)

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alcohol: know your limits

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workout masterpost

how to write a check

career builder

browse careers

birth control information

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my mental health masterpost

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sex ed masterpost

Oh wow this design is very nice. I like how the hands look like hands, the feet look like feet, but they still look simple enough to draw

Darkstalker the Nightwing

Hell yeah

Meal fit for a king

Meal fit for a king

A dragon sketch I did to experiment with colors/shading. Like the facial expression

A walk cycle I've been trying. Working on a color version but I'm being a lil lazy with it.

This is a Darkstalker design I've been working on. The coloring is still up in the air, but I like where it's going.

🐺 Happy Halloween 😈

you got any gems brother? I'm running low

Queen Coral and Princess Anemone

“nobody is making you do this” i am driven by unnatural forces you will never even begin to comprehend

Darkstalker and Clearsight as they aged through the book.

It's gotten to the point that my phone no longer tries to autocorrect Darkstalker and recognizes it as a name.

I want to practice drawing baby chub on dragons. The darkstalker baby isn't very baby, really lean. Clearsight looks more like a baby but I think it's something I need to practice more.

I love this art style, it looks like a kid friendly flash game! Very cute. I like this a lot. Have you ever done idle animations for these designs? I can't express enough how much I love this.

Hailstorm!! Because I love him so much and it's about time I do a fullbody design for him. His big brother vibes are the greatest <3

Despite being an IceWing, I think he'd wear a big coat to look cool. Also, I gave him some red spots from Pyrite (he'd only have these after getting transformed back).

Bonus sketch of Hailstorm and Winter as little kids:

#i love cookie cutter sharks #because of the espionage

reblog for bigger sample size :)

Time for another request: Moonwatcher, suggested by @steve-the-dino! For this one I thought it’d be fun to try drawing Moon in both my retro style and my “normal” style with some of my own WoF headcanons. My style isn’t super consistent, so I took the opportunity to try out some new brushes and techniques.

Retro moon has been simplified a little since the last time I drew her. She no longer has spikes on her head, and the small line of spikes on her tail have been replaced with three large ones. I like to give her the same heart-shaped nose that I give Clearsight, and big, soft eyes. I think in a Bluth movie, she’d be portrayed as introverted, bashful, and kind—perhaps to a fault.

My personal Moon design looks a LOT different. Her colors are far less saturated, and I like to give her a bit of iridescence, as she’s said to be multicolored in the books. I also make the scales on her back very light as if she’s always being washed in moonlight. I like to think that NightWings look otherworldly compared to other tribes, so instead of horns, I give them an alien-looking crest. I think the next time I draw Moon I’m going to give her a lot more purple. A lot of people portray her as green because of the cover, but I think in the books she was described as purple and blue!

In both designs, I give Moon green eyes and bright silver scales. In retro drawings, I’d make her about the same size as the rest of the Jade Winglet, but otherwise I headcanon NightWings being one of the smaller tribes. Moon is bigger than the average NightWing in both height and build, since she grew up in the rainforest instead of on the volcano. Large, round shapes can portray both softness and strength, and while the former certainly applies to Moon, I think she’s physically quite adept as well.

I love the expressions on these guys. The faces look so squishy and cool

Next up in the requests: @threemoonwatchers suggested Fathom and @incorporeal-entity suggested Clearsight, so I decided to draw them together! This is one of my favorite scenes of them, where they meet for the first time and Clearsight is overjoyed to see Fathom. She’s seen him in countless visions and already feels like they’re best friends, and while Fathom hasn’t met Clearsight until now, I imagine he’s so, so happy to meet someone who has faith and trust in him after a lifetime being shunned by his tribe. They both got happy endings, but it hurts my heart to know they probably never saw each other again after the events of Darkstalker.

An albatross sketch I made. It's Halloween themed.

I wanted to practice color and lighting. I think I did ok. Lacking focus though.

Either way I'm happy with this.

being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

this is the good luck wario reblog if you want money power and men

I would like to alert everyone that I have found a name for wings of fire that fits every single tribe. That name? Lily.

Rain: Voctoria Lily

Night: Lilypicker

Mud: Lily Pad

Sand: Desert Lily

Sea: Water Lily

Ice: Toad Lily

Sky: Lily Trotter

Hive: Scarlet Lily

Silk: Indian Lily

Leaf: Lily

This is an utterly insane and revolutionary discovery for the people of the dragons children book, a true day in history. (It also works for a scavenger)

Darkstalker picking his teeth.

Color is definitely still a weak point for me but I've got to practice.

Someone tell me if that arm looks janky. I tried my best but this seems to be what works.