These Guys! I'm Glad To See Them Again

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The profile picture is a red lipped batfish and the channel is in Russian so I don't confuse it with other servers' channels when sending

does anybody else have a discord server thats only yourself and nobody else exclusively used to send images from your mobile phone to your tablet or computer

Cat color chart!

OPEN IN A NEW TAB TO ZOOM IN

This doesn’t contain eeeeevery single possible color mutation but it should cover the most common/interesting ones! 

I’m not saying everything on this chart is 100% anatomically/genetically correct, but I tried to simplify it as much as I could! 

Feel free to use this for your own designs!

TBOFS CONTEST TOP THREE WINNERS

this was tough, to say the least. SO MANY beautiful designs (which I’ll be compiling as the voting goes on) and so many tough decisions between them. I chose the three that I could see best with the prompt, but everyone did so so well. Thank you for your submissions.

TOP THREE WINNERS (voting is below them)

@sidyashchiy-na-plakhe

Allseer! I’m in love with the shapes used, and the colors and patterns are wonderful. Overall totally hit the mark with “recognizable but not overloaded”! He looks like he’d fit right in with the gang.

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Dumb Dragon Guys

I didn't want to participate in this contest at first, but I made a sketch in the hour I was riding the bus, so here you go. I tried to draw

@longbird47

Naysayer! I loved this one because I didn’t expect a Karen type, but I’m not complaining! Was pleasantly surprised. Very unique wings, and her face is perfect for her personality idea.

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Dumb Dragon Guys

Made you a NightWing I call her Naysayer, though that might be too silly, idk. Perhaps that name was given to her in the hopes that she wou

@cowgomoo1123

Brightfuture! I found myself being really drawn to this design. The pink belly is super cute, and I adore the wing patterns. I was really stuck between Brightfuture and a few others, but kept coming back to him.

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Dumb Dragon Guys

alright i made you a nightwing!!!!!!!!!! i hope you like him!! :3 i dont really have anything to say abt them that i didnt say in the 2nd

VOTING

Go ahead and pick who you think should win! Each winner will receive a doodle of a character of their choosing, and the top design will be the official character for the story. I want to say I hope there’s no hard feelings, or disappointment to people who weren’t chosen. I love EVERY design submitted, and I encourage you to use the character if you wish :] whether it be making them your own, selling them, etc.

DUUUDDEEE your art is insane!! I ADORE the scales you draw and render, and how you make so much of your illustrations look like real work staff from WoF would make! Do you have any tips for scales? Rendering? Drawing them :0?

thank you so much!! for scales, i'd recommend avoiding circle shapes and instead go for a more angular hexagonal shape! it reduces weird gaps in between the scales and makes the texture look a lot more tight-knit and interconnected

as for rendering, i think my best tip would be to start with shadows first. make a shadow layer, fill it in entirely with the base color for the shadows, and carve out the light source by erasing parts of the shadow layer. I've been trying out a new method of rendering which takes a lot less time but gives the same if not better results (using a color layer on multiply above a greyscale render layer with a color overlay to add color to the shadows! i'll go more in depth with this once i have a finished example piece to break down)

and i usually render scales by filling in each individual scale above the lineart to create an alpha mask and i use a clipping group using the mask

scale mask (normal layer mode, 100% opacity)

set to "color dodge" at 40% opacity, additional "shadow" layer (black color layer set to "erase" above the layers in the clipping group) used to create depth!

Gotta support my local WoF AUs

Lil worldbuilding things for wof au headworld to put all my accumulated fantribe ocs in :)

Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

Aye, that's my gryphon 🧡

artfight revenge for long-bird! what a cool-ass gryphon!!!

Looks interesting, may join

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edit: If you aren't participating via the Discord server, please message me if u want to apply to participate off-site

Edit 2: If u join thru the Discord server, pls say the codeword listed in the rules and which team you want upon your arrival. I'd like to encourage you to join Team Turtle since they have less people, but it's not currently required.

I'm hosting a Wings of Fire Artfight! Lookin for more participants.

Teams r Peril vrs Turtle, it will run from Dec 15th - Feb 15th (The doubled duration is to make up for the fact that, unlike OG Artfight, most of us will have school and less time to draw.)

(reposting the ad because I finally made the Google doc 4 it!!)

Please read the google doc at the bottom of the post, as it contains 3 codewords which have to be included in your request to join. (Unless u use the discord server)

Discord server (not required): https://discord.gg/2ryERJHA

Google docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VM0oxiHjY7tf95e8JSEVY8myUDj3ADPyWLdMjlO50Tc/edit?usp=sharing