A Sketch I Made Of The Nightwing Empire As Described From The Egg Hatching Peak

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I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.

It's hard to find a good place to put your roos. 50/50 chance for a male, what do you do when you don't need half your flock

So! I went to visit the nice lady with the rooster sanctuary, it seems like a passion project for her and her family. She couldn’t remember exactly which boys were mine, so we looked all over her flock and I couldn’t see any of them! Most likely, unless some were hiding, they all got adopted! So, I still want some more boys in my flock, I took two New Sons home with me instead! They’ll be quarantined in the little coop behind my house for two weeks, but here they are!

I was convinced this was one of mine until I looked more closely at his feet - I thought this was the Favaucana with 5 toes on one foot and four on the other. But, he’s got normal toesies. Still, while the lady was holding him while I looked at the rest of the flock, he started falling asleep in her arms, which was so sweet I decided to take him anyway! I love that beard, and I was hoping for a black rooster!

And this guy! Such a pretty boy, with big sweet eyes, and a gentle demeanor. In this photo, you can see the black roo has a split comb, I actually think it looks awesome and unique even though it’s technically a flaw.

So yeah! Fun stuff! I hope they both grow up to be gentlemen, and that they’ll get along with everyone!

Some faces of a skywing boy.

oooh have you ever done a post about the ridiculous mandatory twist endings in old sci-fi and horror comics? Like when the guy at the end would be like "I saved the Earth from Martians because I am in fact a Vensuvian who has sworn to protect our sister planet!" with no build up whatsoever.

Yeah, that is a good question - why do some scifi twist endings fail?

As a teenager obsessed with Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone, I bought every single one of Rod Serling’s guides to writing. I wanted to know what he knew.

The reason that Rod Serling’s twist endings work is because they “answer the question” that the story raised in the first place. They are connected to the very clear reason to even tell the story at all. Rod’s story structures were all about starting off with a question, the way he did in his script for Planet of the Apes (yes, Rod Serling wrote the script for Planet of the Apes, which makes sense, since it feels like a Twilight Zone episode): “is mankind inherently violent and self-destructive?” The plot of Planet of the Apes argues the point back and forth, and finally, we get an answer to the question: the Planet of the Apes was earth, after we destroyed ourselves. The reason the ending has “oomph” is because it answers the question that the story asked. 

My friend and fellow Rod Serling fan Brian McDonald wrote an article about this where he explains everything beautifully. Check it out. His articles are all worth reading and he’s one of the most intelligent guys I’ve run into if you want to know how to be a better writer.

According to Rod Serling, every story has three parts: proposal, argument, and conclusion. Proposal is where you express the idea the story will go over, like, “are humans violent and self destructive?” Argument is where the characters go back and forth on this, and conclusion is where you answer the question the story raised in a definitive and clear fashion. 

The reason that a lot of twist endings like those of M. Night Shyamalan’s and a lot of the 1950s horror comics fail is that they’re just a thing that happens instead of being connected to the theme of the story. 

One of the most effective and memorable “final panels” in old scifi comics is EC Comics’ “Judgment Day,” where an astronaut from an enlightened earth visits a backward planet divided between orange and blue robots, where one group has more rights than the other. The point of the story is “is prejudice permanent, and will things ever get better?” And in the final panel, the astronaut from earth takes his helmet off and reveals he is a black man, answering the question the story raised. 

I really like both your pencil art and your digital art. I've always struggled with dragon necks, how do you determine the thickness of the neck from different perspectives?

Well, I draw automatically, and I don't pay attention to it, because I've been drawing for many years, but in general it's individual. As a standard, I draw dragons with a neck of the same thickness, sometimes I slightly thicken it towards the body, but for earthen dragons, for example, I make the neck thicker, but the principle is the same. Well, everything depends on the shape of the dragon, because, for example, it can be wide on one side, as shown below, and this will only be visible from a certain angle, at a certain turn.

If there are problems with the construction, then you can use cylinders or ellipses in the sketch, turned in the right direction of the neck. In addition, this can make it easier to draw shadows (second picture)

FISH! Maybe adopt??? ADOPTED!!

Thinking about making adopts soon. I want to make this guy an adopt but I don't really have a name yet. If someone wants him you can have him. He's free.

This is the fish I based him off of. A blue gourami. Not my photo, the name is in the bottom of the fish picture.

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

Darkstalker redesign!

Finally I am free from Calculus and can do art.

Anyways the changes from my previous design are small but I think it will help with animating expressions.

Icewings could utilise reverse countershading by having their top/back scales paler to mimic snow or ice ffrom a bird's eye view while their bottom/belly scales are darker to absorb reflected light and thus heat from the snow and heat themselvess up if needed