Dino Art! Dino Art! I Love Dino Art!

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

Heavy Pelt

Heavy Pelt! He's a strict tom but darn if he doesn't love kits<3

And here's the Labelled versions of SkyClan's Gorge Camp.

Not a ClanGen artwork, but these are some more cats!

The brown and red she-cat is Thornymane, the white cat with the sunflower patch is Specklemoth(Thorny's adopted daughter), and the black and white cat with jewelry is Glowseeker. Thornymane and Specklemoth are a part of their clan Medicine cats, however, they're known as No-Claws in this world. While Glowseeker is from another clan that she leads.

These cats are part of a Role Play I'm a part of that's been going strong for roughly half a year now.

(As a side note Glowseeker is like- WAY bigger than Thorny, however drawing this I was not aware... oops)

Last Tribe A Day run cycle was today so I decided to combine them all to show the differences!

[ID: Seven sketchy animated run cycles, all of the original dragon tribes from Wings of Fire. They alternate sides as they go down, starting with the top one on the left and the second on the right, and so on. The background is a blank white. Each dragon has shaded limbs to help see the differences while in movement. The right wing is the darkest shade, followed by the left wing (closest to the screen), the the right legs are the lightest shaded. Descriptions are in order from top to bottom:

Mudwing: Drawn in a dark red. The thickest dragon by far, opening is mouth in a smile as its front legs hit the ground. Its large wings have four toes as if they were a third set of talons, which is used as another set of legs while running. The wings lift off after the back legs. The entire body bobs with its weight while it runs, lunging with its back legs. One of its back legs disappears while it runs (oopsies) and its large tail flicks with the run.

Skywing: Drawn in a darker red. Much skinnier dragon with longer limbs and larger wings. Its large wings remain slight open above its border, slightly bobbing as it moves. The body itself doesn’t move up and down, instead just twisting with movement of its limbs. Its tail is a little stiff, again just moving up and down. As it runs, one foot touches and leaves the ground at a time.

Icewing: Drawn in a dark blue. Its body and shape is ridgid, its head swooping up and down like it lunges with every time its front talons land. Again, its wings are used as a third pair of legs, however they are mostly used after the other limbs are mid-air. Its talons are visibly sharper, as well as its wings. Sharp spines on the back of its neck and end of its tail are visible as well, which bobs with the movement.

Seawing: Drawn in a dark blue. A thicker, long dragon with short but thick limbs and webbed frills along its spine and sternum. It’s thick tail continues the up and down curve it’s body makes with every move, flicking the end of the frills as it does. Its wings are semi open above its body, bobbing with the running movement and tilting up and down as its spine curves.

Sandwing: Drawn in a warm brown. Long limbs but thicker than skywing. All four feet lift of the air when they’re closest during the run, each foot hitting the ground one at a time. It’s barbed scorpion-like tail bobs up and down at the end. Its wings are folded and stuff near its shoulders, tilted diagonally. A solid frill lines its spine, biggest at the back of its neck and above the back legs.

Nightwing: Drawn in a dark purple grey, and by far the stiffest run cycle. Thick body with short but thinner legs than mudwings or seawings. Spikes line the spine all along its body, longest at the back of the neck and back of the body. Its wings are held stiffly and slightly folded over its body. Other than the legs and tail, most of the nightwing barely moves as it runs, and its legs hit the ground in pairs, front legs then back legs. They don’t even cross between each other at the closest part in the run. Its mouth opens and closes as it runs, not in any particular expression, I was just bored.

Rainwing: Drawn in a muted dark green. By far the bounciest run. It has a thin body and a head I accidentally drew a little big. It’s three-toed wings are used as a third pair of legs, used most right before it’s front legs hit the ground. Its front legs hit the ground at different time, however the back legs hit and leave together. Its tail is by far the longest, curled at the end and slightly unraveling as it flicks up and down. Beneath the curved horns is a frill with two connections that slight opens and closes with the movement. It’s grin also opens and closes with the movement.

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Headshot of Greer on Toyhouse

This was a prize from one of my Follower raffles!

Daisyfeather was my first ever RP cat, she's been my favorite by far and has grown up so much. These images are from 1/2/2019, 3/15/2020, 12/24(ish)/2020, and 11/24/2024.

Though her old RP has gone under, I'm excited to introduce her to a new one with some promising features to it!

Bloody Bay Spirit

Bloody Bay Spirit... haha... the Clans "trusted" Tooth and Claw. ...

Advisor Crows Ears

The second to the line up, Advisor Crows Ears.   Advisors are the second most important puzzle piece to the clan, currently we've only got one but typically there is up to four, made an odd number by the Leader.   Crows Ears(Crow) was named in a vision while asleep, crow flocked around, taring at his head while whispering unnerving tellings of the future. Every cat has dreams on their flight ceremony night. And though his name may make some cats think he is a rather rude warrior, he is compassionate about his clan and every cats(clan or not) well-being.

I'm Back!

And I've been recently binging the LoudClan series which has really fired me up on some ideas I had for Orchid Clan.

No promises on starting to post regularly as I am a college student, but I'll try and get something out. I already have references for most of the clan besides my mainoc and their parents, possibly I'll post something!