Chapter 1

them💕💕

This started as just a simple sketch and then I went a little overboard testing brushes and layer settings. Is this my favorite piece? no. Is it my least favorite? nope. I still enjoy this piece (mainly cause I love mavshoon and Vanya and could never forget big ol thor.)

their relationship slowly formed over their journey as the two realized they were much more alike than they knew. Mavshoon enjoys being open with Vanya. Mavshoon is judged as being some tough criminal but truely hes a kind, respectful, and loving man. He misses his family and feels bad for what happened. Vanya enjoys Mavshoons dry humor and big heart. Vanya grows to be more confident in herself and realize she doesnt have to please everyone.

small edit: Mavshoons family isnt dead they just had a fight. I just re-read my writing and could see how that could be slightly misinterperated

very very true. Ive been re reading the books at work and all romance is just kinda tacked on. It doesnt really flow with characters or the story.

I wont lie there are some cute scenes. I enjoyed riptide helping tsunami with aquatic but out of all ships tui has tried the only one I really like is mangrove and orchid... its probably because there meeting and falling in love was off screen.

I love tuis work with friendships and sibling bonds but I feel they get overshadowed by her attempts at romance :( for example i feel arc 2 would have been such a cool arc to see friendship this between the winglet but there is just this constant out of no where crushes. Tui could still do crushes within the winglet but she needed more of them strengthening their friendship before all that.

SHOW me a reason to have them go "oh I have a crush on *insert character*" cause i dont like how much it is (usually) the character going "I dont know why, maybe because theyre pretty and smart and funny and strong and and and"

im rambling again about a kids book lol but still 💀

ive come to the conclusion that tui is just bad at writing romance. no point in arguing which ones better all of these ships suck equally we can go home now

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Cats

Along with wings of fire stuff I've been dipping my toes back into my warrior cat stuff. Mainly around my ideas of clans centered around yellowstone (ish- I'm adding in a bunch of fossils so it's not exactly 100% accurate lol)

The top piece is some concepts with fossilclan. A clan that centered around the petrified tree and they live among bones and other fossils

The last two are both concepts for water/mist clan (name is in the works) They're around gibbon falls but they do most of their hunting n such around the geysers and hotsprings. The one with the bison is around the idea that the clan either vibes with the bison or has to make patrols to monitor where they are that way no cat wanders in and angers one of em.

Overall a work in progress but I enjoy drawing geysers a lot ❤️

Recent dragon art + short story

yeah heres some recent dragon stuff and a lil story piece at the end. Please have mercy on my writing cause I was doing late at night without my glasses haha. I'm really not excited for the week I'm tired and I'm starting to fall into a depression again BUT! I am taking steps to make sure it doesn't get out of hand like past years so don't worry^^ anyways onto the art!

Babble is a rainwing scientist.

She is absolutely in love with knowledge and will go on and on about all that she knows to anyone who would listen.

Shes not too popular among other rainwings given her rambley chatterbox ways as they find her too be bit annoying at times but Babble trys not to let it get her down.

She is quite popular among dragonets as they are very curious and love to see what invention she is working on next

This is Discord. Hes an old old nightwing who has a monocle with the ability to switch between dimensions.

Discord is a grumpy stern dragon cause hes seen shit. He has a very dark outlook on life. He pushes others away due to the nagging fear of the balance of this dimension giving out.

Hes seen as a crazed old man by many. No one truly believes in his powers.

Discord is able to tell what dimension he is in by the number of moons on his wings.

2 moons is the most normal dimension he knows so he prefers staying here.

He used to travel through dimensions willy nilly because he found it fun and exciting. Till be saw stuff he shouldn't have and now he lives in a state of fear and dread.

“What would you do if I died?”

The old nightwing turned his gaze from the moons to the partner next to him.

The two sat on a cliff, in front of the entrance to a cave. The sky glittered with stars and danced with green auroras that seemed to caress the moons in the sky. A light, bitter breeze blew by pushing the patches of grass with a gentle hand.

“That's an odd question my dear.”

The others eyes gazed back; her scales glittered in the moonlight while she lay under the others wing.

“Im serious Discord,” she tilted her gaze to the moons “what would you do?”

Discord face fell from its amused look; he looked back towards the moons as well.

“I suppose I would look for you…. among the stars where you may dance, hiding behind the planets, possibly swimming within a nebula’s colorful hands. Every Night. Id fly to the tops of the mountains, past the clouds, so far up my wings ache and my lungs scream. I'd fly til the atmosphere stops me and whispers softly that I can't keep going. I’d take one final look and smile in hopes you might be looking back.”

Discord could feel the rare prickle of beginning tears.

“Though I rather not think about the day you leave me. Truly that is the day I will surely die myself.”

Discord turned to look at his companion.

She stared back with a silent gaze. Giving a sigh, she nuzzled closer to discord’s side. His wing draped softly over her back.

“I promise,” she started “I promise I won’t leave. Ever.”

Discord chuckled “Sweetheart you know you can’t promise that. Everyone leaves at some point; it's a part of life.”

She looked defiantly at him;

“Yes I will! I will stay out of the nebula's grasp, I will stand in front of the planets, I shall not dance with the stars as my talons will be busy griping to the atmosphere. I shall fight with the atmosphere to let me stay. He shall never be in such a quarrel like the one I will make!”

Discord laughed and leaned his head toward hers “I don’t doubt it.”

She leaned in a well and pressed her forehead against his. Shutting her eyes, she felt the warmth of his scales and the soft membrane of his wing against her side.

“Majesty?” Discord spoke softly “are you ok?”

Majesty’s breath hitched a tad but she continued without pause, “Yes of course.” She pressed closer, “Just...tired is all.”

“Then rest.” Discord slid his head down and wrapped his neck around hers, resting his head on her shoulder.

“You're right..” Majesty spoke softly and laid her head against his shoulder as well.

“I promise I wont leave.” Discord chuckled jokingly.

“Neither shall I.” Majesty smiled gently back as she shut her eyes.

^^Meaning behind the story:

I couldn't resist the thought "if majesty died would discord just hop into another dimension that still has her in it?" Truefully the answer is yes. Discord is a dragon that acts before he thinks. He would immediately send himself into a pickle of hopping dimension to dimension. Majesty doesnt know about his dimension hopping power so when discord answers that he would search for her hes being literal while majesty hears it as figurative

Your so real for that though cause I actually googled "wof parents" and went down a few lists to try and find some to draw for this. Half of them were not good parents 💀 and like a bunch of the ok ones were like "unnamed mom" so I ended up just doing random designs

Wof moms

Little pieces of some mom dragons cause im missing my mom tonight

Its also fun to explore making little backgrounds 💕 might make some pantalan ones too but idk

Shocked

Usually my color luck when getting eggs n such like this poor but these two arent bad! Theyve got sea and tropical vibes 👀

flight rising art on the way i guess lol

If I may ask the artist a question (I love your blog and art by the way, it's reignited my interest for my own WoF AU), how do you draw their feet?? I am hard struggling trying to draw the talons for my dragon OCs again and I can't seem to figure out the basic shapes for their toes and talons. Do you have any advice? Perhaps a visual example?

Ty!! glad to have inspired >: ) bringing you over again into the dark side (lol)

anyways! little secret is I started off as a big time warrior cats fan so my beginnings are cat. This fell over into my wof art as many of my dragons have paws. Id say its a little less "paw like" now but still thinking of them like paws makes it much easier

my tutorial is probably not the greatest but if I can give any tips its to remeber to break down talons into simple shapes. Need a sharper look? Go for more squares or triangles. Softer or heavier? Ovals n circles. Its easy to get overwhelmed thinking of details like scales before even placing down the shape of the talon

if you need references I highly recommend big cats! or if your feeling adventurous any animal with a paw or claw. Have fun experimenting with what feels and looks right to you!

Sandwing cowboys

late night au cause im re-reading darkness of dragons

Vulture is a very cool villain I wish we could have seen more of him. Truly he is a villain I feel even with his short screen time was perfectly shown to be absolutely terrifying and ruthless. Which then also made me think about how cool it would be if he was like an outlaw/ cowboy villain.

As well as if he was more bird/ vulture like.

while I didnt doodle it I imagine him to be a bit more wyvern like. Gives him swifter and more agile movements in the skys. An absolute terror in flight. Then with his crew they are a travelling merchant's worst nightmare

Qibli in this cowboy au would be more of an actual cowboy. Trading his past to help out thorn with actual cattle for the scorpion den. So think of those western movies where theres always the good cowboy and the evil cowboy. Pretty much qibli vs vulture.

Overall this way made late at night and i havent thought too terribly far into it 💀 but who doesnt enjoy a good western every now and then

mom said it was my turn with the Carnelian lives au

(1st image is an older carnelian, 2nd is younger/concept art)

I know everyone and their mother makes these but honestly Carnelian and umber should have had 10x more screentime (biased lmao)

Anyway in my au Carnelian does die but skywing gods deem her worthy of rebirth due to her fighting spirit. She has served the skywing tribe all her life and doesnt deserve to have it end via failed assasination attempt

After being left in the mourning cave she awakens with odd new features including feathered ears and golden scales. every wound from the dragoncactus is now covered in a golden shell. Scars remain to remind her of her strength and the gold is representative of fire. Her wing webbing having been burned is now also glittering gold, some refer to it as looking like golden silk tightly weaved together. The feathered ears are more of mystery but does spark many religious theories (I really just wanted to give her an owl like head 💀)

Of course her return startles many and causes rise of more animus speculation but Queen Ruby is happy to have her back. I believe Carnelian would remain a the academy for a few years but only to cram in all her classes then return to the skywing kindom. She wouldnt really stick around to make friends but she wouldnt look down on her winglet and would act a bit friendlier towards them.

In the future she becomes a general, though with the lack of war she found herself participating in more community activities and service. This helps her become a highly reguarded general, loved by many. She'll never settle down and have dragonets but the community will reguard her as a motherly figure. Old and wise she becomes.

overall this au is, again, giving a character I like a break lmao. but this also experiments with the kinda "god" like figures and beliefs briefly mentioned in the books (even tho skywings are kinda more reincarnation baised) idk any way is interesting to me

Lady scarab dotw 🫶 I love yellows and old lady characters

Got the Stanley parable tonight too so more yellow (from what I've seen at least. Fan art, out of context clips, and the sale have finally pushed me to get the game.)