Empress Indigolight
My tarantula fursona. I'm still trying to figure out her personality and backstory but there's no rush with that!
At first she was an animal jam character, then I got into vrchat and found a galvantula model, then I decided "you know what, let's make her a full ref!" And that's how that happened. Sooo ya!
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Stone cats. Inspired by roman milestones and Greek herms- but instead of a [redacted] there's a vegetable. Fun warm ups. They look better when the face is wrong.
Please enjoy my new nasty comic
Hedwig’s last face is from here: https://twitter.com/natalie_corsair/status/1450165173357002764
The main post with these two is here - https://www.tumblr.com/nataliedecorsair/637590966785671168/recently-i-got-back-to-my-old-au-pticenoga-and
demonology // angelology
names & bases in image description.
some sticker sheets I hope to have for MCM London later this month!
In contrast to the gloomy and mysterious world of Heather, Pticenoga and Vaughn’s AU is pretty cheerful and full of nonsense. This is the world of Borderlands, and therefore it is reckless, sometimes dark, but nevertheless very alive. The tone of the art with them, respectively, differs from the tone of the art with Heather. And, since this is an AU (means alternative universe), some moments from the canonical Borderlands were changed. For example, the third Borderlands game and everything related to it doesn’t exist here. Also I should remind you that Pticenoga is my OC way from 2011 and she had nothing to do with the game originally, and I created the Borderlands AU for her several years later.
In this universe, Pticenoga (or Hedwig, that’s her name; Pticenoga is more like a nickname) is a “messed up” siren who, even before her birth, was influenced by natural Eridium, and as a result her “siren power” went out of control. Normal sirens sometimes have “magical wings” - Hedwig was born straight up looking like a bird, with all the accompanying pros and cons. Shade, her adoptive father, found it pretty amusing and liked it a lot, but most of the other people weren’t that impressed. And, given the fact that the closest bird to her would be a vulture, her behavior did not contribute to her popularity in society. But time passed, she grew up - and Hedwig learned to more or less control her siren powers and she could transform into an ordinary woman. But in this form she loses all the advantages of Pticenoga: she cannot fly, loses her strength and endurance, loses resistance to fire damage, and so on. But she can merge with the crowd now, if it’s necessary. All in all, Hedwig is a woman with a bit of bells and whistles… After all, this is the world of Borderlands. For example, she can smear herself with rotten corpses to use the stench as a weapon. Or in the heat of a battle, she can bite off an enemy’s finger, devour it, and ask for more. But in a sense, this craziness is partially the reason why her relationship with Vaughn was developed.
A portion of passion, a portion of humor and a pinch of trash with raw meat - it’s pretty much the recipe for the pairing between Pticenoga and Vaughn. He is a former corporate accountant learning to survive on the wild planet of Pandora; she is a bit of a deranged, “wild” siren, ready to protect her loved ones and punch enemies in the face (not always successful, but nonetheless). After arriving on Pandora, Vaughn discovered his love for crazy stuff and was happy to occasionally let loose his suppressed aggressive side - and Pticenoga is happy to help him with this. But sometimes she is also happy to “calm down” and feel normal, and Vaughn doesn’t mind showing her that side of life. Of course, their shenanigans do not always end well, and the “loser” side of Vaughn didn’t go anywhere, just like Hedwig’s instability. But they are ready to support each other, no matter what. Even if this support sometimes takes strange forms (for example, Vaughn can gather corpses for her if necessary…). Or, as a bonus, Pticenoga can sometimes troll Vaughn a little. But he does not mind; he answers her the same way… when he can. — Also, I was messing around with GBA sims thing and you can see the result in the end xD
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An idea: what if Sobble evolves into Water/Ghost type? Like, it looses its confidence and slowly vanish out of the existence due to its fears, complexes, and low self esteem?
One of the quick ideas: a shadow lizard. There are no tears left, only a [ghostly] fog or something. The eyes are stone. Initially I imagined it half submerged into another dimmension (but you wouldn’t see the body)
found this in the comments of a blazed post n im keeping it for future use
The thing about doing research before you draw is finding the length to wingspan ratio of a Harris’s Hawk and applying that to a 5’11 human, which results in
20 ft wingspans! How the heck would I get them to FOLD these without them dragging on the ground?????
For starters, find where the bones of the wing roughly are and bend them into shape. Then see where the tip of the longest primary feather would be (from the wrist where it bends) and then adjust how they are folded.
Remember that they're three-dimensional and often have a curve to them so let them curve forwards around the shoulders, be arched up if they have the strength, or have their whole posture adjust to compensate for balance and keeping wingtips off the floor.
Experiment with it and look to gifs of birds folding their wings for reference o:
