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I Love Dragons

@magpie-maple

I’m probably just going to reblog things and post my dragon fan art

Here is a round-up of all eight of the free digital brush packs that I’ve released so far for Photoshop CC, Clip Studio Paint, and Procreate!

You can download them on this page (click) Type in “0″ for a free download or tip any amount you so desire!

All my brush packs are totally free (tips optional but always very appreciated!) and can be used freely in any work, including commercial work that you profit off of, with no license or credit required. My goal with these brush packs is to make digital painting feel more achievable and accessible - especially painting environments, something I now LOVE but that used to intimidate me, & felt much more approachable with the right tools! Many of the packs also come with tutorial video content. I hope you enjoy!

Trumpet Manucode. One of the birds of paradise, but one that tends to be forgotten due to its “plain” coloration and lack of wildly-specialized feathers. Still, I think they’re beautiful, don’t you?

Based on a photo by Laurie Ross. Just getting some iridescence practice in today.

I can’t stop making these :)

These are just pictures I took and then outlined all the contrast.

You can kinda tell the order I made them in, but it goes close up of cat, bird, tortoise, and cat with paws. I think it shows, the first one looks rough.

Testing out a new brush I made for painting! Pretty happy with the feel of it, and I now have some art for one of my favorite Nocs! One day I’ll draw him with all of his jewelry,,, someday [sobs]

so my college had a huge event tonight where all the acapella groups on campus each performed a couple of songs, and they also got a bunch of other acapella groups from nearby colleges to come and do the same,

and i need to share this version of the oh hellos song "constellations" one of the visiting groups did. choosing not to name the group for the sake of not doxxing myself; they're on spotify but the one album they have on there doesn't feature this arrangement. if any mutuals really want to know i can pass it along.

Another thought I’ve been having relates back to The Scorching, the history behind it, and how much of a good twist it was to throw out. I don’t know if it was planned or a convenient retcon, but it works on so many levels thanks to the themes already present. It also leads to some interesting theories.

Burn could never have been queen. The first action we see her do in the books is destroy an egg due to hatch within the next few nights. It’s cruel, and most of all, it sealed her fate. The kingdoms were founded on the blood and tears of furious mothers, broken hearted from losing their eggs and determined to keep their broods safe. Burn couldn’t have been queen, because that is not what a queen should be. Thorn takes the throne because she took over a city, created an army, and fought tooth and claw to find and save her lost dragonet, despite the odds.

Glory takes the throne because she is the dragonet who should have been cared for. She should have been seen, noticed, and saved. She wants to be queen not to have the nicest things, but because someone should care when a dragonet disappears. The first dragon she rescues is a dragonet. She is worthy because Grandeur gave up on her dragonets and her tribe, but Glory refused to give up.

Coral isn’t a good dragon; her abuses and her absolute classist nature are abhorrent. However, she is marked by her craze as she watched as so many of her daughters were crushed in their eggs. The horror of losing a child is what marks a queen, in some shape or form. Orca was not worthy of the throne, because before she even challenged her mother, she devised a way to kill every dragonet that could challenge her before they so much as crawled out of their egg.

What one truly has to wonder is when the rules changed. When did it become a rule that to become queen, there had to be a fight to the death? When did mothers find themselves pitted against daughters, sisters, nieces, all for the power of the throne she has? Who came up with the deadly challenge?

One can only wonder.