Once upon a time the shoebill was thought to be a kind of stork, but these days it's known to be more closely related to herons, as well as pelicans! Hardly surprising with that giant beak.
#shoebill #dragon #artist
Snowdragon! Had fun using some painting tips I've heard on the shading of this one, like using the surrounding colors in the shading itself. I'm always afraid of overdoing things like that, but I think it turned out okay this time!
#snow #dragon #artist
The wampus is a creature of Cherokee and American folklore. These days it seems largely depicted as a six-legged mountain lion, but many descriptions of it seem pretty vague. Glowing green or yellow eyes, shrieking, stalking...
#wampus #dragon #artist
At a glance you might think wombats look similar to and could even be close relatives to another marsupial like the koala, but like me, you'd be mistaken. Their evolution is thought to have diverged at least 25 million years ago!
#wombat #dragon #artist
At what point is a lizard already a dragon? The horned lizard is, of course, tiny, but I think if it existed in a world with dragons, I'd look at it and consider it a draconid cousin.
#hornedlizard #dragon #artist
Thank you!
Good luck soldier, let us know how that goes xD Thank you!
Thank you!
...are porcupines just oversized combat guinea pigs? New world porcupines are more closely related to them than to their old world "counterparts", so maybe! XD
#porcupine #dragon #artist
Criminal though it may be to say, I'm not actually a huge fan of most sugar cookies.
Hope you all have had wonderful holidays, and if not, we're past the darkest day and we're getting more sun. Something for everyone. <3
#sugarcookie #dragon #artist
Iiwi is not, in fact, a typo for kiwi as I first thought when I saw the word- it's a Hawaiian honeycreeper that Wikipedia calls "a highly recognizable symbol of Hawaii." Whoops. ^^;
#iiwi #dragon #artist
Velvet worms are a large phylum of leggy squishy guys! Despite any visual similarity, they're not closely related to caterpillars. They're predators. >:3
#velvetworm #dragon #artist
I'd never seen a barn owl in my hometown before until a few weeks ago, when one decided to park itself in the road... at night... and then fly into my lane. Buddy made an abrupt meeting with my windshield despite my best efforts with the brakes. ;-; In your honor, barn owl.
#barnowl #dragon #artist
Thank you so much!! 💕
If I hadn't grown up with Zoo Tycoon 2 I wouldn't have known either XD It had reticulated in the base game and masai in an expansion.
Have you ever heard of the kaibab squirrel? Until a patron suggested it for a dragon design, I hadn't! They're from a small region on the north rim of the Grand Canyon and aren't found anywhere else.
#kaibabsquirrel #squirrel #dragon #artist
Giraffes have been reclassified as having four distinct species instead of a bunch of subspecies, which is awesome for conservation. This dragon's inspired by the masai. :3
#giraffe #dragon #artist
So my first thought when I was given the suggestion "gummy candy dragon" was gummy sharks, or maybe gummy bears... but when given the option to make a pun, I couldn't resist. Now we have a gummy wyrm and I have no regrets. XD
What's your favorite gummy candy?
#gummywyrm #dragon #artist
The green dragontail butterfly is south and southeast Asian swallowtail butterfly sporting a beautiful glass-like section in its wings. You should look up videos of them in motion- watching those long tails move is amazing.
#dragontailbutterfly #artist #dragon
You know, I don't remember if I first saw a red panda in person or in Zoo Tycoon 2. I'm pretty sure our local zoo doesn't have any, but we lived in a different state when I was little and I know we went to a big city zoo before we moved. Does it count if I don't remember?
#redpanda #dragon #artist
This isn't the first time I've done a mud dauber dragon- the first was actually a year ago in honor of the wasps finding their way into my office. A sizeable gap had developed between the wood and glass of the windows, and a repair saw a large drop in the wasp incidents.
#wasp #dragon #artist
Some daddy long legs are spiders, but a large number of them are arachnids but aren't spiders. But... they've got eight spindly legs, what gives? WELL, they've got a single fused body part instead of a spider's separate head (cephalothorax) and abdomen.
#daddylonglegs #artist #dragon #harvestmen
If you'd asked me what a monkey slug was a few days ago, I'd have guessed it was maybe a sea slug or a flower. It's the name for the hag moth's caterpillar! I suppose someone fancifully thought its "tentacles" looked like curling monkey limbs or tails.
#monkeyslug #caterpillar #dragon #artist
The textile cone snail has a probiscis that can fire a needle of venom that can be fatal even to humans. They're not the only snail that can be dangerous to humans, either! Just because something looks cool it doesn't mean you should touch it.
#textileconesnail #artist #dragon
Have you ever seen what happens when you put food coloring in a vase of flowers? Probably something like that, where at first it's just color at the edges, and if you kept feeding it the colored drinks, it'd get more saturated.
Oh fear not, I've actually had an account since..... wow, 2014 XD I haven't played actively that whole time, but I'm still around and grinding on collecting all those sprite familiars. :3
Do it- and @ me if you do!!
Don't eat him!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Nooo, don't eat the dragon!