A piper drake stands on a stylized depiction of a beach with its two young offspring. The piper drake is a strange bird-like creature with a long snout, large blue eyes, and antennae on its snout and head. It has two long tendrils acting as a tail and a small set of wings. Its legs are long and thin, closely resembling a shorebird. The babies lack the blue patterning of their father on their wings. The baby on the right stares blankly while the baby on the left jumps in surprise over a bug it has just noticed on the ground.

There are many species of drakes in the Selvan, some more respected than others. The piper drake is well known for its high-pitched song and scavenging tendancies; Many an intalli on the beach has found themselves without a lunch after a piper drake’s hunt.

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An abstract depiction of a furry holding a glowing dead shrimp. Cartoony tears stream out of one eye in a straight line. Orange glowing streaks emanate from the shrimp introducing warmth into a cold and dark background.

This piece is titled: my last shrimp just died and im really sad about it

[ #icyart #art ]

I shall dub thee: The year where I started putting halftones in everything

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Here’s some sketches I don’t think I’ve posted before

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A sketch of 4 different variations of my fursona all surrounding me and representing different extreme emotions. One screams at me and shakes its fist with a dramatically muscular arm, another wails in despair, another smiles wide as it comes up with another idea, while the last one looks on with disdain as it holds a pillow to its head. All of them are tormenting me in a different way, with a different style of scribble surrounding each of them.

The creative process

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Sketches of a furry character reminiscent of a cat. The main sketch shows his full design; he has short hair and a long fluffy tail. His clothing is somewhat formal and he has a repeated chevron motif. He is absentmindedly flipping a coin and has an unreadable expression. The sketches to the right show him conversating with another character. Calmly, he says "I dunno if you noticed, but I don't do jobs for free." The other character looks extremely irritated as they say "You've been on this team longer than me- do you SERIOUSLY not care?" The cat-like character then says "I'd care for fourty mönhr," As the other one looks on unamused.

Rotating a potential character rn

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Concept art for the Khumora, a hare-like sapient creature with a fluffy mane and long tail. Various sketches show the Khumora at various life stages (Newborn, juvenile, adult, elder). The bottom of the pages shows a Khumora transforming into a massive beastly form.

Life ain't easy as a werehare.

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A furry character poses for the camera, a sly grin across her face. She is adjacent in appearance to a carnivorous hare. She has dark teal fur with a lighter underbelly and yellow markings. Her hand is raised beside her head, golden claw caps shining as she points a finger toward herself. She has large crystalline sunglasses that completely obscure her eyes. She has two golden necklaces and is wearing a black tanktop.

Revamped my icon :] More Serra!!!

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My fursona, a vaguely mammalian creature with thick fur, horns, and two tails, sits at a kitchen counter. Some decor sits at the far end of the counter against the wall next to an espresso machine. Two cabinets loom above the espresso machine. Above my head is a faded thought bubble that says “I miss my shrimp” A block of red text slowly fades in from the angled counter, reading “I think your mind is gonna change about kids when you’re older, remember what I said about friends? Friends will come and go, but FAMILY is forever. Family will never leave you. I know you think you know everything but I think your mind will change about kids. Not that I don’t love your nephew but-“ the sentence is cut off with much larger, brighter block of red text reading, “Do you want a husband?” A speech bubble tail hangs from the counter and circles toward the perspective of whomever is looking at me.

I (my fursona)’s thought bubble pops, and I stare at my mother (the POV) with a very shocked and nervous expression. I can only say “UHHH.” My text is teal and my speech bubble is the cabinets themselves.

A far more realistic looking persona of my mother; she resembles a sable, a type of mustelid. She has a blank expression on her face and a speech bubble with three red dots indicates her silence. My teal “UHHHHHHHHHH” trails above her in an unsteady line.

My mother continues, saying “…Or a partner or something?” A frantic white speech bubble appears behind me as I yell “WHAT? NO-“ outside of it. The text within the speech bubble is obscured and difficult to read. My fursona looms within the speech bubble, jaw agape as I frantically explain my situation. All the while, I am colored in with a very faint aroace flag.

My mother is onto me (Well, she thinks she is)

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Headshots of two different anthro characters based on species from my headworld, the Selvan. On the left is Arastra, a phyoren-beluki hybrid. He has desaturated blue fur and navy blue scale plating. He has a pair of large ramhorns which turn red at the tips and golden jewelry strewn from them. His mouth is morphed into an awkward grimace and sweat flies from his face. On the right is Veleur, a red beluki-wyrir hybrid. His fur is long and flowing, with extremely long fur on his ears dragging them down past his cheeks. He has one long, curved horn on his head and golden eyes. His pupil is drawn into a cross. He has golden glasses and a dark bow tied on his neck. He is smiling and looks very amused.

Veleur and Arastra sit at a bar together. Veleur has one full shot glass while Arastra is almost finished with his second. Veleur sits poised, his head resting atop his fist as he watches Arastra with amusement. Arastra leans over, one hand stiff against the bar and the other curved awkwardly towards himself. He is near frantic with his excitement, sweat on his face as he speaks to Veleur.

When he met Veleur for the first time, Arastra swore he could have dropped dead right then and there. Many, many years later: He wishes he actually had.

But for a time, a short time, he really was his biggest fan.

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Three sketches of different anthro species. The tallest one on the left crouches awkwardly in order to fit in frame while the other two stand perfectly comfortably.

Can’t fit a guy on a size chart? Squamch em!

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A headshot sketch of a smiling blue dragon. She has a large magenta fin running down her head to her neck, three purple ridged horns, and green eyes. She is wearing a dark grey sweater and has shaded glasses. There are unique dark blue markings on her cheek and forehead along with two individual scars on across her eye and on the back of her neck. She has piercings on her lip and on her brow ridge.

Headshot sketch comm for @bluebirdari.bsky.social! Very fun sona to draw :P

✦ Interested in my commissions? check my pinned! ✦

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Four sketches of various different Selvan species in anthro form, a wyrir, teretosi, ayomar, and paimara.

Progress progress....

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A very fearful paimara holds a wooden box over its head as if to peek out from beneath it. Paimara are a long fish-like species with bright scales and large fins. The paimara has a brown body and gradient red-yellow scales on its neck and trails. Its yellow fins are large and rounded. A red sash around its neck flows behind it, reminiscent of a shrimp's antennae. Beside the paimara are three emojis, a shrimp, yellow sparkles, and box trap with cheese.

A confident, scarred nyluru stares determinedly at the camera. Nyluru are a large, fat species reminiscent of salamanders. This nyluru has grey skin with white markings reminiscent of clouds. It has large purple piercings through its nose, tail, and head lobes. One of its lobes is torn open from an old piercing. It has dark purple-blue fins on its arms and legs and webbed feet. A set of emojis floats above the nyluru: Fog, a thumbtack, and a hole.

Emoji character designs upon ye

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Tattertail, a lithe gray tom cat with pale yellow eyes. He has a large mane of dark gray fur which trails down his back. He has an extremely long tail with dark grey patches of fur. He has large pointy ears and a furry muzzle. Large scars and missing patches of fur drag across his pelt. A small uncolored sketch of Tattertail says "Y'know, they're not OSHA violations if they never find out about it."

A loose sketch of Tattertail and Scorchtip, two cats with very different appearances. Tattertail is long, lanky, and has large tufts of fur, meanwhile Scorchtip is short and round. A flaming caption above them reads "the balding brothers."

I usually never draw non-headworld art but here's a WCRP oc as a treat. He's the world's most absent father because he's too busy tunneling to care about his kits

#art #icyart #warriors #warriorcats #wcrp #warriorsoc

An imposing ashgorn (A fictional species resembling a prehistoric giraffe, with a long head crest and keratin scutes on its back) named Mkalu Watan looks down at something as a red shadow of an ashgorn screams behind her. Her skin is blue and purple and she is wearing orange and purple garments alongside silver jewelry on her horn and nose. A block of text in the corner says "The Nahrul Empire was the largest and bloodiest ashgorn clan in Sulashan history, having taken over nearly half of Valose at its height. Every intalli in its path was brought to their knees through fear or bloodshed. Mkalu Watan, the Nahrul Empire's founder and first warlord, was personally responsible for the deaths of millions of intalli. In death, she is deified and scorned for her atrocities."

Nearly 400 years have passed since the fall of the Nahrul Empire, but its effects on northern Valose continue to echo to this day.

Read more about Ashgorn here: the-selvan.neocities.org/Species/Ashg...

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A map of the Selvan. The world is split into two massive continents, with a giant ocean inbetween with a large archipelago.

A map of the Selvan. The world is split into two massive continents, with a giant ocean inbetween with a large archipelago. The deific regions of the world are labeled and colored in

A map of the Selvan. The world is split into two massive continents, with a giant ocean inbetween with a large archipelago. The biomes of the world are drawn out.

The world as the intalli know it is split into three parts; The sister continents of Sulparae and Sulashee, and the grand seas of Kuuandra.

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Yilses is probably the kindest person in his family, but it doesn't really mitigate the fact that he's in a cult. He becomes normal.... eventually.

Phorcys doesn't have the wherewithal to forgive him though. Which is fair.

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A teretosi excitedly picks up a pika bun and prepares to slice it open. A large block of text sits beside the sketch "A dish popular among teretosi is the Poor Man's Marmot, otherwise known as the pika bun, a baked good with heavily spiced meat stuffing shaped to resemble a rodent. The Poor Man's Marmot is traditionally sliced open with a dewclaw, with only the stuffing consumed and bread discarded. However, during times of famine, teretosi would often resort to consumption of the entire pika bun, leading to increased bread quality and decreased meat quantity. In present day, discourse on the correct way to consume a pika bun is still abundant, especially in interspecies spaces." Underneath the text is a doodle of an extremely disappointed teretosi with a cut-open pika bun and fruit gunk on their claw. A phyoren beside them is oblivious to their disappointment and says "Oh yeah, since there's so many wyrir here I decided to replace the meat with a fruit compote, pretty inventive, am I right?"

Important tips for teretosi: never trust other people with your cultural foods

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A chibi of a character named Khosa. Khosa is an ashgorn/teretosi hybrid, two species from my headworld. He is prehistoric looking, with two large horns on his head, big feet, and spines across his back. He is orange with black markings on his head, back, and feet, and he has bright red stripes. He has purple dots on his horns and has purple eyes. He is bathed in intense purple shadows.

AF attack for @stabadove.neocities.org of their Selvansona yay!!!

(P.S. Is it self indulgent to attack a character that's from your own headworld?)

#art #artfight #icyart #selvan

A chibi of an anthro alien named Hound, owned by Zerkj0 on Bluesky.

My first art fight attack of the month for @zerkj0.bsky.social!

#art #icyart #artfight #teamfossils

An array of six different variations of the same chibi design for a feathered anthropomorphic character. The character has the same colors in each variation but has differently colored clothes in each one.

An array of four chibi concept sketches for the same maned anthro character. He is the same color in each sketch but has differently colored clothing.

Currently working on little concept sketches for some oc clothing designs bc art fight looms near!!!

I really need to do color studies at some point, though, because a lot of this has felt like I am a chimpanzee at a typewriter. Ah well.

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An array of various chibi creatures, each of them different colors of the rainbow. These creatures range in appearance from leviathan seals to bipedal sheep.

A green chibi paimara, a fictional species from the Selvan, my headworld. It is long and serpentine and has large front flippers reminiscent of wings. Its head is similar in shape to a salmon and it has a joyful grin. It has stylized scale patterns on its neck and tail and has large fins on its head, back, and the end of its tail.

The sillys grow!

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A newborn ashgorn is licked on the head by its dam. The ashgorn is similar to a giraffe or sauropod, with a long neck, undeveloped crest, and soft pads on their long legs. The adult ashgorn is largely off-screen, with its head just barely within frame. The calf has a confused, unreadable look on its face and its back half is covered in mucus and a partially bloody fetal membrane.

After nearly a year and a half of gestation, a newborn ashgorn is finally greeted by its dam.

Calving season marks the beginning of summer, with herds all across Valose coming together to celebrate new life with various festivities and holidays alike.

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Kaphla, a grumpy man who is a hybrid of two fictional species from the Selvan, the phyoren and the wyrir. He has a very humanoid face and a large, dark mane. He has desaturated blue fur that fades into a lighter pink at his mouth and at the center of his neck. There are two small scars across his nose bridge. He has bright blue eyes and large cow-like ears. He has a long, ridged horn on the center of his forehead. He is wearing a large blue mantle with intricate patterns inspired by traditional Mongolian clothing. It has a large ruff of white fur around the collar, with a silver seal and white thread tying it together around the neck. There are small bangles at the bottom of his cowl and he is wearing similar bangles as earrings.

You'd think it'd take more to smash in a magister's skull, but hey, Kaphla would say it was just god's will. Or something like that. I dunno, I don't wanna talk to the guy!

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Three serpentine/fish-like creatures known as paimara fly together on a transparent background. All three of them have large fins and unique cloud-like markings on their bodies. One of them is much larger than its partner and has a desaturated brown body with dark brown-green scales on its neck and tail which transition into a lighter olive-green. It has green fins which transition into a pale yellow which match its cloud markings. Its mouth is open in a wide grin. Its partner is much smaller and is cream colored with green scales. Its fins and its markings are bright orange. As opposed to its partner, it has fins all the way down its neck, chest, and all around its tail. The third paimara is a young juvenile and is very small in comparison to its parents. It has a pale cream body, yellow-brown scales, and green fins/markings.

The paimara are quite a unique member of the intalli. Their fishy appearance is deceiving, but they're far from aquatic. They are instead blessed with magical flight, able to soar high above the clouds with a single flap of their flippers. 🎏
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A large dragon-like creature named Sukozen glowers at the camera. He is brown and has dark scaled armor plating across his back. He has large, powerful claws and golden markings on his underside which resemble clouds. He has a four pointed white star on his snout and long whiskers. Beside him is a sketch of him and his son, Tupao. Tupao is much smaller than his father and has a rounded horn and fins. He is infodumping to his father, saying “ ...and there's actually a lot of beetles that are native to Suiran but only a rew of them venture over to Kemnaol even though the climate is similar. I think that it's probably that they're just deterred by Reshwal's magic but some intalli suggest that-“ as Sukozen ignores him and thinks “I should quit my job.” There is also a chibi sketch of Sukozen in his anthropomorphic, “Mauhnic” form. He wears desaturated cream/purple robes inspired by traditional central asian clothing. He is adorned with golden jewelry and has a ruff of white fur around his collar. He has one hand raised into the air, showing off a missing finger and old lightning scars. He also looks annoyed.

A chibi sketch of Sukozen in his anthropomorphic, “Mauhnic” form. He wears desaturated cream/purple robes inspired by traditional central asian clothing. He is adorned with golden jewelry and has a ruff of white fur around his collar. He has one hand raised into the air, showing off a missing finger and old lightning scars. He also looks annoyed.

Becoming the magister of Orenomos is the pipe dream of almost every mage in the city, but if you asked Sukozen, he would’ve told you the job wasn’t all it was chalked up to be.

Especially after he got his skull smashed in for it. #art #icyart #ocart #selvan

Two near identical headshots of the same humanoid character, Saibayar. The first shows him pre-transition with long hair, a long curved horn, a necklace with a setting sun, and a tired, sad expression. The second shows him older and post-transition. His hair is cut short and tied back into a spiky ponytail. His horn is broken at the tip and a large circular portion of his ear is missing. He has grown facial hair and is holding a piece of wheat in his mouth. He has a new necklace that is just a piece of string tied into a bow. He looks contently into the distance.

On the left is a headshot of Zolisol, who is a creature with a human face and an animal body. She has short, fluffy hair and a long ponytail trailing behind her. Half of her horn is missing and she has an array of scars on her shoulder and neck. Her expression is confident. On the right is Zolisol looking smugly at her father, Saibayar. A sparkle appears next to Zolisol as she winks and extends her neck, showing off how much taller she is. Saibayar looks at her with exasperation.

Saibayar shows off the wonders of transitioning (and escaping a cult). Unfortunately his daughter still manages to be more stylish than him. Also taller. #art #icyart #selvan #ocart

Tupao has a nice day #icyart #selvan

New icon :] Amaranta Fulgurite is... a lot of things, but at least she's stylish! #art #icyart #originalcharacter #oc #selvan