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Giant WIP

Been playing with the faces of these guys to better resemble each other and up the uncanny factor. They are of unknown intelligence, yet seen wearing bundles of Whiteknuckle- a plant dragons find repulsive. Is this a cultural learned behavior, or a sign of higher intellect? The Slayers do not kno...

Adjustments

Changed the name to something more memorable, and did some contrast tweaking. This will likely be the final posted piece, but y’all ofc see it first. What do you think? Should I add grunge to the corners?

Welcome new patrons!

Very excited to have y’all aboard. All this goes towards paying for publishing fees, so I really do appreciate you for being here. Expect fun sneak peeks and lemme hear your thoughts! Especially as work goes into Volume 2. It’ll be an entire new field!

Nearly done now. Figured y’all might like to see

New feller

Apologies for the lull friends- been caught up in commission work. For now though enjoy this new dragon! It inhabits dark mountain tops at high altitudes, the folds of skin helping it absorb more oxygen from its thin-air environment

HUGE announcement guys!

Curious Archive, a popular YouTube channel, will be featuring Dragonslayer Codex! The vid is in production now. Y’all hearing it here first 🤝🤝🤝

Rattle dread WiP

Been working at this. Posted a peek on Twitter, but y’all get the whole shebang🫣 it’s almost done now minus some detail text

Wildlife of Dragonslayer Codex

Thoughts? These are huge, powerful animals- some of which are tamed as beasts of burden

Sea dragons for codex??? Yup

Working on a new fella. Any name ideas?

Kinsbane in flight

Wanted to do something a lil out of my comfort zone on this one!

Sicklemouth parry

These dragons are very adept swordsmen! They’re caught and used in gladiator battles

Through the Smoke

A scene depicting a Veilwright pinning a potential hunter to the ground. Whether it will attack or get away is unclear.

WIP piece I thought y’all might enjoy!

Scale tutorial

Here’s how I do scales! Tried to follow my process as closely as possible

Tutorials

Would Y’all be more interested in a scale tutorial or painting one? Gonna do both but which would you like first

Beaded Dragon

Not the final by any means, and likely gonna be repainted. Figured you guys would like to see some more behind the scenes work!

The full pic of my teaser on Twitter

The hagwyrm is getting a fresh look

Dragon cladistics

So this is the BARE bare initial draft of a page detailing the evolution and relationships between types of dragons. This will be a fully polished page upon completion, but figured y’all might be interested in seeing it first

Land Whale

Here we have a group of proto whales that split off from their ocean-going ancestors to take advantage of vacant niches in the polar regions of the world. They were inspired by bison, hippos, mandrill, humpback whales, and a saiga antelope

Baby wailing bishop

These guys are pink at birth, gradually fading to silver as they age

Horned creature

I teased this guy on Twitter, y’all get the full thing. Wip for now

Tasslemaw fishing

Tristan suggested this cool behavior, and I couldn’t help but sketch it out

Been working on some Giants

Huge primates with specialized tool making abilities, which manifest as huge dragon-slaying weapons

Ambient life

Full image of the teaser I put on Twitter. A selection of aquatic life for the Codex! Popular food for both humans and dragons

Haven’t shown him in forever..

This is a design I struggled with, and continue to tinker with. A burrowing owl-like dragon, with electric organs all over its body, letting it kill prey in a tangle of tail! Any suggestions for the feature sketches?

Wip Sooty Veilwright

When designing this dragon, I wanted something light in frame. Subtly able to disappear into the smoke it creates. I looked at forest dragon lizards and stargazer fish. Wanted to challenge myself to make something purple too. Y’all gonna get this abt a week earlier than I’ll post, same with e...