Quick Wyvera thing and a dream I had.
I may or may not use the “griffin” in Stablehand, I dunno.
A couple of... um... well, let's just say that when I fail to design a mystery being right the first time, this is what happens.
I drew the Insulator (which was supposed to be Yanha) before making the sculpture, so the proportions are a bit off still, but they're overall closer to what I wanted than in than the initial drawing.
A very quick attempt to draw the Observer’s colour palette between classes!
Basically, the entire thing is mostly a deep greenish blue. The head horns, spikes, and ears have subtle light blue on the end and both the ears and the rest of the forehead section are a little lighter than the rest of the body. The patagium is close to the light blue colour but a little darker and greener, and the “boss” (upright) form has a V-shaped marking across its chest that is a sign of dominance and absent in the quadrupedal form.
The creature’s four “eyes”, which are not supposed to look super eye-like but are kind of shiny and gem-like, glow brightly, and they’d glow even more brightly when the creature is experiencing strong emotion of any kind. The “eyes” could probably turn different colours, but they don’t really have a standardised code of using any paticular colours to communicate.
Even though the Stablehand universe has dragons, winged equids, griffins, and other similar animals, there are no winged cats. However, after one person set up a hoax to try to "prove" the existence of this animal (which the hoax artist called a cœlailurus), they've nonetheless become embedded in Grævonian and world culture.
A number of people treat the cœlailurus as a cryptid and keep insisting it exists somewhere, but most just mockingly use as an example of something really improbable, kind of like people in this world talk about flying pigs. Hence, when they hear a really weird idea, people tend to say things like "well isn't that a fine cœlailurus you have?" and "that's totally pardwings".
I'm not sure how you'd pronounced the letter "œ" when spelling things out, but for now I'm going with "way". Especially because that could lead to some pretty funny chatspeak/meme-type stuff. I mean:
"No œ!"
"Yes œ!"etc.
I had a suspicion the "get out of here" thing had been done like a million times, but I still couldn't get over it for some reason and had to draw it.
(Of course, since it was about 23:00 then, I was finding almost everything funnier than it should have been...)
Somehow as I was doing that, I about two-thirds accomplished the revamp of Stolen Heart I'd wanted to do.
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