Httyd Astrid - Blog Posts
Erm idk snotlout doodles
Sorry I disappeared I was doing a commission that took my happiness from me but now I'm done and can draw what I really want to draw
Snotlout
I love these so much!
some rumors i like to believe the twins spread around berk, starting from most normal and getting progressively more and more weird:
snotlout wears heels to make himself taller
fishlegs didn’t write his dragon cards. they just appeared one day
hiccup is a lycanwing
stoicks hair is red from the blood of his enemies
ruffnut doesn’t cut her hair, she just eats it when it gets too long (spread by tuff)
tuffnut has sexual relations with sheep (spread by ruff)
bucket’s bucket that he wears on his head was the very bucket he was born in
mala pegs dagur (no one knows if this is true or not, including the twins)
stoick is actually two very skinny haddocks in a trenchcoat
gobber’s dragon is actually just a really big toad
hiccup meows like a cat when he gets excited
snotlout’s middle name is *cue every single name that starts with a g except for gary*
astrid made up heather to make it seem like she has more friends and everyone else just went along with it (this was the first and only rumor the twins ever spread about astrid)
ruffnut single handedly took down a whole camp of hunters (spread by ruff)
snotlout has to sleep in someone else’s room when there’s a storm (this one’s actually true)
tuffnut beat the scourge of odin three times with no antidote (spread by tuff)
gobber didn’t actually lose his hand and foot, they’re just really small and inside of the hook/peg leg
ruffnut is actually tuffnut, and tuffnut is actually ruffnut, they were switched at birth (the twins didn’t spread this one, they have no clue who did) (it was fishlegs)
fanghook is actually a girl and gustav just uses masculine terminology for her to be more like snotlout
hiccup got eaten by a dragon as a child and that’s why he’s like this
tuffnuts shoved the entire dragon eye up his ass
dagur IS oswald the agreeable, he just needed a way to cover up the fact that he doesn’t age
feel free to add more if you think of any!!
Astrid's design in winter clothes! Yay!...
In fact, I've been tinkering with this design for a long time because I didn't know what to choose. I wanted to come with something original, but at the same time, I really liked the official concept arts of winter clothing.
And in the end, I did it, but I didn't really like it, and I decided to draw a new one, but I scored and just finished off the details, and now you can see the final design at the beginning of the post.
And I'm still not too happy with what I've drawn, but I don't really care anymore.
Okay, let's get to the official designs. In GOTNF, Astrid, like all the other characters, does not wear winter clothes, which is unfortunate. In the second film, she wears quite warm clothes, but there are still bare areas. Concept art: All the designs are very beautiful and cute, but there are still bare areas of skin, and I don't want my girl to freeze.
My design: I thought the Hoffersons had a bunch of different animal skins, and some of the animals went for warm clothes, like a bear, which serves as Astrid's cape.
Sometimes I wonder what Astrid's name would be if her parents followed the tradition of Berk — giving children disgusting names to scare off trolls (or goblins, I don't remember)? Axegirl? Sharpthorn?... Skullcrasher?...... uh...... Asstrid?
I'm sorry, I can't make up names.
Oh, there's so much about the life-action movie we've been having lately. First, the leaked frame with Toothless and Hiccup, then the first trailer (which I'll talk about much later), and now this photo from the filming, where we can see the local Astrid and Snotlout, which I'm going to talk about.
Astrid, for starters. I actually really like her design from her hairstyle to her armor. Yes, it doesn't look much like the design from the original movie, but damn, the new design is still very good. I don't even have the words to say how much I like it.
And also the armor design looks like something in between Hiccup's armor and Astrid's clothes from the second movie. I'm not the only one who sees the resemblance, right?
Among the disadvantages of Astrid's life-action image, I can note the absence of small skulls and spikes on clothes. Like, these are important details of her image, which well showed her sharp and belligerent nature. And the fact that they are not there makes me kinda sad. And this is purely a matter of taste, but I would like her to have a blue shirt, not a red one (I never liked her red shirt).
And now about Snotlout. I don't even know what to say about him. His clothing design is kinda meh. There is no hatred for the actor, but, as for me, he is too thin and small for the role of a big dumb bully. Like, I don't believe that this cute guy can bully other people, especially because of their physical strength and small build.
Like, in the original, Snotlout was such a standard of appearance and behavior of the Vikings of the Berk. Big and strong, and because of it, it doesn't matter that he's dumb. And his design emphasized this well.
And here... Meh.
In fact, he looks more like 16 years old Gustav than Snotlout.
Astrid is in the dark? in the void? Idk. Decide for yourself.
cringetoberrrr day 1: screenshot redraw. we are SO BACK