Silkwing - Blog Posts
So, I didn’t watch the movie itself, but the meme didn’t pass me by.
You've already seen Gross, but you haven't seen Parma.
Parmenio (again Latin words as a name) - a hybrid of Leafwing and Silkwing.
I have an AU where these two live. I plan to draw a comic based on it, but it will take a long time because I don’t like drawing the background.
Who thought that they would post drawings regularly? I thought.
Artblok thought differently.
And then in the chat they suggested drawing Sunstreak on Design meme.
I usually don't draw canon characters unless I'm asked to do so.
But my love for showing off my headcanons got me into drawing.
Sunstreak. And my headcanons for BeetleWings(and HiveWings, and SilkWings).
When I first saw the tribal designs, the wings quickly became the object of my ire.
Insect wings. which do not bend. and are attached only to the limb.
The last straw was the children Sunstreak and Clearsight. These massive Nightwings bodies have butterfly wings. And Hivewings can also have transparent wings.
Result: The wings are movable and cannot be transparent. But BeetleWings and descendants have an additional joint in the wing manus, which, when the muscles are tense, locks the wing motionless in an extended state. Other tribes don't have this. The wing membrane is attached to the body. And these are full-fledged wings, which have a shape similar to the wings of insects. The composition of the scales from the wings differs in composition from the scales from the rest of the body. Therefore, the wings feel different to the touch and their color may differ radically from the main color.
Beetlewings also have wings like bees or dragonflies. Wings Silkwings are a mutation of the wider wings of Nightwings - the result of several hybrid generations.
On the other hand: antennas growing from the temples have no justification other than my personal whim. (I don’t like it when they grow from the forehead.)
Silkworm the beloved
Moving on from Minecraft dragons for a little while, here are some newer designs for the MLP mane 6, and some notes on their designs
Twilight is obviously a Nightwing, I also made her animus to go with the whole alicorn thing. She has the ability to create prophecies too. I tried to stick to her og color palette but I added some darker colors to really make her accurate to her tribe.
Rarity is literally so Icewing coded, the color pallet fits well within an icewing design, I added some more purple tho just to add to the overall design. I gave her some diamonds imbedded in her chest as a nod to her cutie mark.
Pinkie is a rainwing because its a brightly colored dragon but also because they can change colors, and in the show when pinkie is like super depressed her colors are duller so I thought a color changing dragon would be really good at reflecting that. I imagine that she was adopted and raised by mudwings on a rock farm.
Applejack was originally going to be a sandwing since her colors matched well with them but I ended up choosing mudwing. Mudwings are family oriented dragons and also really muscular so it really fits Applejack. I even drew her hat. I tried to add some speckles on her thigh that looks like apples but they look a little more like pumpkins or bell peppers tbh.
Went through a lot of changes with Rainbow Dash but landed on skywing for her. Her personality really screams skywing and also her whole character revolves around flying really fast which is a Skywing speciality. Idk how canon her colors are but im pretty sure skywings can be grey so I decided to make her a blueish gray. Instead of having actual rainbow patterns they’re paint on racing stripes.
Fluttershy is a silkwing for more obvious reasons, and like Pinkie it was easier to stay on pallete for her colors since silks can be just about any color. I gave her some cool patterns on her wings and some speckles on her body just to add more to the design.
That’s all I have to say about them really !! Im thinking of doing something for the princesses and maybe discord too.
In the future im gonna start posting more original character content just cause it’s easier for me but I will still be doing fan designs !!
