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Can’t believe I’ve never posted these designs here yet

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Ooh I'm doodling ..

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✈️: Where would you live in the world of Ga'Hoole?

i'm a southern kingdoms truther so definitely in the south... i'm partial to silverveil just because the name is so pretty lol

🔪: Which do you think was the most brutal death scene?

phillip's death... there's a lot of one-off brutal deaths but since there's so much emotional weight to this one it's so much more memorable and sickening

🔮: What species of owl would you be?

i think burrowing owl!

😢: What was the saddest character death for you?

i'm gonna put this one under a cut for book 15 spoilers lol

coryn's death had me literally bawling... he's such a beloved character and his life sucks so bad and it's like. well this is awful but i guess?? he can finally be at peace this way? also since it's literally at the very very end of the entire series it's like a big emotional goodbye to the books as a whole

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eyecatcher for chapter six for my ga'hoole au!!

where another militaristic group of owls (who, while technically detesting the pure ones, love to take inspiration from them) takes over the southern kingdoms and this time they succeed

seventy five owl years later, the next heir in line to the throne of this militaristic group, now the 'free kingdom of ambala', starts to diverge from the predetermined path set for him. a talk with a certain scroom helps intensify his desire for freedom :>

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Guardians of Ga'Hoole asks!

📺: Did you read the books or watch the movie first?

📚: Which is your favorite book?

✈: Where would you live in the world of Ga'Hoole?

🐺: Have you read the Wolves of the Beyond?

❄: Have you read The Rise of a Legend or any of the other extra books?

🎮: Have you played the video game?

💿: What do you think of the movie adaptation?

🐦: What is your favorite owl species?

🐰: What is your favorite non-owl species?

✏: Have you ever made any OC’s?

⏳: How long did it take you to read every book?

❤: When did you start reading the books?

🌕: Who is your favorite character?

🌟: Which character do you relate to the most?

🔪: Which do you think was the most brutal death scene?

🎓: What chaw would you have at the Ga'Hoole tree?

🌌: Would you live on your own/with your family, or be a guardian at the tree?

🔮: What species of owl would you be?

🔎: What kind of trinket from trader Mags would you not be able to resist?

😢: What was the saddest character death for you?

💘: Any ships?

📝: Any headcannons?

📓: Have you read any fanfictions? If so, what’s your favorite?

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putting my hater hat on for a second... i can let a lot of kathryn lasky's more questionable writing decisions slide but hagsfiend nyra is the one i have the most personal beef with. IMO it makes her so much less interesting because it gets rid of any possible motives or explanations for why she's Like That... instead it's just "oh she's evil because she's a literal demon" which. i know fans like to give hagsfiends more depth and go against the whole "inherently evil" thing, which is good! but that clearly wasn't lasky's intention when writing hagsfiends + the hagsfiend nyra twist. and i also get that the twist contributes to coryn's anxieties around his worthiness as a ruler and his worries about having evil in his blood, but like... he was already worried about that before he found out nyra was a hagsfiend 😭 like being kludd and nyra's son was enough. you didn't need to make his mom a demon. it just makes the main villain of the series so much more one-dimensional

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A small small sketch that suddenly appeared in my head. I like the holidays on the great tree, such as Punkie Night, it really is quite interesting. The very concept that the owls put on masks of other owls for fun seems to me quite interesting. I love such holidays

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I hate drawing barn owls so I drew 1 million

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ANOTHER ANIMATION!

I’ve been hearing this song everywhere I had to make a piece based on it and I’ve seen quite a few people wishing for me to make more gog content!!!1

The lip-sync is quite off because I animated the characters separately from the music

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My concepts for human versions of the band and otulissa plus a bonus eglantine with her big brother. These were fun and I might do Coryn and his parents at a later time. Concepts on the designs under the cut

Gylfie

Both Gylfie and Digger are inspired by desert cultures given their Kuneer origin. I gave Gylfie stars on her dress and jewelry since she is a navigator. I rlly struggled with her design and scrapped and restarted it half way through but pulled through in the end.

Digger

His clothing is mainly inspired by Moroccan clothing. His sketch took like half of the time and the hands are still messed up. I tried mimicking the long featherless legs of burrowing owls through his big boots. He's holding a burrowing owl feather to track it.

Soren

I tried mimicking the white heart shaped face of Barn owls with his design (and Eglantine). Wish there was a better way to show colliering not a fan of just giving him a bucket. At least I could give him some weather interpretation equipment.

Otulissa

I had a fun time adding all the book titles (zoom in to see them they are all from the books). I didn't rlly have a definite time in the books this is based off but with Otulissa its obviously after the 14th book. Given her interest in the Northern Kingdoms and Cleve I thought giving her more Nordic/ Viking inspired clothing would fit but I toned down decorations since she would scoff at that. And of course being a spotted owl she needs freckles.

Twilight

I couldn't stick to the owl height differences for obvious reasons but I'm still glad I could have Twilight tower over them all. Given his orphan school of tough learning background I made his clothes all rough and worn and patched like he assembled them himself. I actually had different plans for colours but after I finished the sketch I realised I accidentally drew my roommate (down to the giant size) and so made the colours match. I wish the sword looked more metalish but by the time I did that I was so done and called it.

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haggish

jun 4 2023

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gwen-kludd codependency hell

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Cover for part one of a Wings of Fire x Guardians of Ga'Hoole fanfiction that I'm writing! Part one is titled "The Capture" off of the title of the first book of The Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. I'm aiming for a 3 parter mixing the first 3 books / the movie and my own ideas in there. The fanfic will be posted on @guardians-of-the-beyond and on AO3.

Stay tuned!

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canon interaction

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Some Guardians of Ga'Hoole oc's that I drew for art fight. So many cool owl artists!