#Skywings

[ilikebookssomuch]

why are Wings of Fire fans called "fantribe" and not FanWings bc I feel like that would make more sense

[dead-end-draws]

Skywing Gladiator Helmet concepts: Part 1

Part 2 ⬅️ more designs

To me, the Skywing arena was the most memorable parts of the first book, and I liked the idea of Scarlet having consistent champions outside of prisoners, like Peril, that were used as actual fighters. Similar to the Roman colosseum’s style of fighting.

With how extravagant Scarlet’s punishments, hatching day, etc. are described, (she loves her bloody entertainment & fan fair). There’s no way she’d allow for her champions to go undecorated in the arena. Additionally, Skywings are implied to be the most battle experienced tribe, so they should have armor that reflects this sentiment.

Aside from the lore drop, I absolutely love rendering metal & armor, this was just an excuse for me to do that lol. It’s very interesting trying to fit helmets to dragon anatomy opposed to human anatomy. Gotta accommodate for horns, ears, and the snout. Really cool learning how to work around it!

Skywing average measurements/head base for helmets:

[b33py]

Concept art surrounding the royal crown of the skywings, mayhaps.

[indi-ak]

More designs from first and second arc :D Does anyone have some ideas who to draw next? ^^

[ookamimonster]

perilous

[espion7971]

SkyWing tribe sheet!

my computer always fucks up colors in export for some reason and its really obvious with these guys :( i promise they're more saturated my computer just sucks

anyway i really liked doing these guys, skywings are fun and i think they have a lot of potential. enjoy!

Physical Appearance + Traits:

-SkyWings, as their name suggests, are dragons made for the wind and sky. They are better fliers than any other tribe, with enormous wings and several birdlike features. Some can fly for more than a day without landing, and even when they aren’t flying they make their homes at the peaks of mountains, with the entire world beneath them.

-They are quite large, taller than any other tribe, with long necks, long tails, and regal figures. They don’t have any obviously deadly weapons, but they have no clear weaknesses either; they are generally successful dragons.

-Their coloration consists of almost entirely warm colors, specifically red and orange. Yellows and golds are sometimes seen too, and more uncommonly, purples and browns. Their colors are bold and striking; they are one of the few Pyrrhian tribes that has no need for camouflage. 

-Young dragonets are hatched with a coating of feathers, particularly on their wings, necks and tails. Most dragons simply shed their feathers as they grow; some, though, carry a few into adulthood, usually lining their wings or making a thin ruff around their necks. These feathers are often even brighter than their scales.

-SkyWing horns are a mark of pride, and they continue to grow for as long as they live, meaning some of the oldest SkyWings have horns that resemble enormous and heavy antlers. Sometimes their horns are decorated with wires strung with jewels.

-SkyWing fire is the hottest and most powerful fire any tribe can produce. At its hottest it scorches through bone, and it can be used with accuracy from a long distance. It is their main weapon in combat, and quite a devastating one if their opponents don’t know how to properly fight it. They also use it for a number of other things, though. (More on this in the “society and culture” section.)

-Their wings are stronger than those of most tribes, allowing them to temporarily use them for balance rather than their front legs. This lets them hold and work on things more easily. (This headcanon belongs to @sidyashchiy-na-plakhe!! i saw your post and really liked it, hope you dont mind me adopting it)

-Not dissimilar to SandWings, they have darker streaks near their eyes to help with the glare of the sun when they’re flying, often facing the horizon directly.

Life Cycle:

-SkyWings are hatched in clutches between one and five, although four and five are a bit less common than one through three. SkyWing parents are not involved much with their dragonets. By tradition, they lay eggs in nests high in the mountain peaks, and return occasionally with food once they hatch. The rare unlucky SkyWing newborn may be snatched up by a large bird, but they’re big enough that it isn’t usually an issue. They are also hatched with disproportionately massive wings, big enough to make the fall less likely to be lethal if they fall before they learn to fly.

-Once the dragonets are large enough, though, or once they get hungry enough to search for their own food, they will leave the nest, often simply jumping out and letting the wind carry them, learning to properly fly quite quickly. Once parents notice that the nest is empty, they simply stop bringing food. They will never know who their dragonets are, but SkyWing superstition says all dragonets will eventually make their way to the kingdom, where they will be made a part of the tribe. And, truthfully, they almost always do.

-This practice, which some tribes find strange or even barbaric, is seen by Skywings as an important part of their life and tradition. Each of them took the same journey, and so did the generation before them, so they have faith that it will continue to work out well. It’s in their nature to leave their nest and find the kingdom, and it doesn’t result in enough casualties for them to try to halt the tradition. The only dragons this practice does not apply to is the royal family, for the sake of tracking bloodlines.

-By the time they are entered into the wider kingdom, dragonets usually know how to hunt and avoid danger, so all tribe life offers them is the ability to meet other dragons and find work. There isn’t much of an education system in place, with the exception of mentorships for some careers, such as metalworking, and military training. If they take part in work for the kingdom, they’ll have societal benefits and a secure place in the tribe, and most end up in that position eventually. But there are always a few SkyWings who simply live on the outskirts, uninterested in the larger tribe.

-They don’t form many close relationships, being fairly solitary dragons as soon as they leave their siblings. They do not very often form genuine romantic relationships, but marriage is fairly common simply as a formality or political maneuver. Royals in particular almost always get married, though they don’t usually form natural bonds with their spouses. The only responsibilities parents have is bringing food to their nest until the dragonets abandon it.

Culture and Society:

-SkyWings are proud and solitary; these things combined have given them a reputation of being rude, aloof and uncharismatic. They are powerful fighters and fliers, but their strength is not in diplomacy. Their kingdom norms, though, which allow every dragon to simply utilize for the tribe whatever talents they may have, at their own leisure and for whatever profit might be available to them, suits them well and has made for an uncomplicated but successful society. (This is excluding a few periods such as the reign of Queen Scarlet, who reshaped the tribe into something more dictatorial.)

-They are generally quite matriarchal; every tribe has a queen, but SkyWings tend to have a more overall unbalanced system. Females are a bit larger than males and are usually in higher positions of command.

-Fire is extremely important to SkyWing culture - it produces light, warmth, and without it they would be much less deadly in combat. It has its place in almost every tradition and is used in almost every career path. 

-They are the most superstitious tribe in some ways, their lives dictated heavily by tradition and spirituality. The way dragonets are raised is one example; there are countless others, including funeral rites that involve burning, gladiator fights performed for glory, a general belief of night marking bad luck, and others. 

-Continuing on this note, SkyWings - though most would never admit it aloud - are almost universally afraid of the dark. The caves and caverns in which they live are always warm and well-lit, via torches lit by their own fire, and they are almost exclusively out by day. They worship the sun and daytime, believing it to chase away the shadows in its glory. NightWings, for similar reasons, tend to be unnerving to them.

-And to elaborate on gladiator fights: The arena near the palace was originally constructed for SkyWings to prove their prowess by fighting other SkyWings and completing various challenges. During these fights they would wear a special set of ceremonial armor, which they could then keep if they succeeded. (Scarlet, of course, transformed this arena into a convenient way to execute prisoners, and later Queen Ruby reinvented it completely by erecting a hospital where it had once stood.)

-In general, SkyWings are one of the only tribes to wear armor, and the only tribe that has used it for entire armies during war. A particular emphasis is placed on wing armor that allows for comfortable flight while still protecting the wing membranes, as a flightless SkyWing is considered as good as dead by its tribe.

-Jewelry almost always involves precious stones, particularly rubies, diamonds and citrine. It’s very common to have these jewels embedded in scales; some royals have done this with such excess that they appear to have crystals growing out of them.

Diet: Carnivorous. They eat birds, mountain goats, deer, and occasionally fish, rodents or whatever else they can catch. Sometimes raw, sometimes scorched. They don’t typically make full and elaborate meals like other tribes; the only common seasoning they use is salt. Other than the rare use of herbs for flavoring, they eat no plants at all.

[sp0dium]

Since yall liked the last one so much have flame doodle.

Comment any specific wings of fire character you’d want and I’ll draw them

[boilompiz]

What stage of infection is this

Sorry guys brainrot hit like a TRAIN and I had to fulfill this idea or else the worms would’ve picked me CLEAN. To the BONE I tell you.

Anywasy yeas erm scou from Cream Fortress 2 ☺️☺️ my favorite little brain tumor I hate him so much

I couldn’t decide between a Skywing scou or Sandwing scou ,, until I realized I was being FOOLISH and made both true,,,,, I’m really smart

Anyways. Erm this is self indulgent and I hope my wof followers find this a sufficient meal 🙏byebey!

[darkstalker-void]

It rly do be like that

[crownamedcrow]

Procreate Dreams is really fun

[kakajoju]

I perticipated in the Graphic Novel Redraw Project hosted by Aegean!

I decided to play with the panelling a bit on my page (@anchorage-refuge is proof that you won't catch me drawing panels in a perfect rectangle lmao).

[starfeatheratelier]

This was a cute template going around on Twitter that I wanted to fill out! There's so many fun characters in this series, and this template gave me a chance to draw a few that I haven't drawn before. It's always fun to draw WoF characters because even though there's technically official references, the fandom is filled with all kinds of really fun interpretations. I like giving all the tribes little differences in design outside of obvious color, like rounded ears and curled horns for seawings, pointy elf ears for nightwings, thinner snouts for skywings and rainwings etc.

[dead-end-draws]

Skywing Gladiator Helmets Part 2:

Part 1 + Lore behind these helmets, and why Skywings incorporated them in the arena!

Had way too much fun with the first batch of Skywing helmets, so now we have a baker’s dozen of them! Love drawing armor, even tricky ones like these guys are.

Average Skywing head base/measurement for Helmets:

[capsulepocket]

Hey so Wings of Fire shower thought.

So you know those prisoners in WoF in Queen Scarlets arena? The one that are stuck on those pillars and shit? Yeah, those ones.

Imagine being the one motherfucker to survive til freedom and Queen Ruby releases you. Your ass has been quaking since King Gill staked that prisoner rebellion and you're like, just waiting to die next. You've been watching Peril just absolutely obliterate all your prison mates and then you get a front-row seat to watching a shit ton of NightWings slaughter 20-something additional gladiator prisoners then Queen Scarlet, from the best of your knowledge, mcfucking died by some assassin so after all that shit… You're probably like… no more than 19-20 years old

You're too young for this shit.

Clock out, retire early, fuck this you're spending the rest of your next 90-100 years of your life at a beach sipping piña colada’s till the day you die.

[b33py]

Third post this month ?!!? Impossible. Fortunately, I come with a bigger post, involving the series of Hc concepts & designs for the Wings of Fire tribes.

This time, it is continued by the skywing being the 4th to be finished of the tribes !! Right below is art based on the ideas coming from the CC development team, we had many lovely ideas for the new look as you can see, all in order to put together the now official reference of the fullbody!!

Tribes done so far: Nightwing || Seawing || Icewing

Hint for the next tribe planned to be worked on: Their scales are as ever-changing as nature. Possessing venom that reflects the same danger of the tropics they've called home.

[nirvanacuga]

SkyWings love their violence, except this one - she just likes spears.

Attempted to quickly doodle on my new phone zoomed out. Man 🧍

I really like putting spears on SkyWings because spears are the king of all weapons and SkyWings are the king of all tribes. One can only imagine what kind of weapons other tribes would have if they got creative (hint: the answer is more spears).