"I should warn you, Boy-Who-Has-A-Name-I-Once-Loved, that not a speck of that love remains. Not a jot. Not a whisper. One hundred years of captivity has drained every last drop of that love from me, and I am cured forever."
-"How to Break a Dragon's Heart" by Cressida Cowell
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I've been reading the OG How To Train Your Dragon books and oh boy does it wreck you. I took some artistic liberties in drawing him. I think he'd do well with whiskers like a catfish and great fin-like spines.
"Three boys, all named Hiccup"2024 is a leap year, happy birthday to all three of them!!I hid some details in this one, as well as some interpretations based on the books, see if you can find them(?Time took: 14 hrs This one took longer than usual, and I tried some new painting methods, there are still some flaws but overall I'm quite happy with the resultsThe second pic is the filter version, and the last three pics are cropped versions
Yk what if, just hear me out, what if I just break down crying? What if I just let this line make a home inside my head?
Cressida Cowell really just tore my beating heart out of my chest and handed it to me on a silver platter with her hands still bloody. And Im not even mad about it.
the httyd books were the most insanely iconic thing ever. hiccup is a exasperated nerd completely done with everything. he also literally becomes a king at the end. fishlegs is a little sarcastic weirdo with every kind of illness known to man and also buckets of intense Rage. astrid is an absolutely batshit insane twelve year old gremlin called Camicazi who has epic thievery skills and also manic bloodlust. she packbonds with everyone. it goes way deep into the themes of slavery, discrimination, civil wars. it's surprisingly dark for a kids series. snotlout fucking dies. toothless is a bitchy snob dragon who enjoys biting things and eating everything and who talks about himself in the third person. he has no teeth and an ego the size of the fucking moon and is like a centimetre tall. hiccup can fucking talk to dragons. there's lit a whole civil war. they're all like twelve.
Three dragons, all with a scar across their heart.
Three boys, all named Hiccup
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I wanted to do something for the twelve days of doomsday, but i couldn't do all 12 days so I decided to revisit a concept that has always stuck with me: how history repeats itself, in the big and small details
And 2023 marks 10 years since I have started reading the books, so they're also a bit of a comemoration of how long they've stuck with me
HTTYD books 1-6: oh, what a charming little kids fantasy series! and a LOT of world building too!!
Books 7-9: hey wait WHAT just happened
Books 10-12: *deep breath*
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