#ochre

[devouringbodies]

Shed your knuckle velvet torn on my teeth

Will Graham (Apéritif) + Shedding Antler Velvet

[redrabbu]

Ochre celebrating the year of the dragon too!

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[human-wof-designs]

whoops i haven't drawn very many mudwings. also it's now july - anyone else doing artfight?

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[namesareweird579]

Evil false dragonets of destiny

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[ilikemicrowaves]

I love this panel so much just because of fatespeaker

Just look at her

[lailoken]

Greetings again!

I was also wondering if you had of know of any reliable resources on bone reddening/blackening/ enlivening? I know I ran across something like this a few years ago on another Tumblr, but I think it has since been deactivated.

Also, is submitting something to your inbox the same as submitting an ask? I find if I use the inbox on my desktop, I cannot make separate paragraphs and I have a character limit.

Thank you once more for your time!

~T

The Ritual Staining of bones is actually far less codified and clear as a traditional practice than many people like to make it out to be. However, in essence, it serves as a way for a practitioner to Empower, Enliven, and Enhallow bones for ritual use.

When it comes to Ceremonial Reddening, much of the practice comes down to the color's association with blood, which, itself, is a physical and symbolic link to Life Force. As such, it aids a practitioner in visualizing and ratifying the suffusion of Life Force into the Bones. This is generally done as a way to rouse the spirit of the animal still tied to those bones—often for the purpose of establishing a link with said spirit.

While these practices are, indeed, looser than many imply, one fairly conistent aspect of Reddening the Bones is the use of Ochre. In fact, humans have been using Ochre to ritually adorn bones for millenia. I do believe that part of the reason for this has to do with what I said about the color red and its cultural associations, however, I also believe that the true key behind the power of Reddening the Bones lies with the ferrous content of the Ochre. For an array of reasons, I believe Iron to be one of the most magically active materials in the world—being nearly unmatched in its ability to absorb, store, and redirect magic—which is part of why it holds such a meaningful place in a variety of occult belief systems. Accordingly, I believe that the Iron content of Ochre is one of the prime reasons that Reddening the Bones can serve as such a powerful rite of Necromantic stirring. Other common materials used in Reddening include Blood (for obvious reasons,) and Wine (for its associations with blood,) though even these are generally used in addition to Ochre.

As for Bone Blackening, I'm not particularly familiar with it, and I'm under the impression that it's less based in actual tradition. It may even have arisen as a modern response to Bone Reddening, though I can't really say.

[shiftywing]

wow ok

[sunshin3babeart]

First Encounter.

Imagine how terrifying it would be to live in a medieval kingdom your entire life then encounter Three Fully Sentient Robots?

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[devouringbodies]

Detail from the church I visited last week 🖤

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[namesareweird579]

Ochre chilling in a swamp

[epiphlyte]

aaugh i never thought i would procrastinate so hard on posting here but whaddaya know this has been sitting in my drafts for days.. mostly because school has started up again for me and im too tired in the evenings to write out my thoughts on things SJKKHJ

anyways, ive been feeling extremely nostalgic recently, so as a bit of a warmup-gone-out-of-control here are the fake (well, backup) prophecy dragonets! remember this reveal absolutely shocking me reading the books as a kid. their dynamic is wacky.

an in depth explanation of their designs under the cut!

something i initially didnt like, but now think is a striking visual, is the fact that their designs really don’t go together - especially compared to the actual prophecy dragonets. was puzzling over this for ages, trying to figure out how to make them more cohesive, but eventually just decided to leave it. i think it fits since they really dont get along lol.

the problem with making starflight (check previous posts/tags) purplish is that now fatespeaker has to be a more saturated purple to distinguish the two - she additionally has faint teardrop scales by her eyes to add some spice to her design. i think canon should give nightwings more unique silver scale patterns as well, like fatespeaker's "bracelets" (sadly not included here)!

i want to eventually revisit flames scar, it didnt really come out how i wanted it to. other than that, i like his colours and his pose! you might notice that as i recall how to draw dragons again ive slowly been working on my poses and expressions, making them more dynamic.

seawings are one of my favourite tribes to draw so i really liked designing squid, although he hasn’t really made that much of an impression on me. i should eventually make a palette tracker of all the colours for the tribes, to make them more unified? or alternatively, focus more on the shapes and attributes of each one. i like making seawings squishy and frilly, like some sea animals!

viper is probably my favourite design out of this batch! i really like her colours, although they border more on the palette id use for ocs - eg. is she recognizable as a canon character? i do like her pose though!

and finally ochre - i seriously can’t remember any of this guys dialogue. with this though i did manage to nail down my mudwing designs, varying horns and tusks. maybe i’ll draw clay’s sibs next?? no one knows, not even i.. but i am currently in a character designing mood!