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The next colored character study piece, I chose Rainwings because I just finished re-reading book 3~ Next I think I'll do the Nightwings!
The pen version of this is here: iron-zing.deviantart.com/art/W… I originally had Coconut here, but after reading the book again I decided to swap him out with Magnificent instead, since her color scheme sounded cool to me

Since Glory is the queen, I depicted her with the typical Rainwing facial structure, as shown in the Nightwing's Guide to Pyrrhia. Her colors are the ones from her book cover. After coloring her I decided it would be cool to have all the other Rainwings follow a similar color pattern, aka:
2 colors for the head scales, 2 colors for body/stomach, 3 colors for the ruff, and then one highlight color for under the eyes and the stripes on their necks. So most of these Rainwings have 8 colors in their design (not counting their horns and eye colors).

Ex-Queen Grandeur was described as having pale lavender scales and a light orange ruff. I also had her muzzle and the tips of her ruff fade into grey a bit, similar to how dogs get grey muzzles when they get older. The light blue color I chose for her 'highlight' reminded me of my grandma's makeup. Even though my grandma is 90 years old, she still always puts on makeup and does her hair before she goes anywhere haha. So, in tribute to my grandma I added some of that blue to Grandeur's eyelids as well, like eye-shadow. I think it makes her look very regal. Also, I have a headcanon that the older Rainwings get, the longer their ruffs will get. So Grandeur has a very long and elegant looking ruff.

Jambu is just a pink explosion haha~ In various points in the book he's been described in the book as having pink, raspberry, or magenta color scales. So those are the colors I chose. His horns are slightly longer then Glory's, as he is a few years older.

Kinkajou's colors are the popular pink/yellow combo I often see her depicted as, which is a great set of colors.I also gave her some purples in her ruff, and orange as her highlight color. Book 3 described her as having 'dark eyes' a couple of times, but it never said exactly what color they were. So I made them brown, I think it looks good.

In book 3 Tamarin's colors don't really have a set combination, but in Moon's book she is described as being blue and yellow, so I went with that here. She is also said to have many small scars on her body from her childhood, when she was still trying to learn how to navigate the Rainwing Kingdom while blind. During the Rainwing Queen challenge it says, “She wore only one garland of flowers around her shoulders. The shades of red and pink and purple didn’t match at all, but they smelled amazing. It made Glory think of coconuts and honey without making her hungry.”

With Ex-Queen Magnificent, during the Rainwing Challenge it says, "Her scales were resplendently purple with scalloped gold edging on each individual scale, which was a color trick Glory had never tried. She had taken off most of her flower necklaces, replacing them with one small wreath of lilies on her ruff, which had the effect of looking like a lacy white crown.”
This description sounded SO COOL, I imagine it to look like a Golden Laced Chicken- i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/25/f…
However, when I added scales to her whole body and lined them with gold, she looked way more detailed then the other Rainwings in this set...so I decided to go with a more simple approach and only line the big scales with gold. It's not quite the look I had imagined, but it makes her fit in with everyone else on this page, so I went with that.

Mangrove's colors switch a lot in the book to match his mood, but at various times he is described to have purple scales, and for the Rainwing Queen challenge he was 'sky blue'. So I combined those two colors for his look here. The green in his ruff is because he was often described as having green scales because he was worried.

Unlike everyone else, Chameleon only has three colors, dark green, green, and light green. I imagined him as being kind of skinny and sickly looking, because he could never get enough sleep due to his snout deformity. Also, when in his Skywing form, he had a black necklace studded with gold, so I added that to him here just for fun.

And finally, for Bromeliad, the book says, "The scarlet flickers in her ruff were reflected in the dark burgundy of her scales.” And that's pretty much the only description of her we get haha. I tried to give her a very unimpressed looking face, she seemed very unfriendly.

Well that's it for these guys! I had a lot of fun choosing colors for them, I hope everyone enjoys them~

Description
The next colored character study piece, I chose Rainwings because I just finished re-reading book 3~ Next I think I'll do the Nightwings!
The pen version of this is here: iron-zing.deviantart.com/art/W… I originally had Coconut here, but after reading the book again I decided to swap him out with Magnificent instead, since her color scheme sounded cool to me

Since Glory is the queen, I depicted her with the typical Rainwing facial structure, as shown in the Nightwing's Guide to Pyrrhia. Her colors are the ones from her book cover. After coloring her I decided it would be cool to have all the other Rainwings follow a similar color pattern, aka:
2 colors for the head scales, 2 colors for body/stomach, 3 colors for the ruff, and then one highlight color for under the eyes and the stripes on their necks. So most of these Rainwings have 8 colors in their design (not counting their horns and eye colors).

Ex-Queen Grandeur was described as having pale lavender scales and a light orange ruff. I also had her muzzle and the tips of her ruff fade into grey a bit, similar to how dogs get grey muzzles when they get older. The light blue color I chose for her 'highlight' reminded me of my grandma's makeup. Even though my grandma is 90 years old, she still always puts on makeup and does her hair before she goes anywhere haha. So, in tribute to my grandma I added some of that blue to Grandeur's eyelids as well, like eye-shadow. I think it makes her look very regal. Also, I have a headcanon that the older Rainwings get, the longer their ruffs will get. So Grandeur has a very long and elegant looking ruff.

Jambu is just a pink explosion haha~ In various points in the book he's been described in the book as having pink, raspberry, or magenta color scales. So those are the colors I chose. His horns are slightly longer then Glory's, as he is a few years older.

Kinkajou's colors are the popular pink/yellow combo I often see her depicted as, which is a great set of colors.I also gave her some purples in her ruff, and orange as her highlight color. Book 3 described her as having 'dark eyes' a couple of times, but it never said exactly what color they were. So I made them brown, I think it looks good.

In book 3 Tamarin's colors don't really have a set combination, but in Moon's book she is described as being blue and yellow, so I went with that here. She is also said to have many small scars on her body from her childhood, when she was still trying to learn how to navigate the Rainwing Kingdom while blind. During the Rainwing Queen challenge it says, “She wore only one garland of flowers around her shoulders. The shades of red and pink and purple didn’t match at all, but they smelled amazing. It made Glory think of coconuts and honey without making her hungry.”

With Ex-Queen Magnificent, during the Rainwing Challenge it says, "Her scales were resplendently purple with scalloped gold edging on each individual scale, which was a color trick Glory had never tried. She had taken off most of her flower necklaces, replacing them with one small wreath of lilies on her ruff, which had the effect of looking like a lacy white crown.”
This description sounded SO COOL, I imagine it to look like a Golden Laced Chicken- i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/25/f…
However, when I added scales to her whole body and lined them with gold, she looked way more detailed then the other Rainwings in this set...so I decided to go with a more simple approach and only line the big scales with gold. It's not quite the look I had imagined, but it makes her fit in with everyone else on this page, so I went with that.

Mangrove's colors switch a lot in the book to match his mood, but at various times he is described to have purple scales, and for the Rainwing Queen challenge he was 'sky blue'. So I combined those two colors for his look here. The green in his ruff is because he was often described as having green scales because he was worried.

Unlike everyone else, Chameleon only has three colors, dark green, green, and light green. I imagined him as being kind of skinny and sickly looking, because he could never get enough sleep due to his snout deformity. Also, when in his Skywing form, he had a black necklace studded with gold, so I added that to him here just for fun.

And finally, for Bromeliad, the book says, "The scarlet flickers in her ruff were reflected in the dark burgundy of her scales.” And that's pretty much the only description of her we get haha. I tried to give her a very unimpressed looking face, she seemed very unfriendly.

Well that's it for these guys! I had a lot of fun choosing colors for them, I hope everyone enjoys them~