Description
Finally sketched em all out!!!
NOW TIME TO SPAM DESIGN NOTES
Mudwings:
They have very bovine type faces and bodies. They're basically big cow-crocodiles.
They have leathery scales like a crocodile and BIG THICK bodies and tails
I like to imagine that Mudwings have the most variety in horn shapes and number.
You can have little bun horns to great pronged antlers. Any shape and size.
I also imagine that their coloring is a bit splotchy and that its common for plants to grow on them.
Some even plant seeds to get pretty flowers to grow on them since they're always caked in mud.
They have droopy ears that lay flat on the top of the mud when they take naps.
Icewings:
Icewings are like arctic porcupines.
Spikes EVERYWHERE.
That's pretty much it for their design.
SPikes. A lot of them are serrated too.
They also don't have "real" teeth?
I just kinda draw em with external teeth idk.
Nightwings:
I think Nightwings are the hardest to design.
I'm not all that happy w this particular design but I'm working on it.
Nightwings have bat noses and straight rOUnd horns.
All of their body is pretty round. Their scales are iridescent and very reflective and cold to the touch.
They feel like they're made of shiny rocks.
I don't like how light the canon design makes their underbelly.
I like to imagine that instead, they have the same star patterns that they have on the bottoms of their wings.
Nightwings with powers get cool white markings on their scales.
All Nightwings eyes glow. Ones with powers glow more than others.
Skywings:
They have very tall vertical ears and horns. They're just tall in general.
They just pointy. Very pointy.
They look the most like what I would consider a "regular dragon"
Their wings are slightly transparent and are the thinnest and largest of all the tribes.
Rainwings:
Rainwings are a real eyesore.
They are constantly saturated to the mAX.
They look like poison dart frogs on acid.
I like to imagine that their horns and claws are very thorny and sharp.
Their frills are sharp too.
Rainwings are sharp and colorful.
They have HUGE eyes with fun shaped pupils.
I cram as many frills on their face as I can.
They normally gave a base dark color and then 3-4 neon-y colors overtop it.
If they want to, they can strobe their colors and give everyone a headache.
They're the smallest and skinniest tribe.
They have the longest tails of all the tribes. It just doesn't look that way bc they're always coiled up.
All of their horns, claws, and spikes are needle thin.
Some Rainwings are born with exceptionally strong venom and have it leak through their skin like a dart frog.
Silkwings:
FLUFFY, BABY
I don't know why tf the books didnt make em fluffy.
I don't like thinking that the silk just pops out of their wrist. Makes me feel weird.
Instead I imagine it kinda magical like a fire wizard spawning fire in his hand except more wispy. I gotta illustrate it sometime.
Their wings look like butterfly wings except a little more layered on top of each other and they have wing joints.
A lot also have wings with that one bit that dips down further than the rest of the wing (just bc I think it looks cool)
They are any color of the rainbow, just a very pastel shade.
They have plenty of patterns in their fur and a poof at the end of their tail.
They have kinda paw-like hands.
They look like total wimps.
Sandwings:
Tattoos are a big thing among Sandwings. They get SO MANY. Entire sleeves and body art are common.
They also wear hella jewelry and clothes.
Their manes/ frills come in all shapes and sizes and can almost be styled like our hair.
They can grow out frills to a few feet. (like shoulder length for humans)
They have large fangs like Rainwings but their venom isn't nearly as strong.
Sandwings tend to have two sets of smaller horns.
They have LARGE ears for venting heat. They also have patches of scraggly fur/hair between scales.
There are Sandwing skin conditions where some Sandwings are bore entirely covered in hair with no scales.
Royal Sandwings have a hood like some snakes do.
Leafwings:
Leafwing's frill is actually a double frill that splits in the middle.
Their large ears and eyelashes are leaf shaped. Other bits of leaves poke out ever so often on different parts of their bodies.
They have leathery skin with a few brighter colored scales every once and a while.
Their horns are slightly prehensile and can be moved slightly (with great effort)
There is a fan of leaves at the end of their tails.
They have large eyes with rectangular pupils.
Seawings:
Seawings are very squishy and blubbery and fat.
They have plenty of little dangly bits all over them that look AWESOME when they're floating around in the water.
Their eyes are large and round.
They have no horns, only frills and dangLIES.
Seawings tails have large fins going along the top and bottom. The tails also flatten out towards the end for easier swimming.
The danglies below their chin grow with age.
They have the shortest legs of all the tribes and they are the slowest fliers.
When a Seawing has been out of water for too long, they get gross and slimy and smell terrible.
Hivewings:
Hivewings are very shiny. All of their black scales are incredibly reflective and polished.
They are very cold to the touch and have extra thick scales.
Their mouths and insides are blue.
Their wings are jointed in the middle and clear.
They have spines along their bodies. Some Hivewing's spines are venomous.
Hivewings have very long retractable claws and nimble hands.
They can stand deathly still for long periods of time.