by Raptocidic » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:27 am
Name: Angelia
Your favorite mythical creature and why:
It would be a lie if i said anything other than dragons!
I love to design dragon characters! Theres soo much variation and possible aspects & features you can add to them. Whilst dragons can be a little bit difficult to draw, i find that studying bats, birds, dinosaurs and several reptiles helps you to build up ideas of how they might look. And hey, no-one can say that you're wrong because they don't actually exist, so you can go crazy with the anatomy and nobody can tell you otherwise. Dragons can look cool, cute or utterly terrifying. And you can even pull off all of these things with the same dragon, its all in the expression and pose.
I used to actually believe that dragons were real when i was a small child. Me and my friend used to think that a fenced off area of the playground was a dragons den. We would feel leaves nearby and if they felt warm we thought it was the dragon warming the plants. We would leave offerings of the best and prettiest rocks & flowers nearby where the dragons den was supposed to be, in hope one day we would get to see the dragon.
I also used to watch how to train your dragon (and admittedly still do from time to time. mostly the tv show, i need to watch the movies). I've read some of the books too, but im an awful reader and haven't been able to get past one or two books. I've long grown out of books at that level, and can't really go back and re-read them. I tried to do that with warrior cats too (another series i only managed to read one book of), but again i can't stand the reading level its aiming at. That doesn't stop me being a fan though!
And then my sona is a dragon! I haven't found any dragonsonas around tbh. Anthro reptiles in general are rather uncommon, so im not surprised. I tend to use their 'feral' form more, but a part of their anatomy is that they can change from anthro to feral at will (without shapeshifting, its due to their bone & muscle structure or something like that). like the nerd i am, im working on an explanation on how that might actually work. Anyway my dragonsona is called Quester, they're my avatar.
Well, to sum this all up, I love almost all creatures, reptiles are amongst my favourite. I love to design things and I find that designing dragon characters to be very fun and rewarding. I have multiple influences from my childhood that sparked my love for dragons, including httyd. And somehow i ended up having Quester as my beloved dragonsona, who started off being just another character that i made on one of my design sprees. Im also sort of interested in the myths and how dragon behaviour differs in stories from around the world. Its interesting how dragons are depicted as both violent beasts and wise passive creatures depending on where the story originated from. Basically i love dragons. ^^