Quando fiam uti chelidon, ut tacere desinam?
Griffin Designs: Closed
1. Euphrates - nightingale + bengal cat
warbles catchy tunes
Owner: - Bayfire213 -
2. Jerrimiya - barn swallow + clouded leopard
skilled acrobatic flier
Owner: - Mythz -
3. Nimbus - pygmy owl + iberian lynx
takes naps in little nooks and crannies
Owner: - WolfTales -
4. Perry - sharp-shinned hawk + caracal
loves sunbathing
Owner: - ketsup -
5. Xibalbá - starling + black cat
hoards shinies
Owner: - Desmond -
6. Finch - allen's hummingbird + flat-headed cat
loves the smell of sweet things
Owner: - Mythz -
Art credits, if ever needed, are fine to link back to my CS profile or my Toyhouse. Whatever's most convenient c:
My head's decided that griffins are the size of their birb halves whereas gryphons are sized like their cat halves. I keep thinking these guys would make wonderful familiars.
I worked on these all week as I desperately tried to catch up with the last few episodes of Critical Role before it came back from hiatus. I'm rather pleased with the results! You can change any of the character details I've written above, these are just things I started to imagine about them in the decent amount of time I spent with these critters c:
Works Cited:
I used a few references for shapes and colors (no tracing). Since I am selling these I made sure to use images that were licensed for commercial use and am crediting the photographers below. Most of the pictures I used as references are licensed under CC by 2.0. Exceptions noted where necessary. c:
Alan Schmierer - sharp-shinned hawk (CC0) // Becky Matsubara - allen's hummingbird - allen's hummingbird // Blomsma Fotografie - hummingbird (CC PDM 1.0) // C-Horae - starling // Charles Barilleaux - clouded leopard - caracal // Ekaterina Chernetsova - pygmy owl // Iberian Lynx Ex-Situ Conservation Programme - iberian lynx (CC BY 3.0 ES) // Jim Sanderson - flat-headed cat (CC BY-SA) // Kev Chapman - nightingale - nightingale // Kirill B. - swallow // Lisa Zinz - bengal cat // Marie Hale - clouded leopard - starling // Russ - sharp shinned hawk // University of Liverpool Faculty of Health and Life Sciences - hawk wing
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