raptor dragon doodles
Added 2025-04-18 16:13:34 +0000 UTChere's the design process so far for a creature I've been toying with! these are in chronological order with the first drawings of them in the first image. they're for a little story idea I had after watching this video about flight in hayao miyazaki's movies and then rereading the nausicaa manga. I watched all of his movies growing up and was really enamored with the way he portrayed flight and I'm still obsessed with nausicaa's glider specifically... so I was thinking about a story where someone who makes gliders or small aircraft is inspired by the flight mechanics of an elusive dragon.
no idea if I'll keep developing it or not but I'll always take an excuse to design creatures. I haven't seen many winged raptor type dragons so I thought it might be a fun configuration to try to make a design out of, though they might be a bit clunky for their intended role in the story. I don't think the design is done yet but I'm getting somewhere with them...
