Happy Bagon Community Day To My Fellow Pokémon Go Enjoyers!

Whiteout and Darkstalker from that one scene where Darkstalker comes home and she's screaming and overstimulated from Foeslayer and Arctics fight

I hope I didn't remember it wrong as its been a while since I've read it but Darkstalker came off as a super caring brother, I mean until another certain scene..

(Read more because I yap too much)

There was in fact a background, and the concept was really cute in my mind. But I just wasn't liking it, At some point I might redraw this and include that background. But No Idea if and when that might be.

A drawing of Clay! He's such a great character. Might even be my favorite DoD. I also really like his canon designs colors, they're very nice and warm.

[Start ID: A digital drawing of a headshot of the character Clay, a Mudwing dragon from the Wings of Fire book series. Clay is brown, orange, and tan in coloration. He has large brown horns on his head and big brown spikes on his back. There are amber under tone to his scales, and he has bright amber eyes. He has a white tooth sticking out of his mouth like a small tusk. the background is a solid light green. In the upper left corner is a watermark with the username "TheCraftyDragonC". End ID.]

through starless sky to blackest ground

I'm writing a paper that discusses Generative AI within the art community, and I'd like to hear your thoughts!

Both artists and non-artists are welcome to fill it out! It's completely anonymous and neutral ❤️

Google Docs

Generative AI Art Survey

Since I'm running on a time limit and would also like to reach people outside my bubble, any reblogs would be greatly appreciated!

The Beast Awakens

[Start ID: A Stylized digital drawing of the character Darkstalker from Wings of Fire trapped under a mountain. The piece is in a lineless style with very saturated colors. Darkstalker is curled up in a cavern inside the mountain, confined by the blue rocky walls around him. His figure is a dark silhouette with some bright colors popping out like his white mane with cyan and magenta streaks, icey blue diamond stars along his back and tail, and cyan talons. His eyes are open wide, with pink and blue sclera, a white iris, and black hourglass shaped pupils. His wings and tail wrap around him in his confined pose. in the center his talons are flexed out as a bracelet with 3 gemstones on his wrist shatters with radiant magenta light beaming outward. The mountain he is trapped under is a bright blue, with two jagged peaks reaching into the sky. Directly above the peaks is a blue comet flying through the sky amongst 3 full moon. Th rest of the night sky is dark with some speckled stars and a magenta and blue gradient at the horizon. End ID.]

A year later, I wanted to make a follow up piece to this Darkstalker drawing!

shapes and colors

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

Happy Pride month!!! Here's a tiny rainbow dragon I drew awhile ago

[Start ID: A digital drawing of a small rainbow themed dragon. The dragon is a light sky blue with a darker blue underbelly, with feathered wings in pastel rainbow colors, and bright rainbow spines. They have brown horns, bright blue eyes, and they are sticking their pink tongue out. At the end of their tail is a red heart shape. Floating around the dragon are hearts in the colors of the rainbow. Above their head is an arched rainbow with clouds at the ends. End ID]

Small and happy

Eni