Fruitwings - Blog Posts

Here is Hummingbirds full-body ref! ^^

Like I said, a lot more colorful and skinnier than most Fruitwings, not really inspired by any real fruit either, (she kinda looks like one of those rainbow tiger pictures you see on the front of kid coloring books - -*). I didnt really feel like making her scales shiny like how they usually are, partly bc I need her ref colors but mostly bc I was lazy ^^* overall I hope you like her!! I sure do! #> <# <3

This is hummingbird, my new Fruitwing oc!! (She’s actually a recycled oc but eh-)

She is trans-female, which you can see in her coloring, and is a somewhat strange dragon. She’s thinner than most Fruitwings and her tail is particularly skinny and longer than normal. To most other Fruitwings she looks sickly at first sight. Her name itself is also quite strange, “hummingbird”, it doesn’t go by most fruitwing naming conventions, and many she meets have trouble remembering her name, some more traditional dragons refuse to call her that at all. Though some dragons have trouble first meeting her, it doesn’t stop her from forming good connections with her tribe, and she is actually considered quite beautiful to other fruitwings.

Her scales and horns are her pride and joy. She cleans the twice a day-daily and avoids damaging them as much as possible to keep them from fogging or dimming. Her scales have a beautiful shine to them, almost opal like in appearance. Colors shift across her body depending on what angle you look at her from. Her horns are almost like ivory, gleaming like pearls. She cleans and oils her beak regularly and she never eats messily.

Almost contradictory to that, she works at her villages only daycare, doing arts and crafts with the dragonets there. She is immensely patient with them and wants to have her own dragonets one day. But she struggles with her perfectionism, and can get quite firm with them is they mess up any materials, leader forbid her scales. As desperately as she wants a mate and dragonets, she doesn’t think she’s ready for it. For now, the daycare is enough for her.

I hope you guys like her!! I had an absolute blast experimenting with a more painterly style for her!! And her colors were so fun to mess around with ^^

She’s actually a lot more colorful in her full-body, but I haven’t had a chance to get to that yet ^^* I hope to tho

I hope you guys like this, @Insert-name for the species inspiration, and I’d love to see any of y’all’s ideas for the tribe, or possibly ocs?? 👀 but anyway, love yall, hope you have a great rest of your- er- year, week, day, night? whatever

See yall hopefully soon! ^^ 🫶

IVE DONE IT

Introducing the Fruitwings! A small tribe with a low temper and big hearts! They tend to be solitary unless in groups with family members or bonded duos/triads! They have slight sexual dimorphism with males having light horns and females having darker scale colors! They tend to have bright, vibrant scales with lighter underbellies and dark, flexible spikes that frame their silhouette. Their most common colors are bright greens, yellows and oranges, with cooler colors tending to be more rare. They love fruit and basking beneath the sun on cool days, and are nocturnal!

I loved drawing this and I had a blast coloring it! A lot of their design came directly from @Insert-name ‘s concept sketches! I briefly considered making them like flamingoes and having whatever fruit they eat being their scale color but ultimately decided against it due to them not having feathers and the nature of most fruit. I also named them Fruitwings so that we can make them ANY fruit type we want!! Mango, grape, dragonfruit, banana, orange, lemon, apple, blueberry, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, hell, nightshade berries can all be available as colors for these bad boys! Hope you like them guys, because I think they’re awesome! And I would love to make more! #^ ^# see yall later, got something cookin in the oven rn so you guys might see it very soon!

I’d love to see y’all’s Fruitwings if yall feel up to it! See yall again very soon ^^ 😈

inspired by @spookys1fan and seagull the seawing, doodles of a dragon species based off bananas~

idk what to name them, but i'm putting them in the universe with the rest of the majority of the dragon species i make~

they live in tropical forests and can't fly as a hatchling because their wings are stuck to their body until they're older~ as they age, thier scales soften and they turn yellow, then as they age more they get even softer and turn brown~

although they're omnivorous, they prefer to eat fruit or leaves and are basically vegetarians~ But if they get in a fight with something like a predator and win, they'll eat it~

the soft "spines" on their back are actually very soft (unless the dragon is still green/young), although for intimidation can be 'fluffed up' like bird feathers to seem bigger~ they can also rarely drop their tails, and fully grow them back after a few months~

the shell-face serves no real purpose, maybe they're clumsy and keep bashing their faces into trees ¯\_(ツ)_/¯