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#smaugust #smaugustcircle Day 11: Devonian This creature belongs to a group of dolusdracoform dragons which only kept one pair of limbs and often took to the water. Its species is euryhaline, meaning it can live both in freshwater and in saltwater. Despite its intimidating (1/3)

#smaugust #smaugustcircle Day 8 & 9: Mineral + Salt Water Here we have another Dragon Mania Legends redesign, the Jade Devil. Due to its jade-inspiration and its aquatic features, I found it fitting to be a combination of the two prompts Mineral and Salt Water. I imagine (1/2)

#smaugust #smaugustcircle Day 7 & 10: Corpse + Rival An older and a younger male of this herbivorous, novadracoform dragon species got into a fight for dominance during the mating season. Usually, these battles are more of a pushing contest, but this time, the younger, (1/3)

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🐸 #pokemon #frog #bulbasaur

apologies for the lack of dragon art, i thought i was getting better wnd then today i got hit with a fever ;_; as much as i want to get caught up i gotta prioritize my health (lame)

Smaugust 11 : Devonian The flying fish you don't want to encounter at sea #SmaugustCircle #Urkist

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Smaugust Day 8 - Mineral 💎 Click for better quality + Full art in the replies! This took me a lot of time to finish, so now I gotta play catch-up with the prompts :'D #Smaugust2025 #SmaugustCircle

Now that my big illustration is out of the way, should I skip ahead to day 12 to give myself a break or should I pick up where I left off....

Smaugust Day 8 - Mineral 💎 Click for better quality + Full art in the replies! This took me a lot of time to finish, so now I gotta play catch-up with the prompts :'D #Smaugust2025 #SmaugustCircle

It's smaugust.... So here's a dragon that lives rent free in my brain. This is Smaug from the old animated hobbit movie! My grandfather loved this movie and I saw it on repeat when I stayed with them over the summer. Look at this handsome lad <3

Smaugust 8 : mineral woah what strange...dragon? #SmaugustCircle #Urkist

Now, a #Smaugust post where the dragons are the ones being eaten... A white-bellied forest griffin (Opinicus leucogaster) snatches a little brown dragonet (Carpodraco adustus) from its flock. #Smaugust2025

#smaugust #smaugustcircle Day 6: Coil One might make the mistake to think that this is a single organism. However, it is actually a so called "coil" of many members of a diumvermian dragon species. These dragons eat, sleep, move and hunt together as a coil. The coil (1/4)

flight mode

I am feeling quite sick still, so I have decided to take a break for today. Todays prompt is "corpse," which I may revisit later, but for now, check out this dragon I did last year that still fits todays theme. 😁

Smaugust 7 : corpse tini tiny scavenger wyrm #SmaugustCircle #Urkist

#smaugust2025 #smaugustcircle Day 5: Dancer Males of this novadracoform dragon species possess long display features on the jaw and tail and an even larger veil-like membrane than females. They show these off during elaborate breaching maneuvers during the mating season. (1/4)

Smaugust Day 6 - Coil 🐍 Full art in the replies! I had fun with this one #Smaugust2025 #SmaugustCircle

This year i'm going to focus on simplier pages and less flashy monsters from Urkist to deepen the differents ecosystems Smaugust 5 : Dancer #SmaugustCircle #Urkist

Smaugust Day 5 - Dance 🦋 I wanted to keep it simple for today but that didn't end up happening :,D Full art in the replies! #Smaugust2025 #SmaugustCircle

day 5 art will be posted later today since its seems i have come down with something, possibly a mild case of the flu :(

I dont "NETWORK", I do not "keep a consistent schedule", I don't try to make my art "stand out" on people's feeds. I POST MY ART. And if it flops, I DON'T CARE.

Smaugust Day 2 - Whistle 🐺 Full dragon art in the replies! [ #SmaugustCircle ##Smaugust2025 ]

#smaugustcircle #smaugust Day 4: Steam For today, I took another crack at redesigning a dragon from Dragon Mania Legends, the Geyser Dragon. I imagine it spending a considerable time in water and being rather resistant to all kinds of poor water quality. Like hippos, it is (1/2)

I originally found this last year, but I'm gonna post it every year because it's rad as hell- an 1890s illustrator apparently misunderstanding descriptions of the bipedal dinosaur Laelaps being Kangaroo-like as meaning it was completely mammalian, and making an awesome spec evo monster. #paleoart

Smaugust Day 4 - Steam 🍉 Full art + bonus concept in the replies! Apologies for the wordy post today, I had a lot of ideas for this beast. #SmaugustCircle #Smaugust2025

My smaugust post may be a little late today, so heres a preview for now

#smaugustcircle Day 3: Bell This darty flier is a dragon which specializes in feeding on nectar and fruit. It spends most of its life on the wing and is able to fly in place for a short time in order to sip on flower nectar. Even difficult to reach places like the pictured (1/3)

bluesky may not have an algorithm but that makes it imperative that people engage with and (share) artists work, especially work that cannot be easily filtered into a hashtag. likes, comments, etc. do not drive traffic the same way they did on twitter.

Alright, many things are currently in the works, one of which is, as the people over on my server have noticed, a patreon page! There isn't much offering as of now besides the tip jar tier, but hopefully more will be added as time goes on! patreon.com/FlamingSkia

Smaugust Day 3 - Bell Despite it's strange appearance, I promise it is a dragon! Full art in the replies. #SmaugustCircle ##Smaugust2025

Here we have Smaugust Day 2: Whistle. #SmaugustCircle This small dragon is found at coasts and on beaches, sifting through tide pools and sand, looking for food. It's sensitive beak is great at finding and filtering out all kinds of small prey. These dragons live and forage in groups. (1/4)

Smaugust Day 2 - Whistle 🐺 Full dragon art in the replies! [ #SmaugustCircle ##Smaugust2025 ]

Starting off Smaugust 2025 with Day 1: Shaggy. Due to time constraints, I'll most likely do pencil drawings for most of the prompts. This two-headed dragon is an insectivore and mostly consumes large termites. Two tongues, double the termite intake. (1/5) #Smaugust #SmaugustCircle

Smaugust Day 1 - Shaggy Full dragon art in the replies! #SmaugustCircle #Smaugust2025

I hate making posts like this, but I am really struggling trying to catch up with bills and this week might really put me in a bad spot after electricity and cc bills go through. Please consider boosting this if you can, I will be opening slots for fullbodies soon.

A birthday present for my good friend @pluracrura.bsky.social! 🎊🎁🎂🎉 Go check out his worldbuilding project, his dragon designs are incredible!

With the next Smaugust around the corner, I wanted to do another fanart for my friend @aurumdrake.bsky.social as 2024's Smaugust was the reason we started chatting. We'll both participate again this year and I'm very excited!

i missed the anniversary but this, her (ostensibly) final design is now one year old 🎉

All of my slots are still open!

Only on the darkest arctic nights can you encounter this Primordial Pokémon. It manifests as aurora and ice, gently towering over the pole's frigid denizens... ✨❄️🧊 (There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)

it’s my birthday!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎂 i’d appreciate it if you could share my art and brushes today, ty for supporting me all these years 🫶🫶🫶

Boosting this again because I have bills coming up and can really use the funds 🥀

long time no see

ill probably repost the comms post later with tags, i forget thats smth u can do here haha.. i need to not have my account overdrawn soon

Hello! I am in need of money for gas and groceries, so I have opened up commission slots for these portrait style illustrations! I am also still offering sketch commissions as well. Please check out my ko-fi for more details! ko-fi.com/aurumdrake/c...