HOME | DD

Amberstorm233 — Let the Show Begin .:Contest Entry:.

Published: 2017-08-04 22:18:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 439; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 1
Redirect to original
Description Yes, it's finally done! After six days of planning, drawing, coloring and everything else, this bane of my existence is finally done! Seriously, I had art block for this piece, then the smaller details took forever and the coloring was a mess. After I thought I was finished, I realized there was some details to color and just- ugh. Then the paper I used was too big for the scanner, so not only could I not fit everything in, but I had to scan it twice, then line everything up as closely as possible, which is fairly seamless. Thankfully, not much of the picture was out, so most of my work got to stay in. I'm glad I finally finished it and I'm pretty proud of it.

As the title suggests, this is a entry for 's 500 watcher contest. Basically, we had to draw some OC's of hers preforming in a circus act. Funny enough, I had an idea for a WoF circus a few months ago, but haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Now, for the characters. The red SkyWing on the left is Cinder and the NightWing is Duskfall, both belong to Lichen. The IceWing in clown makeup is Lichen and finally that RainWing to the right is Pixie. The other dragons are just random dragons enjoying the circus except for the MudWing admiring Pixie. She's Saltmarsh, a MudWing I adopted from Reborn a few months ago that I finally got around to drawing. Still have to work on her colors, but she's getting there.

CIRCUS ACTS
Now time to talk about everything. I chose Cinder, Duskfall, Lichen and Pixie to preform. Cinder and Duskfall are doing a fire act together (Which is also my favorite bit to draw and color). They're kind of like fireworks, but done in a way to where dragons can work with them. Lichen dressed as a clown with her scarf now one of those ruffle things clowns wear. She's in between acts right now, passing out a flag to a young SeaWing. This SeaWing is aspiring to go to JMA, so he gets a JMA flag. Lastly, there's Pixie. As I mentioned above, I had an idea for a WoF circus. Well, in this idea I planned for three RainWing sisters to do acts together. Perhaps something like moving pictures. So, I just reused the idea for Pixie. Right now, she's created an image of a meadow. There's butterflies and could in the sky and a tree in the middle of a green meadow. In the meadow, you can see a spider(On her shoulder), a dragonfly(The thing next to the tree) and a grasshopper...Well at least something that looks more like a mutant cousin to one. She's surrounded by colored fire, which I'll explain later.

ATTRACTIONS
From left to right, the tents are the juice stand, are darts, beanbag toss for prizes, the target practice shooting range game, the bottle knock down, another beanbag toss thing, a merry-go-round and Lady Polar's exotic animal tent. The juice stand is where the dragons can purchase drinks after wandering around the fair. The pink RainWing runs the place due to the fruit that grows in the rainforest. That SandWing helps and I'd imagine there's an IceWing there to keep everything cool. The darts is like any other drat game. Dragons throw darts at the targets and earn points depending where the dart lands. If they get enough points, they win a prize. In the beanbag toss, they just through sand-filled cloth into the numbered pouches before time's up. Depending on which pouches they through the "beanbags" in, they get points and have the chance to win a prize of their choosing. For the Target Prey game, it's like the target practice shooting games, but they use their venom, fire or frost breath. SeaWings are probably out of luck here, but they might be able to throw large darts at the targets. I will explain how these targets move later.
In Knock Down, dragons throw rocks at the metal bottles to try and knock them down. It's just like any other knock down game. The next beanbag toss thing, the one behind the merry-go-round, it's the same concept of throwing "beanbags" through the loops to win a prize. We have a merry-go-round which is lit up by those silver orbs with mirrors (Why do I keep adding mirrors in? They're annoying to deal with.) and animals carved from wood for the young dragonets to ride in. Lastly, there's Lady Polar's Exotic Animals tent. Who is Lady Polar? I don't know. She's probably some random IceWing who goes around Pyrrhia and collects animals from all over the continent to display at various events like this.

FIRE AND LIGHTS
Okay, there's one thing I'd like to explain before I finish here. That's the fire, lights and electricity. Starting with the fire, it's basically like what we use to create fireworks. The blues were created with copper and the reds with strontium. The purple was created after the chemical compounds interacted. It's the same thing for Pixie's colored fire. As for how they did it, the NightWing scientists did some experimenting and discovered it. That's my story at least. Now there's the thing with the silver lights in the merry-go-round. Those are lights from the Moon Globe tree from the IceWing kingdom. I'd imagine because this is a Pyrrhia wide event, the IceWing queen didn't want to look bad so she allowed the Tribes to use the orbs for the lights. Now, there's the question of how the merry-go-round and the target practice prey move. The answer is easy, they use dragon power. Behind the fire act and close to the mountain there's a MudWing and SkyWing. They're harnessed to the top of the merry-go-round, flying round and round to move it for the young dragonets. As for the Target Prey game, there's a pulley system which leads to a crank in the back which is controlled by a dragon hidden behind the tent. Hopefully that was understandable and made sense.

- Cinder, Duskfall, Lichen and Pixie
Me- Saltmarsh
Related content
Comments: 6

DragonDragon5 [2017-08-05 12:18:40 +0000 UTC]

THAT ICEWING CLOWN
I SWEAR

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

Amberstorm233 In reply to DragonDragon5 [2017-08-06 07:13:24 +0000 UTC]

So you not like clowns?

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

RaintheDragoness12 [2017-08-04 23:04:48 +0000 UTC]

Very well done! This is my favorite of the entries so far!

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

Amberstorm233 In reply to RaintheDragoness12 [2017-08-04 23:33:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Also, good luck with your entry. Can't wait to see it

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Farrafax [2017-08-04 22:30:02 +0000 UTC]

Aaaaaaaa I love this picture so much <3333 There's just so much to look at *0* and those details tho!  

Thank you so much for entering my contest!!!

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

Amberstorm233 In reply to Farrafax [2017-08-04 23:36:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Ha, ha yeah. I might've gone a bit overboard with the details.

You're welcome! It was a fun entry to draw despite the challenges.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0