Skin Deep is on hiatus until August! Until then, every weekday I’ll be posting a Reader Question! These first reader questions were asked by my Patrons, and if you’re a patron you can ask your questions there! I read those before I read the ones here, but I ultimately pick my questions based off of “what would be most fun to draw” so you can also ask them here!
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Do heraldic lions with fish parts (mainly tails, maybe fins) exist in Skindeep, like the sea-lion? And would you call that a sea-lion or a merlion?
*Polishes the gryphon-ator until I can see my face in it* Back in business, baby! ;D
Ahem~
Two of Florida’s invasive species are, unsurprisingly, feral stray cats and eurasian collared doves (the pigeonest pigeons that ever pigeoned); honestly, you can’t walk 1 block without spooking a flock (clowder. Flowder?) of either. What would the gryphon-ated lovechild of such a forbidden union look like, oh great grypon-ator?
… Oh, wait, there’s a children’s book about this already, and I read it as a kid. Oops. “Catwings” by Ursula K. Le Guin. Yeah, just do fan artwork of a children’s book published back in 1988. :V
If you’ve studied English folklore as extensively as I think you have, you’ve probably read about the Questing Beast in Arthurian lore. Head of a serpent, body of a leopard, tail haunches of a lion, feet of a hart.
I’d be interested to see your interpretation of that.
Is transforming in skin deep like Animorph rules? Is there Z-space?
Has there ever been a suddenly new species that pops up?
Is AI, devil that it is, actually kinda good for the mythical community in that they could now dismiss all evidence as AI (I know this is set well before it, but still curious lol)
I have to assume at least ONE of these mythical dorks is obsessed with FLCL. The question is, which one?
I, and everyone else here, could probably point to every page in the 1800s “The Birds of America” and want to see a griffin of it (side note: a 50 page state bird/state animal griffins zine would be cool. If that hasn’t already been done and I just didn’t notice… sorry got sidetracked)
But long before the naturalists illustrated accurate depictions of things they actually saw, in the real world we had the illuminators of the middle ages pretending they had ever seen a beaver or a hippo. But if Wonderland can be an actual place in Skindeep, could those Medieval Unfortunate Beasts be in an Avalon too?
How is Tony adjusting to life as a harpy?
Is Gef the Talking mongoose awesome, or extra awesome?
And how do Bugbears feel about him?
Do fireworks work on Alec?
They´re supposed to shoo evil spirits away.
Didn’t get the feeling Alec (or his father) are evil. Alec even tried to help Anthony after he suddenly turned chicken (erm, I mean, harpy)…
Do hydras exist in Skin Deep? Are they just a kind of dragon, or their own monster? I would assume they wouldn’t have a medallion.
Cool boots on bugbears? I know they probably wouldn’t wear them, but I just wanna see some cool punk boots on a bugbear, haha.
What has BloodCarver been up to now that he’s got a medallion? Has he tried ice cream yet? Got a favorite flavor?
do alebrijes exist in skin deep?? i think they’re really cool!!
In contribution to Gryphon Week, I offer the bizarrely aerodynamic sock puppet: weasel and a swallow. However, I do think the minkadee is very similar to this (and equally as delightful).
Food and baby gryphons. How do mothers feed their new born? Beaks mean no milk even for the live birth(wince). And even if they are now using cutlery, do they have the ability to regurgitate? Do baby gryphons have the reflex to open wide and scream their hunger?
What about a condor/maned wolf? One could have married the secretary/serval to produce the secretary/maned wolf and also a possible condor/serval.
Now, how about the FASTEST gryphon? A Cheetah/Peregrine Falcon mix
Have you ever done a bittern gryphon? If not, I would love to see a giant anteater/bittern gryphon with a really long neck in place of the anteater’s long snoot.
Unrelated, but are tatzelwurms a thing in your world, and if so, do they have medallions or are they considered monsters?
Wolpertingers are a thing right? right?!
I just finished rereading the comic and am currently going through old reader questions! I was wondering, how has Michelle’s diet changed since she “became” a sphinx? Her teeth changed a lot.
Do ghul’s Cannon and skin deep?
*sets a table with crumpets and scones* What is the PETTIEST thing that Jocasta thing to a person that was demanding service from the sphinx?
Idk how to phrase this as a question, but I learned about the wiwaxia today and it made me think of you, the most paleolithic artist I know
They’re wee creatures (we think about 2 inches maximum) from the cambrian with rows of spines sticking out of the top, they were covered in armor, and they had one foot like snails and slugs
Wiwaxia didn’t grow the spines until maturity, so juveniles had no spines and teenagers had a silly awkward phase when their spines were growing in
And apparently these little guys were iridescent!!
Because iridescence is a physical structure thing! Scientists have looked at their fossils with fancy microscopes and determined that they were probably glimmering along the ocean floor <3
But tragically, none of the art I’ve found of them so far reflects this!! :(
So, if you could draw a beautiful iridescent little wiwaxia, it would make me really happy :3
How about a cheetah-Peregrine Falcon combo for a gryphon? That would make for a fast gryphon!
What cryptids and mythical folk would be hanging out with the Not-deer at a party ? NotDeer need friends too!
La Bête du Gévaudan – the beast of the Gevaudan region of France, north of Monpellier, possibly some big wolves, but… bugbear or not? Any French bugbears?
Are there any Snallygasters in the SD universe? And if so, do they have Baltimore accents? (The accent is basically the lovechild of a Michigan lumberjack and a Southern belle.)
What ringtones do each of the main cast have for their phones?
I just ready a heap of horror stories about HOA in the US. I wonder how a bugbear would react to one of those. Invite other bugbear to have fun, hide it to keep all the fun for themselves?
I was wondering what it would look like if someone from the alterhuman community (Therian, Otherkin, etc) somehow ended up in one of the avalons.
Are alterhumans even a thing in the Skin Deep Universe?
(This is a repost of my question since I can’t seem to locate the original one and this seems like the proper place to ask anyway)
Michelle, how was going through airport security with all your trinkets?
Also what are prosthetics and implants like for folks with medallions?