I designed a qilin gargoyle a few years back, but I was never quite satisfied with her; the proportions were off, plus I accidentally used the wrong brush for the line art and it just didn't look quite right. I've recently acquired some free time, though, so I thought I'd put it to good use redrawing her. I'm happier with this version. Qilin manes are so fun to render.

I took a dragon-girl character I created in high school and turned her into a gargoyle because it just seemed to work.

Qilin gargoyle!

Yes, some art finally! I've been way super busy and have barely had the time to work on my "relaxation project", revising "Worth Fighting For" (turns out it needs some extensive revisions, but I'm really pleased with how it's turning out).

I've also put together a plot outline for my next novel! It takes place in an alternate-history America in 1894 and involves a spunky anthropology student, a paleontology-loving clockwork robot, and a French werewolf, among other things. Spoilers: the steampunk society it takes place in happened because a wealthy patron funded - and aided in - Charles Babbage's construction of his Analytical Engine, and mechanical computing exploded from there, followed by a breakthrough in crystal data-storage technology that led to the invention of sapient artificial intelligence.

I also may want to write a prequel to this one about said wealthy patron and his youthful adventures in Regency-era England with clockwork giant robots. I'm gonna be busy for a while.

But anyway, the reason I drew this was because I was kinda bored of having a Pokemon as a Facebook profile picture, so naturally I had to replace it with a Gargoyles fan design. I can't remember much about that second-season episode arc where they met gargs from different global cultures! I know there were Japanese gargs. Were there Chinese gargs? I just went ahead and made one up because I like qilin and I thought a qilin-based gargoyle would be fantastic.

Also she is wielding a jian (Chinese straight sword) and wearing Qing Dynasty brigantine armor because it's beautiful. <3 Real brigantine armor goes to your ankles, but I worried that would interfere too much with her awesome dino-legs.

Disney's Gargoyles fan art needed to happen. :) This show is legit one of my favorite things of all time--I watched it when it first aired, and knowing there was a new episode on Friday afternoons got me through a lot of weeks of school when I would rather have not been at school. (I was a contrary child.)

Honestly I think a portion of the reason I like Gargoyles so much (besides the awesome concept, great writing, and characters I totally wanted to be friends with) is because I have Scottish ancestry, so basing anything off of Scotland earns huge brownie points with me. :) I had many childhood fantasies about my ancestors somehow being connected with gargs... and of course I wanted so badly to go to Manhattan and find Goliath's clan myself and help out in their awesome adventures.

And then I grew up and learned how to draw not badly and realized that's what fan art is for. :) So here's an epic garg warrior who fought alongside my Clan Cameron, quite possibly the craziest of those crazy highland clans. Camerons fought for King Robert the Bruce, and much much later fought in World War II wearing kilts, scaring the stuffing out of their enemies with their ferocity. Even if they didn't have awesome monster-warriors assisting them, the Camerons sure fought like gargs to defend their families and their homeland and do battle for a valiant cause.

And her red hair is an homage to another of my Scottish lines, the Maitlands from Glasgow, who were apparently known for their red hair and fiery tempers. Carrot-top-ness really does run in that line of my family--my grandpa had bright red hair before it went white (he still has red eyebrows). (Also the fiery tempers bit is true.)

Her tartan is not the Cameron tartan - it's just a random design I made up hence why it looks so bad - but clan tartans actually didn't start being a thing until the 1800s, so I felt it would be inauthentic to have a medieval garg care about what tartan pattern she was wearing.

I have been to Manhattan. Didn't see any gargs. Next time I'll be sure to look harder.