Over a year ago, I was taking a class while also working on a large art project, and I was getting a little frustrated and burned out on both at the time. When that happens, my mind tends to wander, and I made a bunch of rough doodles of some taurs in my notebook. I started mashing around a couple of ideas that were floating around in my head such as conjoining, taurs, ponies, and belly faces, and I stumbled into a concept that for some reason really appeal to me. I can tell when something grabs me when drawing the day before felt like a chore, but now stuff is just dropping out of my stylus or pencils. Honestly, I think the whole thing was an excuse for me to draw a lot of taurs, and the conjoinment aspect added a tiny bit of spice to it. I made a whole mess of doodles of different ones in different poses that first night and started cleaning them up over the next week or two.

The whole thing wrapped around the idea of merging the kind of anthroish dragons from MLP with a bunch of the unicorn ponies to make a conjoined taur. I used very ponyesque unicorns and the dragon designs were inspired from a bunch of different sources like the HttyD movies, Gargoyles, a kobold style I see a lot on FurAffinity, my own way of drawing dragons, and ones from the MLP show itself. It was a fun way of getting me out of my usual way of drawing dragons. I've never been able to come up with an appealing name for the type of bodystyle they have.

When I draw these things part of my mind gets preoccupied about how I’m gonna present this stuff, and I wasn’t sure that putting them up one or two at a time was going to make much sense. So, I got the idea that I should just wait until I’m done them and post them en masse. Then I was thinking ‘why not put a little comic narrative together for them’ because while drawing them I started to engage in the dreaded worldbuilding and built some story ideas around them that I might be able to use that to explain what they were. Because, when I’m distracting myself from a project clearly I should start another one. That’s always a path to success isn’t it. :S

Making the comic part, especially the first page, was a little more difficult than I expected since I was trying a bunch of different painting styles and techniques and had mixed success with all of them. I also realized I didn’t have as clear a vision for it as I thought I had. Kind of a pain when you realize that little fact about half way through working on it. So I apologize in advance for the mishmash art style throughout it. This one image didn’t really fit into the narrative I came up with, but then I also kinda like the idea of one off bits where the characters are still somewhat themselves, but not in their worlds. Like a behind the scenes thing at a show.

I'm still invested in a bunch of worldbuilding but that'll all start showing up later. I do get a whole bunch of taur practice doodling them though.

So for now here is the Dragon Lord Caldera conjoined to the Unicorn Princess Moonstone enjoying a little self made snack.