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father & son

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Unhappy Shadowsight..

..and flowers!

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long time no post! i did the "blue-eyed gray cat" twitter design challenge april last year, and just noticed it again in my drafts. it was a fun piece i'm still fond of so i thought i'd get it out there, even if it's horrifically late lmao!

i only had designs of bluestar and cinderpelt stored away, so ashfur and crowfeather look a bit iffy to me (didn't really want to spend as much time designing them as actually drawing them). im happy enough with crow, he just needs a bit of revision, but ashfur currently is a bit too sillygoofy for any projects i'd need a design for him for. but that's that for now!

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are you okay

aliving (not thriving😔)

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blister, blaze, and burn! yeah they're not in the "correct" order in the drawing but unfortunately it was the only way to fit them onto my standard width canvas and make it still look good

i have like, 4 million headcanons about them. crazy how it's my first time drawing them ;v; they also look a bit different compared to my other wof stuff cause i majorly rehauled how i design sandwings. they got piercings, cobra hood inspired hair, face spikies, its crazy. (A PLETHORA OF headcanons and other design notes under the cut!)

an idea i really like is that blister isn't actually king char (queen oasis's husband)'s child, but instead a consort's! it kinda popped into my brain as i was designing the trio since she doesn't really resemble blaze or burn. i believe it's stated somewhere that char often fell out of favour with oasis (although i'm not completely sure if that was definitively in the books), and i also like to think that some of the tribes have a consort/concubine system for royalty. blister still technically counts as a princess since she's born of queen oasis, but because of her father she's least in line to become queen even though she's the canon middle child iirc. hence why she thrust pyrrhia into war; she wouldn't have a chance of getting of the throne otherwise.

of course, that only applies if the tribes go by primogeniture, which the books don't do. perhaps in the case of oasis, where no challenge was made before she died, queenship would go to the firstborn daughter. it's fun to think about!! blister has a bit of a superiority complex, considering herself smarter and overall better than her sisters because she's not born of a 'snobbish royal'.

blister's not one to wear too much jewelry, preferring to stay classy with silver when she does. it matches her scales, and she loves consistency. her mask (figurative and literal; i gave her hyena-ish face markings) gives off an imposing air. overall, this batch of designs may be my all-time favourite, but i think blister turned out best! i still think these deisgns give off an "oc" vibe if that makes sense but honestly i'm just embracing it now.

i kind of fell in love with burn when i was designing her, and i honestly don't know why. i don't recall if she really does anything in canon, and the dragonets honestly didn't really meet/talk to her like they did with blister and blaze. all the better though because she's not just brutish and stupid - she's a master war strategist - but lacks the cunning of blister.

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remakes of designs of watership down characters c: bigwig, hazel and fiver. i may do more of these in the future, feel free to drop some characters you'd like to see! the original version (aug 2022) below the cut!

overall i'm definitely more happy with the new designs. i mostly fiddled around with hues/saturation, moved and added some markings to make them more distinct, and of course my anatomy and artstyle have developed a lot more these past months.

also it's fun to look at how i use my brush now compared to before. the lines are thinner, characters more detailed, and i'm pretty sure i even fiddled around with the settings so that the flow direction changed. it's ironic since i was originally using this brush as a "loose sketch" liner but now render everything completely - definitely time consuming with this particular tool but i wanted to keep things consistent enough so that i could compare these two pictures.

tune in next week for another epi rambles about medibang paint brushes! well, hopefully the next time i post won't be next week.

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aaugh i never thought i would procrastinate so hard on posting here but whaddaya know this has been sitting in my drafts for days.. mostly because school has started up again for me and im too tired in the evenings to write out my thoughts on things SJKKHJ

anyways, ive been feeling extremely nostalgic recently, so as a bit of a warmup-gone-out-of-control here are the fake (well, backup) prophecy dragonets! remember this reveal absolutely shocking me reading the books as a kid. their dynamic is wacky.

an in depth explanation of their designs under the cut!

something i initially didnt like, but now think is a striking visual, is the fact that their designs really don’t go together - especially compared to the actual prophecy dragonets. was puzzling over this for ages, trying to figure out how to make them more cohesive, but eventually just decided to leave it. i think it fits since they really dont get along lol.

the problem with making starflight (check previous posts/tags) purplish is that now fatespeaker has to be a more saturated purple to distinguish the two - she additionally has faint teardrop scales by her eyes to add some spice to her design. i think canon should give nightwings more unique silver scale patterns as well, like fatespeaker's "bracelets" (sadly not included here)!

i want to eventually revisit flames scar, it didnt really come out how i wanted it to. other than that, i like his colours and his pose! you might notice that as i recall how to draw dragons again ive slowly been working on my poses and expressions, making them more dynamic.

seawings are one of my favourite tribes to draw so i really liked designing squid, although he hasn’t really made that much of an impression on me. i should eventually make a palette tracker of all the colours for the tribes, to make them more unified? or alternatively, focus more on the shapes and attributes of each one. i like making seawings squishy and frilly, like some sea animals!

viper is probably my favourite design out of this batch! i really like her colours, although they border more on the palette id use for ocs - eg. is she recognizable as a canon character? i do like her pose though!

and finally ochre - i seriously can’t remember any of this guys dialogue. with this though i did manage to nail down my mudwing designs, varying horns and tusks. maybe i’ll draw clay’s sibs next?? no one knows, not even i.. but i am currently in a character designing mood!

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silly little swap au ive been cooking up!!!

the main idea here is that pinestar takes tigerkit with him to twolegplace in order to raise him away from the clans so he doesnt destroy them, or whatever that prophecy was about (still think its strange that starclan would set up this child like that but whatever). tiger sneaks away one day but is attacked by fuzzypelt/paw (haven’t decided - if nobody remembers fuzzypelt is ravenpaw/dustpelt’s dad! although hes a morally good background character in canon). from there tiger takes up a scourge-like role, assembling cats in twolegplace in order to someday enact his revenge on the clans.

so essentially au tiger = canon tiny/scourge, au fuzzypelt = canon tigerpaw/claw. ^^!

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reading trees roots: “WOW i love the friendship between a younger tree and his best bud stream! they’re both so precious! i can’t wait to see what their journey together entails when they leave the siste-”

so yup. this kid stream? he’s actually my new son now i love him so much... on par with sunstrike for favourite obscure warriors background character with a cool name... spoilers for trees roots/avos while we’re at it below the cut as i talk about some design choices! :>>

last chance to get out if you haven’t read tree’s roots. anyhow - stream has the “star shaped” pupils as a nod to how he dies... i know ripplestar got struck by lightning, shadowsight got struck by lightning, mudclaw dies crushed by a tree struck by lightning. but has any cat died directly due to a lightning strike, one NOT sent by starclan at that? you could argue that ripplestar died on impact from falling off the great rock, too. stream’s so special :,) still wish he went with tree on his journey

tree is great, also love him! so here’s some explorations - im thinking he has a topknot/man bun before he joins the clans, but also maybe occasionally puts his hair? fur? back in one for his mediator journeys. another reason for rootpaw to think he’s weird haha. here’s also where i decided that all the sisters/ghost seeing cats have a coloured spot in their eye, maybe it turns white when they see spirits? don’t ask why rootspring didn’t have them in his design i hadn’t come up with it then

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“BLOOD WILL SPILL BLOOD.”

hawk & bramble

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part two of warrior cats ocs! all of the clangen cats ive drawn so far (if you guys remember batpetal and hillpaw, these guys are from the same story c:)

some of these are pretty old, but i still like em all! drawing in this style’s tedious but super super fun. expect to see more of it in the future hopefully?

characters are (if curious); thistlepool, beaverstream, leafpelt, chivestar, laurelstar, lichenface, amberkit (grey point), blackkit (tortie, i know, ironic) pineleaf, and palespots!

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compilation of both older and more recent art of battle cats ocs since i’m on break and don’t have access to my tablet right now! probably the first of two character dumps before i get back home and can doodle up some new stuff.

feel bad reposting sometimes Dx but since these havent been seen on tumblr before and im trying to use this blog as an art journal of sorts, it was inevitable. hope you guys enjoy, at least for now!

chars are (if curious); ryecurl, fernpaw, pigeonflight, blackstorm, beefrost, “bird”, “russet”, “petal”, waveheart, coppershine, kestrelstorm, tawnystar, hazelstar, littlestar, and ripplestar!

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hey do you have a reference sheet for firestar I really like the design :)

made one especially for this! im glad to hear that you like it c:

i feel like he changes slightly every time i draw him but i like this new sleek vs fluffy look he has going on now. ive drawn him more in the past two months than i have in my entire life

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some happy besties!!! originally part of a larger piece, but scrapped the other half just cause i couldn’t get it to look right :,) anyhow long time no post!

i rlly love yellowfang. could write a whole essay on yellowfang. starclan ruined her tbh...,

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golden kitties

design ideas for mothwing and rootspring ! interesting critters. will be back with more polished art soon eheh

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here’s a bluestar design i touched up recently! i really like how everyone seems to be able to make her look different, yet still recognizable, something i hope i captured here. i tend to imagine her as this flowing, graceful, youthful (at least, seemingly so) cat; though she still holds herself with experience and regality. she doesn’t show a lot of expression - totally unreadable, and mostly prefers to observe from afar.

i always draw leaders with a little four-pointed star on their head - i think its fun to add it as a visual signifier. when tigerstar attacks her i imagine he scratched across it a little, which is then also a visual for her beginning to lose faith in starclan. the former collected, calm leader, now perpetually on edge and ready to snap. fun to think about!

also, her eyes being that way are inspired by sss warriors cats :3 i feel like it adds a layer of ,, her being more special than everyone else? or that she’s not quite completely there sometimes.

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the second arc povs this time! i really like the improvement art-wise between these guys and the previous five dragons : D ive dug myself into a bit of a hole now and can’t resist the urge to draw the next arc’s protags as well... then after that maybe the villains of wof... anyhow.

again, a more in-depth summary on what went into these designs below the cut!

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first up, moon’s green! she, winter, and qibli were some of the only canon wof dragons i had previous designs for, but i love green so i just cranked up the saturation hehe. i’ve seen some people draw her with silver top scales, and i want to integrate that into her design next time.

winter is very shiny - this is the point where i decided to add effects and shines to some of these guys, for how could i resist the urge to make winter absolutely fabulous.... i really like the idea of royal icewings having antlers but i couldn’t really find a way to incorporate it into these designs specifically. for now, he just has generic plated horns!

peril’s nothin too special, i colourpicked her reds directly from the wiki’s ref. when/if i ever draw her in a scene i’ll add smoke coming up from her scales n such! i also love the idea of her highlights turning blue when she’s super emotional.

i imagine turtle looking very similar to fathom (pretty sure this has even been mentioned in canon), albeit maybe a bit chubbier. some of his scales are indeed glowing! the main thing i need to remember for next time is to add more jewelry for winter and turtle, being royalty n all!

last but not least is qibli my boy c: his personality reminds me of a person i know irl and i really liked reading from his pov! im actually super happy with his freckles and face shape, as well as generally both him and turtle! he’s the first pure (canon) sandwing i’ve ever drawn so i’m happy to use him as a base in the future.

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i wanted to draw umber, kinkajou, and carnelian with these guys as well, but due to a lack of time i had to prioritize the five with povs. they’re coming soon!