littleladybugart

fun arts and crafts (mostly arts) by a silly nerdy eclectic artist ko-fi.com/littleladybugart / littleladybugart.carrd.co sideblog for my queer warriors rewrite is @ladybug-makes-warriors-gay

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my commissions are open!! i’m doing everything from icons to reference sheets to chibis, and the prices range from $10-60 through ko-fi!

https://ko-fi.com/littleladybugart/commissions

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aromantic hollypaw comic (and the mom squilf we should have gotten when holly asked her about kits.)

plus aro tawnypelt!! rowanclaw is her coparent :)

i put far too much time and effort into researching flowers and their meanings, so if you'd like to see that, it's under the cut!

on the first page, the flowers on the border are white lilies, white lilac, yellow chrysanthemums, and buttercups.

white lily- purity/virginity, loneliness of being left behind

white lilac- purity, youthful innocence

yellow chrysanthemum- both neglected love/sorrow and joy, happiness, and friendship

buttercup- joy, youthful innocence

i wanted to find flowers that meant loneliness but really only found the white lily. i ended up using more that meant friendship or youthful innocence because there are wayyyy more flowers that mean that and it's still part of the vibe i wanted. the leaves on the border are buttercup leaves.

on the second page, the flowers are cinquefoil, primrose, lily of the valley, queen of the night, and yarrow.

cinquefoil- maternal love, beloved daughter

primrose- childhood

lily of the valley- return to happiness

queen of the night- fleeting beauty

yarrow- healing, love

i wanted to emphasize the connection and love between holly and squilf, but also the fact that this is a sweet memory of a time that does not last long. the future weighs heavy on holly's past, nothing will ever be as it once was. i was sooo close to putting periwinkle on this page, for nostalgia/fond remembrance, but it didn't fit the color scheme :(

i got most of the meanings from the wikipedia page listing flower meanings from old floriography books, but also by looking at google and seeing what the most common meanings of certain flowers were.

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hollyleaf designs

i have had many a hollyleaf design since i started rereading the series and trying to design all the cats, so here they are!

holly #1

ft.bonus first lion/jay designs.

i honestly hit the nail on the head with this one, i still think this captures almost everything i want in her design, and it’s been around for the longest and i’ve drawn it the most.

i made this before i designed any of the three's parents (real or fake), so i was only basing them off the ideas i had in my head at the time. i knew i wanted crow to be skinny with a long tail and leaf to have a fluffy mane and tail, and that i wanted holly to look more like crow.

we have the subtle start of her little eye thing and freckles, and the berries at the base of her tail.

holly #2

this is my mothpool design for her! i made this once i actually had designs for both leaf and moth, and i am very very happy with it. she would be more brown in this design, not black.

holly #3

this is where she gained the little butt spots and nose and ear patches! i really like this iteration, i think it's cute.

holly #4

this was for a school assignment, but it gave me the idea for her to have more of a mane! her little leaf eye things are usually green in my head, but having them be a darker black like her other markings worked better for the illustration.

holly #5

her final form (so far)! with the added bonus of younger and older designs. i really really like these, and i think they're the best version i've done, but i do often struggle to draw her mane, esp at different angles. you may notice the nose and ear patches are gone, i decided they made the design too complicated and it worked better if all the black was uniform. this version of her also fits much better with my thunderclan and windclan design philosophy now.

holly #bonus

anthro designs i made after finishing the last design :)

these ones were just for fun but i love them she is so cute

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a playing card style illustration of hollyleaf! this one was born of a sketch from quite a while ago (see it under the cut!)

the top of the first image is young holly, her paw raised as if making an oath. i used round leaf shapes in outlines because she was a medicine cat.

the top of the second image is older holly, claws raised as if to threaten someone. i used sharper, star-like shapes in outlines to indicate the prophecy that failed her.

i ended up changing it quite a bit, both because my design for holly has changed and because i wanted it to have more of a traditional playing card feel.

(if you want to see my designs for holly i might post them over on @ladybug-makes-warriors-gay soon wink wink nudge nudge)

i would looove to do a set of playing cards, i have many thoughts about who would be what card and i imagine each suit would be an arc, but even this one card took me literal ages so we’ll see about that. maybe if someone sends me an ask i’ll say which characters/arcs would be what.

also bonus jayfeather design. i am rather fond of this sketch but the thorn crown does make it look a little like i’m portraying him as jesus 💀

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commission for @/nonbinary-mouse!! charlotte from tgwdlm for the production of the show that they are helping to put on! i wish them all the luck and sold out shows :)

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mermay!!

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crookedstar, willowbreeze, and kits! i designed silverstream already here!

i like the idea that silver is big like her mama, but i did realize halfway through drawing it that willow is meant to be half windclan and she does not look anything like a windclan cat. oh well. maybe graypool got all the windclan genes

i’m not super happy with how i drew crookedstar’s jaw, so here are some sketches from when i was trying to figure it out a while ago. i think these are a lot better at showing what’s actually going on. i really want to show that his jaw is actually twisted and be accurate to the book description, especially because of how much official art glosses over or barely shows it. when/if i make a digital/colored version of crookedstar, i’m probably going to edit it to look more how i want it to.

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grace with the aroallo flag colors because she is. she simply is

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adderfang, swiftbreeze, and some of their kits!

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some thoughts on my thunderclan design philosophy! ft. some old designs that actually aged surprisingly well with my new thoughts

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Reblog if you’re OK with people sending you asks about your OCs, ‘sonas or even about yourself

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here’s how i mostly go about windclan designs! windclan and shadowclan have the most similar body types, with thunder and river having body types somewhat similar to each other and pretty different from wind and shadow. hopefully i will have the motivation to draw out one of these for the other clans.

here are some tallstar’s revenge windclan members as pose practice/ironing out the windclan body type

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fun design stuff from my au blog :)

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i continue to rotate them in my brain

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some gray/silver family designs!! i am actually really happy with how these came out, espppp feathertail. i love you, feathertail

i think it’s really interesting how it worked out with my au and which parent each looks like more. feather looks like silver, she has the riverclan body type, despite her very outwardly not fitting in or being comfortable there, but she eventually makes her peace with it before she goes on the journey. storm looks like gray, almost with a thunderclan body type, but outwardly he makes an effort to fit in, be part of the clan. however, he is the one who cannot stay, who ends up leaving the clans and riverclan behind.

also i like that silver’s stripes look kind of like fish scale patterns. feather is kind of emo too

old designs under the cut!

i did design them last year but tbh i didn’t really like them and i hadn’t really gotten the hang of how i design the cats now. graystripe is pretty much the same but silver and feather are exponentially better in the new ones

the stripes for silver are just kind of a lot and look very unnatural, i like what i was going for with the spots but i don’t think it’s executed well. i’ve also just figured out more of the body type i usually draw for riverclan cats now. gray’s stripe is also a little funky here, i like how fluffy and short his tail is but it just didn’t quite fit

these two were just kind of boring. tried to do a fun thing with feather’s eyes and it kind of fell flat. maybe i will try again someday

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some little headcanons for grace

some of his students taught him how to make friendship bracelets and he does it all the time to have something to do with his hands. since stratt basically uploaded the whole internet to grace's computer he has access to tons of patterns and makes bracelets or really short or long versions and puts them up all over the ship to decorate. he makes really complicated ones when he's particularly bored or upset. if they wouldn't burn immediately upon touching rocky, he would probably be covered in just so many bracelets by the time they get back to erid.

also grace wears the little zenonite grace as a keychain on the waist of his jumpsuit, along with a little chain that rocky made. rocky also made him a glasses chain because of how often his glasses are somewhere not on his face. he wears a couple of bracelets his students made him too.

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faces. argh

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grace doodle from a while ago