animal fiction designs

designs for xenofiction characters designs only: #character design

[nightpaw]

Hi! this blog is where I’ll post drawings of characters from animal fiction books I’m reading. I won’t be reading things in a particular order or posting on a schedule so designs will be a bit sporadic and just for fun :)

Disclaimer: I plan on reading a variety of animal books, some of which might be targeted toward older audiences or contain content that might be triggering - if you’re interested in checking any of these books out but are sensitive to certain topics I recommend researching them first!

Goodreads: https://goodreads.com/nightpaw

Warriors design blog: @cloudtail

[nightpaw]

[nightpaw]

[nightpaw]

hey! sorry if you know this already but i figured it would be worth it, i was looking at your goodreads and saw duncton wood on there and theyre very good books but also advanced TW for sexual assault, i wasnt expecting it when i read the book and it caught me very off guard

Thanks for the heads up! Publishing this in case anyone is interested in the book and needs the warning

[nightpaw]

Tbh I'd love a Goodreads page even if it takes you ages to read them just because what you've already drawn was awesome and also gave me some awesome new books. I'm so glad I was able to grab a copy of Feline Wizards after seeing your drawings of it!

Sure thing haha here it is! I'll also put down the books I've read/am currently reading for the blog. Arbitrary disclaimers etc, I don't know much about some of these books these are just what's on my radar

nightpaw

nightpaw has 13 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading The Wild Road by Gabriel King

[nightpaw]

soo excited to see the stuff you come up with here <3 your art is always such a treat. and just wondering, but do you think you'd ever do plague dogs??

thanks so much! I’m super excited, I’m already having so much fun even tho I’ve only read a couple books so far. and YES I am 100% planing on doing the plague dogs, I’ve never read or watched it but I really want to

I’m considering making a goodreads list or something to link here with all the books I want to read/draw for this blog but I also don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up about how soon I’d be able to get to each book haha

[nightpaw]

[nightpaw]

Will you only be doing characters from books, or will you draw characters from other mediums (movies, comics, etc) as well?

I will probably stick to books because I have a lot more fun designing characters based on written description instead of ones who already have drawn designs yknow? I'm totally open to books that have movie adaptations and such though, Watership Down is next on my list actually

[nightpaw]

We might be completely incorrect but my partner and I hc that their names are cat sounds, especially rhiow and urruah honestly all of them

Maybe saash is a hiss 🤔😅 definitely must read!!!

I think that's what exactly the author was going for! The cat language in the book is supposed to be based on sounds that cats could actually pronounce, they even have loanwords that are bastardized cat pronunciations of english words lol

[nightpaw]

two Questions!! 1. Will you do the erins other

books, Survivors, seekers, Ect.

2. These cats seem more….realistic? They almost have a majestic kinda look to. Is there a reason for this, while your warrior desgins are kinda more, cartoonish almost?

( I don’t mean that in a bad way, it’s just what I noticed)

1) Nah, I probably won't lol. The huge universe and the fact its cats are the main selling points of Warriors to me, I'm not really interested in the other Erin Hunter series

2) I would agree! That was partially a deliberate choice and partly subconscious. I didn't care about making them animation friendly like a lot of my Warriors designs so I kinda went all-out, also the cats in Feline Wizards ironically feel much more like "real" cats to me than Warriors behavior-wise which comes through in my drawings

[nightpaw]

[nightpaw]

what is feline wizards about? I've never heard of it but it must be pretty good if youre drawing it!

The premise is exactly what you would think based on the title LOL, it’s about cats living in NYC who are wizards and can do magic, and are in charge of maintaining wizard portals in grand central station. It’s a trilogy but I’ve only read the first one The Book of Night With Moon (the trilogy is a spin-off of the Young Wizardry series which is about the human wizards, which I also haven’t read). I was honestly expecting to get bored of the magic/science fantasy elements bc that’s not really my thing but I actually enjoyed it. I really loved the characters and the way the author writes about cats too

[nightpaw]

[nightpaw]

thanks for all the book recommendations btw! :D I won’t publish all the asks but I will definitely look into all of them to see if they catch my eye

[nightpaw]

what's the picture in ur pfp from? 👀

The UK version of the second book in the Feline Wizards trilogy :0 (which I havent actually read yet lol, but I loved this cover so much I admit it's the reason I started reading The Book of Night With Moon)

[nightpaw]

tailchaser's song literally looks like a direct ripoff of the first warriors book, just based off the cover. Is it?

Tailchaser's Song was published in 1985 so I would say Warriors is the ripoff lol

[nightpaw]