Rory's Warriors Designs

A Warrior Cats design blog, run by an aesthetic loving nerd

[roarriorcats]

Welcome everyone!

I’m Rory, and this is my Warrior Cats design blog!

About This Blog

This blog posts formal reference sheets for different characters in Warriors. All designs posted here are for canon characters only. While I don’t have a proper consistent schedule because I am extremely easily fucked over by burnout, I post my designs on weekdays at 3:30 pm EST. All designs are free to use with credit, and I take requests! I do also have a design master list, including those I’ve finished and my massive to-do list! All art that I post is my own. Please do not repost my designs or art on other accounts. Reblogs are greatly appreciated though!

I hope you like what you find here on the blog! Thanks for being here, and ily all

-Rory

[exocynraku]

if you truly genuinely hate characters like palebird and sparkpelt when you die you get sent to the eternal dungeon of suffering and torture sorry its just how it is i dont make the rules

[nudityandnerdery]

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

[nudityandnerdery]

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

[library-graffiti]

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

[victusinveritas]

Reminder: you can't be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.

[nudityandnerdery]

There's a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.

You're not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.

[roarriorcats]

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28. Bramblestar/claw/The Imposter

My detested. Firmly on the Squirrelflight protection squad, and the Imposter is a bastard.

First image is Bramblestar before the Imposter, and the second is the Imposter/post Imposter (beer belly Bramblestar? More likely than you think). Third image explained below. Fourth image post retirement in ASC!

Design notes: obvious hint in the eyes as to the imposter’s real identity (exact same pupil color and eye shine as the original idiots design), plus the bonus third reference of the scars the body received after getting absolutely WRECKED by Tigerstar. Please ignore that in the double sided (for lack of a better term for it) full bodys his ears are the same scars, I hated how the lineart looked when I tried to change it so use the head as reference for what side is what.

12/07/2022 edit: just to be clear he looks like Imposter Bramblestar even post Imposter/possession because scars don’t evaporate like ghosts do.

12/16/2024 update: have a wonky elder update I did as a warmup for some other stuff

[roarriorcats]

what’s up gamers. I did a warmup drawing of elder Bramble because it’s been a hundred years since I’ve updated any of the designs on this blog for the new arc!

[bearfrosts]

yk the moonpaw incest baby jokes are a little bit fucked up and it's extremely weird to me how many people are spouting that shit off

first of all, just to get it out of the way: genetic disabilities usually only occur when close incestuous relationships have children and then the incestuous behavior repeats for several generations. it doesn't really happen when two cousins do it.

second of all: there are real, living, breathing human beings in the world that are children of incestuous relationships. they don't have control over this, and it's entirely likely that one of their parents didn't have control over it either. i don't think it takes a fucking rocket scientist to realize that you shouldn't be making fun of those people for something they have no control over, and potentially something that they and one of their parents is a victim of.

tldr joking about how moonpaw is going to look "monstrous" or be physically disabled is not funny. it's fucked up, and you should be ashamed of it.

[blue-star-doodles]

I love receiving asks but man is it scary to respond them sometimes.

[5unny-skies]

I find the wc inbreeding situation kind of funny because if we as humans found out that our new fiancé was our 1st cousin twice removed or something, we would panic and call off the wedding, but these cats don't flipping care.

[redmaplerory]

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I did it I did the thing twitter was yapping about months ago. lazy headshots were a nice way to get back into the swing of things.

I design the war cats (including half of these guys) over on @roarriorcats if anyone is interested, like the rest of my procreate folders I have so many wips and so little time but I’m working on it.

[roarriorcats]

the whole reason I made this blog originally was to work on pushing my shapes because all my designs for cats looked too similar facially, so this challenge actually made me feel a little better about my designs.

ashfur | bluestar | cinderpelt | crowfeather

[roarriorcats]

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15. Shadowsight REDRAW (post TBC)

he has SEEN the horrors, my poor baby.

Design notes: call him Harry Potter with the way I started all of his scars as lightning shapes. I haven’t decided if any of the scars other than the big one on his back are symmetrical. Facial markings pre-scar are on the original reference.

This is sort of an update more than a redraw but I’m too proud of myself to not post it as its own thing. It’s also been added to the original post! I definitely want to use this format for any redraws I do in the future, and who knows maybe that will be a thing for designs going forward!

[skinwretch]

another thing that makes the post oots world in wc feel much smaller is that in the Before Times we did at least get occasional insight into the inner lives of some of the background/supporting characters. we got to see the smaller events that affected them personally not limited to how those things are relevant only to the main character's growth or the going ons of the larger scale plot. things like cinderpelt's arc, tawnypelt's arc, onewhisker's arc, littlecloud becoming a medicine cat because of cinderpelt, cloudtail and brightheart and their later brief marital issues during tnp, berrynose's relationship with honeyfern and poppyfrost and poppyfrost's guilt over marrying her dead sister's husband, briarlight's disability, blossomfall's falling out with millie, cinderheart's reincarnation baggage- it's not much, but it at the very least makes it feel like a world inhabited by people who have ongoing personal lives outside of the scope of the central plot. now it feels like everything that happens has to be immediately and directly relevant to the main characters' specific conflict. even the povs' siblings end up just being kind of there until their sibling needs to either be pat on the back or arbitrarily yelled at. can you tell me anything notable about whistlepaw's life without mentioning her interactions with frostpaw? can you tell me anything about mistpaw and graypaw AT ALL aside from them being frostpaw's siblings. fognose is the sister of THE MAIN ANTAGONIST OF THE ARC and we have not gotten so much as a hint of an inner life reflecting on how she feels about her evil brother

[glebslp]

Arc 9 Bingo

[bitecoded]

[nanistar]

all of this moonpaw x moonpool stuff sucks so much because it's honestly some of the coolest shit i've ever heard with interesting and unique concepts and fun new ideas and you KNOOOOW canon is just gonna be the same nothingburger story about how the clans hate each other and how starclan is all mighty

[redmaplerory]

I was gonna do that trend of gray cats with blue eyes but then realized a) I don’t have clear designs in mind for cinderpelt or bluestar and also b) (slightly more importantly) I haven’t drawn anything new or finished any art in 14 months so four cats might be a little ambitious… have a skinny man in the meantime

yes the proportions and lighting are silly nobody’s ever accused me of being good at this, didn’t draw a background but imagine she’s being emo about feathertail or something. I’m really just noodling around

[roarriorcats]

look at me I can draw cats in more than just one pose! it’s been so long oh my god.

anyways follow my main @redmaplerory and my art account @katupamapletree (which has so much old stuff but it’s ok) to see what I’m up to

[roarriorcats]

minor spoilers if you haven’t read up to Veil Of Shadows!

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28. Bramblestar/The Imposter

My detested. Firmly on the Squirrelflight protection squad, and the Imposter is a bastard.

First image is Bramblestar before the Imposter, and the second is the Imposter (beer belly Bramblestar? More likely than you think). Third image explained below.

Design notes: obvious hint in the eyes as to the imposter’s real identity (exact same pupil color and eye shine as the original idiots design), plus the bonus third reference of the scars the body received after getting absolutely WRECKED by Tigerstar. Please ignore that in the double sided (for lack of a better term for it) full bodys his ears are the same scars, I hated how the lineart looked when I tried to change it so use the head as reference for what side is what.

[roarriorcats]

reblog note while I’m working on the designs for the new arc protagonists: I (clearly) have a lot of strong feelings on this man and how he treats Squilf, but I do want to say I like him a weird amount in River? I think it’s because we see him as a leader and not in a weird personal/pov sense. Because other than his badly written and generally bad relationship I think he’s kinda dumb and isn’t interesting to read about. But something about how he interacts with Flamepaw throughout when he does appear (because he doesn’t appear often) seems like it’s a different side of him that we SHOULD have seen by now and I find it very interesting and good.

[roarriorcats]

…I would like to once again reiterate this arc did everything I could ever want for him (SHOVE HIM INTO THE BACKGROUND)

[roarriorcats]

*opens tumblr to find this blog covered in dust and full of cobwebs*

…I haven’t done art in forever you guys. I’ll be back soon I think

[skilatilu]

eclipse comms

bitch

Guys one of the besties needs some money for rent. I’m not going to overshare all of their situation but it really is ideal they live where they are right now

He takes cashapp!

[redmaplerory]

OUR MUTUAL NEEDS RENT MONEY AND HIS ART IS SUPER COOL! CHECK HIM OUT!