#febroary

[norapotwora]

Striped burrito for febroary!

Btw, I have open print order form and there are a lot of art to choose from! -> CLICK HERE

[vuelode-irbis]

Day 12 - Stretching, aka Oooh, big stretch

I wanted to try realistic jaguar markings on her and decided to also draw her strething, I think simplified marking works better for her design, but still liked this

[ID: digital drawing of Kipo in her mega jaguar form (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts). She's stretching and smiling in a creamy background, she casts a purple shadow. There's text above in all caps that reads "Oooh, big stretch". End ID]

Febroary promt list by @mammoth-clangen :D

[mammoth-clangen]

Behold! Big Kitties!

I wanted to make one of these for fun mostly, also because I wanted to slightly update how I draw the Fleets to fit the Homotherium mummy; mostly in the lack of carpal pads and that brown is the wildtype colour uvu

Notes that didn't fit:

- Eye colours can be anything natural-looking except in Ice Fangs, which are always blue (that's actually where their name comes from)

- None of the colour variants are sexually dimorphic (though some may be sex linked)

- All species can be fluffier than shown here (especially in winter), I just shaved them here to show the varied anatomy

- All the cats probably have a melanistic and albino variant but there aren't any in Kindred so I didn't include them

- I'm never gonna draw the characters in Kindred with detailed patterns as shown here, that would take 554637 hours per page cx

Don't @ me about paleo inaccuracies bc there's a lot of intentional exaggerations e.g. how variable they can be, for the sake of making characters actually fun to work with + the Tuft Tails are basically just lions because their skeletal anatomy is sooooo similar but bigger (and lions are pretty)

Image ID

"Kindred of the Mammoth- Pleistocene big cats"

Fleet Fang- Homotherium serum.

Tireless hunters of the steppe.

Male: Tom

Female: Molly

Nonbinary: Motte

Young: Cub

Grouping: Kindred

A drawing in a slightly more realistic style than Kindred of a brown Fleet Fang with green eyes and extensive barring running down her sides. There is a headshot of a tom with shaggy grey and white fur, who has his mouth open in a slight pant to show dental anatomy.

Notes read:

"Inverted neck hackle

Patterns run laterally.

Tufted ears

Heart-shaped nose.

All teeth are serrated

No carpal pad

Claws don't retract fully

Skin usually dull pink

Paler under-tail

No sexual dimorphism

Huge incisors, tiny lower canines

Tundra morphs shaggy and pale grey"

There are a few natural variants shown as well: dilute few spots, joined-barring (lateral stripes instead of broken spots), Open-saddle ginger, melanistic with paler grey markings.

Ice Fang- Smilodon fatalis ssp.

Powerful hunters of the north.

Male: Boar

Female: Sow

Nonbinary: Urs

Young: Cub

Grouping: Sounder

A drawing in a slightly more realistic style than Kindred of a white, grey striped Ice Fang with blue eyes . There is a headshot of a boar with pale golden fur and a darker beard under his neck. He has his mouth open in a slight pant to show dental anatomy.

Notes read:

False eyes on small ears

Powerful neck/shoulders

Vertical stripes

Very short tail

Bear-like lower lip

Only sabers are serrated

Very large dewclaws

Skin usually dull pink/brown

Boars have a goat-like 'beard'.

Wide nose, sideways nostrils.

Huge incisors, tiny lower canines.

There are a few natural variants shown as well: Faded stripes with a pale warm grey coat, Few stripes only on the shoulders and rump, Tawny morph with broken stripes (they form vertical bars), Abundism- heavy stripes that are interlocking and covering the whole body.

Tuft Tail- Panthera leo atrox

Coordinated hunters of the plains.

Male: Lion

Female: Lioness

Nonbinary: Leo

Young: Cub

Grouping: Pride

A drawing in a slightly more realistic style than Kindred of a golden tawny Tuft tail (lioness) with amber eyes. There is a headshot of a lion with greyish fur and a tawny underbelly. He also has a darker mane around his neck. He has his mouth open in a slight pant to show dental anatomy.

Notes read:

Larger ears

Long, flexible spine

Nose darkens with age

Robust non-serrated teeth

Dark pawpads

Patternless or faintly spotted

Long, tufted tail

Lions have a mane (but less full than African Lions)

Lions much heavier than lionesses.

There are a few natural variants shown as well: Completely spottless warm grey with a tawny underbelly, orxy type dark markings that outline the paler underbelly, retained juvenile spots and a reddish tint, fully grey morph that is entirely desaturated.

A note at the bottom reads: Kindred of the Mammoth, art, and these speculative depictions belong to PencilPavlova [END ID]

[kitsumeo]

Febroary day 11 Manul What is Febroary? Febroary is an art challenge where the goal is to draw wild cats, big and small, every day for the duration of the month February. Both as a fun exercise and to draw awareness to these beautiful animals. Did you know? The Manul is also called Pallas's cat. Despite their large look they are one big ball of fluff. If you enjoy my work consider leaving a like or a comment it means a lot!

[bigandsoft]

Just a little (big) Jonah to start off Febroary <3

[fantasyponies]

I shall return to my Space Deities series sometime...

When I am not burned out and dead inside.

[chorus-cat]

FEBROARY DAY 10-15 TRADITIONAL EDITION

[monkatclaws]

Day 22 - sleeping.