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)
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"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]
Febroary day 21 Serval
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 a single Serval can catch around 4000 rodents a years? Talk about skilled little hunters!
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