#fringekit

[gooseclan]

family moments that were amazing to draw and a moment featuring @fallenclan Quailcall! I get so many FallenClan events I’m not kidding I draw all of them I think

[diaswarriorcats]

[r1verwater]

2 in 1 special

[koolaidcatley]

[letyachan]

390.Frigenwhisker

Daughter of Mintfur and Nettlesplash

As if Tigerstar would believe me. I've just joined the Clan. Nobody's going to take my word over the word of three Clanborn warriors. I don't want to hurt Spireclaw, or I'd be fighting those cats now. How can I challenge his mother?"

[jayietheriverwarrior]

Fun fact, today is my birthday! ^^ Still can’t believe I’m 27. o.o

After finally getting all those ref sheets done, I was in the mood to try out another illustration. With the recent release of Sky, without giving away too much in the way of spoilers, I'll just say that I loved Spireclaw and Fringewhisker's relationship in River and I continued to love it in Sky, so I decided to use this urge to illustrate as a way to give these two some art. So here are our newest forbidden lovebirds, Spireclaw of ShadowClan and Fringewhisker, formerly of SkyClan, now a ShadowClan warrior alongside her mate.

I decided to draw them having a quiet moment to themselves in ShadowClan territory not long after Fringewhisker won her place in the Clan, before Berryheart's rage against the pair really started rearing its head and put the two on their guard. It's a moment of relief and joy, so much dizzying joy, now that they can finally just be together without having to constantly look over their shoulder, always having one ear pricked, always ready to move away from each other at the slightest hint of an approaching patrol. All of that hiding is behind them now. For better or worse, their secret is out in the open, and they can face whatever comes next together.

I had a lot of fun with this one, and I'm actually really proud of the result.  I'm especially proud of Spireclaw, and of the background, which while not perfect, does look better than previous attempts.  I used this image as a reference for the background. I'm super proud of Spireclaw's shading, and especially of how the shading turned out on him. Fringwhisker I'm still a bit unhappy with, something about her face just doesn't look quite right (I was trying to show her looking up at Spireclaw with an adoring smile), but it looked way worse before, and I did a lot of tweaking and playing around with it, and while it's still not quite right, it looks a lot better after all the work I put into trying to fix it. I used this image as a reference for Spire and Fringe.

Overall, while Fringe's face is still bugging me a little, I'm still really happy with how this whole thing turned out.  The title for the piece is a reference to a line from Dark River, where Heatherpaw said that there would be no borders between her and Lionpaw in StarClan. Things obviously didn't work out between those two in the end, but I feel a lot better for Spire and Fringe's chances... I hope, anyway.

[craneclanfj]

Moon 31.

I know you get déjà vu!

[cloudtail]