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Chapter 10: Ripples

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Rookspot and Egglaurel finally earn their warrior names! I'm so happy that all three main characters have their full names now, even if Egglaurel did something a bit dumb to get it. Surely there being no consequences for his actions won't give him any bad ideas about what else he can get away with, being Starclan's warrior and all. Right?

I got a new drawing tablet with a stylus that actually has pressure, so the drawing process was very fun and different to what I'm used to (and the colors are so much nicer on this new tablet). I don't think it affected my art very much besides adding a bit of line weight variation, but it was a lot nicer to draw on my end.

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Chapter 4: A Sinking Feeling

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This chapter was definitely a nice break after the last one. Only six characters to draw (three of which only appear once) and simple, easy backgrounds. Plus it was fun to draw the mud and the venus flytrap, as well as writing Foggypaw infodumping about the plants. He’s such a nerd when it comes to plants in the game and I love him for it.

Anyways the next chapter is one that I’m really excited for, and it should be a shorter one so it should hopefully be out sooner rather than later. A lot of stuff has been slowly building up to it so I’m excited to finally get some payoff.

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Chapter 6: Blooming Flowers

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I have a love-hate relationship with this chapter, as in I love the art but hate the writing. I’ve changed conversation topics several times, and had to keep deleting and rewriting scenes, and I’m still not happy with it. I think the main problem is that it feels like filler to me. It has important set up for some plot points and relationships happening in the background, and I needed to show the main three getting their accessories, but the main meat of this chapter just feels kind of meh to me. I don’t know. At least I got to draw some fun scenes, though.

Anyway, more importantly, it’s Rookpaw’s first POV chapter! Now that Rook and Egg are older, they both get to be POV’s as well. It’s fun to delve into their thoughts on things and see what they’re up to. Eggpaw will get the next chapter.

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Chapter 5: Russet Fur and Long Fangs

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Yeah… this chapter sort of ran away from me. It was meant to be shorter but I just kept adding to it and expanding scenes. I’m really happy with how it came out, though, so I can’t complain too much. Plus, I had a lot of fun playing with the colour palette for the nightmares, even if I’m not completely happy with the colours I chose.

Anyways, poor Foggy is dealing with a lot right now, between his constant nightmares and the consequences of his fall in the bog (not to mention the gathering drama that the whole clan has been trying their best to ignore), but at least Chirpquill is here to help now. Surely she won’t cause more problems, right?

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Chapter 3: Foxes Roam These Woods

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Finally finished chapter 3, aka Foggypaw’s no good, very bad week. This was such a big chapter art wise, which is why it took so long (on top of having to design cats for the other three clans). Hopefully the next chapter will be quicker.

I totally forgot that this chapter takes place in the fall when I was colouring, so that cats keep talking about how cold it is and how the Moon Tree has lost all of its leaves while surrounded by a very green and lush forest. My bad. I didn’t notice until I was proofreading, and by then it was way too late to fix the art. I tried putting an orange tint over some of the bushes and trees, but I just couldn’t get it to work without having to completely redo the backgrounds.

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Chapter 2: A Healer’s Journey

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Lifegen claims its first victim. Surely this won’t have any negative effects on Foggypaw’s mental health… right?

This was a fun chapter to draw, I very much enjoyed getting to do the camp and territory backgrounds for this. I did not, however, enjoy doing Foggy’s leaves. When he was a paw, he had the dried herbs accessory on, but I ended up taking it off after a couple moons, and boy am I glad, because that means I never have to draw them again, lol.