Bat is actually 9 moons and has grown a fair bit as of Moon 10. But alas, that's the problem with doing refs for characters in a story where they change c':
Read this ask if you want to know more about his missing leg
His and Snake's refs were made/posted in October, but mostly hold up
Steppe and Summit have some bonus notes from when i originally posted them here (also in october)
Seequa, is a Miracinonyx and is not really important but I made him a little ref bc it was world cheetah day cx
And finally! Old man Elmfade! His ref is crowded but i wanted everyone on the same page so i could upload it like this :'D
I used Mauricio Anton's 3D homotherium skull for Fade's headshot, but i sooooo wish I could find the actual model and not that single still of it. Having a decent 3D Homotherium skull to turnaround would be so gooood ;A;
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]
Here's a fake cheetah (Miracinonyx) to celebrate uvu
Despite their common name (American cheetah) and their lithe build, Miracinonyx is actually believed to be closer related to the modern Puma! I based his spots more off a baby puma bc of this.
They are called Swift Spots by the Fleet Fangs and always have 'nonsense' names that sound squeaky; which is how I imagine their voices sound to all the other large felids cx
Also he and his brother are highly unimportant but i wanted to draw one of them anyway, so enjoy uvu
I know the bg is Lilac's silouhette but imagine it's "generic average homotherium" bc Lilac is actually very tall and would be a bit bigger compared to Seequa
Also i really like that here we have
A sprinter: short snout for rapid breathing, long, flexible spine for max stride, long thin legs, long tail for ruddering
And a marathoner: huge, blown-out muzzle for constant air cooling, short stiff spine for trotting, long legs for striding but not as thin, nub tail bc that's just how sabercats be
Ok so technically Summit won but i have no self control so u get Steppe Prowl as well, bc she already has a ref from her debut >:3
Ice Fangs have both a given name and a surname, which are passed from mother to daughter and father to son (trans individuals can decide which parent they prefer to take after, or which children are given theirs, ie: Summit took his father's)
This will be explained in comic too but it's not a spoiler so i have decided you are allowed to know as part of the teaser cx
Important: No, these two having refs does not mean they will inherently be joining the Kindred! As you can imagine that would cause quite a stir XD
Enjoy this meme i made months ago while drawing Moon 6 X'D
27/3/25 update: chopped off everyone's carpal pads because Homotherium didn't have them
Itty bitty reference of everyone bc i am Tired of colourpicking from the previous page (and bc everyone has some semblance of consistent design now XD )
I drew this between posting Moon 3 (part 2 and 3) so sorry for the lack of Small Boi, he will be added when i get time + when he has a name revealed!
Fun notes!
- Poppy's short tail and Dart's nub-butt are both caused by the manx gene, Dart just has a higher expression! (it's dominant so Pine doesn't have it at all)
- Burnet and Quiver have the exact same eye colour and very close skin tone
- Pine's mullet will get bigger as he grows but it's important to note even as a baby bc i think it's funni
- Poppy looks like a unit but is mostly fluff, Burnet is actually stocky
- age can be at least partially determined by how yellow someone's teeth are lmao
- Quiver's angry eyes started as a joke but stuck around bc it's fun to draw
- Pounce (and Lilac to an extent) is the only character with dark brown pads bc of a silly headcannon I have regarding fully white characters being polar adapted, most characters will continue to have pinkish red ones! (except new lil guy bc he has melanism)
- I like to imagine Burnet isn't piebald but actually has a somatic cell mutation similar to bloodmark horses. Why? idk, i think it's fun, and also genuine piebaldism comes with health issues
- everyone has different ear tufts bc i think that's cute cx
