#pav chatter

[mammoth-clangen]

Happy 1st Birthday, Kindred! 🎂

I was gonna do art or something but I'm here:

So enjoy this photo of gibber instead uvu-b

[mammoth-clangen]

🚧 A rogue excavator took out my internet line, so definitely no moon update this week (+ I was debating taking a week off anyway) 🏗 🚧

Got no WiFi for an ✨️indeterminate amount of time✨️ u-u

[mammoth-clangen]

Would you be alright with daily tags for Febroary?

Absolutely!

People have been pinging me with their Febroary art so far and it's been lovely to see! If you @ me I'll reblog it to my main blog c:

I try not to reblog anything here unless it's direct fanart of Kindred, just so it's tidy for people who like to trawl through the whole thing (like I do to others) cx

[mammoth-clangen]

Is it ok for us to make OCs from your pleistocene big cats?

Of course!! (It's really cool that people want to tbh 🥺 )

Homotherium, Smilodon and Panthera (leo) atrox are all real, extinct animals, so I don't have any ownership over them!

That being said, I do own the worldbuilding and lore of Kindred of the Mammoth as a setting+ some of the names/terms the different species use in the Species Sheet and in-comic!

So if you want to make a "Fleet Fang" rather than a "Homotherium serum," I would appreciate credit, at least the first time you post them! ;v;

Also this probably doesn't need saying but I politely request you don't make money/adoptables using my headworld and lore! Designing Fleet/Ice Fangs/Tuft Tails for yourself or friends is 100% fine though c:

[mammoth-clangen]

I'm screaming (in a good way!) about the most recent update! The emotions read super clear to me, and I loved hearing Lilac's thoughts and getting the little hints at the lore and backstory (I'm staring so hard at the 'like me') and that last panel is so full of tension and forboding!

Thank you! Everyone has been so supportive which like, realistically I knew they probably would be, but anxiety be like that u-u

I'm glad the emotions read well! I'm always a bit unsure because I know the full story behind character actions and reactions, so idk if they are comprehensible to people reading c'x

Ngl part of the reason I am considering this format long term is bc the lore iceberg is deeper than it was supposed to be for an """easy simple thing""" and idk how I would show a lot of it without anyone's internal dialogue XD

[mammoth-clangen]

I just wanted to say that you've greatly inspired me to start working on my own clangen comic!! I'm TERRIBLE at drawing cats, so when I first started reading clangen comics I figured I would never make one. But yours was the first one I read that wasn't based off "cats" per se. After I read yours I sought out more clangen comics that didn't feature cats, and I finally started my own!! @scaleclan-clangen (I'm still not very good at drawing in general, but better dragons than cats haha). Obviously you don't have to respond, but if you do choose to, then I would love to hear any tips that you may have!

Oh dragon clangen that's so neat! 🐉

I'm definitely not the first to use non-cats for a clangen, so i can take 0 credit for that cx Even before I started there was at least a few around using other species (pigeons, wof dragons and chickens off the top of my head), I think there's even one using inanimate objects out there!

I've done a few comic/clangen tip asks but as for art advice, it's tricky because it's mostly the same old "practice always" cx

For dragons specifically I can give one bit of personal advice which is: References are great even if you're drawing a made up animal!

Find a living creature with similar anatomy even just in one area (wings/legs/head/etc) and boom, references! I originally learned to draw almost exclusively from my silly original species so this does work I promise cx

Something I always say is "if you used a reference and it still looks wrong, it is". Which is to say, use references but don't marry yourself to them, go with what looks right! Usually I find a couple of similar ones and draw from both, rather than replicating one completely. When I'm drawing a particularly in-depth pose (such as Poppy hunting in Moon 8) I often try to find a video of the moments surrounding it, to get a better idea of movement. Also the line of action is your friend and it's Not just relevant in animation, it will also make your still drawings hold more motion c:

When learning a new species, or a particularly hard pose, I'll often doodledump loosely from a reference then put that reference right next to the doodle to compare where I went off.

This way you get a better feel for shapes than you would from tracing (which isn't The Devil, but should be used sparingly), and better proportions than just loose referencing c:

don't try to work out who the characters are i intentionally anonymised them rjhrfh

[mammoth-clangen]

🦅 for Bat cause I adore Bat

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🦅 opinions on others outside the Kindred

Bat has no strong opinions on other Fleet Fang Kindreds because he hasn't met many outsiders!

In Moon 8, he has an extremely brief encounter (across a ravine) with an Ice Fang, and they seemed chill? That confused him a bit given what he's gathered about The Incident that happened to Lilac, Burnet and Quiver

Also the stories totally exaggerated how big they are and how long their namesake fangs are, he's disappointed :/

(He hasn't worked out the one he saw was only a yearling yet XD)

[mammoth-clangen]

So I don't post/reblog unrelated things to this blog, like ever (intentionally), but I'm making 1 (one) exception it's kinda related if u squint

Eons is a wonderful source of accessible information that i often use as a research jumping off point, and Creative Beast Studios make excellent quality prehistoric animal models!

They're so close to their goal and have 5 days left. So if anyone wants to buy a Mammoth, nows your chance! 🦣

Eons Realistic Articulated Wooly Mammoth Figures

Scientifically accurate, articulated models of the Wooly Mammoth, Gompotherium, Moeritherium and Platybelodon, created by the minds at Creat