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[ursidanger]

Glad this is a common Whitney occurrence

[ursidaes]

This post is just pictures and means nothing to those who do not know me personally but these Pokemon are Harrier (oc)

[wbbbrothers]

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[ursidanger]

That’s all folks. Everything shared prior to this post is now considered archive.

Thanks!

[ursidanger]

I said it on bsky but once my current queue runs out here I am going to soft-reset AKA use this blog as if it is entirely new moving forward (but still keeping everything prev posted as an archive)

[ursidanger]

Was Brother Bear an inspiration for Salmon Road? They're both about siblings relationship with a huge age gap (and bears, of course). And also that's one of my favourite movies :)

There is a connection! The movie is not what inspired me to create Whitney & Clementine, that would be these photos:

However, I will say that studying concept art from Brother Bear was a key part of developing how I wanted to draw my characters! So the artistic influence is there. These are images I used back in 2018 to teach myself how to draw bears:

I learned a lot about stylizing animals from Aaron Blaise.

He is known primarily as a cartoonist and animator but what influences me the most are his wildlife paintings:

[ursidanger]

For the OC questions: Could you tell me a little more about Whitney and Clementine? I thiiink they're sisters but is Whitney her guardian?

Of course, it's been a while so let me rehash some information about them:

-They are sisters! At the start of Salmon Road, Whitney is around 28 yrs old and Clementine is 10 yrs old. Their age gap is bigger so people tend to mistaken Clementine as Whitney's daughter.

-Whitney becomes Clementine's guardian, but that was not always the case. There was a sudden death in the family that left Clementine without anyone else to care for her. Whitney was the last remaining family member who was eligible (and willing), so, Clementine's move to Bluegill Springs and her entrance into Whitney's life again was unexpected.

-They have been estranged since Clementine was a baby. Whitney left home to live with their Grandfather and Clementine was raised by their Aunt. She knows Whitney exists, but they don't exactly have an established relationship when they begin to live together due to Whitney's absence in her life thus far. They were not born into a tight knit family. It is something they have to figure out together due to circumstance.

[ursidanger]

I do have one of these by the way feel free to leave doodles/questions/comments etc. https://ursidanger.straw.page/

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