#thunder rising

[bowiesdesigns]

44. Sparrowstar/Sparrow Fur

[bowiestarzzz]

warriors designs in order of appearance 44/???: Sparrow Fur/Sparrowstar

[image description: digital art of a calico cat with amber eyes. end ID.]

[bonefall]

Other really fucked up scenes that are not The Bumble Debaucle in Thunder Rising include;

Thunder's opening dream establishing that "Hawk Swoop is nice and all but she's not the same as the touch of his REAL mother"

Ghost mom telling Thunder directly that his dad didn't abandon him because he's a shitty guy or anything, but because he needs help unlocking the good inside him and Thunder (baby) will make him (adult man) see the light someday.

Gray Wing generally being a really bad "parent" to Thunder, yelling at him, pushing him to reconcile with his "real dad," and then getting upset when Thunder does the things Gray Wing tells him to do.

Moon Shadow's slow and gorey succumbing to his injuries, plus how his corpse rolls into the grave in a weird way causing Tall Shadow to leap in with him wailing and sobbing.

Infected Wound Face Shoving Scene

"Leave him where the maggots will find him"

Clear Sky throwing his son in front of a fox.

Even leaving out things like Misty's slaughter and the fate of her kits, plus the general mental and physical abuse that Thunder goes through to move the plot, the cruelty in this book is off the charts.

WC is sometimes jokingly called "Cat Game of Thrones" but some of this is excessive even for that.

[clanslist]

Poll: Who Dunnit?

Bumble, a kittypet turned away from the Clans as she escaped her abuser, was killed...but by who? The book doesn't give a solid answer, but I must ask...

Who do you think killed Bumble?

Clear Sky

A fox

Results

Voting ended onJul 2

[shallowbreeze]

Dart

Dart is a scarred brown-and-white tom with a nicked ear.

[webkinz-t0yb0x]

warrior cat book pngs

[oliveollie13]

"just copy it but dont make it obvious"

Stripestar ISN'T EVEN LOOKING AT GALESTAR.

I want to know what's up with Owen Richardson because his earlier works for the warriors series were GREAT! Just look at the covers for Power of Three, Omen of the Stars, a Vision of Shadows, and Dawn of the Clans... Sure, there were some little errors/inconsistencies but nothing too major. They were still solid covers. I think the Apprentice's Quest has some of the coolest cover art, given that we got a unique pose with Dovepaw there. Don't even get me started on how much I love Hollyleaf on the cover of Sunrise!!! But now you take a look at the new covers and suddenly we have cats with no feet. We have cats with strange shapes & poses. On the Super Edition covers, they aren't really fully incorporated into their backgrounds.

How much is he getting overworked? Why don't they find someone to assist him? (I am POSITIVE there is a fan, or just an artist, out there who could replicate his style to a degree where they could at the very least draw the cats) Is he just losing motivation? His earlier work on the series is awesome, and if you look at his other works, it's great. i want to know what's up. at this point though any new artist they get is going to have a BALL redrawing all 100+ book covers.

[padawanlink]

DotC doodles

I got bored and decided I wanted to post art of the clan founders

The designs I made for them were all partially based on some kind of animal (though I should also note that I made these designs before I actually read Dawn of the Clans, so the animals I chose were more so because of their clans rather than the characters themselves)

Thunder/Thunderstar is based on a lion

Tall Shadow/Shadowstar is based on a snake

Ripple/River Ripple/Riverstar is based on a fish

Wind/Wind Runner/Windstar is based on a rabbit

and Clear Sky/Skystar is based on a bird

And also here’s Gray Wing because it felt wrong to leave him out