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15. Shadowsight REDRAW (post TBC)

he has SEEN the horrors, my poor baby.

Design notes: call him Harry Potter with the way I started all of his scars as lightning shapes. I haven’t decided if any of the scars other than the big one on his back are symmetrical. Facial markings pre-scar are on the original reference.

This is sort of an update more than a redraw but I’m too proud of myself to not post it as its own thing. It’s also been added to the original post! I definitely want to use this format for any redraws I do in the future, and who knows maybe that will be a thing for designs going forward!

#warrior cats #warriors #shadowsight #warrior cats designs #protagonist #a starless clan #the broken code #a vision of shadows #tigerhearts shadow #shadowclan #medicine cat #the guardian cats #loner #ghost residence #a light in the mist #firestar lineage #honorary tigerstar clone #tawnypelts clan

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another thing that makes the post oots world in wc feel much smaller is that in the Before Times we did at least get occasional insight into the inner lives of some of the background/supporting characters. we got to see the smaller events that affected them personally not limited to how those things are relevant only to the main character's growth or the going ons of the larger scale plot. things like cinderpelt's arc, tawnypelt's arc, onewhisker's arc, littlecloud becoming a medicine cat because of cinderpelt, cloudtail and brightheart and their later brief marital issues during tnp, berrynose's relationship with honeyfern and poppyfrost and poppyfrost's guilt over marrying her dead sister's husband, briarlight's disability, blossomfall's falling out with millie, cinderheart's reincarnation baggage- it's not much, but it at the very least makes it feel like a world inhabited by people who have ongoing personal lives outside of the scope of the central plot. now it feels like everything that happens has to be immediately and directly relevant to the main characters' specific conflict. even the povs' siblings end up just being kind of there until their sibling needs to either be pat on the back or arbitrarily yelled at. can you tell me anything notable about whistlepaw's life without mentioning her interactions with frostpaw? can you tell me anything about mistpaw and graypaw AT ALL aside from them being frostpaw's siblings. fognose is the sister of THE MAIN ANTAGONIST OF THE ARC and we have not gotten so much as a hint of an inner life reflecting on how she feels about her evil brother

#warrior cats #not designs #this is so real

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Arc 9 Bingo

#warrior cats #changing skies #not designs #oooh #why didn’t I ever think of this #op you’re so right

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#not designs #callout goes crazy

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all of this moonpaw x moonpool stuff sucks so much because it's honestly some of the coolest shit i've ever heard with interesting and unique concepts and fun new ideas and you KNOOOOW canon is just gonna be the same nothingburger story about how the clans hate each other and how starclan is all mighty

#not designs #please god let her be interesting #moonpaw

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look at me I can draw cats in more than just one pose! it’s been so long oh my god.

anyways follow my main @redmaplerory and my art account @katupamapletree (which has so much old stuff but it’s ok) to see what I’m up to

I was gonna do that trend of gray cats with blue eyes but then realized a) I don’t have clear designs in mind for cinderpelt or bluestar and also b) (slightly more importantly) I haven’t drawn anything new or finished any art in 14 months so four cats might be a little ambitious… have a skinny man in the meantime

yes the proportions and lighting are silly nobody’s ever accused me of being good at this, didn’t draw a background but imagine she’s being emo about feathertail or something. I’m really just noodling around

#my art #not designs #warrior cats #warriors #crowfeather #bonus #I’m trying to ease myself back into drawing fanart #I really want to make more designs soon so this was sort of a test

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…I would like to once again reiterate this arc did everything I could ever want for him (SHOVE HIM INTO THE BACKGROUND)

minor spoilers if you haven’t read up to Veil Of Shadows!

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28. Bramblestar/The Imposter

My detested. Firmly on the Squirrelflight protection squad, and the Imposter is a bastard.

First image is Bramblestar before the Imposter, and the second is the Imposter (beer belly Bramblestar? More likely than you think). Third image explained below.

Design notes: obvious hint in the eyes as to the imposter’s real identity (exact same pupil color and eye shine as the original idiots design), plus the bonus third reference of the scars the body received after getting absolutely WRECKED by Tigerstar. Please ignore that in the double sided (for lack of a better term for it) full bodys his ears are the same scars, I hated how the lineart looked when I tried to change it so use the head as reference for what side is what.

#not designs #rory’s ramblings #bramblestar #brambleclaw #a starless clan #so happy he retired

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*opens tumblr to find this blog covered in dust and full of cobwebs*

…I haven’t done art in forever you guys. I’ll be back soon I think

#not designs #rory’s ramblings #I really want to get back into this I swear I keep having fun ideas but I don’t remember how to cat #I’m gonna work on that and come back soon #for now I’m gonna update the tags and names and things

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Guys one of the besties needs some money for rent. I’m not going to overshare all of their situation but it really is ideal they live where they are right now

He takes cashapp!

#not designs #rory’s ramblings #emergency commissions #art commissions

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imagine a kittypet NAMED FIRESTAR MEETING THUNDERCLAN

#warriors #wc #firestar #warrior cats #nightheart #this is so funny #roaring rory #not designs

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click this link and put in the tags who your assigned warrior cat is!

i got dovewing :D

#i got ashfoot! (crowfeathers mom!) #warrior cats wiki #warriors #warrior cats #not designs

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ppl always portray hollyleaf as like really skilled n sneaky when she kills ashfur, like some kind of hired assassin or something, and that’s cool an all like as she deserves but i think. i think that the scene would carry more weight if you remember that she was far younger than ashfur, far less experienced, probably smaller, and like she has never killed anyone before she doesn’t have any idea what she’s doing. also she’s scared out of her mind. like she hates ashfur but she’s also afraid of him. like the fight was probably messy and awful. and ashfur’s death was probably slow and painful. i just like imagine that hollyleaf is struggling to kill him and almost starting to regret it halfway through but it’s too late and ugh like it really fucked her up so. it was probably awful.

#not designs #hollyleaf #ashfur #warriors #warrior cats

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jay/poppy but with additional angst:

everyone knows that poppyfrost was berrynose’s second choice after honeyfern. what if berrynose is poppyfrost’s second choice bc she can’t have jayfeather since he’s a medicine cat?

#warrior cats #this is so good #warriors #not designs #jayfeather #poppyfrost

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look at this leafpool

#SMOL #not designs #rory’s ramblings

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fuck consistency in art !!!  we ballin !!!!!!  whatever comes out of my hand next is up to god !!!!

#not designs #rory’s ramblings #confidence boost

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48. Frostpaw (RC)

I drew her smiling because THIS POOR BABY DESERVES TO BE HAPPY OK?! The most accurate depiction of her predicament was the lyrics to Fall Out Boy’s “‘From Now On We Are Enemies’” used to caption @clanborn’s lovely art of her.

please be kind about this design/my art style at the moment I’m a little rusty on cats because school has been kicking my ass! Also the blog will have Sky spoilers in the tags please be aware!

#warrior cats #warrior cats designs #warriors #riverclan #medicine cat apprentice #leader #frostpaw #protagonist #a starless clan #apprentice #the broken code #loner

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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Here’s a spontaneous design update. Also updating all the tags on the blog! We have full arc titles in the blog tags in case you’re looking for them

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47. Sunbeam

I’m back! I’ve been sitting on some WIPs of the new protagonists for a while now, so it’s about time I finish these up. Starting with my least favorite…

I really liked Sunbeam, but to me her POV in this book just felt so disconnected from everything else going on, partially because of her upbeat attitude to everything and partially because it felt like NOTHING HAPPENED in ShadowClan that mattered to the wider narrative.

Anyways sorry for analyzing WARRIOR CATS as if it’s high literature.

Design note: markings are inspired by both her wiki sprite (I really like the little squiggle above her muzzle) and @warriorsproject’s most recent design for her. Her eye shine color was color picked from my Needletail WIP!

11/23/2022 edit: changed her muzzle again cause it was bothering me, original under the cut

#sunbeam #edits and updates #rory’s ramblings #blogging and vibing