#jaykit

[sunshades-frozen-sky-take-3]

A little mother-son talk

#Wc au #Wc #Wc art #Silverpool au #Warrior cats #Warrior cats au #Warrior cats art #Leafpool #Jayfeather #Jaykit

[splashtqil]

bros been an old man since he came out of the womb

#jayfeather #jaypaw #jaykit #warrior cats #warriors #warriors designs #warrior cats designs #art #medicine cat #thunderclan #po3 #oots #avos #tbc #asc #jay

[cricketclan]

jaykit and umberkit the sisters ever. jaykit also switched from charming to lonesome, so i like to think she feels comfortable around her more outgoing and charming sister umberkit. i love the sillies

other things that happened this moon: Duskcatcher has some romantic feelings for Heathersong now and Flutterpaw leaves fresh-kill outside the nursery for the kits and i think thats super cute

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#going to start adding a little icon in the right corner to mark which season it is too. little sprout there is newleaf #officially 1 year into cricketclan!!! #cricketclan #cricketart #warriors #warrior cats #clangen #clan generator #art #silverpaw #frozenpaw #thicketpaw #jaykit #umberkit #birchfurs kits are so silly. troublemakers

[jayie-the-hufflepuff]

This is an idea I've had in my head for a while now, but now I finally made something out of it. Behold my new headcanon - that the mythological Clans in the nursery tales (LionClan, TigerClan, LeopardClan) are actually big cat species from ice age europe!

Basically, I've been watching a lot of paleontology-related videos lately about prehistoric wildlife, and it got me thinking about how there actually were big cats in England once like in the stories about the ancient Clans, but they weren't the lions, tigers, and leopards we know today. That gave me the idea that maybe the stories the Clans tell about those ancient Clans now are just heavily distorted versions of true events from England's ice age era and the real big cats that roamed the land at that time, twisted through many generations of retelling. Here, we see Squirrelflight telling her brood of three (more on why I chose these particular cats in a bit) the tales of the ancient Clans, while the true ancient cats are visible to the audience above her head, and the deeds from the nursery tales about them are painted on the cave walls.

As for the big cats themselves, there were (coincidentally enough) three big cat species in the UK during the ice age to choose from. I've chosen cave lions to represent LionClan, European ice age leopards to represent LeopardClan, and scimitar-toothed cats to represent TigerClan. Scimitar-toothed cats aren't as closely linked to tigers as cave lions are to African lions or ice age leopards are to today's leopards, but they were the only ones left to choose, and dangit they look cool so who cares? :P They didn't live in real Clans as the Clans imagine them in stories, they roamed either as solitary hunters or in loose groups (or in tighter groups like prides possibly, not totally sure what the consensus is for how these big cats lived, but there's a bit of wiggle room here considering these are fictional intelligent group-forming versions of these cats).

It was interesting trying to draw these three extinct species with no living photo refs. I used photos of lions and leopards for the cave lions and ice age leopards, but made some changes like adding more fluff for the leopard and giving the cave lion the shorter and broader muzzle and thick dense fur (but no sexually dimorphic mane) they were known to have. For the scimitar-toothed cat, there's really no living analog with quite the same facial features, so I ended up using this bit of paleoart as a reference. I gave the cave lion pretty simialar coloration and pattern to an african lion, only with a bit of a duller grayer coat. The leopard I made a bit paler than the leopards we know today, and the scimitar-toothed cat I used similar colors and pattern to a lynx, but with more darker stripe-ish markings to justify the "how TigerClan got their stripes" story.

I would like to stress here that I am not a paleoartist, I am not a paleontologist or a biology expert of any kind, I am simply a humble English major and website editor who likes to watch paleontology videos in my spare time. If there are any glaring inaccuracies in this in regards to how I depicted these species, I do apologize, I tried my best, but as I stressed I am in no way an expert or even a novice in this field.

The cave paintings above each cat's head represents the story told about their "Clan" in "Secrets of the Clans". For the scimitar-toothed cat, it's the moon shining its light down to create the shadows that will carve the dark stripes into their pelts - obviously just completely made up to explain the dark stripes these cats developed, which can be far more easily be explained as a form of camouflage in tall grass. For LeopardClan, it's the tale of Fleetfoot fighting the boars to claim the river, and for LionClan, it's Sunpelt's standoff against the giant snake Mouthclaw.

But here we have another twist. These cave paintings actually depict events, and creatures, far older than even these ancient Clans, stories passed down from their own ancient ancestors, or else surmzied through finding remainds of the ancient creatures and creating a story around them. The giant snake Mouthclaw is a titanoboa (they didn’t live anywhere near the UK, but oh well - maybe just one managed to find their way over there :P) and the "boars” Fleetfoot supposedly faced are actually the terrifying “hell pig” (actually more closely related to hippos, far more terrifying than boars in my opinion), the enteledont! I based the painting of Sunpelt on a real cave painting thought to be a cave lion, the one of Fleetfoot loosely on a real painting thought to be an ice age leopard, and the enteledont loosely on a real cave painting of a running boar. I couldn’t find any really old cave paintings of snakes in that same style, so I had to kind of wing that one. Not sure it totally fits the art style of the others, but oh well, best I could do.

Now for the last bit - why I chose Squirrel and her first litter to be the ones telling/hearing the tale. Mostly because of an interesting AU I thought of - what if the Three (not counting Hollyleaf, but oh well, I couldn’t exactly stick Dovekit in here when she wasn’t born yet) weren’t reincarnations of ancient Tribe cats, but of ancient big cats? Lionblaze would be a cave lion, of course, then maybe an ice age leopard for Dovewing and a scimitar-tooth for Jayfeather? Dunno, but it could make for a really fun AU. :D

Anyway, this was a lot of fun to draw and I’m super happy with how it turned out: :D

#warrior cats #erin hunter #warriors #wc #mythological clans #lionclan #tigerclan #leopardclan #squirrelflight #jaykit #lionkit #hollykit #jaypaw #hollypaw #lionpaw #jayfeather #hollyleaf #lionblaze #cave lion #European leopard #homotherium #scimitar tooth cat #titanoboa #enteledont #hell pig

[enayaray]

family vacation

#wip #wc #I want to smell ocean #jaykit #lionkit #leafpool

[simbasomba]

#warrior cats #artists on tumblr #art #my art shit #cats #wcue #warriors #squirrelstar #squirrelflight #squirrelpaw #squirrelkit #au where Holly survives #warriors au #warrior cats au #HollyLeaf #Holly paw #hollykit #LionBlaze #lion paw #lionkit #JayFeather #jaykit #jaypaw #SquirrelStar wc #SquirrelFlight wc #HollyLeaf wc #hollypaw wc #LionBlaze wc #lionpaw wc #JayFeather wc

[warriorsdesignsnick]

FINALLY OMG

#jayfeather #jaypaw #jaykit #thunderclan

[plumousse]

Three kits with their mum

#squirrelflight #jaykit #jayfeather #hollykit #hollyleaf #lionkit #lionblaze #warrior cats #wc

[clangen]

Jayfeather in ClanGen (requested by @corvimalice)

#warrior cats #clangen #jayfeather #jaypaw #jaykit #thunderclan #loner #the rebels

[maeybatwarriorsdesigns]

#jayfeather #jaypaw #jaykit #warrior cats #warrior cats designs #warriorcats #warriors #fan art

[birdcanart]

sibling adventures!!

#hollyleaf #jayfeather #lionblaze #hollykit #jaykit #lionkit #wc #warriors #birdcanart #theyre all trans btw if u even care #tortie jay and lion rights #also lion is a SPITTING image of leafpool its very sus

[sunshades-frozen-sky-take-3]

The Silverpool supporters committee

#Wc #Wc au #Wc art #Warrior cats au #Warrior cats #Warrior cats art #My au #My art #Silverpool au #Mousefur #Silverstream #Jayfeather #Jaykit

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

So, blind eyes are not really any different from seeing ones, appearance wise. They usually aren't blank white, or cloudy, or anything like that.

Cats are a bit... Funny. Everyone knows thy cat pupils grow and shrink when they take in light in order to adjust so they can still see. But... When their eyes are not taking in any light due to blindness, it results in their pupils being quite large. They also do not have the "blank white eyes" or silver eyes or anything like that.

In other words draw Jayfeather like this:

Source: Ivar the blind cat @/ivartheincredibleblindcat on instagram.

#warrior cats #warriors #jaykit #jaypaw #jayfeather #ivar the blind cat #blindness #no but seriously #we as a fandom need to stop using ableist stereotypes in fanart #its been said time and time again you wouldn't know jayf is blind just by looking at him #also ivar is as spicy as jayf #both are mean

[cricketclan]

FINALLY moon 9 is here. also i love pumpkinkit sm

also Duskcatcher wanted to hang out more with Alderstar this moon. And Shrewmoss was led to the clan by a Starclan cat, and considering the only cat in Starclan is the guide and Rushpelt I decided itd be Rushpelt who led her there

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#cricketclan #cricketart #clan generator #clangen #duskcatcher #birchfur #warrior cats #sporekit #olivepaw #shrewmoss #jaykit #umberkit #stoatkit #rabbitkit #pumpkinkit #art

[winterbuttons]

Squirrel and her babies

#warrior cats #warriors fan art #wc art #wc fanart #my art #warriors #thunderclan #wc squirrelflight #squirrelflight #jayfeather #jaykit #hollyleaf #hollykit #lionblaze #lionkit #the power of three

[nimblewarriorsdesigns]

Requestttttt

#warrior cats #warrior cats designs #warriors designs #Jayfeather #Medicine cat #Jaypaw #Jaykit #thunderclan