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Ahh these look so good!

i love fiercestripe shes such a good mom

I love her too! She and Rosehipkit are 2 of my favorite characters of all of the 1000 moons I've played through and I am so glad that so many other people love her as well! This is the first drawing I ever did of Loudclan characters and it was, of course, of my favorite married couple (even if I wasn't sure quite what they would look like yet):

My goober got an updated pfp!

I'm really happy with how this one turned out-

I feel like in the past her art lacked a kind of "joy" to them, but this one feels a lot happier.

Past ones for reference(my sona has gotten a few redesigns)

Not a ClanGen artwork, but these are some more cats!

The brown and red she-cat is Thornymane, the white cat with the sunflower patch is Specklemoth(Thorny's adopted daughter), and the black and white cat with jewelry is Glowseeker. Thornymane and Specklemoth are a part of their clan Medicine cats, however, they're known as No-Claws in this world. While Glowseeker is from another clan that she leads.

These cats are part of a Role Play I'm a part of that's been going strong for roughly half a year now.

(As a side note Glowseeker is like- WAY bigger than Thorny, however drawing this I was not aware... oops)

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

I love this community sm!

New Clan

Orchid Clan is now in the works! Most likely it will feature little sketches and will be using the main character mod.

Bloody Bay Spirit

Bloody Bay Spirit... haha... the Clans "trusted" Tooth and Claw. ...

Heavy Pelt

Heavy Pelt! He's a strict tom but darn if he doesn't love kits<3

Aprilwind is owned by my friend Poke.

Aprilwind is a tactical organized cat who belongs to Lunar Clan, she's affectionate with a very loyal spirit.