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I love stained glass.

This was largely inspired by this collection of photos; I'd been wanting to do a redraw of an old stained glass founders drawing from a while back and it was such a perfect reference I knew I had to give it a go. It kinda fits into my medieval au, although it's a lot more extravagant than is probably realistic lol.

Some fun things to note:

It's based off of the ending of The First Battle with the founders swearing their devotion to Starclan. It's more supposed to depict how the modern clans (or kingdoms) remember the mythology rather than being an unbiased depiction of events.

It's displayed at four trees, hence the oak leaves bordering each window.

When Sky's Kingdom left the forest Cloudstar broke Skystar's window in anger. Rather than repair it the other monarchs just removed the window entirely.

The two skeletons represent Jackdaw's Cry and Falling Feather; I imagine they're remembered as a cautionary tale about the dangers of sharing blood across kingdom borders (as well as representing the mass grave buried beneath four trees)

Storm is remembered as the first angel of Starclan and is said to be the one who covers the stars and moon with clouds to show Starclans anger.

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jayfeather & half moon

(redraw of an old piece)

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we are the same / the same / but different

based on this post

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the thunderclan gossips

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collect my butches

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Ravenpaw and Barley sketch request I did as part of an Indie Bookshop Day reward…it turned out very cute so I’m reposting here ✨🐁

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CAN I GET A SPOTTEDLEAF PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE shes my favvv :3

triple spottedleaf attack!!

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Another Warriors release, another secret jacket cover illustration! You might be sensing a theme for these so far... : 3

Process shots and rambling under the cut!

I had a really strong mental image for this one going in (bright pink and orange flame to contrast with the bright blue normal cover), so I think I only sent in the one (fairly involved) thumbnail sketch. Color is a big part of how I work, so I like coloring my roughs.

After we got approval to move forward, I cleaned up the digital sketch and passed that off to Sara, who "inked" with a chunky graphite pencil for that extra crunchy storybook texture. This gets scanned in, tidied up a bit and painted digitally.

I loooove how this one came out...Sara and I draw comics all the time but illustration feels like something different. It's nice to get to flex a little and have some fun.

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Signing venue gift paintings! I forgot to scan these before packing them up, oops 😔

Graphite, colored pencil, watercolor

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Mothwing

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That one panel in the new fire and ice graphic novel

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Sasha, tigerclaw

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what makes bluestar so compelling is how often her fairness is often turned against her. she helps drive out brokenstar from shadowclan and bring back windclan only to have them team up to attack her, she spares brokenstar's life and he teams up with tigerclaw to attack them, she continuously gives tigerclaw the benefit of the doubt and he betrays her. her devotion to her own notions of fairness and justice, notions that often contradict what clan culture says one should be, continuously blow up in her face. she was told she was going to blaze through the forest like fire and now this is all she can see.

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Look, I just really wanted to see what he'd look like loafing lol

Tigerclaw my beloved <3

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thank fuck for this change to making it more explicitly cinderpelt's choice to be a medcat while also pointing out it wouldn't be impossible for her to be a warrior. it always was her choice, mind you, but a proper conversation between the two is appreciated.

really hoping that the tnp graphic novel team doesn't fumble this by keeping in that stupid crush retcon.

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fullbody design for cinderpelt

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lovely teacher and her student.