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Part 1 of Stormclan's Folly allegiances! There are some cats (all the leaders, Birdflight and co, a couple others) that I have already drawn previously, so they won't be here. These names are certainly... something... Um anyways first up is WIndclan! We got deputy Pebblenose and his totally completely platonic 'friend' Thrushcall, med cat Goldenleaf, then Huntheart, a warrior. Ripplegrass is the mother of Galestar and Crowflight, and Squirrelbrush is Galestar's mentor. I know red is kinda traditional with the Squirrel- prefix, but I kinda wanted to base her off of a fox squirrel so I did. After them is Icefoot and Crowflight herself, then Mudsplash and Berryfall, then Peaktail and Harewhisker. After is Flash, I like that there's an implied backstory with his name being just one word, and Spotnose. After is Petalstep and her apprentice Harepaw, and then finally elders Gustwhisker and Dustflower. I like the idea of Gustwhisker being Galestar's father, but of course it isn't confirmed, so I tried to toe the line between making him look related and also not related to her. After them all is Riverclan, who only had two new cats so I just stuck them in here. Deputy Floatweed and med cat Shineflower.

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Surprise!! Warrior Cat redesigns!! This time it's basically all of Bluestar's family besides her kits. The Bluestar here is old, she already got a redesign a while ago. First up is Daisytoe and Rooktail, Rooktail sporting a man-bun? Man-pony? Idk. Daisytoe's a lot more speckled to match on Goosefeather. Next is Moonflower! She's the one that sparked this redesign pack lol, her and Stormtail, I just couldn't stand looking at them anymore. Bluestar got the chest and nose marking from Stormtail, and Snowfur got her chest marking from Moonflower, who got a variant of it from Daisytoe. Then is Goosefeather!! I originally wasn't going to redo Goosefeather, but when I was doing Thistleclaw I really wanted him to have a white face, but I thought it would clash with Goosefeather's pale face. I started to sketch out an idea for Goose and then it was done. Daisy is a warm grey and Rook is cool toned, so Moon is warm grey and Goose is cool grey :) After is Snowfur! She probably changed the least, but she does look different! I made her cheek fur sharper to help better reflect her personality in canon, I will admit I was led astray by the fanon for a while 😓 Then Thistleclaw, sporting some new eyebrows. And finally Whitestorm, now long furred and free from sharing a ref pic with Thistle!! He's got eyebrows, inspired from the graphic novel, and a bit of a mustache because I thought it suited him.

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The new cats!! Again!! Yeah uh, so since I did the new kits/apprentices in The Elder's Quest before information about all their parents came out, I felt I should revisit the ones that needed adjustments. Myrtle and Flip's kits didn't seem to need any changes, and the rest of them we knew their parents right from the get-go, so they're fine. First up is Moonpaw and The Voice! Voice is probably gonna get a proper name in the next book, making this slightly obsolete but idc anymore. I wasn't completely satisfied with Moonpaw's first design, so I kept chipping away at it and eventually came up with this. Orange on the body got simplified, black stayed mostly the same. A lot more moon imagery! I think her crescent moon ear tufts kinda look like antenna lol, but it's fitting. Voicepaw was going to be in the ref with Moonpaw but I ran outta room. She's spiky, like the star to her sister's moon. This is like the only time you're gonna see pure white on a character's design, and even now technically it isn't "white" it's just transparency. After, Heronkit and Eelkit; Heronkit got the arm thingy and a curled tail from her father, and Eelkit is the same, I like his design too much to change it rn <3. Then Rustlekit and Stretchkit; Rustlekit got eyelash markings from his father, and Stretchkit got the hair tuft thingys from her father's side, they show up on Whistle too. I also reworked the "white markings" on her face. Then Silkypaw and Fluffpaw, no -y on Fluffpaw!!, the dark paws are from their father, and the chest markings from their mother. I tried to make Silkypaw look a bit like his maternal aunt Swallowtail. I think Fluffpaw looks like a chipmunk here lol. Finally is Redpaw and Sprucepaw! A lot of Redpaw is the same, the tail and legs markings come from his mother, as well as the ear spots. I was aiming for an amber eye color but landed on that bright red instead and thought 'hey this looks good'. Sprucepaw gave me some trouble in the planning stages of the design, in the end I just sorta winged it and I quite like how it turned out. She's got a tooth gap :) The spiky pattern of the light on her face comes from her father, and on her body from Dove, her grandmother.

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Soo... I hadn't really planned on doing another round of redesigns yet, and actually had other cats in mind I wanted to redesign before most of these. But, uh, we had a break day and I guess inspiration and motivation hit like a fervor! I did a sketch of a new design for Hollytuft and suddenly I had finished new designs for all of Lion and Cinder's kits. Hollytuft got more tufts/spikes, and I caved into giving her yellow eyes. Fernsong is pretty similar to the old design, I just gave him more fluff and shifted his colors. Originally it was a more sandy palette, but then I thought he looked too much like Sandstorm, so I made him more yellow. RIP to Weasel Sorrelstripe. I gave her much darker fur, and some fluff. The heart under the eye is meant to be a reflection of her grandma, giving a better reason visually to share a name. Pant markings are for her children's sake. Onto the younger litter, Flywhisker got a lot darker and lankier, also sharper. Yellow eyes, and the back marking is meant to resemble fly wings, a sort of mutation of Cinder's similar back markings. I also tried to make Flywhisker look the most like Cinder. Then Snaptooth, whose coloring stayed mostly the same, just added more of the light color and simplified the coat design. Also he and Flywhisker have collars now! His is mostly hidden by chest/mane fluff. Then is Spotfur, whose design probably needed an update the most. I really thought I had given her blue eyes before, huh. But she has them now! Bit the bullet and made her more visually grey, however if you do color picking she is a very warm grey, toeing the line into what I would start to consider brownish. I'd imagine the six of them, tallest to shortest, would be: Holly, Snap, Sorrel, Fly, Fern, and Spot, with Sorrel and Fly being almost the same height.

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Surprise!! Some redesigns!! I've been thinking of redesigning these guys for a while now, and decided to do it! First is Miss Star Flower, I didn't really like the original even when I first drew it, but just never really had a good idea of how I wanted to redesign her. Finally I sat down and did a whole page in my little sketchbook trying to get a design I liked, even had to go to Picrew for a bit of help (that's where the black came from). I swore I saw a design once, where the tip of the tail fur came back over and made a star shape, but I could not find it anywhere. I incorporated a version of that, as well as a star mane, star back marking, and redid the star face marking too. Next is Thornclaw, his design probably changed the least out of all of them, but I still thought he could use a touch up. I reverted back to a very old design I made back in 2018 for his eyes, which I think look cool :) Next is Shellfur who changed drastically, now he looks more like his mom. After is Barley! I didn't like how simple his design was in the first, I felt it needed more. It was very hard to find other designs with more than two colors for Barley, but I do like what I ended up with! His little black markings on his muzzle turn into a mustache as he gets older. And finally Blazefire! Now with 70% more fire! I've had an idea for how I wanted to redesign Blazefire for a while now, and it's nice to finally have it official.

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Hi so uh, here are the rest of them! New apprentices and kits for every clan! Up first are Sunbeam and Nightheart's kits, Goldenpaw and Shinepaw. I'm pretty happy with how these two came out, if I go into every trait and where it came from I'd run outta room for this post 😅 Next is Redpaw and Sprucepaw from Shadowclan, unknown parentage. I tried to channel the classic light stripes on darker body from like 2013 era Warrior Cats with Sprucepaw. Then is Robinpaw and Starlingpaw, kits of Needleclaw and Kitescratch. I only noticed just now that Kitescratch's line has been named after birds which I think is adorable 💕💕 Then, Silkypaw and Fluffypaw (yes actually) from Windclan, unknown parentage. You forced my hand, here is what I consider to be silky and fluffy, though these are more on the extreme end. After is the new kits! First is Oakkit, Sunkit, and Hazelkit, children of Myrtlebloom, unknown father. Then Quickkit, Beechkit, and Poolkit, children of Lightleap and Blazefire. Poolkit is meant to be leucistic, it was the only way I could justify her being "white". Beechkit is the Tigerclone. And Quickkit looks like his great-grandfather. After them is Rustlekit and Stretchkit, children of Appleshine, and Heronkit and Eelkit, children of Floatshimmer. For all of the kits without a named father I have a best guess in mind, but it was still frustrating bc I'd want to use a trait from the father's line, but I want those traits to stay unique to that line, and without confirmation I can't give the trait to the kit. Blergh.

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I ran outta tags for the last post, so here are the other six new warriors!

Windclan (Part 2) is Leafcurl, Branchleap, and Grassfur. Leafcurl's name is so cute and unique and then her siblings get the basic -leap and -fur suffixes lmaoo. Then in Riverclan, Rapidsplash, Floatshimmer, and Troutshine. Phew. The new kits and apprentices are gonna take a little longer to come out, it was a stroke of luck that the preview was released on the one day I don't have classes lol.

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Sooo, the preview for Changing Skies: The Elder's Quest released... And with it so many new characters/character names!!! SO MANY. I counted and there's 21 new warriors and 18 new cats. So here are the new warriors! I speedran this after the preview was posted. There are six missing, and will be in a separate post bc I ran out of tags 😔 These designs are pretty much the exact same as the kits, with very minor changes, if at all.

Starting in Thunderclan there is Wafflepelt, Bristleclaw, Stemtail, and Graywhisker. Then in Shadowclan, Birchfeather, Bloompetal, Streamripple, Firbark, and Whisperbreeze. Bloompetal's personality in the excerpt is eveything I dreamed it would be. Then in Skyclan, Beesting (AHSHBDHB), Beetleshine, Ridgeglow, and Duskshine. And then Windclan (Part 1) is Stripeheart and Brookripple. Did we ever get a conformation on who the father is of them?

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WOOOO FINALLY STAR IS OUT Spoilers below the cut, obviously, but I think most of the spoilers are from the names...

So to start off, we have the Riverclan triplets in Graysky, Mistpool, and Frostdawn. Graysky and Mistpool are mostly the same, but there are still a few changes. Frostdawn changed completely. I came up with this new design for her ages ago, but I wanted to wait until she got her full name to post it. The waiting took FOREVER. The smaller scar on her neck is from Splashtail's first attack on her, it was initially a much larger wound, however the advanced medical care from the Twolegs made it heal better and therefore left a smaller scar. TNR ear tip, and I'd imagine the flank scar would go away after a while, but I thought I should put it anyway. After them is Whistlebreeze! A duller brown but still brown. I don't know what to call the little tufts of fur under her cheek fur, but I really like them on her <3. Then is newly crowned Icestar! You go girlie I am eagerly awaiting new PMVs and MAPs about you now that you're in the spotlight. I included below where the star would have gone on her old design, I didn't change the design because the star wouldn't fit, I changed it because she needed a new design; I wasn't satisfied with the old one anymore. After is Splashtail. Okay, look - his old design is nice to look at, but there's just too much going on. It's not cohesive, and I was having trouble remembering all the little details. So here's a new one. Gave him little fangs as a trade off for changing it so drastically again. Then is Berryheart, her design didn't really change I just wanted to fix her shapes and make the colors more contrasting. Then is Riverstar, whose design really changed. I think he looks like a blue jay now. And finally a new design for Dark Forest Curlfeather. It's the exact same base design, but now with her visceral death wounds. Oh and the curls/spirals on her body are more squarish in death, just to make them look more dense or matted.

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Part two of the Ivypool's Heart cats: All of the wildcats! Spoilers under the cut.

OKAY SO I thought I would have a harder time trying to make SIXTEEN tabby wildcat designs, having never drawn a design for this type of wildcat ever before, but I actually had fun with it. Had to do a couple practice sketches in my notebook to get the overall shape and feel down, but I think they came out alright. I found that image at the very end on a TikTok of someone talking about the European Wildcat (assumed to be the ones in the books), and I thought I'd put it here since it was a big help to me for designing these guys. If you look you'll notice that some of the wildcats look less like the 'pure' European wildcat; Strike Slash with his white underside, Purr Roll's bouncy fur, and some look more; Bound Hunt and Leap Growl. The thought process here was that over time with Galestar's line and other hybridizations the wildcats would become more hybridized, slowly drifting away from the 'pure' European wildcat. Bound Hunt is, in this respect, an example of what a completely non-hybridized wildcat would look like, and follows much of the image from that TikTok.

ANYWAYS, to start we have Tumble Leap and Stalk Purr, the first two wildcats the traveling cats meet, and their three kits Pounce Whisper, Stretch Blink, and Hunt Leap. Then is Bound Hunt, Galestar's second mate. And after is Strike Slash and Wish Stalk, who are also mates, and Claw Stretch and her daughter Hop Scratch. Then the elders Prowl Sleek, Hunt Growl, and Spring Claw. And finally the spirit guides of Whisper Claw for Pounce Whisper, Leap Growl for Tumble Leap, and Purr Roll for Stalk Purr.

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Part one of Ivypool's Heart cats! Spoilers under the cut:

First up is Galestar of Stormclan, formerly of Windclan. She might be one of my new favorite leaders y'all... I put her and Stripestar's unnamed kits here, bc I figured any content made of Galestar would at least include her first litter as well. The hair and tail are supposed to be curled at the ends there, it was difficult for me to draw it so hopefully it translates lol. Next is Stripestar of Stormclan, formerly of Thunderclan, and Rosebush who might be named Shadebush? Idk, I went with Rosebush since that's what the wiki has. Rosebush was Thunderclan before Stormclan. Then Whitebreeze and Swiftwing, who were both Windclan before Stormclan. All of them with living eyes even though we only see them in Starclan. Next up is Slate and Beach, sons of Flurry from the Sisters. Beach has a scar on his flank from the infected wound. Y'all don't even know how disappointed I was to read that he was a dark tabby, I was so sad, I had a sand-colored design drawn up before I had even gotten the book :( At least I could bring over the fluffy hair tuft and freckles. After them is hostile kittypet gang No. 200; Pumpernickel, Zeke, and Curry. And finally is Jake the Other One, and Sweetums, whom Tempest was said to take a liking to. Jake wasn't described with a fish hook earring, but I wanted to give him a little something extra to help differentiate him more from the expansive list of black and white cats. It was going to be a crab claw at first, but I changed it.

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Okay look, I know I usually put the old version of the design first, so it's like reading it from then to now, but that means when I get a notification on the post, the old art is what shows up in the thumbnail, and it kinda throws me off, sooo I'm changing it. New art first.

Anyways first up is Tawnypelt!! She is one of the most redesigned cats, I have such a hard time getting a design I like for her. Sorta same story as in the previous post; I like her old design, but not enough for her as a protagonist, if that makes any sense? If she stayed as a side character then I think I'd be fine with the old design the way it was, but now that's she's a protagonist I wanted to change it. Then is the one and only Moonpaw!! :3 Her body design has stayed pretty much the same throughout design testing. Next is fixing up the new kits to follow the Super Edition's allegiances preview thing. I put Leafkit on the new one even though her design didn't change so that I wouldn't need to pull up two separate images in any drawings. Branchkit and her are now twinsies! And Grasskit is described as auburn?? Gave that a shot, most of her body design is taken from Branchkit's old one, I thought it was a better blend of their parents than Grasskit's old one. Then is Rapidkit, Floatkit, and Troutkit. Rapidkit and Floatkit pretty much swapped most of their design elements, and Troutkit got some spots and color changes. And thennn Russetfur!!! Wow! I did NOT like her old design, so here's a much better one.

Tawnypelt design extras under the cut

Y'all,, okay, so Tawnypelt's design gave me so much trouble omg.... You can see I started tweaking it in May, three months ago. All of these were Tawnypelt design concepts that I didn't like for one reason or another. I knew I wanted some yellow in there for her mother but that was kinda it. I know split face is popular with her, but with Moonpaw being split faced already I didn't want to make Tawnypelt also one. Too much white in the face was the problem with the first two, then not enough, then I took a break and came back at it with a full page of just throwing stuff at the wall (and a scrapped Branchkit idea hehe). I sorta wanted her to also have some brown, but I couldn't get it to look right so I scrapped it, then I tried a sort of lykoi style, which I thought looked cool but ultimately decided against, then got to the last two where I was trying alternating black and brown, and I liked how the first one on the end looked on paper, but when I put it in digitally there wasn't enough black so I ended up going for all black instead. And here we are now 😁 I very much hope that I like this design enough to keep it around for a while.

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Redesigns! Yay! This batch is of Leafstar and her family, plus Echosong. When I saw that Leafstar was one of the protagonists for The Elder's Quest arc, I wanted to go back and touch up her design. And that led to doing everyone else's also lol. For Leafstar, I really liked her first design here, so I kept most of it, like 90%, just made some of the markings simpler, easier to draw. Also I changed the colors slightly. Billystorm is pretty much the same as well, again changed the colors and made the red on the side of his face curve downward. Also redid the body shape, this one is more what I had intended before, just did it better here. Harrybrook got a different fur shape on his head, and a much lighter light color. Firefern is slightly more orange, added the flame mohawk and lighter flame pattern on her tail. Also extended the neck marking. Stormheart I darkened the orange, added a neckline to share with her sister and mother, made the other paw grey, and changed the face marking to look a bit more like Billystorm. Then Echosong. Her colors changed, and her face markings got completely redone, but her body is mostly the same. Originally she was more blue, like the old version, but I worried she looked too much like Feathertail, so I made her more warm-toned.

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Haiii, couple more redos and also new kits from Wind! First is Ashfur, literally the only thing I changed in his main design is the fur length on his head, everything else is exactly the same. I've been drawing him with this kinda longer fur style for a while, I've just made it official. Also went ahead and made a version for him in TBC, the way I do Starclan and Dark Forest cats meant that he probably had special features, I just didn't want to figure out what those were until now. Technically all Starclan cats should have a white glow and all Dark Forest cats a red, but I usually don't put it in for simplicity's sake. Next is Flametail, again the only thing that really changed was I made him fluffier. And ever so slightly changed his colors. The main reason why I wanted to do him was because everyone else in the original got an update, so I felt he should get one too.

Veeeerrrrryyyy light spoilers for Wind under the cut:

Wind gave us new kits!! I'll probably need to draw them again once they get full names but oh well. First are Rapidkit, Floatkit, and Troutkit of Riverclan. They are Haven and Sneeze's new litter, making them Splash and Fog's siblings (MEGA INTERESTING 👀👀👀). Rapidkit has a mullet like their big brother Splash :)) Then are Grasskit, Branchkit, and Leafkit of Windclan. They are Feather and Oat's new litter, making them Flutter, Song, and Whistle's siblings. Only Leafkit has a canon description and gender of all six so far, so we'll see how accurate my predictions are.

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Redesigns! I was kinda debating on holding off on these until after Wind came out (I'm hearing there are some new characters) but eventually just decided to post them now. First up are the twins and their other sibling, Spottedleaf, Redtail, and Willowpelt. Wanted to try out Spottedleaf Dark Mode, it was fun putting in a bunch of hearts in her design. If Spotted is Dark Mode, then I wanted Redtail to be Light Mode, and ofc Willowpelt can't miss out on all the wacky cheek fur action. Brackenfur's next, and his has been a long time coming. I think I liked his old design for like a week before it started to bother me, but I could never think of how to make it better. The chest fur is meant as a reference to his father, and I did most of the color picking from Honey and Seed. Then is Clear Sky/Skystar, and Thunder(star). I drew like 10 slightly altered versions of Clear Sky for this, and ofc the second one is what I go with. Cut down heavily on the white spotting, also tried to keep in the 'bloodsplatter' white on his face, it's just shifted over. Also one of the books described him with tufted ears which I thought was a wild idea, I'd like never seen any designs of him with tufted ears, so idk where they got that from. Generally if I do tufted ears, the ears are longer and pointier already, but I couldn't part with this particular ear shape for Clear Sky, so here we are. If I was changing Skystar I knew I would have to change Thunderstar. Most things stayed the same, actually, but I added stuff too. Tried to do a lightning bolt on his tail and above the paws, the tail took me like 100 tries to get right so we'll see how long that lasts. His white marking on the face is also meant to be lightning bolt-esque, while also looking like Clear Sky's white marking, just to make the two look more alike. Because seriously. How does grey cat + grey cat = bright orange/red??? They had no reason to make Thunder's mother a grey cat, she was alive for like one book and had no other ties to the clans. Clear Sky and Thunder also have a similar body shape, except Clear Sky is shorter than his son.

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the color palette used in this art by @rosemist50 is super pretty!! rosemist also has an adorable artstyle, i really love the joy in the characters' (berrylight and harvestfern) expressions. very cute art of two gals here <3

be sure to check out the original post and show the artist some love!

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Few more redesigns, yippie!!! First up are the twins, Hazeltail and Mousewhisker. I have been growing dissatisfied with Mousewhisker's design, and figured if I was redesigning him then I had to redesign Hazeltail as well. So I did. Next is Antpelt! There's a PMV on YouTube of Antpelt set to the song 'Brave as a Noun', and I seriously think it might be one of the best Antpelt designs I've ever seen. The color palette was inspired by that. I've seen some designs where his tail looks like an ant body, so I added that on as well :3. The main reason I wanted to redesign him was because I was tossing around an idea to make a Furzepelt PMV with the song Perfume by Lovejoy, and Antpelt was going to show up a lot at the start, so I had to go look at his design and yeesh. Up next is Tigerheartstar! His design really didn't change, I just wanted to fix up the colors. I had to pull up his reference for a drawing and the color palette I used originally really bothered me, so he got added to the redo list. Tried to make him more red-toned, like his father. Then finally is Pouncestep. Pouncestep has the exact same design, all of her other siblings had an update so I figured it was only fair to give her her own as well. Made her colors slightly warmer to match her mother's new slightly warmer colored design.