#hollypaw wc

[simbasomba]

[beaudesoleil]

thought

[thlaylistar]

Hollyleaf 🌿

[birbybrb]

did some rough sketches of The Three. I think they came out pwetty good!

[shummthechumm]

I get it now. (and im sorry)

[tinybug]

bro’s a cutie patootie

[tapolc]

Hollyleaf.

[lesbimeows]

51. hollyleaf paw kit

[warriorwhiskers]

cinderheart when hollyleaf revealed The Big Secret at the gathering or whatever:

is this something. anything at all.

[thisittybittykitty]

Just trying something out

I don't know whether i give Jayfeather white pupils or dark ones. I'd have done the white-pupil thing had i not heard someone say that a blind person said they'd not like that. I don't know where i heard it, i just did and now i'm not sure how to draw Jayfeather's eyes... Can someone tell me how i do it? Seriously, i want to know

This is inspired by this meme

By : Reggamuffin on Devianart

[simbasomba]

I feel like this blog is turning less into an art blog so here’s some late night warriors doodles

Look at the lil guy

[beaudesoleil]

passé et présent

[vibrant-the-artist]

Alright, the battle cats won. Here's some Hollyleaf and Lionblaze refs (+my thought process) I'll do their brother tomorrow.

oooohhhhh you want to commission me so badlllyyyy

A few thoughts went into Hollyleaf's design, one being 'Hey remember how Squirrelflight got that one white paw in reference to Scourge?" yeah, that. I decided to push that aspect here as well, with a lighter colored paw and a spiked marking around her neck. something something staying smaller than her brothers no matter how hard she tried.

Now the braid (and other wild hairstyles I'll be giving the cats) mainly comes from me going 'Fuck you this is a fantasy book series' but also because I think it can put more into each cats' personality if I give them this extra design trait that I can play with easily.

Hollyleaf, to my memory, starts off as a very careful kind of cat. Eager to prove herself and prove that she can be an important asset to the clan. As such I thought it would be fitting to give her a braid that mirrored this aspect, a piece of herself that she would need to spend time doing up in order to appear presentable to those around her (at least in her own eyes).

Obviously near the end of the arc the braid is coming undone, she can't maintain it when there are other things to worry about. When she gets trapped in the tunnels she chops it all off with Fallen Leaves' help, since, y'know, staying in a tight underground space with a long braid isn't ideal.

Hehe Lionblaze with a lion mane. I'm so original.

I wanted to try and keep a consistent roundness to the faces of the three to at least give them all something in common. Hollyeaf has a soft face but a spiky body, Lionblaze has a round face but a short and bulky build.

I also decided to keep the general idea from my last iteration of Lionblaze where he had a slow fire gradient to him.

Don't worry about old man Lionblaze having a braid with holly berries. It's fine. I decided to tell a lot of his age, once again, through hairstyle. With his apprentice form having a messy mop he doesn't know what to do with, to his prime having one that can actually resemble a lions mane, right back to messy mop when he's a granddad who's too old and too tired to care. Never change, Lionblaze.

Why the fuck does he have great grandkids.

[jayietheriverwarrior]

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

[shummthechumm]

when ur circle small but yall crazy (red & silver au)

more info under cut

my last hollyleaf art had me thinking...so i decided to give this another go and redesign midnight and fallen leaves along with it!

when i was originally creating for this au (via rewriting the entirety of po3 to oots) i was SUPER excited to get to holly's novella. problem was that i was like 14 and writing that many books on a whim clearly did not pan out. no harm no foul, but ive never let go of all the stuff i came up with for that unfinished novella rewrite.

there was some major lore dumps via midnight and rock, and hollyleaf was the audience vessel for learning why and how any of the canon divergence po3 prophecy stuff was happening anyway. fallen leaves' involvement in this au had always flickered in and out of existence, but I decided that if I were to write this now, he'd be there. in short, holly would be the first of the protagonists to be filled in on the lore stuff because she killed someone and locked herself away in the wackiness that is the po3-oots era lake territory tunnels.

i may have said a whole lotta nothing here but im trying to get more comfortable with posting my ideas without a HUGE HYPOTHETICAL project because i like sharing them but i get nervous if i don't present them "perfectly" so...here!!! expect more!!! what is up with midnight and rock and what have they been doing in those tunnels all this time?? stay tuned!!

[aleadom]

Hollyleaf illustration and design! Used to not care for her until recently. She is one of my fav now, traumatized golden child that doesn't know how to handle things after a life shattering event and breakdown.

Requests for Warrior cats to design are welcome!