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a bunch of kitty cat headshots for characters w/maybe more fun hair!

can you guess who's who?? ;D

Shinepaw's not very well visible so I edited the image to hopefully show it better:

List of all cats and their pelt colors etc. below (left to right, up to down):

Crowfeather - blue with low white spotting (for the blue eyes). Shorthair.

Breezepelt - black with amber eyes, shorthaired (with lynx tips).

Nightcloud - black with amber eyes, longhaired (with lynx tips). Some white flowers as an accesory.

Birchfall - chocolate silver tabby (broken mackerel) with low white spotting. Shorthaired, amber eyes (and totally a pop singer per a somewhat old voice headcannon).

Appleshine - fawn ticked tabby with low white spotting. Amber eyes, shorthaired.

Feathertail - blue silver tabby (mackerel) with low white spotting. Blue eyes, longhaired.

Rootspring - (hopefully) golden chocolate tabby (ticked) (possibly chinchilla?) with low white spotting. Longhaired, blue eyes and a leaf for an accessory.

Goldenpaw - (hopefully, again) chocolate classic tabby with a nice dose of rufousing. And low white spotting. Pale yellow eyes, longhaired.

Shinepaw - black with low white spotting. Amber eyes, shorthair.

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Another drawing rather heavily based off of (or traced from?) a picture of my cat. This time it's of Violetshine!

I haven't actually read AVoS... but sure!

Black siamese point. Low white spotting (pretty sure that's because of her salmiak mom). Longhaired, with yellow eyes and a violet flower accessory.

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the two brothers playing!

Jayfeather - blue spotted tabby with low white spotting, shorthair. He has a somewhat longer muzzle than most cats. While I did draw him earlier with cloudy (?) eyes, I think healthy-looking eyes are actually the more canon version (despite being described as "blind" repeatedly).

Lionblaze - black sunshine, classic tabby. Longhaired with amber eyes. How accurate is the pelt colour? Who am I to judge. Could he just be red? Maybe. He probably is! But this is cool.

v non-shaded version under the cut

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Hi! I really like how you draw cats- It's like the perfect blend of realistic and cartoony. I am curious how you learned? Like via certain tutorials or references or anything? If you remember and want to share, ofc :)

And if you want a cat suggestion to draw: Leafpool and/or Squilf!

Have a nice day!

hello and thank you!!

I've been drawing cats for quite a while now, so I guess my "main" art style for them is the result of many things. Some art tips someone reposted online, looking at pictures of cats (and actual live cats, too) and scribbling over them, seeing what feels right... I guess in that way tracing might be something I should actually go back to more often, try to understand cat anatomy better and be more accurate with posing (it's easy to just... stop trying to learn more, after all). I think my hopefully-realistic pelt designs may stem from the same thing - drawn references (and some written descriptions) combined with looking at photos and real cats to see how much cats' coats can vary.

But I doodle, too! Because sometimes you just don't want to fix and fix things, just draw. And also - it's kinda cute.

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It is her, Leafstar!

Chocolate tortoiseshell, smoke (with mackerel ghost markings), low white spotting. She has amber eyes and short fur.

I think she might not have canon white spotting right now - a bunch of her most recent official art gives her a white muzzle, but it could be a tabby thing. Her "SkyClan and the Stranger" design seems to have really drilled into my head that deep brown and white design, though ;)

Not sure if her coloring is completely realistic, but it looks nice, and that's what matters, right?

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some fun Changing Skies doodles where I draw a lynx without a reference

I do like the idea of Moonpaw/MoonXYZ and ThunderClan's medics being friends, and Alder and Jay supporting her. It's cute. Don't mind the "starting a country" part.

Also Birchfeather's (brown tabby) "M" mark makes him look kinda mad but he's not ;)

I'm not sure Tawnypelt's gonna make it to the end of the last book tbh. Squirrelstar - maybe? But if she doesn't, I wonder if we'll get someone else instead of Ivystar... I also like the idea of Starlingpaw & Moonpaw becoming friends eventually!

pelt babbling under the cut!

Image 1:

Birchfeather - chocolate tabby (broken mackerel), longhair (he used to be lilac but this might be closer to that "pale brown" description)

Ridgeglow - cinnamon with low white spotting, longhair (but I may have forgotten about that)

Cat 1 - black x black silver chimera (which may have been inspired by Moonpaw designs)

Cat 2 - red (mackerel)

Cat 3 - blue smoke, longhair

Image 2:

Moonpaw/MoonXYZ - red (broken mackerel) x black tortoiseshell (mackerel) chimera, both non-agouti and longhaired

I think I do like her current design. Even if it takes super long to draw a fullbody.

Alderheart - red classic tabby with low white spotting

Jayfeather - blue spotted tabby with low white spotting

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Moonbeam and Dusksong (Moonpaw and Voicekit)

A good ending where Voicekit learns about love etc. and is able to move on.

(because I don't like children villains being unreformable and getting a forever punishment)

pelts and other babbling under the cut v

Moonpaw - chimera of red (broken mackerel) and black tortoiseshell (mackerel), both non-agouti and longhaired. The two sides of her face have a different eye and eyebrow shapes as well as different side-of-head fluff and whiskers.

I linked her curled ear tufts to the tortoiseshell side, which now I realize doesn't make all that much sense since her very similar red sister has them too. Oh well.

Her adult name is Moonbeam here because I like it and maybe it can make some symbolic sense further on, being a beam of light? Also it's her mentor's suffix so that's fun, right?

also she has like a clouded moon pattern on her torso

Voicekit - red (broken mackerel), non-agouti, longhaired

Her name is Dusksong here because 1) I think she'd prefer to have a full warrior name rather than a kit one & 2) it references both her Moonpaw link (while not being too close) and her being, well, The Voice

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Pebbleshine - fawn she-cat with the salmiak pattern of white spotting. Green-eyed, shorthair. Her tail is longer than usual and kinda thick.

this time it's my babbling that's below!

I wanted to incorporate the salmiak pattern into a design somewhere, especially since that science article about genetics responsible was published, and I finally had a chance to reasonably do so! Her family members might've gotten some non-canon white spots, but whatever! :D

Apparently not all salmiak cats are into the white spots thing, so she doesn't have them. Does she still pass as speckled? Maybe. I think she might.

Also, plants! Fun.

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Ivypool (ThunderClan) and Dovewing (ShadowClan) (sisters)!

Aww, they're getting along ;)

Apparently Ivypool is supposed to look way more like Dovewing? I made Thriftear and Flipclaw non-dilute though, sooo uhhh whoopsies? There is at least one official design of her that's black silver so maybe it's fine.

The background is supposed to be 2 plants, one for Ivy and one for Dove, but it really does remind me of Earth at the top there, haha.

↓ Open this for pelt colour and other descriptors as well as art of them seperate! [blue and green text ahead]

Ivypool: shorthair black silver tabby (mackerel) with high white spotting, blue eyed and rather muscular

Dovewing: longhair blue smoke (ticked ghost markings) with low white spotting*, green eyed, ears slightly curled

*the white spotting was, I think, just because of my Shadowsight design including white, but it ended up helping with achieving a canon-adjacent design for one of her grandkits!

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NOTE: All of these might get drawn in the future, this is just something that might help with nearby decisions. The pairs I might draw as headshots, but we'll see.

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Molewhisker and Cherryfall of ThunderClan (brother and sister)

Chocolate siblings! Well, one of them also has fawn and another is a tortie (and canonically doesn't even have chocolate)... but don't take it away from them

↓ pelt colours & stuff

Molewhisker - chocolate x fawn (chimera), both shorthaired

Cherryfall - chocolate tortoiseshell, longhaired, has lentigo (underlying tabby pattern - broken mackerel)

(both amber-eyed)

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Smallear of ThunderClan

Please do NOT take this drawing as a reliable reference for drawing cats, especially with the right cats' pelt colour! Thank you.

Another more-than-one art of a cat! This time it's two designs for Smallear! The right one had some changes done to the design while coloring this, so isn't perfect, but oh well haha

↓ coat colour & body details

LEFT (canon-based): blue, shorthair

RIGHT (canon & genetics-based): theoretically black smoke sepia-albino (Burmese-albino) with low white spotting, longhair

BOTH: curled and smaller than the norm ears, amber eyes

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Blossomfall of ThunderClan

I decided to make her white petal spots vitiligo (though adding a few spots to her "base coat" anyway, since I think they were mentioned when she was a kit) - I imagine the spots might've started showing during Power of Three

Longhaired chocolate tortoiseshell with low white spotting. Red tortie spots - spotted tabby.

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･*✧ cozy season ✧*･

here's a drawing of Bumblebee, the princess of the Princedom of the Great Oak and leader of the River District! She's still pretty young, but all cats of the Princedom respect her opinions.

(that universe is inspired by both Warriors and Cattails - even though personally I'm not sure I'll ever decide to play the latter haha)

(supposedly longhaired black classic tabby, either golden or sunshine, but she's not super realistic ;) )

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a non-resized version of my submission for the Warrior Cats site's art challenge! it's a scene from... uh... "Thunder" chapter 2 or 3?

yeah I didn't read ASC

anyway keep reading for the pelt colour choices [standard & yellow text]:

Nightheart - black with yellow petal accessories, amber eyes

Sunbeam - longhaired chocolate classic tabby with over 50% white, yellow eyes (white spotting based on the official silhouette)

Bayshine - red ticked tabby (non-agouti) with under 50% white, green eyes (he's canonically tabby but I think ticked looks nice on him)

Myrtlebloom - chocolate ticked tabby with under 50% white (as a white spot on her chest; consequence of high white Dewnose), amber eyes (no canon stripes)

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THE warrior cat

this is Firestar's simplified design! I am pretty fond of it haha

(red mackerel tabby, shorthair, with lynx tips going a bit backwards to "realistify" a fire-like ear design)

I also tried to add some flame-like elements with his tail-tip and shoulder marking/stripe.

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He may be a background character but I do quite like him - Stagleap of WindClan!

canonically dark brown, but I gave him low white (to make his daughter, Morningflower, have high white)

and uh, he has more white than he probably would if I designed him now, but I think it fits him

Also tried to make him look somewhat stag-like (while keeping his sturdiness)!