#spottedleaf

[wc-confessions]

i dont hate the idea of firepaw having a crush on spottedleaf or cinderpaw on fireheart (even tho shes a lesbian 2 me) i think theyre cute and realistic fleeting childhood crushes. what i do hate is how the erins (n the fandom at large..) are incapable of understanding and depicting fleeting childhood crushes and they have to turn them into lifelong enamourment and obsession. like firestar seriously considering choosing spottedleaf in starclan over his real living wife of 30 years or cinderpelt being rewarded for not pursuing fireheart (???) with cinderheart dating his grandson. it just seems overdramatic and yucky to me. theres a whole lot more examples of this in warriors but first arc thunderclan meddies get done especially dirty for some reason

ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅ

[bigeggeaterjustsaying]

I don't like how it refers to spottedleaf as his lovely or first love that's so evil dude so disgustanf

[mouzefur]

if we call squirrelflight squilf can we start calling spottedleaf speaf

[spenceillustrates]

I haven’t shared these yet! These are 6 illustrations from my university project that was based on warriors! I chose to draw 6 scenes from Into the Wild from the 1st arc!

[redactedhaunt]

warrior cats but furry fashion!!!! I loved drawing all these girls, yellowfang+bluestar is so butch 4 butch to me ^.^ probably gonna work on more of these

[climbdraws]

thunderclan medicine cats

[dragonocat]

my vision of the medieval warriors, Firestar’s leader ceremony

it was hella hard to draw

[natalieriess]

FIRE ALONE...CAN SAVE OUR CLAN...

Full illustration from the hardcover jacket cover of WARRIORS: THE PROPHECIES BEGIN Volume 1 + some details!

Process, WIPs and detail rambling under the cut:

Sara and I rarely get to do detailed, non-comic page illustration work, and wanted to get some painterly texture to set this apart from regular comic panels. We did some tests early on in the process:

(inked lineart on the left and graphite lineart on the right)

Sara used some soft, chunky (8B!!!) graphite pencils to get the storybook texture we ended up going with. I also used a gritty digital "gouache" brush to softly paint the whole illustration, and used a watercolor texture overlay I had on hand for added crunch.

These are the rough sketches I sent in to our editor and designer- I normally do a rough color pass at this stage. It's a little extra work, but it's worth it to not feel totally lost on color later in the process.

(Pencils by Natalie, printed and handed off to Smo, who "inks" with a heavy graphite pencil)

More WIPs...I think it looked pretty good in black and white too, honestly!

Thanks everyone for all of your kind words about the book so far! I'm already drawing volume three ;w; see you in a year!

[hacemorra-death-gremlin]

The graphic novel is awesome epic swag i redrew one of my favorite frames! In crayon bc i've been in a crayon kick.

[powderseas]

starclan's puppet

[sorasuma]

A cat page with the warriors of the thunder clan. On the page: Spottedleaf, Firestar, Cloudtail, Berrynose, Longtail.

[weevile-mantis]

Art dump part 3/??

Reblogs appreciated more than likes

[wistreamd]

Spottedleaf

[needlefail]

Spottedleaf design inspired by this cat statue I stumbled across!!

[sorreltail]

spottedleaf became the sole medicine cat of thunderclan only a couple of moons before the events of into the wild, when a greencough pandemic raging through thunderclan took featherwhisker’s life (as well as poppydawn and five unknown kits). mousefur is always there for her when the weight of her duty is too heavy to bear alone, but spottedleaf’s new responsibility plants fresh seeds of fear in their minds about the future of their relationship.

[exocynraku]