Spoiler Warning

Spoiler warning

Long story short he's a cat who comes back with two of Protagonists of the latest arc from Riverstar's (Riverclan's first leader) home prior to coming to the forest territories

Okay gamers, what is going on

Like in general

Im not keeping up eith the current arc, what wafflepaw???? Waffle is interesting??? What bro do

dawn of the clans to

What happen 🧍

WHO IS WAFFLEPAW

Guys please what is waffles purpose

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🫵🫵🫵🫵YOU WANT WARRIOR CAT REQUESTS FOR ART? OK HERE'S MY REQUEST.

Redtail. That's it. I just like Redtail. :(( Maybe with Sandkit idk up to you

Hi Blues!! Thanks for the request!!! Hope ya like it❤️

This was my first time drawing retail, and omg his coloration was so fun to figure out.

if those spoilers are accurate this arc is going to be a trainwreck of previously unseen magnitude

ppl managing to live where they grew up is really bizarre to me

When you’re designing a cat with a more complicated non-solid fur pattern, like stripes or tortoiseshell, how to you find the balance between making it look full with pattern while also being somewhat recreatable?

(Gonna answer both these in one post since they're kind of relevant to each other!)

I break the design down into specific patterns with a bit of randomness incorporated as well!

This is the rough base pattern for Redtail and Spottedleaf, as an example. The goal is to keep these specific spots consistent and let the rest of the patterns just be random splotches to get a complete look!

Trivia bit: Spottedleaf used to have FIVE COAT COLORS and it was absolutely exhausting balancing them all out, so I cut out all but three, like most of the rest of the cast (the only other exception being Crookedstar, with four). Having three coat colors for every character helps make them feel like they're all part of the same world, and forces me to keep the designs relatively simple.

Here's a little step by step!

1. I lay down the rough dark tones on top of the base flats. I use a textured brush on Paint Tool SAI to get the splotchy look. Actually, every single character in the comic gets colored with their dark tones first, as they usually lay underneath the light tones.

2. I throw the light tones on, using a seperate layer for now.

3. Details! Including Redtail's fox marking on his nose, which is just much easier to do if I do the light tones on a seperate layer, lock the layer, and paint in a simple triangle. I also color the eyes differently if a character is closer or farther away; for more distant characters, I just do four tones, two for the sclera (eye white) and two for the pupil and iris. Closer characters get a full proper three color gradient in their eyes.

I hope that helps!! ;v;

My Frecklewish headcanon is that she’s adamant that her being in the Dark Forest is a mistake (it is), but by the time of the modern clans, she’s almost faded away completely and doesn’t remember what she did in life to be denied entry to StarClan. She hides from the other DF cats and waits for the moment she gets the chance to appeal her case, but fades/dies before she can. That, or she’s refused entry because StarClan is awful and doesn’t give cats second chances. Just don’t give her a happy ending because that’s BORING!

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