My River Ripple/Riverstar Design!

The atheist mom and the gay dude with big ears (Some small paintings for button pins I am testing rn)

Sapphire the Cat

I forgot how much I love doing pet portraits!

Below the cut is the sketch and my first attempt that was an absolute fail!

^^^Everything went wrong I stg

Both can kill you btw

Sketchy nonsense

I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

Lylla: *Chooses a nice, pretty name for herself, recognizing that she is beautiful despite being subjected to the High Evolutionary’s cruel experiments and body modifications*

Rocket: *Names himself after an object that represents a hopeful future for himself and his friends*

Floor and Teefs: “Yeah, I just looked around and decided to name myself after the first thing I saw”

WindClan's Forest Camp

Extremely hard to visualize and populate, but settled with who would be in the camp in Forest of Secrets. Onewhisker is playing with Gorsekit, Tallstar and Deadfoot are in charge, and I snuck in a baby Nightcloud!

The best thing about the fandom is the goofy-ass ships. They're so funny, especially the really weird ones (not pedophilia or abuse, obviously). I love how people will make up a ship that makes absolutely no sense because it gives more room for imagination and stuff. And I think it’s pretty shitty that there are way too many people who will attack and harass somebody over it. Like, why? Please don’t do that. Just let people have fun. If it makes them happy, then leave them alone. The block button is free. This also goes for headcanons! I've seen some really nice HCS / interesting ships get hated on, usually because someone hates one of the characters. And I think it's weird. Like, just leave people alone and let them be. 

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dawn of the clans is not nearly as good a people make it out to be.

if you guys like my cat art check out my art blog @larkinarting (tumblr & deviantart) or @ larkin_arting (instagram)! I’ll be posting future fan art on my art blog and rebloggong it to here :)

thanks for all the support!!!