Sketch Of My Oc Daisyfeather

Leader Silt(Clangen)

A tom of his clan, he is a founding cat. In my world Leader Silt was also responsible for writing Clan-law, but more on that later. Who's your favorite wc character and why?

I'm Back!

And I've been recently binging the LoudClan series which has really fired me up on some ideas I had for Orchid Clan.

No promises on starting to post regularly as I am a college student, but I'll try and get something out. I already have references for most of the clan besides my mainoc and their parents, possibly I'll post something!

Aprilwind is owned by my friend Poke.

Aprilwind is a tactical organized cat who belongs to Lunar Clan, she's affectionate with a very loyal spirit.

And here's the Labelled versions of SkyClan's Gorge Camp.

Shaded Whisker

Shaded Whisker! Our Tumble Clan Herbalist.    

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☺️👍

Orchid Clan's line-up of founders is now here. Some of these are rather old while others I made within the past month or so.

Here are the cats from left to right...

Mudstar(F), Emberwhisper(M), Goldspots(F), Sparrowfoot(F), Stonepaw(F), Greendawn(F), Cherrysnap(F), Gullseed(F), Patchstem(M), Lavenderpaw(F), Fringefern(F), Pikestripe(M), Egretkit(M), and Chanterellekit(F).

Freeze

Since he's still a Trainee, Freeze has not had it flight ceremony that gives him his full title, but he'll get there soon... hopefully.

My goober got an updated pfp!

I'm really happy with how this one turned out-

I feel like in the past her art lacked a kind of "joy" to them, but this one feels a lot happier.

Past ones for reference(my sona has gotten a few redesigns)

Artwork for someone over on the Blossom Valley ARPG!