u/Glum-Bat4747

i was on a 6 hour flight today and decided i wanted to do a cyberpunk meets warriors piece

so heres silverpaw, i geuss a former kittypet named johnny who left his cozy twoleg home to fight for a real cause.

didnt write much for the uhm... silver.. paw yet but just assume his paw was damaged in a fight and was replaced with a cybernetic arm

for people who dont know, in the cyberpunk TTRPG/video game universe, robbert john linder, aka johnny silverhand was an ex military rockerboy who in the video game acts as one of the best if not the best side charecter. ill add a photo of him for reference.

oh and btw took 3.5 hours for anyone wondering

if you dont want to hear yapping ill start with a question.

is it ok for an apprentice to join a new clan, and be apprenticed by medicine cat ghosts?

for those who want more heres some context.

i just made a fanclan called twilightclan, i noted that for a new clan i wanted a deputy and medicine cat to start, followed by any rouges and kittypets or outcasts from the clans that they could train.

twilightstar is my charecter, hes my warriorsona, and i found that recently i had made a artwork that fit my criteria for a deputy in my eyes, thats darklight. that left me with a medicine cat charecter. for extra context, unnamed medicine cat isnt from thunderclan or shadowclan and was an apprentice who left to join twilightclan by the will of starclan. darklight is similar except well hes from shadowclan not much to add.

so knowing this i thought about realism, i think we can all agree that sticking to the source material to a certain extent gets you better adjusted to the universe/setting, so i thought the unnamed medicine cat should be trained by starclan ghosts as to me it made the most sense.

i am still arc 2 before the move (i feel i should clarify that the setting will be in the lake territory so i can kinda give reactions in my writing to what i am reading about, dosent matter to this case though) so i am unaware of any cats that were taught explicitly by starclan alone.

so for 1, has this happened before, if yes, awesome no need for question 2

and 2, if it hasnt happened yet before, do you guys think it fits that warriors style?

thanks in advance! :3

say hi to twilightstar of twilightclan, suggestions and constructive criticism are welcomed, also FYI i designed this to be expandable, there is still much canvas to be filled here.

first time doing a reference sheet, first time making a custom clan, second custom clan symbol, and first time doing a pallette, sry for my horendous handwriting.

bye :3

so this is a followup to my previous post i made like 3 days ago.

for those that havent seen my previous post heres the idea

recently i saw sombody else post their warriorsona to the subreddit, i took a big dose of inspiration just from seeing it so i decided to make my own

so for now introducing the half completed concept for twilightstar, the first leader of twilightclan

note theres much to add ans take from this and i purposely gave myself much more space as to expand upon it in the future, and i thought this would be my biggest project yet but i am actualy approaching 4 hours but a stylis realy has made the difference

anyways i want to know what you guys think of this charevter, when i make the final post ill make a different post attached to it breaking down twilightstar and all his stuff

before i go i want to also know how good is the concept of twilightclan in your guys opinions.

twilightclan is almost like the special forces of the warriors universe, started by twilightgaze now twilightstar because of a prophecy laid by starclan. he was originaly a deputy of thunderclan under firestars leadership. the idea of twilightclan is that it allows any cat that dosent feel like they belong in their original clans, loners, and kittypets too, to be accepted among the most elite of forrest cats, however they dont just fight a border skirmish or a clan attack, they are the absolute last resort, and have all and no allies, they are neutral unless all clans are facing the same threat, think lionclan and the battle of bloodclan in the first arc, thats where these cats come in. if per say a kittypet like rusty decided to try to hunt in twilightclan territory they wouldnt be attacked or shooed off, they would be taught how to actualy catch prey as to not warn off prey in the future, they dont even have to join. the idea would be that a cat thats not of twilightclan has a few options, either go away or learn a little something, and then ask for permission to hunt. twilightclan accepts any cat with any need, medical problem? they will be treated.

anyways thats what i have now, give or take a few parts so tell me what you think! :3

i am posting every picture. theres reasons i have this many and i know you guys would say its a controversial process but lemme explain.

ok i am no necesarily new, but i am new to hand sketching, usualy i just copy a cat i find online, this time i did that but not directly, instead i observed the reference and made changes that suited what i liked. but most of this was either hand drawn, or eyeballed off of a reference, only part of the face was copied because i got stuck.

anyways to teh controversial part. AI. i always saw AI as a tool, you can obviously see i didnt generate this artwork, what i instead do when i am learning or stuck is talk with gemini and kinda step through the process together. i am most definately aware this is very controversial but please dont get angry.

what i can bet is you are probably like "why not watch a tutorial video or use a reference image" my rebuttal, tutorials arent realy my thing, i hate to follow set instructions, and i find it hard to remember things. and in terms of reference images, well i already use them. i use AI to assist me, not to make the art.

anyways sorry about that. if you have suggestions for me please comment them, this is a big change for me, switching from shooting for realistic shading and stuff to learning how to draw poses by myself and kinda also going for the more warrior cats style of artwork.

thank you

alright before i begin i am gonna show the last couple artworks i made so i can get thorough. all charecters are meant to be original and arent intended to copy someones original work.

darklight is one i made yesterday and ahs no background.

amberstar was a gift for a person i am partnering with

dusklight was the first OC me and the partner made together.

i must give credit to the person who made amberstar and the person who aided with dusklight so shoutout to u/LuneveilWC

ok so its time i fessed up, all these charecters, awesome the problem is that i have gotten to the bad habbit of copying my references and that leaves me going down 2 paths.

path A I continue using ny reference and get very realistic looking cats but at the cost of less effort and not being able to do any pose i want them in

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path B I spend a ton of time learning how to draw cats with little to no references at all. its making a big commitment to get better results at the cost of time and most likely my sanity.

i cant come to my own conclusion and need your input.

thank you

theoreticaly this aint oluso, its nightspirit, an OC i made for warrior cats but based on olusos likeness, obviously, hell me what ya think, i am onky a casual artist and self taught, this took between 2-3 hours, it was fun and is a massive difference from my beiginnings.

i am still, very, and when i say this, VERY! new to drawing cats, i have around 12ish pieces, this one is my twelth, and i went from the first two pictures, to this, in the span of about a couple weeks where i taught myself when i was actualy doing art.

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now you may notice similar names nightspirit and nightspirit are not to be confused as they are the same OC, pic 2 nightspirit was my first ever rendition of a cat, pic 3 is my newest one, i just finished it and am proud of myself, at first the brighter blue tones looked horrible but now that its done i am astonished, heck i am bringing picture 4 as my reference for picture 3

ok before arc 2 supporters come after me i get it, its realy good or something like that, but uhm the picture i posted explains itself, its a picture of my notes, over 40 days of looking at it and not reading, in my defense in those days i worked on warriors art but didnt even touch it. idk i know i am on moonrise still but i had arc 1 in around 6-8 weeks and i am already reaching the former end of that scale within two books of arc 2.

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now again i feel like i didnt use the right words to describe my thoughts, i dont think its boring, but q bit overwhelming, constantly switching perspectives, especialy at good moments is (pardon ny french) fkn bs, no no no, stop i dont want more leafpaw perspective when we are about to see the main charecters encounter an actualy interesting situation. i get its "so that we get thunderclans perspective" and sure some scenes are interesting, but leafpaws perspective is the equivalent of a secondary, background, or filler plot in an episode of a show, literaly has nothing to do with whats going on in the main plot and like one of the descriptors, just filler. thats how leafpaws perspective has felt because i feel like i could have geussed the clans reaction when the two "troublemakers" leave camp for an extended period of time!

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to close this off i understand i am only less than 30% through this arc and am just now starting to read the second book again, but seriously i am already missing one perspective that has multiple problems, instead of the single problem with all different perspecives. i will stop before i dig myself a hole about 6 feet deep, 6 feet long, and 3 feet wide.

before you asked, i labled this as "OC" instead of "question because the main premesce is to share my newest piece.

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without holding back any longer i introduce nightspirit, he was my first OC and i love to draw him because each time its watching myself learn something new

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before i break down my artwork i want to explain, my original inspiration of nightspirit was oluso. olsuo is a "ghost panther" from far cry 6, its my favorite companion qnd one day i wanted to draw warriors and that was my pnly original idea. in my mind nightspirit is a younger warrior in thunderclan with a resembalence of a panther while being maine coon sized to match his mate (different OC) so i do not have a assigned breed yet but i am fine with that. without further adoo, the artwork.

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the first piece i made (pic 1) was actualy my first ever cat, i like to look back on this to remember my roots, even though i am still new i am still shocked that i was able to make him look decent. at this stage he was meant to realisticaly resemble oluso, not legitamately be him so thats why his fur is more gray than blue.

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my second piece with/of nightspirit (pic 2) was the first time i drew nightspirit from a reference i took myself inside far cry 6. not much to point out however.

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my third piece with/of nightspirit (pic 3) was a large milestone for me. not only was it my second time drawing 2 cats together, but i also learned a lot about how to manipulate the bodies of cats in my references to help me achieve more of a warriors physique (the regerence cats where... large to say the least) and in the end even if the goal to have fun, i was still proud of myself that i included maplegaze (his mate) and nightspirit together in this piece.

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finaly the last two pictures, my newest piece. I am... i am seriously reconsidering my skills, maybe to a more advanced artisit it dosent seem to hard, but i was suprised that I... still very new to drawing cats, taught myself how to do that. every detail is so great! the reference (pic 4) was of oluso of course. i want to add on, I did take art class back in middle school but i remeber us doing a singular digital artwork asdignment so all the skills i learned are either scavenged from what i understand about physical art, (such as its best to start with the darkest colors first and then transition into lighter colors for shading) but honestly thats my favorite thing about this, i didnt just draw straight lines, i actualy incorperated shading techniques. another one of the newer things i have been trying is lightly using a white and black airbrush on either side to bring out the details.

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please tell me how i did, i love to hear suggestions and sorry for my rant, ADHD brain got to me.

ok i have 2 main OCs (wow its like the title said that) ill show you the artwork i have made of them

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Nightspirit was my first, thats why he changed so much, he was based on oluso from far cry 6, a ghost panther cat, i an certain its chonocial ingame that its a she cat but there info otherwise, thats besides the point as i made him a tom and an undisclosed breed as i havent decided shrunk down panther breed yet of thunderclan

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later on i found out about maine coons, nowadays i freakin love these massive furballs and they give me great inspiration, and then came maplegaze. a she cat maine coon of thunderclan. my first piece of her is my favorite but i love her charecter no matter what because she was one of the charecters i used to experiment with styles hence why her design can be considered inconsistent.

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anyways after drawing their original renditions i had a week of artblock mainly from studying for exams, but then i thought, why not make a story, and have them in a relationship. at first it didnt realy stick, but then i slowly made a story and i dcided, why not make them mates?

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after i made them mates i made one of my favorite pieces second to the og maplegaze artwork and i made it my Pfp because its the one with them together their tails curled

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anyways you may ask why i am sharing this, honestly i am not realy sure, but theres some things i could ask help with

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first i am still new so if you spot a serious mistake that is a common mistake i make please feel free to point it out

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second if you could help me figure out a breed for nightspirit that would be cool, for context he is maine coon size but not a maine coon, more or less inheriting a panther style appearance

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to end this off ill include photos of my references for some of the pieces and for a new piece i am planning to make of nightspirit! (last photo)

maplegaze was my first OC i realy took a lot of pride in, i just got my first stylus so i drew maplepaw

i tried to make her look younger but not too sure how it turns out for you guys

tell me what you think!

maplegaze/paw is a maine coon of thunderclan she has dark ginger fur with tortiseshell cream patches (i am working on the descriptors i promise

i had just gotten my first stylus so i wanted to draw maplegaze as she is my favorite warrior i draw

her fur is also supposed to be a less saturated color because of biology but i am not sure might have messed that up

i also used a light airbrush of white on the right and black on the left

mainly this was an experimentation for my charecter

I included maplegaze so you can see the difference

tell me what you think!

introducing frostmane (first picture) he is thunderclan, and i havent made much story for him yet but i like to draw these giant fluffy cats such as maine coons and now siberian cats, if you guys know of any fluffy giants i could take inspiration from i would love it.

Also these arent new charecters (pic 2+) but they are the main focal point of an AU i am working on, basically all you need to know is that we have a maine coon base for maplegaze, and a panther base for nightspirit (you can see who is who obviously but refer to pics 3 & 4 for convinience), they are relatively the same younger maine coon size and it dives deep into their lore i dont want to tell again plus this isnt the right place i would assume to tell my story of these charecters, if you realy want to see it, one of my newer posts to the standard warrior cats subreddit has a good bit of their story so far, look for pic 2 if you do that!

goodnight/day!

not much of a backstory this time, i just want more OC's for my AU of 2 other charecters and so i made frostmane. I based him off of a siberian cat, I tend to love drawing these massive fluffy ahh cats like maine coons, and siberians so if you have any suffestions of large cats i could draw i would love to hear it!