Riverstar - Blog Posts

squilfdaisy

2 weeks ago

A drawing of a grey longhair tom with ripple like stripes on his body legs and tail, and mane like a hippie. Text reads: RiverStar. Yoga Man. Tried to do some new things with the stripes, vertical ripples idk. He has facial hair don't @ me. Mane is very hair like on purpose, widows peak delineated in line art. Broad Head, little ears. More Norwegian Forest cat than british or persian. Riverclan Prototype. Longhair but not overly so. Nose is downturned, almost roman.

Riverstar! I listened to his super edition recently and actually liked it quite a lot. I know there have been a lot of critiques of it as having undermined his character in the Dawn of the Clans but idk I thought it was humanizing and kind of funny to see him swimming around in the dark pretending to be wise haha. As a founder he was the one that received the least characterization, and knowing he came from the park cats it was always a story I wanted to see more of. I like the idea that he is so spontaneous that he mostly repeats back what cats share with him and then they think he is special because of it, but doesn't actually have a lot of clairvoyance beyond a normal cat.

I gave him a bit of mane hair, similar to tree to try to capture a yoga teacher vibe in combination with his face stripes mimicking facial hair ha. His body type is based off of a Norwegian forest cat, and I think for the 'breeds' I'll be modeling Riverclan from will be Norwegians, Turkish Van, Bengals in the case of leopardstar ha, Bobtails/Manx, and wild fishing cats. This isn't because I think clans are purebreds, but characteristics of these breeds lend them toward water. I specifically am excluding Maine Coons however, because their size is their breed trait and in my mind that's the Sisters haha.