If Any Of You Have Articles Of Clothing With Fake Pockets Or No Pockets Or Barely Any Pockets, Here's

If any of you have articles of clothing with fake pockets or no pockets or barely any pockets, here's who to blame

Hmm... well if Starclan cats can give lives blessed with certain traits what about Tigerclaw getting his nine lives from cats that he's killed with negative traits... curses instead of blessings...

Redtail a life of debt

Runningwind a life of fear

Graypool a life of dishonesty

Swiftpaw a life of discontent

Brindleface a life of grief

Bluestar a life of betrayal

Stonefur a life of injustice

Gorsepaw a life of savagery

And Pinestar, a life of regret.

I see no lies.

i love how any worries that there would be a dramatic “we can’t tell who our real children are and who the code monster imposters are without their accessories” have been soundly destroyed by all the parents instantly recognizing their child’s admins as capybaras. foolish naming “leo’s” capybara reyna after who she mains on valorant, forever beelining for richas’s admin, aypierre clocking pomme instantly, tubbo’s gasp of delight when he heard tallulah’s flute. smth about how in every world in every universe in every form they will all find each other

Leafkit and Squirrelkit make "travelling herbs" for Sandstorm before she goes for a walk. They're delicious, she assures the kits, through tears in her eyes. They run away proudly, she rushes out of camp for the nearest creek to wash her mouth in. Nasty, she mouths, but she'll eat whatever they make. The kits' smiles make it worth a wet face.

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Had a ton of fun with this one but don't wanna bog down the main post. A lot of unrelated-to-wc process talk below the cut!

So this was a bit of experimentation with a new brush which turned into exploration into gradient maps.

The original idea was simply to modify csp's mechanical pencil brush into something that felt a bit more natural. It started with simply turning on a bit of tilt-controlled thickness and setting my colour to about 80% grey, rather than black. It didn't quite feel right, but setting the brush to blend with the subcolour on each tip, setting the subcolour to the 80% grey and the main colour to the canvas' colour, then setting the brush's blend mode to darken gave me a brush that felt like it had FAR finer line control.

The lines themselves look like this (on a more saturated bg to show how the values layer/fade in and out with pressure and tilt):

(edit to pic: completely unnoticeable when on the intended base colour*)

This is where the gradient maps come in. The way I usually change my linearts' colours is to make a new layer, mask over it, and manually paint. It gives a lot of control to your end result, but it's time consuming and often takes many adjustments to make it feel like it has enough contrast to make the drawing actually *readable.* If I wanted to add a gradient map to the lineart, it would be unable to read the transparency and would pick from the single value that the lineart is (usually black), then the transparency would take over. This gives me a dull result.

With the "transparency" being an actual colour, that gives it an actual value for the gradient map to read. So instead of having your lines fade from black to the colour behind it (often desaturating as it goes), it'll go from something like dark blue -> reddish-grey -> orange -> yellow. It adds a little something i think, and while I absolutely don't have this down pat, it could be something interesting to explore!

I also wanted to go further with this piece, namely painting it rather than a shading layer set on overlay with the aforementioned gradient maps all over it but ... it wasnt happening. The art skills clocked out for the day. That said, I definitely want to explore how this would look if I coloured everything for realsies rather than doing the fallback method. Could be where they really shine!

leafpool