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Warriors design blog: @cloudtail

Thanks for the heads up! Publishing this in case anyone is interested in the book and needs the warning

I’m considering making a goodreads list or something to link here with all the books I want to read/draw for this blog but I also don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up about how soon I’d be able to get to each book haha

I will probably stick to books because I have a lot more fun designing characters based on written description instead of ones who already have drawn designs yknow? I'm totally open to books that have movie adaptations and such though, Watership Down is next on my list actually

I think that's what exactly the author was going for! The cat language in the book is supposed to be based on sounds that cats could actually pronounce, they even have loanwords that are bastardized cat pronunciations of english words lol

2) I would agree! That was partially a deliberate choice and partly subconscious. I didn't care about making them animation friendly like a lot of my Warriors designs so I kinda went all-out, also the cats in Feline Wizards ironically feel much more like "real" cats to me than Warriors behavior-wise which comes through in my drawings

The premise is exactly what you would think based on the title LOL, it’s about cats living in NYC who are wizards and can do magic, and are in charge of maintaining wizard portals in grand central station. It’s a trilogy but I’ve only read the first one The Book of Night With Moon (the trilogy is a spin-off of the Young Wizardry series which is about the human wizards, which I also haven’t read). I was honestly expecting to get bored of the magic/science fantasy elements bc that’s not really my thing but I actually enjoyed it. I really loved the characters and the way the author writes about cats too

Tailchaser's Song was published in 1985 so I would say Warriors is the ripoff lol