#pantherines

My friend, are you, too, dappled with the textures of your rocky mountains?

[ID: digital illustration of an Andean cat and a snow leopard in a purple background, framed with various details in gold. The felids seem to be coming down from the heights, looking towards each other, you can see their similarly grey pelts, the Andean cat's painted with elongated, brown and purple spots, and the snow leopard's with blocky, dark purple ones. Each cat has a bright yellow spark behind them, and there's a big rhomboid star between the two. There are less vibrant stars scattered in the background. The frame shows mountains at the top and the bottom; the ones at the top are four from the Himalaya: Nanda Devi, Dhaulagiri, Kachenjunga and Mount Everest. At the bottom, the Andes are represented by three mountains: Ojos del Salado, Huascarán and Nevado Tres Cruces. The corners at the top have a Siberian ibex and a chinchilla each, reversed at the bottom, these are prey to these cats. On the sides, a plant, a star, a sun and a moon, divided by zigzags, decorate the frame. Their respective scientific names are written in square letters: Leopardus jacobitus for the Andean cat and Panthera uncia for the snow leopard, with a paw print after each one. End ID]

I was thinking the other day how similar these two are, despite being apart both taxonomically and spatially, and this idea would not leave my head until I finished it, so here :]

[ID: digital drawings of three toys: a Webkinz leopard, a penguin and a plastic bat. First drawing shows all three of them together and happy, the penguin putting his arm around the leopard and the bat above the latter's head. The second drawing shows the leopard running while turning his head to tell something to the bat, who is flying above. The last three drawings are a sequence of dialogue between the leopard and the penguin, the dialogue is from Bert and Ernie originally: Webkinz, the leopard, asks "how do I look, Penguin?" To which the latter answers "With your eyes, Webkinz" Webkinz just stares at him, not amused. End ID].

Febroary: oc

I don't have feral ocs that may apply to this challenge, and i could've drawn Cyan, but I already did a margay, so I took my webkinz leopard plush (whose name is Webkinz lol) and drew him as if he was an oc (technically is ?)

his name is Webkinz because when i acquired him, he had his tag around his neck, however, it was in english and i didn't know english. I figured it was some kind of game like club penguin, but i also didn't have much access to internet, so, to me, he was the only Webkinz and that was his name. I realized it all when i was like 14 years old and saw some warrior cats artists playing webkinz lol.

He was a protagonist in most of the games we played, one of the bravest soldiers and of special trust by the king and queen, along with Pengüin and Minibatman, also drawn here. Do not judge little me by those names, I've never been good at naming characters. Recently, I've described their relationship as polyamorous :)

One of his ears is smaller than the other, i used to say that it's because a hunter shot him. His collar comes from a clothes tag that I liked so much I couldn't throw away and, as an excuse to keep it, I gave it to him. He's been wearing it for many years now that, when i took it off to draw him, he looked naked.

Both him and Pengüin have some of their claws come undone because they're senior toys. One of Minibatman's wings is a little torn for the same reason. I kept that in the drawings.

Honestly, he was a stellar toy and I still think he's awesome, his pelt is so original and i was thrilled to find out there are other webkinz with that fur design. It was a little tricky to draw him, but i really liked the result!

This year I'm following thatgreendragon and jimiilee_rw's promplist on instagram

Photos of the old man below the cut

[ID: digital illustration that features a jaguar, a margay and an ocelot before a dark blue background with blurry dots as stars. The three wildcats are floating, the jaguar and the margay look to the viewer, while the ocelot has its eyes closed. End ID]

Look hard at my stripes, there'll be no more after me

Day 23 - extinct

[ID: photo of a drawing made in two pages of a small notebook. It features a tiger showing the stripes on their sides, looking back at the viewer. There's text at the top left of the first page and at the bottom right of the second one written in Spanish in all caps. The first page says "Mira bien mis rayas," which translates to "Look hard at my stripes,"; the text on second page says "no habrá más después de mí", which translates to "there'll be no more after me". The drawing was made with felt-tip pens and crayons. End ID]

I still wanna do day 28, but I'm a little busy, so have this one in the meantime. It's dedicated to the Javan, Bali and Caspian tiger subspecies, now extinct due to intense hunting.

Also, this was inspired by the "Extinction" PMV, which lists the many wildlife species that were lost due to human activity and includes the Javan tiger, I highly recommend it!