#ravencrow

heres the younger version of ludwig during his war time

doodle artdump

((ps: i like your content and send asks pretty frequently, and from what i can tell, you seem like such a kind and genuinely cool person!! your work is also a big inspo for a younger artist like me!! i hope life has been treating you well!))

Aaaaah thank you!!!! Very flattered to hear that my work has made an impact on you :,]

As for the lions, I actually designed most of them once and right as I drew them, only having a vague idea of what I wanted beforehand. When I went on my lion designing spree, I specifically had a paper with some quick sketches of lion mane ideas and what they were meant to look like, such as a sunflower or egg- everything else was thought of on the spot. However, technically not all of these lions were invented within one year- about half I've actually owned for a long time, and were either pre-existing lion ocs or characters I redesigned into lions. Those were easier to because I already had some groundwork to work off of. Here's some examples;

All that said, I think the lions i struggled with the most were Molian and Ravencrow. Both technically came from old ocs, but I had trouble perfecting the balancing act between preserving that nostalgia and coming up with something fresh and good looking- I'm still not quite happy with either. Molian has way too much going on and RavenCrow's colors could use adjustment.

Figure of the raven crow in an open circle, algeapunk style