#tidalclan

Congratulations @tidalclan for 1000 followers!!! You deserve every single one and I can't wait for the comic to return!!! 🥰

I love this comic and its characters so much and it was one of my early inspirations for starting my own comic with Astray! So I couldn't NOT join the design contest, especially if I get to design a sweet old lady :3c

I went with a real soft round design for that sweet Puddlesand vibe, but if she's a real old loner then she's been adventuring!! She's got stories to tell, she's seen the world, and lost an eye in exchange for her roaming.

I mostly colour dropped the sprite with some tweaks to make the cool greys work with the warmer greys, but I liked the warm tint against the blue white of her fur, gave it that good puddle sand mix in my mind.

I also picture with age she's pretty insecure on her feet, has a wide stance to deal with a lack of balance, got arthritic joints/bones and matted fur all around her back legs and tummy that she can't reach to groom like she used to. (My own cat is old so I know what an old cat can look and feel like, age shows so much in their posture)

My submission for @tidalclan's 1000 follower character design contest! (And congrats on Moon 25 being on the way!) Tidal clan was one of the first clangen comics I'd ever read, so I'm happy for it's return, and to participate.

Condorstar was fun to design. I struggled in coloring his rosette's, but I like how it looks. I also thought he needed very large fangs.

Puddlesand was more difficult to draw. I originally planned on her having some ginger (that I intended to turn to cream) to look like sand where her back markings are. I couldn't find a good color, so I didn't go with that. Instead I tried to make her stripes look like water ripples.

I’ve had this in my drafts for months but here’s proof I aint dead

Awww thank you so much!

I’m sorry this took a bit to answer. I have still have ever intention of returning, even if it’s a bit slow. I’m trying my best to work out exactly how I want to format the comic going forward. I would love to add some more dialogue and properly tie some storylines together. I want to give this the love it deserves.

I read TidalClan from the beginning as well a few days ago, and I remembered just how amazing it made me feel. It got lost for a little while with life’s stresses, but I’m eager to return to it.

Tagged by @nimbusclan @tidalclan

a tag game huh?? and I got hit by two of the coolest clangen blogs 👀 guess I can't ignore this!!

Last Song: Preybirds by Rabbitology I love this song, it's one of my favourite songs to match to my current DnD campaign I'm DMing. I love the beat and their voices, it gives folksy fantasy big time. It's that hunted and travelling on the road vibe, cursed by the world and haunted by your past, chased by death and with many dangerous roads ahead with no right path to take.

Last Book: Reckoning by Michael R. Miller, 4th book in the Songs of Chaos series. I haven't finished this book since I only pick it up every other lunch time at work, but I love this world the book series is set in. It's a dragon rider book where Dragon riders fight a plague-army threat that rises yearly, set in a fantasy kingdom with all the oppressive systems that are upheld in that sort of power structure. The main character is a cook's apprentice who couldn't stomach how brutal Dragons and Dragon riders are, so he saves a 'defective' egg that hatches into an albino blind dragon. I love Holt Cook's bond to his dragon, it scratches that itch I enjoyed with how to train your dragon, and I love the magic, powers, cool swords and lore this world has. Big reccommend if you love action fantasy stories.

Last Movie: Last new movie I saw was Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. What a masterpiece. It was gorgeously crafted, the colours and set pieces are beautiful alone, but the cinematography, the acting and language. I loved watching it with my friends, it hurt so badly because its such a tragedy and you can feel it coming with every scene, but I couldn't look away. Incredible looking Frankenstein, the medical science is so cool, the costume department popped off, and my friend says its very accurate to the book too!

Last TV Show: New show? I just finished Stranger things season 5 and, well. I was there when Sherlock season 4 was supposed to have a secret final episode too lol, kinda funny how bad something has to be to make fans be in denial that badly. It was the safest most boring finale they could've done, like it wasn't objectively bad or confusing, just boring.

A Tv show worth watching though is The Mighty Nein by the Critical role crew, if you want something new that's incredibly animated, voice acted, paced and more, watch that show inspired by one of the best DnD campaigns you can watch online.

Favorite Color: I have many favourites and combinations, but to choose a single one? A colour I will always pick out to represent me is Mint Green, I love green in all variations, its the softest easiest colour to pair with most others but mint green itself is so many of my favourite things. It's springy and bright, its foody and a delicious flavour, its light and whimsical and fits pastels and fairy colours, while pairing so nicely as an accent to dark browns and moodier palettes.

Spicy, sweet, or savory: Unfortunately a sweet fiend to the end. Trying to get better this year though, I'm cutting down soda, drinking more water, and going to look after my teeth better. But I'll never resist a sweet little treat, I need to do more baking this year.

Current obsession: My DnD campaign is what holds my brain in a vice grip when I'm not working or gaming. I'm the DM of a 5e DnD campaign set in my own world known as Frefaldin, and the campaign is called the Six Chains. My party is an ecletic group of adventurers who ended up in the same prison cart (think skyrim opening hehe) before it gets attacked on the road and falls underground. From there, I've guided them on a series of fun little adventures, fighting possessed scarecrows, pulling off a heist at a fancy Gala, and recently freeing a town from an fungal zombie infection caused by a group of necromancers. I've got many ideas and over arching stories for this world, but most of the time I'm laying the train tracks down in front of the group as quick as they're moving on them, since it's just for fun with my friends and I love getting to be their first DnD campaign for many of them.

Last Search: HMmm honestly just looking at nearby restaurant menus. I had a day off from work so my Dad suggested going to eat somewhere nearby - which turned out to be a bad pick because it took half an hour and they never even came to our table to get our drink order, so my Dad said "I'm not waiting hours for food" and we left to the next door pub. Least the food and service was good there!

Looking Forward To: Oh man I am desperate to get my new drawing tablet. I've been radio silent on this account because my screen tablet's been broken and I can't work on pages without it. I placed an order in December with Wacom though and it's been suuuuch a nightmare. They messed up the Customs and it's taken over two weeks for them to get it processed from it being 'returned' to them, and they still haven't sent another out to me. Jokes on me for trying to spend a little more in the hopes of getting a professional service and tablet. Ah well, it'll get here eventually and hopefully work great!

Thanks for tagging me Froggie and Moth!!! I'll always happily ramble and give a few life updates 🥰❤️