warriors art pet peeves

Another thing: When cats are drawn with human-like eyes with smaller irises and huge whites.

Like I know this is a stylistic thing, but I'm a realistic artist, so sit just really annoys me personally.

honestly i'm always going to be an advocate for brightly colored unrealistic and cartoony warriors art and fun stylization. unrealistically coloring the nose/mouth/blood etc. is pretty much always a stylization thing often done to reduce the color palette and while i usually don't do it myself (except the blood thing sometimes) i can see why people do it.

realistic art is pretty and all but it just doesn't grab me as much as more stylized stuff, yknow?? i guess i'm just more firmly in the "fun" corner instead of the "practical" corner

i'm not a big fan of anime hair poofs though, especially over the eyes. i very rarely see them done in a way that i actually like, often coming off as just being slapped onto an already finished picture.

When people draw Bramblestar looking nothing like Tigerstar. They're meant to look nearly identical, boi! Their facial expressions and Tiger's muzzle scars should let the viewer know who's who.

Also, when every cat looks the same body-wise. I remember seeing a MAP part where Tigerstar and Firestar are fighting or smthn but they're like adorable chibis and it was very pretty and well-done, but... they could've passed for littermates. It was just uncanny.

Also does anyone remember that phase where people drew Scourge with, like, red eyeliner? One thing I LOVE, though, is the idea of him wearing a skull. E D G Y
<this is what I mean. Boi been visiting Sephora

I find the emo hairstyles for every cat a little annoying. Especially if everything is badly done in MS paint with emo hairstyles.

Actually, someone said cats are almost full grown at 6 moons/months. It usually depends on the type, I've raised some wild-born cats, and most the time they are very small until about a year of age, but start growing quickly around 4-6 months, Especially at 6 months, that usually whenever cats start their respective traits, being dominant, being skittish, being sweet and such. This is probably why they are made apprentice at 6 moons, is because they are starting to mature with their attitudes. Yes they are bigger then a newborn, but they are still very smal, creatures. Which is why you don't see younger apprentices in battles that often. At 8 moons they usually start growing in a more full grown size. But it's usually between the 12-15 month mark that cats achieve full maturity. But until 6 moons they are revitively small.

I also agree, realistic art is cool, but I myself draw in a more stylistic way, cartoonish. I prefer it more because it let's me do my art my own way. As my avatar you can see I'm not a master at art, but still practicing, I do it for fun.

But what does get on my nerves are ridiculously long fur that miraculously covers a cats face. But often times I find the fur over an eye nice. In the comin 'Yin and Yang' by Hawktalon, the long fur is described on one of the main characters. The reason is that the medicine cat wanted to preserve the fur around that eye because she was 'blind in it'.

Another thing is a non powered cat or canon cat having red eyes or magenta eyes or emerald neon green.

Also how awkward positions are used. I like to stick to headshots usually to avoid them.

One last thing, perhaps my biggest fault with warriors art is the use of plain expressions, which I used to do. Throughout time I've tried different shapes of eyes to yield a better look. A rhombus for an eye shape base isn't too bad!

My specialities usually include humans though, just offering my ideas.

Actually your art is really good and looks more realistic and the hair seems to blend in. I think what people refer to is overly cartoonish cats that hardly resemble cats anymore or the overly fake hair that pops out of nowhere.

alright imma just go out on a limb here and give the correct cat sizing
here is a friendly PSA



scourge. any other warrior basically. tigerclaw

just saying.

what are you talking about that's a masterpiece

If Donald Trump was a WC character this is what he would look like

Drawing canon characters with hair and the stars on the forehead or anywhere else just no.

Believe me, you're definitely not the only one. I mean, it doesn't really irk me, I just find it to be a weird design choice. Also, sometimes it makes the characters look like they've got colds or something along the lines of that. And same with the claws/paw pads/inside of mouth being the same color. Unless it's a sparklecat, then I don't have any qualms with it because hey, who am I to decide sparklecat biology? 

..And, looking at later replies in this thread, I did not know that drawing cats with flat teeth was a thing until this evening. Whelp, there's some nightmare fuel for you. Also same with the "nekoizing" of humanized warriors. Please no. I never want to see another anime-esque human with ears ever again. 

I don't have any pet peeves really, except one massively huge one:

Crookedstar's tongue sticking out. And not just slightly, literally as if someone had yanked the whole thing out and it was permanently drooping to the side. What the heck? His name was Crookedjaw, not Floppytongue.

anime hair.
blue bluestar.
forehead stars. idc if people incorporate stars into their designs.
this isn't about art but SCOURGE'S COLLAR DOESN'T MATTER.
that's it