Name: Redrawing My Earliest Art (And Discussing Some Things) – Sunny's Spiel
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Some of you might already know this but…I wasn't really an artist at all before I

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started this channel, and in fact actively disliked drawing for a lot of my childhood.

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Despite that, for Youtube, I knew I would not only need to draw several cats to reference

in videos, but little graphics to represent topics I was covering as well as over 50 poses

for Sunnyfall herself. Then, four months into starting my channel, I also made the Trip

Through Time series which involved a full-blown illustration each time I discussed a book.

Suffice to say, even though I did not have much experience with art, I knew this job

choice would involve a lot of it, and the- over three years of drawing for this channel

and getting tips from my more-involved artist friends have taught me a lot. My style and

preferences have changed, the way I compose scenes, construct designs, and even the way

I functionally color using my drawing program have radically altered by now thanks to making

a small improvement every time I pick up a tablet pen, which, to be clear, is almost

exclusively for drawings you have seen on this channel. I still don't have a lot of

time for or interest in art outside of this work. But to prove that, really, *anyone*

can make improvement in this and at any speed they need to, I thought it would be a fun

exercise to redraw 3 of my first headshots along with my first Trip Through Time illustration

Starting off we have the oldest of the bunch, Stoneteller, who was drawn for the Tribe Problem

video, the second ever on the channel, and far before I had decided how exactly I wanted

the headshots to look at all. Because of that you'll see me here sizing him up against

Hazeltail, the first cat I drew in the cell-shading style I adopted and the cat I now use as a

base to make sure the headshots all end up the same size and place on the canvas to make

their use in videos easier. In addition to the sizing, I would now draw cat's eyes

much larger than this, push their noses further down their face to be closer to the mouths,

and never ever let the filled in color include a break between the head fur and chest that

isn't actually part of the body. How did I miss that? I'll also be changing up Stoneteller's

design along the way because…I don't like it. I don't like how each of the accent

colors are only used once, I don't like how they very wildly not just in brightness

but in saturation, I don't like how dark the nose is when the muzzle below it is such

a light color, and I really don't like how none of the markings help to frame Stoneteller's

face or tell you who he is as a character. I've gotten slightly better about design

since then, so let's hope I can put a nicer spin on this one.

While I'm working on that, though, I wanted to do a little bit of discussion about the

channel at large, mostly just to take stock of all that's happened. This channel has

been a part of my life for almost 3 ½ years, and in that time I've amassed 113 videos

and completed a full 7-book rewrite series of my dreams in Paws of Stars. I also technically

have merch now, though it is not all that serious. If there's anything specific you'd

ever want to see on there, let me know and I can see if it's possible, considering

that type of request is the only reason the shop exists in the first place. With the channel

itself though, I have made some videos I'm really proud of. Gender in Warriors, the Paws

of Stars video, and Sunnyfall's Life would definitely rank among my top picks and-oh

wait have I said this before? I feel like I told someone recently…Oh! Haha… Yeah

she had asked for that. I should probably explain the story behind that one.

But first, let's return to the drawings. This time we have Dappled Pelt. She and the

next cat, Rippleclaw, were each drawn for the sixth Sunny Spiel's episode, say that

five times fast, on Riverclan and were drawn at a time where I had decided the size of

the canvas and position I wanted, but little else. Dappled Pelt's head is far too large

on this version to show any of her body, and Rippleclaw, as you will see, has very protruding

shoulders…more than any cat should have. I also had a strange belief at the time that

using any of the tools built into the drawing program for easier work would be cheating,

so even where it would be a benefit towards my specific aims, such as when oval tools

could help me form the iris or copy-pasting one side of the sketch to the other could

keep my cats symmetrical from the front, I opted not to use those techniques. I do actually

like Dappled Pelt's pelt design the most out of the ones I'm redrawing today…because

I seem to just always be a sucker for tortoiseshells, but, even for her, there are things about

the shape of the face I wish I could change, the nose tone is just pink instead of being

based in the skin and pelt color of the cat as I would do now, and many of the drawing

conventions in regards to facial proportions I mentioned with Stoneteller are still very

While I'm redrawing her, I think you all deserve an explanation regarding what the

heck happened last Monday. Well don't worry. There's no evil doppelganger, she's not

taking over me or my channel, actually she's not evil at all. Just a bit…well, odd. This

all started because, a long while back, I was discussing with some people in my discord

server where my name, Sunnyfall, comes from. I don't know what the twolegs would say

but clearly, for me, the suffix fall comes from our word for the season, leaf-fall. This

of course means that there are three other Sunny's, Sunnygreen for green-leaf, who

it made sense to put in Skyclan because of their focus on trees, Sunnynew for new-leaf

in Thunderclan because of their denser undergrowth and pension for progress, and Sunnybare for

leaf-bare in Windclan because of their lack of trees. Those three were eventually made

into Cloudysummer, Windyspring, and Snowywinter instead to coincide with the cats I made up

for Patreon, so you can just imagine these three living out their lives in those clans.

Of course, that left us with Shadowclan being empty, so a fifth cat, Sunnyvoid, was invented

to fill that…well, void. She's an odd entity, something of a living eclipse in the

form of a cat, and she can put up a glamour to look more normal when she feels like it,

which really isn't all that useful unless she needs to look like one of the Sunny's

considering she can't change her overall shape. Though I have heard that if you try

to pet her your hand will just disappear in the darkness, like a black hole or something.

She's fine though, just our funny little weirdo over in Shadowclan, and because she

can look like me, I asked her if she would make a video for the channel on April Fools

day and uh…well I think she might have spent an hour researching “what a youtuber is”

and came away with what is perhaps an incorrect idea of what I do here. It does explain why

she kept asking for all of those different top 10 lists though.

Anyway, back to the drawings. It was probably obvious in the Dappled Pelt drawing as well

but one of the most immediately obvious differences between my old and current styles is the shading.

I opted for soft airbrushed shading in this period and didn't have the knowledge or

patience of how to even select certain areas to put the airbrush in, which led to the shading

being messy, obscuring whatever colors I wanted the base to be, and actually making the shading

less noticeable. I also didn't shade in color, rather usually just using a darker

version of the main fur color of the cat, which aided in it not sticking out enough

as shading. Rippleclaw is also where you can see how not-streamlined my eye-drawing process

was at this point. I didn't use a lot of layers and didn't know what clipping masks

were or how to use them so my eyes bled together, the iris color popped out onto the fur around

it, and the shading and lighting for the eye either didn't reach the edge of the iris,

or bled out onto the white of the eye, often both in the same drawing. Design-wise, tabbies

always were, and, to an extent, still are the bane of my existence, but since I've

noticed that I've been actively trying to pin down what I want to do with tabby stripes

through more experimentation and research, and I hope to do a design for Rippleclaw that

will actually make me think of him when I look at him this time. Also…just putting

the dark color at the base of the ear was a horrible idea. What was I thinking?

As I work on that, I'll touch briefly on the future of the channel. Last Tuesday did

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