 Hello there everyone, it is I, Mia Crystal Colors Warrior Cats, and recently I applied to a Warrior Cats map hosted by Lyoko, called Anthem of the Lonely, which has a classic, early 2011, Warriors' AMV theme to it. Basically taking inspiration from old art made by Flightfoot Warrior and other Warrior Cat artists from that time. Now I pretty much have no personal experience with that particular art style, apart from doing somewhat similar things way back when on my first channel with My Little Pony. But not with Warriors. I mean, I've definitely come across some Warrior Cat ones in my early Warriors Phantom years, but it was never my main main inspiration like it was for a lot of people, since that type of thing has definitely died off at the time I joined. Regardless, I think it's very very cool and it looked like a lot of fun to do, so I got the part, and here is what I've made with it. So part of this map's rules was that you had to draw your part in MS Paint. Now my art journey began in MS Paint, but I have not actually touched the program or drawn anything serious with it for 5 years now, so it was definitely a bit difficult to get used to from the start. When I was young, I learned a lot of cool tricks with MS Paint that made the experience easier like this whole being able to draw backgrounds behind characters with the eraser tool if you mess around with the colors. And also this removal of backgrounds with this black and white properties feature, which I actually had to use quite a few times when making this part because I kept fucking up and zooming in my sketches, forgetting that that blurs them and makes coloring impossible. Those beautiful white pixels between my lineart and coloring, I have forgotten that feeling. Another thing I had completely forgotten was an issue, with sometimes the pencil tool, a strictly pixel tool, would just become blurry or slightly change colors with really really swift strokes, at least I think so. It happens like at random, and I have no idea what causes it, but it happened multiple times and it ended up making the coloring process on this part even more unnecessarily difficult. But despite all that, I actually did have a lot of fun drawing in MS Paint. It was very… freeing? In a way? I have to assume it's because of the theme of the map, I didn't really feel pressure to create any impressive perspectives or overly impressive artwork because, well, I'm trying to imitate that old style and quote, trying to do bad on your art was the way to go. Funnily enough, even though I definitely didn't care too much about anatomy in this part and pretty much winged half of this, I ended up creating a lot of shots that I really really like. Which is just… god damn it, art skill, where are you when I need you? Anyways, let's get to talking about the actual part itself. What you see here is very little art process that I managed to record because I realized that I wanted to make this video about halfway into completing the entire part, so yeah, unfortunately this is all we're working with. As I mentioned before, this map required us to draw edgy old style warrior cats and we were allowed to pick whatever cat we wanted. Now, I was originally thinking of using Ashfur because I really like the classic Ashfur design and as far as I could tell it was only used once so far, used by Ofu Kitty, Oh Fu Kitty. Sorry if I pronounced that wrong. Which is how I found out about the map in the first place. But then I remembered that my boy, my man, my beloved Crow Feather also has had his fair share of old edgy AMVs so he was perfect for this map, so I of course immediately went to draw him. Now I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do with this part, but to be honest I half asked out of this storyboard. The basic idea of this part is obvious though, Crow Feather sat an edgy over the loss of Feathertail and then him being sat an edgy over the leafful and night cloud before dramatically crying into the sky in pain and agony. I think I nailed the presentation here. Now for this classic old school look it's not just the style or the art program that's important, it's also the designs. Now Feathertail design here is actually point by point exactly like my current one because it only occurred to me after I drew that shot of Feathertail that I should have probably looked into how Feathertail was drawn back then so I could, you know, more accurately portray that era of warriors but what was done was done. I made sure to look into other old videos and take inspiration from them for the designs from that point on. The crow feather design used here is basically also identical to mine but from what I glanced over it's really not that different from how he was drawn back then anyways so I kept it as it is and didn't really feel like I needed to change much apart from making it slightly simpler I guess. Leafful on the other hand, I changed a lot. She actually had an insane amount of different types of designs from that time period but from what I could kind of generally gather up was that she was usually drawn with a light brown color and often didn't have a white muzzle. I assumed because back then people looked more closely into the canon descriptions of characters because yes, Leafful does in fact not have a white muzzle but I mean if you go leafful right now you'll pretty much not find a single leafful design that doesn't have a white or lighter colored muzzle. I mean fact is she just looks better with a white muzzle on. I love you Leafful but your canon design is ugly, I can't believe the orange chicken down on canonizing your beautiful white muzzle. The editing for this part was probably the fastest editing I have ever done in my life. I don't even think it took me 20 minutes to complete it but I think if I spent any longer on it it would have lost its classic charm. And I think that's it. I think I've said everything I wanted to say about this part. I hope you all enjoyed listening to my rambles, I really do like making these types of videos and I really hope to make them more often. I had a lot of fun doing this part and it was a really interesting experience I recommend you all to try yourselves. If you have not drawn an MS Paint before I suggest you do that right now. I think I had so much fun doing this part that I'm kinda considering hosting a classic Wirecat style map myself now but we'll still see about that. I've got plenty of other maps in the works right now. Anyways, thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you all next time, buh-bye.