March Special: Life Cycle Of A Frog
Added 2025-03-09 23:34:27 +0000 UTCForg gurl takes home the March gold!
Agnes's design has been something of a project for me since the beginning. While some herps in WwF do have hair (probably a version of gill filament in their case), Agnes does not, and speaking as a human it's difficult to wrest femininity from a bald character. Regardless, Agnes has always been a character strongly defined by her femininity, and I'm especially intrigued to see her embrace a slightly more androgynous side in her adulthood. She remains high femme to Mantiski's tomboy, but she doesn't necessarily require ruffles to prove it. Well, maybe a few ruffles.
Meanwhile, drawing Agnes at all ages gives me a good opportunity to show that the more-or-less humanoid folk of WwF are still very much animals. Agnes is an amphibian, and baby frogs do not look exactly like grownup frogs. She did have what amounted to a tadpole stage, eventually winding up with a small, stubby tail at the end of her evolution. What a trip it it must be for frog folk to watch their own tails gradually disappear! We mammals are mostly concerned about fur where there wasn't fur before...
As for her life in the future, it's my tentative assumption that Agnes majors in business and joins Mantiski at the helm of the riverfront real estate gig. As the ostensible owner of the company, I can easily see Mantiski herself being much more interested in the aesthetic upkeep of the property, while Agnes is the meticulous brain behind the throne. I'm also quite fond of the idea that the pair foster/adopt a swarm of kids to fill out the pond.
When We Fly (c)Kae
Comments
/Tadpoles/ are intentionally drab. Everyone wants to eat them! They don't get cool colors until they are a little older.
Must Love Frogs
2025-03-10 13:40:54 +0000 UTCHer coat is so snazzy. Also, the coloration change from tadpole to froglet is interesting.
Badguy101
2025-03-10 12:34:34 +0000 UTCBe still your little green heart, Mantiski!
Must Love Frogs
2025-03-10 12:09:01 +0000 UTCI think you did a great job with Agnes. And she is ROCKING that suit as an adult.
Jonathan
2025-03-10 11:46:12 +0000 UTCEveryone liked this. :) But yeah, there's a very fine line between including (for example) bug characters who consistently fit in with the other people of the world, and completely monstering them up. If I'm going to give you bugs and frogs and eels and angler fish with your snow leopards, I NEED you to believe they belong here, and that's my challenge.
Must Love Frogs
2025-03-09 23:52:33 +0000 UTCHaving Mantiski focused on appearance, having spent her teen years doing the grunt work based around that makes perfect sense. I say you've always done a great job of expressing femininity in genus that don't always show it. You do it with eyes, body builds, expressions, etc. Where the fandom is still largely stuck on mammals (Sharks and Digital creatures just got their roses in the last five/ten years), you've boldly kicked down the wall when it came to WwF and with the help of your colabs, have made expressive and believable anthros out of insects, aquatics and others that most people would go 'huh?!' over, while avoiding any 'Arthuring' of them that completely makes one wonder why one bothered in the first place.
PebbleLion
2025-03-09 23:46:32 +0000 UTC
