I Know You're Not Focused On Cat Art Now, But Do You Have Any Tips For Drawing Cats?

I know you're not focused on cat art now, but do you have any tips for drawing cats?

Depends what you want specifically advice on.

For realistic anatomy, trace basic shapes from photographs to get a good base and to nail the proportions. Eventually you won't need to do that anymore, but it's an effective way to start out imo. I still do this sometimes because getting proportions correct takes me the longest. With a good base drawing, everything falls into place.

Line weight is important. There's a delicate balance of how much fur should be rendered in the line art vs coloring. This would depend on your art style. I usually draw some fur in the line art, usually around joints or bends. (Take a look around the ears or neck in the drawing above). I also choose to color part of my line art after I finish coloring a piece.

For coloring, I start big, filling in each object with a flat color. Using a large textured brush with a soft edge, I'll add in some additional colors. The second cat on the left has a darker tail and lighter face than the middle of the body. I filled him in with the mid orange color then added the dark color for the tail and lighter face on top.

Then, I do a lot of individual brush marks for the fur and hatch lines. I use the same brush as I use for the line art. It's easy to overdo these lines. Less is more! Some of these little brushstrokes for fur are on a layer above the line art.

And don't forget whiskers! I often forget to add the whiskers because it's my very last step.

I hope this is at least a little bit helpful?

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I feel violated

If you're so depressed you can't get out of bed, I have a pro tip:

Buy a bottle of micellar cleansing water and some cotton rounds. Keep them by your bed/in your bed. You don't have to rinse off micellar water so it's easy and low effort to at least wash your face. It's such a tiny thing but it helps to feel at least a little bit clean.

If you can't get up to brush your teeth, keep a bag of floss picks by your bed. Dental care is so expensive if you gotta fix stuff, and it is so low effort to at least floss white lying down. It's better than nothing.

:( Stay Strong 🫡

He doesn't know today is his birthday

Happy 4th birthday, Beanie!

8 years ago I did this drawing of some of my hatz. if you know me, you know I'm a hat freak and I think I might start a series where I try to draw all of them.

Yesterday my roommate said I probably have like 80 hats and that's a scary number... but I haven't counted in a long time.

Here are all the sticks I've found on the ground recently. They were all unused except the Jesus 🖤's you, the little panda and the red haired gal surrounded by checkers.

The universe has been so bizarre and I've had such a weird week.