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Do you design all of these?
Not too sure which of my art you are referring to...My character art is all my design (some pose references used), but my cat art is based on images of funny cats on the internet!
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?
Hi! I really love your art, your coloring techniques especially blow me away; you have an incredible grasp on it. Your pieces feel so alive and rich and you've clearly got amazing skill. With that being said, I recognized the rainbow cat you did was heavily referenced off an existing photograph, and I was a bit surprised that that wasn't mentioned. I looked at some of your other cat pieces and found the same thing (the pizza one I thought was an original composition before I googled it). There's nothing wrong with referencing or redrawing an existing image in your style, of course, but I feel it's important to give credit where it's due for both transparency's sake as well as in respect for the original photographer (they're artists too!), especially when art is one's job and potential clients may not recognize what is wholly original and what isn't. Not intending to lecture or shame you, just a friendly suggestion! Have a nice day and please never stop creating ^^
The reference picture was always posted with the artwork when I posted them for the first time on instagram from 2020-2023. But since the art is all kind of old, I no longer have the refs/credits to a majority of them. Most of them don't have a way to properly credit them anyways since they're all just viral images. But yea, for a long time I was just an account that redrew viral cat images, that's what I became known for.
Everyone loved these two a lot, thank you 🥹
I've gotten many mentions and asks about prints, they are available here under "wall art"
black cats. rb if you agree.
Happy black cat day!!
Here are some black cats I've drawn through the years
Hello there !
I hope you're doing well. I was wondering if it's OK to use one of your cat drawing as an icon on discord? I'll credit you of course. If you don't want to, I'll understand. I'm sorry, I tried to find the info but couldn't find it on your tumblr or twitter.
Have a nice day / night!
yes! that's cool.
This post is permission to anyone who wants to use my CAT art as a profile pic/icon.
IT'S ALMOST HALLOWEEN
The vibe for this October:
