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Been drawing cats from my book, “The Cat Fanciers’ Association Cat Encyclopedia” while it is too cold to go zoo sketching. Tonight I took one of my many drawings and experimented with it in Illustrator for the linework, then photoshop for the coloring/textures.

Texture from www.sajja.deviantart.com

Expect more cat drawings soon!

I’ve started working in conte again to try and loosen up for figure drawing sessions. ^_^  These two images are the product of such ventures on my recent trips to the zoo!

Kira and Siri

 No, Kira the lioness is not dead. ^_^* She just ALWAYS has her tongue hanging out!  It’s HILARIOUS!

 And a couple cafe sketches:

cafe sketches sept 09

Sketched a lot of Buttercup this labor day weekend!  I think I am starting to get the hang of her body… still a lot more to improve upon though! ^_^*

Buttercup

A birthday doodle for a friend of mine!  First time I have seriously attempted to make a cartoon animal outside of school…. It was fun, but I’d like to do better in the future ^_^

 BACK TO THE ZOO I GO!!

Cheetah

REALLY focusing on loosening up lately - a very difficult thing for me for some reason. ~_~* So here are some sketches and gestures in pen!

Brushtail Possum Gestures

Working on designing a cute possum character! Sadly, I have no direct connection with these australian critters, so all these pictures were drawn from images found on Google. Better than nothing though! I love their round fluffy shapes!

Buttercup Development

Here are some more developmental sketchs of my American Opossum! I find this character a lot more fun to draw so far! Here I was working out her mouth shape and how it would work with her head. She is to be the companion character to the cute possum above.

cat and dog gestures

Some pen sketches of my cats - REALLY trying to loosen up and FEEL the animal’s rather than BUILD them… if that makes sense. The dogs I gestured while at a dog park - it was very difficult to construct anything watching the dogs moving around so much! It was a good exercise for me though. Drew them in pencil.

ZooTrip March09

Sketches worth showing from my various trips to the zoo this month!  I am really inspired to keep drawing bears - the two here are SUPPOSED to be Spectacled Bears, but they just look bear-esque at the moment. ^_^*  Gotta keep practicing for sure!  But at least I enjoy it!

I read somewhere it is supposed to help with confidence, and generally just improving with art, to draw with pen. 

 Here are some sketches of Marjane Satrapi when I saw her give a lecture in my home city.  It was a very inspring and exciting lecture to attend!  I never would have dreamed I would get to see this amazing woman in person!  I admit I was quite far away, so more of her likeness in the sketches was drawn from what I’ve seen in Persepholis

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Since such an exciting subject is not always available, I have taken to practicing pen and animal sketches with my cats!  Nothing too exciting, but I hope it will help me in the long run ^_^

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