Wet Angry Tabby Cat in the making

A wet cat drawn from imagination

This is my sketch of a wet tabby cat. I’ve never drawn a wet cat before. As usual, my first impulse was to start drawing from memory, but I caught myself and thought, You’re getting off on the wrong foot again! Get some references photos of wet cats. The internet is flooded with them.

So, I looked for some decent reference photos. I found a lot of wet cats. They all looked overpowered and depressed. I was troubled that the captions all reeked of low-level animal cruelty, as in, “Let’s get a good laugh at the miserable animal.” Pathetic stuff in my opinion.

I’m going to go back to drawing from my imagination.