Bigger Eyes are Cuter Eyes

Thanks to the Clip Studio Paint liquefy tool, I was able to enlarge Kitty’s eyes in just a few seconds.

In the right page, I added in the birds perched on Mr. Moai and on Dylan’s snout. Adding the birds was necessary for continuity. They first appear in page 25, then reappear in page 59. I’ll add the birds to page 61, also, showing them fluttering around Mr. Moai’s head as Kitty revives him from his 300-year sleep.

A tabby cat doing a bicycle kick

I”ve been drawing cats doing bicycle kicks since I started drawing 7 years ago. Now that I’m working on a story about a cat who is a frustrated soccer player, I can put my bicycle kicking cat drawing skills to good use..

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.