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..
I finished work a little early today. The stage is set for a rush of business on Monday. The excitement usually lasts about two weeks while the customers settle in or cancel out. During that time, I’m likely work later than usual, and the book languishes. The best I can do is brainstorm.
Today I thought it would be a good idea to give the volcano demon a likeable quality. She’s a monster, but she’s got dreams. She always wanted to be a soccer star, but her parents wanted her to take over the family business. So she became a volcano demon who has dreams. To show her dreaming of kicking a soccer ball, I tunneled into my archives and exhumed one of my first drawings, Kitty Katnap, the soccer playing omni-sexual cat. He was originally a British Blue, but I turned him into an orange tabby for this page.
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Today was a busy family day. In keeping with the plan to make progress every I resorted to a quick sketch of Jimmy Jay and Buddy Butterfly playing some football. I’m amused at the thought of a butterfly catching a football launched by a jaybird with a rocket for an arm. The thing is, Buddy actually catches the ball and fires it back.
With time running short I inked the sketch in Photoshop then applied some color. I’ll revisit this tomorrow and add a background.
