tag:dreamwidth.org,2018-12-05:3454139 thagandizzle thagandizzle 2019-05-20T22:23:28Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2018-12-05:3454139:14580 2019-05-20T22:23:03Z 2019-05-20T22:23:28Z sleepy public 1 Do I ever draw realistic animals? No!<br /><br />Have I ever seriously attempted to draw a cat? Nope!<br /><br />Am I 100% at ease with using colored pencils? I am not!<br /><br />DID I DO ALL THREE FOR MY FRIEND? HECK YES.<br /><br />This is Lenny. He's a beloved cat owned by a dear friend who has been trying to get me to draw her damn cat for, like, three months. I haven't wanted to do it because of the fact that watercoloring fat hamsters does not make me a master at drawing non-human animals. I'm marginally more comfortable with colored pencils than I was in, like November, but I'm more comfortable with them than I am with most of the other color mediums I could use for this. I watched one (1) tutorial on how to draw fur and then I just kind of... Went for it, I guess. I like him, though! I based a lot of his body shape on one of my own cats--I made him a little manlier than my cat who is very round and very cute and not very much like Lenny who is a more rugged specimen. But it gave me a decent idea of how the fur laid over the body. I had some trouble with his lower legs.<br /><br />My friend and I share a love of using skulls as decor, so I threw some of them into the background with some (thoroughly pruned) catnip growing around them. I was thoroughly exhausted after drawing him. I think I might draw a hot Victorian next just to relax!<br /><br />Click to enlarge<br /><a href="https://thagandizzle.dreamwidth.org/file/27261.png"><img src="https://thagandizzle.dreamwidth.org/file/200x200/27261.png" alt="my friend&#39;s cat Lenny" title="Lenny Himself" /></a><br /><br />As per usual, print available via <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/thagandizzle/art/Lenny-Himself-05-19-19-798362650">Deviantart</a><br /><br />I had to do a pre-employment drug test today for my temp assignment. Doing those is always kind of hilarious to me because I'm a teetotaler. Unfortunately, no one will take your word for it. In the lab waiting area, these three women came in who seemed to be three generations of a family. The oldest woman groaned constantly the whole time. I think she does that a lot because the other two just blithely conversed around it. Then, a couple came in with a crying baby who they didn't try to, like, hold and comfort, but seemed keen on letting it cry it out. I was in aural hell until I got to enjoy the privilege of peeing into a cup. <br /><br />Hopefully, J will feel up to going grocery shopping. She came home early from work because she'd had such a hard time sleeping last night and had a sore throat. But we're down to our last roll of toilet paper and need to have something other than ramen in the house to eat!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thagandizzle&ditemid=14580" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments