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Mon, 20 May 2019 22:23:03 GMT

Do I ever draw realistic animals? No!

Have I ever seriously attempted to draw a cat? Nope!

Am I 100% at ease with using colored pencils? I am not!

DID I DO ALL THREE FOR MY FRIEND? HECK YES.

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.

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!

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As per usual, print available via Deviantart

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.

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!

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