I finally got to draw a cat! Her name is Mabel. A friend asked me to draw her. It was a tough photo to work with because the front portion is out of focus, but I enjoyed working on everything except the paw/leg. It was really fun to draw the face!
Here’s the full size drawing… you can see I changed the background up a bit. I wanted to leave the window included because I liked how the light was shining on her fur. Since the drawing itself is only 5 x 7 inches, I don’t have much to say on the process of the drawing other than what I usually say, lots of layers! For her face, I put down some “beige,” then light black lines, then more beige, then finally more black.
I just remembered, I do have a comment about her whiskers. I used Gelly Rolls! At first the white lines were too thick, it looked goofy, but I realized if I use my black pencil I could scrape away about half the thickness of the line to thin them out and then I lightly colored directly on the base of the whiskers to make them look a little submerged into the fur. I am pretty happy with out it worked out.
I can’t remember if I wrote this in a previous post, but I decided to take down my Etsy page because I am going to be back in school and don’t want commissions during that time. You can still view my personal website here for a gallery though…
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