Rearing Horse

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lefthandhorseSometimes I ask my left hand to draw stuff for me.  Though clumsy, I often find it’s got all kinds of  subconscious visual knowledge stored away that my dominant hand glosses over–especially if I’ve been studying a subject a while.  I was really happy with how this freaked out horse came out.

Solving Cat Face Problems

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OK, so drawing expressive cat faces is easy when you cartoon ’em up, but difficult when you’re trying to adhere to their natural anatomy–especially those mouths!

But tonight Netflix brought me some nice reference in the form of Thunder and the House of Magic.  There’s a nice hand-drawn sensibility to the cat’s body motion (when’s the last time we had a 3D animated cat?  Bolt?), but that face, that mouth!!  Cute, expressive, natural-looking!

Besides, he looks like my fiancé’s kitty, Pixel, down to the white socks!

Woot!

TF2 Art: Teamwork makes the Dream Work!

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A birthday gift for my Beau, who mains a Heavy in TF2. As it so happens, I main a Medic, making this a perfect relationship metaphor.

I got this printed out at 16×20″ at Costco, so he has a mounted poster of it, woot!

Did I mention I hate drawing machinery? All those straight lines and perfect shapes are difficult for me. But I drew some here. That’s how you know it’s true love.

If you ever want to play with us, I’m AesAthena on Steam. Or maybe ASAthena, I don’t know! Look for the icon of Pussyfoot the Cat!