I hope this image isn’t too annoyingly big for you! I enjoyed smooshing the blue around and then trying to subtly (possibly too subtly) echo smacker tabby swirls in the paint.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are a lot of cat pictures on the internet. I try to never copy one picture’s pose, but to smoosh (I guess) a lot of kinda-like-what-I-want images into my head and then to the paper. This one I think worked for that. Except for the front right paw. I’m still not content with that. But anymore work will just mess up the paper too much.<\/p>\n
On to the next prompt and more practice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I hope this image isn’t too annoyingly big for you! I enjoyed smooshing the blue around and then trying to subtly (possibly too subtly) echo smacker tabby swirls in the paint.\u00a0 There are a lot of cat pictures on the internet. 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