Yes, I’ve fallen off the radar when it comes to this blog. Yes, the pictures on this post have been posted elsewhere (i.e. my Flickr, Tumblr, this site’s sketch category). This is essentially a rehash. I’m trying to blog semi-regularly again. Here’s some new and not-so-new sketches!
I’m hoping to get another blog post in this week (fingers, toes, and eyes crossed). In the meantime, follow my sketch blog on Tumblr: http://wedgienet.tumblr.com
A last-minute submission for Illustration Friday!
I dawdled for the longest time thinking of what to draw for the theme, “fierce.” I was toying around with the idea of drawing Ben Stiller from Zoolander in his “You’re an animal, yeah!” poses during the photoshoot scene, but when I sat down to draw it I realized I left the pen for my pen tablet at my other house. So, yeah. Idea scrapped.
I thought of doing a digital collage instead– I’ve never done anything like that before and wanted to try. My idea was to do a huge, fierce cat attacking a city. I sketched out my idea first in Photoshop.
LOL, srsly. That’s what my preliminary sketch looked like. Well, the image above obviously did not turn out that way as I scoured through stock.exchg and different photos presented themselves to me and changed how the final image was going to look like. I came across a picture of those waving gold cats which supposedly bring the owner luck. It’s usually found in Chinese stores and locally, in Filipino establishments next to a statuette of the child Jesus (which I find ironic). Anyway, I thought an oversized gold cat would be more funny than an actual cat so I used that instead. And while the cat in the picture looks like it’s attacking the city due to its daunting size, it’s actually not fierce or mean-spirited but is just waving hello and bringing good luck to all the (bewildered) citizens.
And I just checked, I did make it to the deadline. I’m the second to the last person to submit before they changed the topic. Heehee.
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