Illustration Friday - Fierce
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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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