Rabbit poses

Doodles

Lucille

Cat skeleton drawings. I think it's so important when you do drawings as anatomically correct as my cat drawings are, to really get down to the nitty gritty (of the kitty). Next I'm going to look at their musculatureyness and inner branial workings. And their whiskerlature [edit: new joke]

Really I was listening to Little Richard, which reminded me of this super video:

Get down with your bad bony selves, cats!
(If you put on Lucille and manage to start it just at the right time, as I've spent the last minute doing, these cats are totally in time, almost! Although the one on the bottom left may have been drinking.)

Details

Coughkaesque

Here's the inaugural drawing on my new Cintiq! Pretty exciting stuff, think it's going to take some time to adjust and get the best out of, but having flirted with the idea on and off for about 3 years, it felt like the moment had arrived. 

My life doesn't feel immediately changed, but I can sense it happening...

 

Play play play

Flappers

Pancake gif

I was thinking about this guy instead of falling asleep last night, so here he is. At university we did an animation module, and we were all meant to produce a minute-long cartoon. I think only one person managed it, as it entailed something like 600 drawings... I still have a shoebox full of my pencil sketches, mine was about a granny who knitted costumes for unhappy people she saw through her window, and then she knitted herself a butterfly at the end and flew away.

Warming up

More warming up pics. I hadn't really decided whether to take the full week off, but once I started... It was great! The cat watching telly on the laptop in bed is pretty autobiographical of some of this Christmas holiday. 

Scaly

Happy New Year!

I've redone my website, added a bit of new work, and generally smartened it up a bit. Ready for 2012.

Charles Addams, via Drawn.

Merry Christmas

And a happy New Year! xxx

And time for another pattern!

 

Foxy fiddler

Sketchy

Raining chats

Musician in the Rain, Maurice Baquet, Paris 1957, by Robert Doisneau

Plus ça change, plus c'est le même chat?

It's helpful for me doing these pastiches/copies - I find composition really difficult, and it's useful to copy what an artist has done that has worked beautifully, and hopefully take that knowledge into my own pictures more. Plus, obviously it's fun!

So much texting. 

Inspired by William Steig's C D B, such a funny book.

A squirrel singing and bats dancing this Monday.

Multitasking, get those dishes clean cat!