Cat

[Dr Unne]

I drew my cat named Cat. This is drawn via my Wacom tablet with a 3 pixel brush in Photoshop (different colors though obviously), no layers or filters or any of that Photoshop voodoo. All I know is pencil drawings, so that's what I did. It didn't turn out too bad, I think.

Here's some progress snapshots I took along the way. Skip to the bottom if you don't care.

Progress 1 - Rough sketch to see if this is going to be good enough to keep going with. And to get used to using the tablet. I never really drew anything "nice" on the tablet before so I'm not very good with it yet. I planned to keep approximately this level of detail in the final drawing, or a maybe little bit better. My original plan was only to use black and white. Alas...
Progress 2 - ...my plans went awry. I couldn't stop adding more detail. This is maybe 3-4 hours into it and only the head is done. It turns out that what looks like black at a glance is actually a heck of a lot of colors. The color makes a lot of difference, subtle as it is.
Progress 3 - Maybe 7-8 hours into it now. His back took no effort effort to draw at all. Just random scribbles in large quantity. But oh how I hate drawing white fur. I struggled a lot. I also touched up his face to look less cartoonish.
Progress 4 - 9-10 hours into it now or so. I didn't do much more. I quit because I didn't want to draw his back paw because I hate white fur. And then I left for vacation for 2 weeks.

*** Finished drawing (I hope) - 12 hours total maybe. I lost track. His back paw was as hard as the front ones. I used a lot of color to make up for not being able to draw in white. I decided to leave the background white so it looks like he's erupting out of a void with his laser eyes ablaze. Or something like that. I was going to use a 1 pixel brush and go over it all again, but I decided this was good enough. I'll see how it looks when I print it and then I might work more if necessary. I had to guess what the end of his tail looks like; I'm counting on not having people look at it, on account of the laser eyes etc.

Leeza, I'll send you a copy as thank-you for letting me eat all your food for two weeks.

[I Took the Red Pill]

All I can say is that's amazing. Excellent job. I could never even dream of doing that.

[lovehurts]

yes you should enter the competition thread if you havent already

Good job

[Meat Puppet]

That is beautiful, Unne. And you've really helped me appreciate how much hard work goes into something like this.

Five stars.

[Necronopticous]

Hey, that's a great Cat.

[Moon Rabbits]

Damn, I wish I had a wacom tablet or scanner so I could use my hands with my work.

I really love the attention to detail in the fur, as well as the inside of the ears. Excellent.

I agree with Meat Puppet's statement and rating.

[Dr Unne]

Thanks. Those aren't stars though. They're RSL's severed head.

I have the cheapest tablet they sell. $90 or so I think. Scanners are cheaper. You could also use a digital camera to take photos of drawings. It works better than one would think.

[Rocket Edge]

This is great work!

[AdVenT]

Nice work, you're reallly good

[Rye]

That's fantastic. And like Meat Puppet said, I like how you did it step by step, because you really get a feel for the work put in.

[rubah]

the paws are exquisite

[DK]

Beautiful.

[Vyk]

Wow. That's less of a drawing and more of a photograph. Well done

[Mum]

S*** that is good!
I agree with Rubah - the paws are perfect for the drawing. The black is so bold that it makes the paws look all soft and delicate.
Cripes, I hope you are going to be in the competition - or not - you'll obliterate us all!

[Xander]

I love cats so much. I want to cuddle Cat.