I drew a cat 🙂
It’s, of course, started with a simple sketch on reMarkable:
But then I spent way too much time painting all the flowers. I was thinking it would look good on greeting cards and t-shirts. I added it in my TRUFFLEPIG store.
“I will sleep until my problems disappear” is my new design, and I will add it to my new store soon.
I am experimenting with different colors. Most of my designs used to be black and white, but in my new store, I plan to have more variety.
I am trying to find time to draw more designs. Today I drew yet another cat. It’s an interesting combination when you draw a cute animal and have it say something strange.
See it in my Threadless store.
Edit (2021 June 22): Design moved from my Fox Shiver store to my TRUFFLEPIG store.
You guys know that my brother and I have been working on our cat book. Each page takes a while.
You start with a rough sketch:
On top of it you create a cleaner sketch:
And then you keep adding details. Some things you can draw from memory. But if you are unsure how something looks you find references and take photos of things that you want to add. Here I took a photo of a plant spray bottle and then drew it:
I googled strawberries and then sketched them too using photos as references:
I searched for various plants and flowers for inspiration:
And I even used one of my designs with two cats and added them to the image:
And that’s how the whole drawing is made 🙂
It’s interesting how random things can inspire us.
I was playing Stardew Valley recently, and in-game you can have seeds that you can plant. One kind of seed is Fall Seeds. When you hover over it in your inventory, you can read the description: “An assortment of wild fall seeds”.
That word – assortment – stuck with me. And I thought, “What would an assortment of cats look like?” because I like drawing cats. And so I drew just that.
That’s the second design inspired by Stardew Valley. I wrote about the first one a few days ago. Maybe I should play more games as an inspiration 🙂
And here is “Assortment of Cats” on a t-shirt:
Edit (2021 June 22): Design moved from my Fox Shiver store to my TRUFFLEPIG store.
I made a new design, it’s titled “Why did I leave my house?”:
Edit (2021 June 22): Design moved from my Fox Shiver store to my TRUFFLEPIG store.
My brother and I are making our first book about cats. Today I’ve been working on the garden area. Here is the initial sketch:
The problem is that the trees create a kind of frame in the picture, as so:
There’s still a lot of space outside those borders made by trees. That’s not a good composition because you can’t really draw anything interesting there. The eye will naturaly see what’s inside the borders and will miss anything that is outside.
To fix that, I moved the whole image left so that there’s not so much of that useless space on the left. And then moved the other tree more to the right:
Now I am adding more cats and details but that’s not ready to show yet.
I was playing Stardew Valley and I had a cat shirt. Or so I though.
It was in fact a skull shirt. But I didn’t know that. I thought, “I am going to draw a giant cat head”. So here’s my new design:
At first, I drew it like so:
I painted it with white color only — those dark grey areas are just white pixels with very low opacity. But, as I know, those pixels would not be printed at all. There’s no point submitting a design with too many transparent pixels. That’s why I changed contrast, so only the white pixels with high opacity are left.
