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I wanted to do an experimental\sort of warm up piece to work on bringing my art techniques together a bit more, and I remembered how Citrus-Chickadee gave me the go ahead to use her photos of her cats to base paintings off of, and figured that this would be as good a time as any. I used this photo, and the marking are modeled fairly loosely after Tigger's (the cat's).

I'm really happy with this! See, over time I've developed a number of processes for art that ended up being fairly separate from each other, although a couple did involve starting out with rough shapes and refining it down, so I was able to bring those together first. The other main technique I brought in here was the same one I used for my 'contest entry - beary' piece, where I pretty much just stick to an airbrush and slowly work down to smaller sized as I add details. I'm really happy with how this worked out for the cloth, and then I worked it though the fur a bit to tone down the rougher shapes that had shown up, while trying to keep some of the texture. I definitely need to use the airbrush a bit earlier, because bringing it in when I'd already started to add some fur detail was pretty tricky, especially since I hadn't quite defined the overall shape properly yet, haha

I'd still consider this a rough art work, since there's a lot of parts where I didn't round them off as I'd wanted to. At the moment I don't feel like I've got enough art-time to sit down and spend a day or three on a painting, which means my patience with wanting to finish a piece is pretty short. I have a pretty big priority on posting regularly at the moment, so pieces that take forever are a bit out of my interest range.

Now, I've just got to remember what I was meant to be doing the warm up for....

Description
I wanted to do an experimental\sort of warm up piece to work on bringing my art techniques together a bit more, and I remembered how Citrus-Chickadee gave me the go ahead to use her photos of her cats to base paintings off of, and figured that this would be as good a time as any. I used this photo, and the marking are modeled fairly loosely after Tigger's (the cat's).

I'm really happy with this! See, over time I've developed a number of processes for art that ended up being fairly separate from each other, although a couple did involve starting out with rough shapes and refining it down, so I was able to bring those together first. The other main technique I brought in here was the same one I used for my 'contest entry - beary' piece, where I pretty much just stick to an airbrush and slowly work down to smaller sized as I add details. I'm really happy with how this worked out for the cloth, and then I worked it though the fur a bit to tone down the rougher shapes that had shown up, while trying to keep some of the texture. I definitely need to use the airbrush a bit earlier, because bringing it in when I'd already started to add some fur detail was pretty tricky, especially since I hadn't quite defined the overall shape properly yet, haha

I'd still consider this a rough art work, since there's a lot of parts where I didn't round them off as I'd wanted to. At the moment I don't feel like I've got enough art-time to sit down and spend a day or three on a painting, which means my patience with wanting to finish a piece is pretty short. I have a pretty big priority on posting regularly at the moment, so pieces that take forever are a bit out of my interest range.

Now, I've just got to remember what I was meant to be doing the warm up for....