More watercolor! I really love working with watercolor, but it does require a certain amount of work space that I just don't have right now. Maybe someday I'll get a dedicated art desk and then I can do more with traditional media. For now, though, I'm really uneasy with the idea of trying to fit open water on the same desk as all my electronics.
This character design was inspired by the cat-people in Escaflowne, a fantasy anime that I remember aired for a brief period on Fox Kids once upon a time (this really dates me). Later I learned that it was really a heavily-edited version of the series Vision of Escaflowne, which was decidedly not a kids' show. Lesson to dubbing company producers: if you're bringing an anime over to the English market with the intention to present it to kids, it would help if the title in question was aimed at children to begin with.
I also based this design after one of my previous cats, a lovely tortoiseshell. She was a sweet girl.
(Looking at this piece now, it's nice and all, but I seem to have had no concept of the idea of line weight. Those thin lines are really getting lost beneath the bold watercolor. I'd love to do something with brush pen and watercolor one of these days.)
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