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catstuckk-blog · 12 years ago

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I don't mean to insult your choice of Siamese Vriska, but I was looking through cat breeds on Wikipeda, and stumbled apon 'Korat' Cats. Quoted from the article - They are known colloquially as the "good luck cat" - which seemed, personally, very fitting.

Ohh! No, no insult what-so-ever! I love the fact that you considered another breed because I thought about the cats for awhile and talking about the why’s and why not’s is super fun! I considered a Korat cat for awhile but visually

they look too sweet and far too much like a Russian blue

The thing about an oriental Siamese is that they’re well known for being loud and obnoxious, they meow Constantly

they also have this very elegant but angular look which matches Vriska better than a soft round cat, most importantly they are well known for their blue eyes

*I also wanted diversity in the cats body types so a Siamese helped add more to the group

Thank you for this ask though!! I thought about the breeds for much longer than I probably needed to so I love talking about them!!

#catstuck #catstuckk ooc #catstuckk #no seriously I would love to talk about the breeds #I need to update this damn blog ugh I'm sorry I've been so overworked lately

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catstuckk-blog · 12 years ago

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hi, um, this is a question to the admin! can i see perhaps a sketch or whatever of when you start to answer your asks? im trying to get better at drawing cats and youre so good at drawing them, so i hoped i could get a little help from a pro ;w;''

⁀⊙﹏☉⁀ well I’m no pro but I can take you through the steps that I’ve gone through.

Firstly I do have to say I’ve been drawing since I was tiny, like 3 years old kind of tiny, and what I see is that the more a person draws anything (even subjects unrelated to what they want to learn) they will get better at drawing anything they want to draw. So get a sketch book (if you don’t already have one) and just draw. Draw anything, draw from real life, draw from your imagination, just keep drawing because it does help A LOT.

you don’t have to show it people or finish your work in it, but being able to draw on paper is always great!! (and the same goes for digital, your skills won’t just transfer magically, it takes work like everything else)

Now when it comes to drawing cats I started out looking at references of cats, and I mean literally just looking up cat pictures and seeing how they

walk

pose

anything, I’d draw from that to understand their poses, how their bodies move, how their muscles work ect. Always start from real life. (If you want to do cats I suggest looking at different breeds, bald cats are especially good for understanding how a cat works since they show muscles and structure better than a fuzzy cat)

you can just draw over these poses to get general ideas of how things work

and this isn’t a stressful thing it’s just scribbles that will help you understand cats bodies better. This is absolutely important to drawing cats because understanding them is a good thing to know before playing around with them.

however when it comes to catstuckk they’re not realistic cats at all, they have cat like structure that’s been changed to make it funnier and more cartoonish, they usually start out as below

depending on the cat the line of the head to the tail might be important but for others it might be the round belly and chest, and these lines are nothing more than just shapes, things that help set up poses.

To be honest when drawing certain poses I might have one or two lines (much less than above). The ones below are good examples for how they look if I’m just doodling them around (not erasing any guidelines)

One thing that a lot of people overlook is how much more fun a drawing or character is when it’s radically different from others around it. Simply changing the shape from thin long ovals, to round circles, to squares or triangles makes them all different, so play around with shapes and body types. So that your characters don’t look the same!

Since these are cats their fur (or lack of) can also aid in their appearance and I’m not talking colors I’m talking fuzzy messy cats like Karkat to slicked back cats like Kanaya. It helps bring out their personalities. Everything can be played around with to bring out something in each cat.

Don’t be afraid of experimenting because you might end up with something different like Eridan, don’t stop doing it if you like it (even if people send messages saying he looks gross and being a bald cat doesn’t match him) because being different is always a good way to work, and he is totally a sexy cat, Fef definitely thinks so.

so basically just keep practicing because it’s not an overnight thing it takes time (months and years) eventually no matter what YOU WILL GET BETTER!!!