Yo Sparkleites!
Drawing with proper proportions and creating the illusion of a three dimensional object isn’t easy. It relies a lot on understanding how the brain sees the world and flattening everything the eye captures onto the two dimensional plane.
Then, you have to recreate what your brain sees — even though you aren’t even really seeing it correctly, missing details, and misunderstanding what the shapes of what you’re looking at — and your recreation? Well, if it’s anything like my recreations… there are days when I can doodle pretty nicely. On special days, I create something marketable on my beautiful RedBubble and TeePublic store. On the other hand, there are days when I can’t draw a slice of bologna, let alone match the color.
The bad days outnumber the good. I wonder if that will always be the case, despite deliberate practice. It’s feels like my stupid neurons are too far apart to chew gum and breathe at the same time, let alone draw any line the way I command my brain to make my hand, arm, elbow, fingers, and pencil draw it. Arcs look like crumbled cheese, straight lines are impossible, and my brain is screaming inside.
So, especially when I’m failing in excess, drawing cats is really hard. They’re hard anyway. On my best days, my cats still look bad. I can’t do our feline friends justice, and it doesn’t seem to matter how many images of cat skulls and skeletons I look up on Google. They have the cutest little faces, with fluffy fur covered cheeks, various whiskers, and little tiny paws of adorable joy. Why are they so tricky? It is because they’re secretly fourth dimensional beings and trying to scale them down to two-D is a blasphemous action only reserved for the most skilled and talend individuals? Or do I just suck?
I suck at drawing cats. I really suck at drawing cats when I’m having a day when I suck at drawing in general.
Here’s a video where I show some way better drawings of cats… drawings I may never be able to compare to:
I shoud hook it by saying “watch to the end,” but do what you want.