the kitty cop-out

I know it's a wierd idea, but until I get more comfortable drawing Masamune as a dragon and Yukimura as a tiger, I'm a little more familiar with drawing cats.

 

Masa-kitty is a pen drawing, without pencil underdrawing. Yuki-tabby is a pencil drawing. Both were colored with Copic markers, ShinHan Art Touch Twin markers, and Prismacolor Premier markers.
Some rearrangement on Photoshop.

 

Sengoku Basara videogames are by Capcom; anime by Production I.G.

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Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura as cats, is actually something I've been wanting to draw for a while.  Cats are cute.  And Kokubyaku's doujinshi with chibi-cat-eared-Masamune and chibi-puppy-eared-Yukimura, are just adorable. 

I suppose it's a natural progression to draw cat versions of my current favorite anime characters.  After all, right before this, I was drawing cat versions of America and England from Hetalia.  But the canon included Nekotalia.  Himaruya Hidekazu, the creator of Hetalia, was already making up cat versions of his characters.  That just seemed easier to me than drawing humans.  So I drew cat-ified US/UK.  I originally started watching cat videos on YouTube, purely as drawing reference for Nekotalia fan-art.  Then I got hooked on cat vids in general.  ^^;

Now I'm hooked on tiger vids and tiger cub videos on YouTube.  I even went PBS's website to watch online episodes about tigers.  I'm in deep now.  And it makes me so happy.  So happy to see just pictures of tigers and cubs online (...and so sad to learn about how they are poached and abused ;~; ). 

In truth, as much as I enjoy adorable kitties and adorable kitty versions of America, England, Masamune, and Yukimura, I can't deny that I'm really just avoiding drawing humans.  Perhaps I'm even conceding to the laborious challenge of drawing humans well.  That can't be good.  My drawing should evolve, not stagnate in the easy stuff.  But I li~ke complacency~!  (End whining.) 

Well, at least I'm getting more comfortable drawing Masamune as a dragon and Yukimura as a tiger.  I've been practicing, watching reference material, sketching from Google search photos,...  One day I'll be able to draw that whole Masa-dragon/Yuki-tiger fancomic, instead of just leaving it at that one silly 4-koma.  *-*