What? Three images!?!? Surely there must be some mistake here!
Nope, to be quite honest I am fairly surprised how much drawing I've been getting done lately.
Not quite a finished product yet. I plan on adding some shading and maybe some paiterly qualities to the image as well as some sort of background. Not entirely sure what yet, but it'll come to me... I hope.
A while ago over at
Tonight We Draw one of the ideas submitted was "East Asian Monsters". I had no idea what I would do since my knowledge on East Asian Mythology is somewhat limited. Thankfully one of my friends lived in Japan for a time and has a ridiculous amount of knowledge on the subject of folklore and mythology. She suggested that I do what is known as a
Bakeneko and while reading up on the creature (essentially a magical cat) one of the legends in particular caught my attention:
"Another famous bake-neko story is about a man named Takasu Genbei, whose mother’s personality changed completely after his pet cat went missing for many years. His mother avoided the company of friends and family and would take her meals alone in her room. When the family peeked in on her they saw a cat-like monster in the mother's clothes, chewing on animal carcasses. Takasu, still skeptical, slew what looked like his mother and after one day his mother's body turned back into his pet cat that had been missing."
I did mistake animal carcass for human carcass I am aware and aim to fix the mistake. However, it does seem interesting doesn't it? I might change the placement of her tail and play around with the pose a bit before actually going ahead and inking the piece.
Another piece for a submission over at
Tonight We Draw. The subject chosen was "Everything I touch turns into gold." This was honestly the first image that popped into my head even before that was the set topic for the week/month. There's not really much else I can say about the piece, at least in terms of content. What I can say is that I'm extremely proud of her pose, which I created from my head without any point of reference, and the baby's pose as well. I did not use any reference for the baby either except of what I could remember from paintings and sketches I had seen from Classical Art Masters such as DaVinci and Raphael. Study your art history kids, it'll definitely come in handy in the future.
