[Sketch] - designacharacter Contest #4 / Kitten 1 [FR/EN]
Bonjour à tous !
Hi everyone!
Voici ma première participation pour le concours organisé par @w0olf.
Thème du concours : designer un personnage pour un chaton mignon et câlin.
Je suis à l'aise avec pas mal d'animaux au dessin, mais le chat... c'est ma bête noire ! j'ai donc gribouillé plusieurs pages avant de trouver quelques tracés convenables. Je suis partie sur deux styles complètement différents (voir ma seconde participation) car j'avais besoin d'expérimenter un nouveau tracé pour m'en sortir. Au final, je ne suis pas vraiment satisfaite du résultat mais une des règles du concours étant "amusez-vous", je me suis arrêtée là avant de péter un plomb ^^'. J'espère que ça vous plaira.
Here is my first entry for the contest organized by @w0olf with the participation of @steemkitten.
Theme of the contest: design a character for a cute and cuddly kitten.
I'm comfortable with a lot of animals in the drawing, but the cat... it's my pet peeve! so I scribbled several pages before I found a few suitable tracks. I tried two completely different styles (see my second entry) because I needed to experiment a new route to get out of it. In the end, I'm not really satisfied with the result but one of the rules of the contest is "have fun", I stopped there before I went crazy ^^'. I hope you enjoy it.
Matériel utilisé / Tools used
Papier chelou (trouvé en recyclerie, je pense que c'est du sous-papier-peint)
Crayon de papier et Stylo
Aquarelle
Strange paper (absolutely no idea of what is it, I find it in a recyclery store)
Pencil and pen
Watercolor
Recherches / Sketch
Je suis restée sur un style à mi-chemin entre le "réaliste" et le manga. Je dois avouer que ma principale source d'inspiration pour dessiner les chats est le dessinateur Maliki. Mes autres sources d'inspiration sont les dessinatrices Dzaka et Dragibuz. Evidemment, je suis loin d'effleurer leur style... je suis juste une grande fan !
I stayed on a style halfway between "realistic" and manga. I must confess that my main source of inspiration for drawing cats is the artist Maliki. My other sources of inspiration are the artists Dzaka and Dragibuz. Obviously, I'm far from touching their style... I'm just a big fan!
Sueur froide / scared.
Joueur / gamer.
Endormi / spleeping.
Réclamant des câlins / asking for cuddles.
Merci à @w0olf pour l'organisation de ce concours.
N'hésitez pas à upvoter, resteemer, commenter... au cas où cela vous ai plu. Je n'ai pas fait de section "work in Progress" car le dessin est super rapide, il m'aurait fallu des dizaines et des dizaines de photos pour vous faire tous les WIP de chaque croquis. Et puis je suppose que les coups de crayons parlent d'eux-même.
Merci à vous pour votre soutien.
Thanks to @w0olf for organizing this contest.
Feel free to upvote, stay seeding, comment... in case you liked it. I didn't make a "work in Progress" section because the drawing is super fast, it would have taken me dozens and dozens of photos to make all the WIP of each sketch. And then I guess pencil strokes speak for themselves.
Thank you for your support.
Oreille Pointue
Cute character, love its big eyes! Thanks for posting.
Thank you :)
Hey @oreille-pointue,
I am glad you decided to chip in :D
and I really don't know what you are talking about, these turned out awesome!
My favourite is probably the "gamer", but the "scared" one with the gecko... hah... that blank stare - brilliant!
The steemy stripes on her tail are a great incorporation. But all the fluff aside, my favorite part have to be the eyes, they have a cat-ish deepness to them, very alluring!
Thanks for this awesome entry!
Thank you for the vocabulary, I'm going to correct that ^^'.
I didn't have drawn cat for maybe... 10 years.
I find them very hard to represent because they are at the same time liquid, flufy, sharp, very smart but also totally stupid, sometimes it seems that they know the future, and yet they are able to go out of control when a fly passes by... in short, too many things to express in a cat's drawing!
My favourite is also the gamer ^^ .
Thank you for your comment, and see you soon !
ow wow... the way you describe the challenge of capturing the essence of a cat is just so beautifully poetic!
I'm just going to sit here an melt for a minute.
This last one is funny to draw, but he goes away from the "cuddly kitten"concept.
For the moment, my favourite is the sketch of @jillustrations :3 I hope she will at least be in the finalists!
See you soon ^^ !
These are great @oreille-pointue! Your kitten is very nice: )
Thank you :) ! Your kitten is really nice too (so fluffyyyyyy) ^^.
See you !