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Cat On The Brains

Published: Jan 21, 2013

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Thanks for just checking out this, normally my original stuff gets no attention compared to fanart. I've spent a lot of time on details like the jumper wrinkles, the tiger's face and lighting.

There is no deep meaning behind it, but i have wanted to do some surreal art for a while now. It has a lot of inspiration from the artist: P@ (Pat) Perry, his work is an amazing mixture of realism and surrealism. (To be honest, I'm not sure if im using surreal in the correct context. But I do love wacky art with lots of advanced technique.)

I spent about 30 hours on this, the lines were pretty easy, although getting the line contrast right between the tiger's black fur and orange fur was a challenge. I spent most of the time shading, I took the time and consider the light source the entire time I coloured it, which I think really worked out for me. I drew and coloured it all in FireAlpaca and then put it in CS5 and added the background, sunlight and tweaked the colours to be a little bit more yellow tinted.

Thanks for reading my long description, I have opened up my Critiques for this image and would really appreciate it if you could take the time to give me a critique.

Thank you guys
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Arcky-Cano

Jan 28, 2013

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Hi! Sorry it's late, but here is your requested critique~!

Vision: 4.5 As I was reading the description, I took note of how you said that you wanted a certain style and "surreal" look to your drawing. I think you achieved that very well, with the similar shading style throughout the whole drawing and the tiger head blending well with the body of the picture. The only thing that I would say is where the legs end and are erased, I would try to end it in the same pattern of the background, like the edge of the green trousers, instead of the wavey edge it's got now. To me, if feels like it detaches the picture a little.

Originality: 3 The reason that this got a 3 in my opinion is that when I first saw it, it reminded me of those deadmau5 things? (Not sure if deadmau5 is exactly what it is OTL) but the oversized animal head on a human body is what reminded me of those deadmau5 things. Maybe the tiger head could be the size of an actual human head? But anyways, I think this is just a term of personal preference, so how original it is for me might not be the same as how original it is for someone else.

Technique: 3.5 For the style I think you were going for, I think you pulled it off very well! The thing that I see that bothers me is that in your shading, there are some parts where the shading makes a clean line, and other parts where it makes a texturized or jagged line; I would try to keep it to one or the other. That way, it will look more unified. I would also make the shading more deep. It looks like you've only shaded about two levels of shading? I would try to shade it a bit more to give more depth, unless you were going for a flat and simple style, which is ok too!

Impact: 4 When I first saw this, I was compelled to stare at it, to look throughout the whole drawing. The first thing that drew my attention was the tiger head, which I believe is the focal point of the drawing, so that's good. I was struck by the detail in the tiger head, and the bold colours were good too.

I hope I helped a bit with my critique!