With the end of 2008 closing in on me, I so wanted to draw a beautiful drawing of my Bengal cat, Rasheed. I had it planned. I would wait until he got to sleep, and then I would draw him most beautifully. Wham.
But first something else. Fetching my A4 pad, I saw there was still a drawing (sketch is a better description) of Rasheed, dated December 14, 2008, on it. So I tore it off, and scanned it, so I can show it to you here.
It is a typical run-of-the-mill drawing from me at that time. I was more looking at the drawing than at the cat, and it shows! At least, some of the objects are clear (the pillow and the “ball” –which isn’t even round).
So, the first thing I did was warming up. I did some sketching to get into the spirit of drawing, while listening to a NaNoWriMo podcast by Darusha Whem, called NaNoWriMo podcast 2007.
In this stage it is OK to listen to music and such, because you want to prep your mind for the drawing challenge, to let those creative juices flow through the gray matter inside your skull. During the real deal, you need to concentrate fully on your subject. I’m easily distracted, so I can’t listen to music and draw at the same time. Rasheed had settled into his sleeping posture, and I was so ready.
Then the cat decided he hadn’t had enough and walked away to do some more “cat business”. Rats, my carefully prepared plan was foiled by a little kitty-cat. I didn’t get further than the sketch above. The expression is good, t hough. It captures the cat, more or less.
Better next time.
That is all.
PS I found a photo of Darusha Whem on Flickr, which I can use for drawing people. It was shot by Kreg Steppe, who has a podcast with Chuck Tomasi, called Technorama (another podcast I have to check out, the iTunes description is as follows: “Take a light hearted look at the world of tech, science, and sci-fi. Special interviews with industry notables. Feed Your Inner Geek!”).
Anyways, here’s the photo of Darusha Whem, made by Kreg Steppe at the Podcast and New Media Expo, on September 30, 2007, and released under Creative Commons license, non-commercial, attribution, share-alike.
That’s my next project, I guess. It is strange how things work. Listening to a podcast while drawing is inspiring, to say at the least.
Now, I have nothing more to write for this particular post (I hope).
So much to do, so little time 