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Puss in Boots Retiresby `ursulav

Anthro / Digital Media / Drawings

This was a kind've random doodle combined with a happy accident--I had a sketch of the cat chick and was playing around with combining the interesting pastel textures I'd been getting recently with the heavy outlined Art Nouveau style I love. I had flat colored everything, and then on a seperate layer had chalked in the interesting textural bits. It look okay, but nothing spectacular, but then I accidentally turned off the flat color layer, leaving chalk on beige background, and went "Dude!" It looked much more interesting this way, so I kept it.

As for the subject matter, I was just wondering if ever came a day when Puss-In-Boots woke up and realized that she'd spent too long being human and would never quite be what you could call a cat again--and whether or not she'd try to go the extra mile and become a human, or just hand in her boots and try to go back to chasing mice. See, this is what happens when I stay up too late...

~Minarae Dec 13, 2006

wonderfull!!

~kadharonon Aug 20, 2006

Being someone who loves cats, or at the very least had a short phase where she wanted to be a cat/a member of the cast of the musical CATS, and could say with all seriousness when she was twelve that her cat was her best friend, I really couldn't resist making this a favorite.

And the scribbly chalk-pastel texture is SO COOL. And I like the little brooch/bead thing, which was probably meant to be a jewel of some sort but kind of looks like it might be a crescent moon and a single star.

...er. No clue where I'm going with this anymore.