Tonight's Observational Drawing class was another class on crosshatching, using a dog as a reference. As ever, we're free to use our own references, so I chose to draw my cat-panion, Bones, or Bonesie as she is often called.
I had a hard time picking only one picture to use, so I whittled the vast pile of images down to just 4, and I was pretty happy with that set, so I decided to do a montage of images to get a few different angles and aspects of her personality.
Alt text: Face on portrait of a grey and white domestic longhair cat, green eyes, pink nose.
Alt text: 3/4 view of the cat shown in the first photo, sitting on a closed laptop on a dining room table, not looking at the camera.
Alt text: Same cst, this time laying down sleeping on the carpet beside a sliding glass door. Her chin is on the carpet, eyes closed. Her hind paws are white, in full view with the toe beans showing. Her tail is draped over her hind legs. Her front right leg is folded behind her with the white paw showing. Her left white paw is acting as a cushion for her head, with full pad and toe beans visible. There is a pink scratching circle close to her hind paws. There is an electric guitar or bass slightly in view on the right. Several sunbeams are coming through the windows landing on her back and continuing to the carpet to the left.
Alt text: The self-same cat is now perched on a window sill with her attention on what's happening outside. The side of her face is barely visible, with her back on display to the audience, and her very fluffy tail hanging down. The light from the window is catching her fur on the left side of her face and body. The. yard through the window looks covered in snow with a big tree stump partially cut down.
I made this in procreate.