u/OneInvictusCat

I want to do a little painting of a cat smoking. I need some references of cats. If possible sitting. I might only do a couple tho. No dogs

I'm practicing sketching faces and animals. Please send weird/interesting angles with good shadows if possible. Cool outfits maybe cool settings. Just be a little patient, I'll try to get to most if not all.

Comment weird angles of your pets. I'm just practicing. Also let me know their names

Some quick (like 40 minutes each and that's fast for me) cat practice painting.

I've been learning oils for the past few months and decided to try acrylics. I think they're decent, I can't do anatomy or faces at all tho it's frustrating. Criticism welcomed. I have a 4th I can't post because it gets flagged as nsfw, stupid Ai.

is there a brush that makes individual dot by holding? i have time to work on this but i can only do so much before my hand in cramping and in pain. i found out that u can label layers with color today. pretty cool.

this isn't even hard, just tedious. got a lot of positive feedback on my first animation tho so I'll do it again.

I don't know why I do this

First digital drawing I've done (aside from an animation I posted yesterday and drawing on my phone 7 years ago). It's not perfect but it came out looking nice. Made it last night. Today I'm going to attempt to make the sushi spin really fast

Took way too long and I won't be doing that again.

Kinda cool I guess

I'm trying to change the color on this but it's being weird. It doesn't fully turn into the color I choose and bleeds into others. I have the default options and I'm in the correct layer.

I didn't know anything about any of these prior to my purchase and wanted to share what I learned about each one of them from left to right. I'll write what the text reads on each one. 

EAGLE "Chemi * Sealed" TURQUOISE Drawing (little eagle print) 3H "3H *REG.U.S.PAT.OFF SUPER BONDED U.S.PAT 1854905 - 1892508 MADE U.S.A" 

This one is likely dated 1930s-1950s based on the Patent number. Made by the Eagle Pencil Company, (Which became Berol, later acquired by Newell brands) 

 the Eagle factory actually paused pencil production to manufacture secret military equipment, making surviving pencils from that era part of a unique industrial history. 

"Scripto usa" 

(2 transperent 1 solid blue) K780 model. This one isn't very special, quite common in the 70s and 80s.  They are in good working condition aside from the eraser so I'm still happy to add them to my collection. Never seen one before so it's special to me. 

"KEEN-POINT® BY DUR-O-LITE MELROSE PARK ILLINOIS RED LEAD " this one likely dates to 1950s or 60s. Dur o lite moved its operation to Melrose Park in the early 1940s. Considered the pioneer of "disposable" pencils. However they were built  so well you can still find working ones today. 

According to historical accounts from Leadhead's Pencil Blog, Eugene Dietzgen (the founder) immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1881. It is widely believed his father, a socialist philosopher, sent him to America partly to secure his important documents and partly to help Eugene avoid the military draft in Germany. 

The next ones aren't pencils but rather 2 cool pens and 2 erasers 

"Cross -1/20 12k gold -60 GOLD FILLED Century made in USA

Sarkez Tarzian Inc"

5% 12k gold. From mid 70s to early 80s. The engraving: Sarkez Tarzian Inc is an electronics manufacturer based in Indiana. This pen was likely given to an employee as an anniversary gift or a client. 

Some cool facts about the brand. Cross has been an official supplier of pens to US Presidents since the 70s.

From Regan to Biden, they all used one of the cross models to sign bills. Trump broke the nearly 40 year old tradition switching to sharpie marker because he wanted his signature to "look rich" 

"Paper mate"

Didn't really find much about this one, I think it's vintage as well.

The last 2 I thought they were pencils but I found out they're erasers. For ink and type writers specifically. 

"U.S.A EF EBERHARD FABER Pink Pearl SOFT PENCIL ERASER •400" 

and  "U.S.A blaisdell KLENZO FOR INK AND TYPEWRITER" 533 T" 

kinda cool idk. Thanks for reading. Live laugh love.