raining cats and cats

had to photo-reference tobey's costume after a really bad freehand attempt.

rounding out the crew

as-yet unnamed shipmates:

aye, aye

wildly differing designs for a naval captain cat comic:

guess who

three brand new characters who are in no way based on any living people:

mrow.

there's an elusive element whenever i try to draw cats, whether it's freehand, from life or photo-referenced. these were all practice in case i ever want to use my cat, shell, in another comic. i think he'd be funny as an oblivious sidekick to me as a less-than-ideal crimefighter, as depicted underneath all the cats.

i also watched "the spirit" again last night. i'm probably the only person i know who thinks that frank miller made a good call choosing to make it so over the top - i thought it really worked.

free (notepad) association

a random sampling of some things i think about over the course of the day.