Kitten illustration project.

Hello everyone. I am a concept artist and illustrator from Spain and I´m working on a long-term project which involves drawing most cat breeds, in a kinda cartoony way. I just started so it will take a little time to develop.

I will surely be needing your help portraying the features of the different breeds properly (though theyr are not supposed to be proportioned as you will see), so please be welcome to share your thoughts.

For now I just have a siamese, an ultra-persian and a bombayfinished and I´ve already started working on sphynx, abyssinian and russian blue breeds.

Since there will be a lot more, you´re welcome to tell me the ones you would like me to draw first once I finish this first batch.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I like drawing them.

Well, here is the first one I did:


 

Hi again, a persian cat,  an ultra-typed one I think. Hope you like it.

Very cute! Is this a personal project or is it for a client or company? Would love to see Abyssinian next!

It´s just a personal project for now. Might try to sell framed prints  or throw pillows later on, but first I would like to build a nice collection of them. Besides, I don´t even know if there is a market for this kind of work.  I think I started drawing them because I recall seeing framed pictures of kitten in my sister´s bedroom when she was a child.

The abyssinian will come fourth, after the Bombay I´ve already finished.

Thanks for the comment. ^^

Cataclysm said:

Hello everyone. I am a concept artist and illustrator from Spain and I´m working on a long-term project which involves drawing most cat breeds, in a kinda cartoony way. I just started so it will take a little time to develop.


I will surely be needing your help portraying the features of the different breeds properly (though theyr are not supposed to be proportioned as you will see), so please be welcome to share your thoughts.


For now I just have a siamese, an ultra-persian and a bombayfinished and I´ve already started working on sphynx, abyssinian and russian blue breeds.


Since there will be a lot more, you´re welcome to tell me the ones you would like me to draw first once I finish this first batch.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I like drawing them


Well, here is the first one I did:



 

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sweet.

Thank you, Stewball ^^

Cool 

Thank you, My4LLMA. ^^

For the Bombay, I decided to go with the adult eye colour, which is one of their most recognizable features, hope you like it.

If you were to look beyond breeds and into species, then google pallas cat! There is an array of pics showing an odd looking feline: dense long fur, tiny nose, wide set ears making many look square. They look quite varied within this, so possible ther could have interbred with domestic cats.

For now I have a lot of work to do on the breeds but why not, pallas cats have pretty funny looks.

catergic said:

If you were to look beyond breeds and into species, then google pallas cat! There is an array of pics showing an odd looking feline: dense long fur, tiny nose, wide set ears making many look square. They look quite varied within this, so possible ther could have interbred with domestic cats.

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Sorry for the delay everybody. I´ve been quite busy with the online store, designing patterns and stuff.

Well, here is the abyssinian kitten. I had some doubts with the eye colour but finally left the bluish hue all kitten have, which contrasted pretty well with the orange coat.
Hope you like it.

Hello again, any suggestions for the next one? I've already started working on a Sphynx and Russian Blue. Turkish Angora is also sketched.

Which one of these would you prefer first? Any other breed maybe?

Here I am again, this time with the Sphynx kitten. 

 

Here is a description taken from the Wikipedia.
 

Although hairless cats have been reported throughout history, breeders in Europe have been working on the Sphynx breed since the early 1960s. Like so many other feline breeds, the present day Sphynx line has been a creation of the simultaneous work performed by nature and many committed, competent individuals. Two different sets of hairless felines discovered in North America in the 1970s provided the foundation cats for that which was shaped into the existing Sphynx breed. The contemporary breed of Sphynx, also known as the Canadian Sphynx, is distinct from the Russian Sphynx breeds like Peterbald and Don Sphynx.

The current American and European Sphynx breed is descended from two lines of natural mutations:

Dermis and Epidermis (1975) from the Pearsons of Wadena, Minnesota, USA.
Bambi, Punkie, and Paloma (1978) found in Toronto, Canada, and raised by Shirley Smith.
The Canadian Sphynx breed was started in 1966, in Roncesvalles, Toronto when a hairless kitten named Prune was born to a black and white domestic shorthair queen (Elizabeth) in Ontario, Canada. The kitten was mated with its mother (backcrossing), which produced one more naked kitten. Together with a few naked kittens found later it founded the first attempt to create a hairless breed.

After purchasing these cats in 1966 and initially referring to them as "Moonstones" and "Canadian Hairless," Mr. Ridyadh Bawa, a science graduate of the University of Toronto, combined efforts with his mother Yania, a long time Siamese breeder, and the Tenhoves (Kees and Rita) to develop a breed of cats which was subsequently renamed as "Sphynx". It is apparent that the Bawas and the Tenhoves were the first individuals able to determine the autosomal recessive nature of the Sphynx gene for hairlessness while also being successful in transforming this knowledge into a successful breeding program with kittens which were eventually capable of reproducing.

Well, I know this is a bit of cheating, but las month I went on vacation to Tanzania and we got the chance to see some of them quite close both in Serengeti and Tarangire National Parks. I absolutely fell in love with their elegance and well, here it is.

Already available at the Cataclysm collection:  Iker Paz Studio Cataclysm Collection


I´ll be back to domestic cats on the nex installment.

Havana Brown (the American breed, not the oriental shorthair version)

Ragdoll

Egyptian Mau

:-D those are really cute illustrations! I like the hairless kitty LOL

Hahahaha, glad you like them, KKoerner.

I'll put those in my top priorities LOL

Great work, @Cataclysm!! I fell in love with the Abyssinian though 

since @KKoerner  got first  to suggesting the Havana Browns (arrgh!)

I will suggest the Scottish Fold kitties.. 

  And the American Curls are awesome as well   (I'm beginning to think that I have a thing for ears, maybe  )

Hahaaha, these last two look really funny GrizzlySapien. So many to add to the collection :/

I'll do what I can, because I just draw them in my free time. So it might take a while before I post the next one.

But be sure I won't forget any of the suggestions.

Oh, I can wait! LOL

These are all great illustrations! And taking time to create them, makes sense.. They are so detailed!

The work you've done with the Sphynx kitten and the Cheetah, is amazing! Actually with all of them! But I can only imagine that the Sphynx was a lot of work, creating all the "wrinkles" (such a funny face!)