Day three -late-

[ink_in_hand]

Um okay, I'm terribly late with my third pic (Three and a half hours! @_@). But I have a good reason, giftart for people who are having a rough time of it I just can't do a half-assed job at, and I spent far mopre time on this than I allocated myself. That and my wrist started hurting thanks to not drawing for so long and then suddenly doing the most I ever do during a year, so even though my art block was more or less gone my progress was reduced to a crawl.

This is for wicked3659 as requested by eerian_sadow, here's to things looking up for you.

(Guh, never thought animated would be as hard as it was, the meadowlark was so much easier. Definitely making what should be today's an easy one.)
 

Comments

[wicked3659.livejournal.com]

Oh this is simply beautiful! I had no idea eerian had requested well... anything. Thank you so much for drawing it. *has a happy* <3

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. I'm only sorry that I didn't get this done earlier as it was intended to be a feel better gift when she first requested it.

Real life and art blocks have owned my aft since then if it's any consolation.

[eerian_sadow]

oh, it's gorgeous. <3 thank you so much for drawing it up, hon!

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Thank you, it was harder work than I expected drawing Animated. Wanted to make it a little more complex but it was also unexpectedly difficult to find reference pictures of Prowl.

[eerian_sadow]

he is difficult to find pictures of that aren't toys or other pieces of fanart. i'm grateful you managed, though. ^_^ (and hey, stretching one's artistic boundaries is always good. ~_^)

thanks again for doing it, hon. *hugs* the timing on your delivery could not have been better.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm not complaining about stretching my boundaries, just that I choose a poor time to do so with my imposed deadlines. It doesn't help that the tfwiki doesn't work where I'm at, pretty sure it's a remote server issue but that doesn't help me in finding references.

No problem, everyone needs a pick me up from time to time. Though your last sentence makes it sound like your friend is having a rough winter.

[eerian_sadow]

yeah, she really is.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

A question, how well would a drawing of a photocat version of the cat she had to let go be handled?

[eerian_sadow]

now, without the looming threat of her other pet having to be put down (the vet cleared her this afternoon, yay!), it might go over okay. yesterday it would have been a baaaaaaaad idea, though.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Well that explains why even though I'd been thinking about it, I hadn't asked until today. Are there any colors that the cat liked? As far as I can tell she's all black, yet that would make it tricky for a photocat design.

As a side note, it's a little strange wanting to do more art for someone I didn't know at all until you gave me her name, but losing Abby last year has made me hypersensitive to others and their pet losses that I can't help but want to do something.

[eerian_sadow]

honestly, i don't know much at all about Liggul, aside from the fact that they'd had her forever. (she was 13.) i'm trying to think if Wick mentioned any habits she had, even and i can't think of a thing. sometimes cats are a sensitive topic for me, since i lost mine in the eviction and had those two kittens die, so she tended to combat that by not talking about them at all. i can poke around in her journal though, when it's less impending bed time for me, and see if i can find anything else for you to work with.

you know, i totally understand where you're coming from there. after losing Teddy (my Australian Shepard) in high school and then the kittens a few years later it really made me sympathetic for the losses others went through. i've hugged strangers to comfort them over the loss of a pet before. and i really appreciate you reaching out to her. she's such a great person, but not always comfortable with people, so there hasn't been nearly enough comfort for her during this.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

*nods* Had Abby for twenty years, russian blues apparently have the longer lifespans any housecats can have. It's hard losing a pet any day, but losing one who's companionship you've had for a long, long time is even harder. But yes, it'd be helpful having more on Liggul, checked her tag but there was only the one entry.

That's the other thing that makes this weird, I'm not all that comfortable with people either. (animals are so much better) The amount of participation I've had in this fandom was/is an unusual thing even with all the dropping off the face of the net that I do.

[eerian_sadow]

nope, went through her whole journal and there's only the one entry mentioning Liggul. and i'm reluctant to ask her to talk about her kitty right now, because i don't want to move her backwards in the healing process. (she was in such a good place today!)

it's interesting, the things that push us outside our normal social boundaries. i guess this was just the right time and the right circumstances for you to be able to give comfort to someone who desperately needed it.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Alright, maybe later then.

Not sure how to take that but I think it's a compliment, so thanks.

[eerian_sadow]

lol, it was a compliment, in a kind of round-about way. (i wrote it at bed time, so it's not surprising that it makes less sense than normal.)