024 tuxedo cat
Day twenty-four of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
A tuxedo cat, looking justifiably disgusted by how he's been rendered in pencil.
There are so many things wrong with today's sketch that I don't even know where to start.
The less said, the better. So I'll just tell you that I sketched the kitteh first with an HB pencil, then added shading around his neck with a 2H pencil.
I tried to show two levels of darkness in the blacks with a 2B and a 6B pencil, but you can't really tell the difference in the end.
The shading looks like a child's colouring attempt, though it was intentional to go outside the lines and not have smooth edges.
This is a pretty good visual interpretation of the really stressful, shitty day I had today, despite it starting off positively.
On top of everything else, I'd been thinking - short of any further delays to the production he's working on - I'd get to see Simon for the first time this year on 9 March. And then he reminded me today he'll still have to self-isolate when he returns, which will be for 10 days from the day after his return to London. So, even if he returns as planned on 8 March, the earliest I'll likely see him will be 19 March.
Le sigh.