My favourite devil kitten

Gratuitous picture cause I love it and it took me NINE hours so it deserves to be seen.

So super high off my bird drawing, which was done following instructions from a class in slow motion 😂 I decided I wanted to draw Mori.  But the *real* Mori.

Alas, they don’t make classes - anywhere I could find - on how to draw realistic dragon kittens ;).  Shocking that.  And even fewer (than zero - imaginative realism, remember) options about how to do so w pencil crayons!

Now, I’ve been doing a course on sketching (SQUIRREL!  hmm just scrolled back through some of my past posts - I stopped following that artist because I found her "follow alongs" helped me produce some cool stuff (I follow instructions well) but I wasn't actually learning to draw.  I found another artist - Kirsty Partridge - who has a class called "Drawing Decoded" which I purchased last year and have been working through that actually teaches how to draw.   She has several other courses and, of course, a subscription option lol.   I have two courses that I own (the second one is about using colour), and a one year subscription to see how much I use the subscription material.  Since I'm like 6 months into it, I'm going to say courses are a win but the subscription less so.   Which financially is great because the courses are forever. /endsquirrel)  Anyways - the bird drawing, above, was a follow along as well, so it doesn't "count" quite as much BUT I used my new skills from the drawing course to sketch Mori based on a photo I had….   Then just tweaked a few things ;).  Mostly based on books or other people’s interpretations of dragons.   C came in part way through and said he needed a spiky tail - he was right ;).  So now may I introduce:

My favourite devil kitten

For how early I am in my drawing adventure, I’m ridiculously pleased at how this turned out.  Certainly there are things I would do differently next time, and there are things I’d like to do differently but am not sure how yet ;).  But I was still really pleased with the end result.  And, those who know me will appreciate that apparently I was the *first* in the drawing school to share a dragon 😂. Said school is all about realism, so not shocking that.  But there was no rule I could see about NOT posting imaginative realism instead so…

Apparently imaginative realism is welcome here :)