Cat Farris: Art For Hire

So I did 24 Hour Comic Book Day last weekend! Hooo boy, that was an experience I won’t soon forget. But, from my suffering comes enjoyment for you! Hopefully this will be the first in a series, as I’ve left you all on a cliffhanger…

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Well, I pushed myself hard to do an illustration for this year’s ECCC edition of Monsters and Dames. Of course, since no one had asked me to do one, and no one was expecting it, it probably won’t be in the book. However, I’m still not sorry I did it. I worked hard, used a bunch of new techniques, and completed it several days before the deadline. Now I have a nifty illustration I think I can be proud of, and will probably sell prints of this at cons.
If nothing else, all of my friends were doing awesome work for this, and I really wanted to be a part of it, and prove to myself that I can produce work. Nothing makes me feel worse than wondering if I’m just posing as someone in the art community in which I exist, or if I actually have the skills and drive to fit in.
Anyhow! Check it out! This piece is also doing double duty as concept art for a short film I’m working on in my spare time at Fashionbuddha. Of which I have very little, but still, I can do this!

Yes, I know it’s technically Saturday, and that I blew my usual Friday deadline for the sketchblog.  Sincere apologies to you, my expectant readers.  All 3 or so of you.;’}

Anyhow, this week’s drawing was originally going to be a farewell to summer post, with the theme being “At The Beach.”  But if you live in Portland, you know it rained all day, and the beach was the furthest thing from my mind.  So instead, here’s a rainy day post to match the weather outside.  Span is insisting he’s unhappy with his this week, but I’ll let you be the judge of that.:’}
Enjoy!