Kumbaya, I drew Eek the Cat!
Too bad I didn't have an 'Eek' pencil to delineate it with, but I figures this Yikes pencil would do ...I mean 'yikes' is synonymous with 'eek', and the pencil is roughly the same vintage as my subject and ...I'm justfying *stops* ^^
Anyway,
This card was fairly tedious to draw, given how tiny the figures are---three subjects on an ACO (even if one of them is only a headshot) is an uncommon thing for me. Drawing small isn't the problem (I'm an ACO artist---I have practice drawing with my fingers), but cleaning errant/unwanted pencil lines this small IS a problem (it can create a lot of dust/ghost lines).
For that reason, I chose to draw the characters from stock poses, to reduce 'mistakes' and make clean-up easier. These poses come from the show (with some minor changes), but the drawing is all mine. :3
Moreover, I freehanded all this---my circle template is no good for figures this small, so what you see here is entirely organic.
I generally dislike freehanding (I've said so many times), but lately I seem to've taken a shine to it. For comics/sequential art, it's best to use a template, but for this kind of drawing (esp. those using stock poses), freehanding is (I hate saying it) kinda ideal. ^^
So, what does the card show and what is 'Eek the Cat'?
Ok, the card shows Eek (upper right) admiring his girlfriend, Annabelle ...and there's a LOT of Annabelle to love! ;)
On the bottom left is Sharky, Annabelle's pet shark-dog. Sharky can be good or bad, depending what a given plot requires of him
...and, no, despite being a dog-shark 'wuzzle', Sharky doesn't say 'Bhark!' (though I truly wish he did). :p
HYPOTHETICALWATCHER: "You messed up the lettering"
I'm aware can't draw, Captain Obvious---tell me something I don't know! D:
HYPOTHETICALWATCHER: "A cloud can weigh over 500 tons"
I didn't know that! :o
Anyway...
'Eek the Cat' (EtC) was an animated, slap-stick comedy series from the early-mid 1990's. EtC aired on Fox Kids for several years before it was cancelled.
Each episode of EtC was divided into two stories: one for Eek, and another for The Terrible Thunder Lizards (which, yes, I'll draw one of these years).
My impression of the series...
I preferred the Eek segments over those of the Thunder Lizards, the latter I disliked for reasons I cannot articulate. What this meant was I'd enjoy only half the show, consequently tainting my view of it as a whole.
Eek and Co. have a very Jim-Davis aesthetic to them---the first time I saw Eek, my child self wondered if the series took place in the same universe as Garfield and/or US Acres, but EtC was its own thing.
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