Lately I'm trying out new things, I'm still really new in digital art and this is the first time I drew something using illustrator and I have to say I'm liking it! This time I drew my cat Carmelo into Black Cat, the cat version of Black Panther.
This is my entry for the 3rd Pet/Animal contest, hosted by 
The Inspiration:
While I was thinking in which character my cat Carmelo looked like, I remembered the movie Black Panther. I thought it fitted perfectly, as Black Panther, my cat is gracefully agile, good tracker and has amazing acrobatics.
As King T’Challa, who goes to the extreme to protect the Kingdom of Wakanda, King Carmelo protects the house as its Kingdom, fighting against the insects that try to invade the house and not letting in any other animal to the house.
This is the image I picked as the base for the drawing.
The Software:
- Adobe Illustrator, for making the drawing and the letters.
- Adobe Photoshop for the assembly of all the components.
The Process:
I started by picking the perfect picture of my cat to insert it into Adobe Illustrator next to a picture of Black Panther as reference.
Then I traced the cat’s silhouette.
After having the silhouette I drew the lines of the face as the details of the mask.
When I had the base complete I added the filling.
I finished the drawing by making more lines to add definition and brush strokes for the highlights.
I exported the file a PNG to use it on Photoshop.
I moved to adobe photoshop to finish the piece. I added all the elements: The drawing of the cat, a rock where it was going to stand, a sky as background and Marvel’s logo.
I retouched the brightness and contrast of the sky and the rock. I added the text and I made a duplicate of it, I edited the second text to make it look like the yellow shadow of the original text and to finish I saved the file as a JPEG image.
The Sources:
Mavel’s logo vector here
Font used: Wolf's Bane II
Black Panther Reference Pictures: Main picture Mask picture.
Rock: here
Sky:here
Black Panther Logo: here
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