The Kitten Princess

Neo_God

I know strange isn't it? I usually pimp things with their guts hanging out, or some type of hideous monster.

So my girlfriend and I are going through a roughish patch at the moment, and I made this for her tonight to cheer her up a bit.

This actually has some back story, you see, ever since my girlfriend saw the one Linda Bergkvist painting of herself riding a cat, my girlfriend has wanted me to paint a picture of her that was of her riding a kitten, and she wanted it to be ridiculously disneyish, with her dressed as a princess and everything. Because as a child she had a princess complex, and absolutley adored any disney princess movie.

So I present you with the Kitten Princess!


I know it doesn't flow as wel as it could, but I think I did well considering it's about 5 hours worth of work, but a good chunk was spent on her, and I think it shows , haha.

Now I'm off to bed, because I'm pretty fucking tired...

(edit)
I had totally forgotten about the shadow,Thanks for catching that Toomas!

I also added some birds and cookie rain...just because...

Vailias

rediculously cutely awesome. I hope she likes it.

Toomas

Maybe add some shadows, right now it looks like the princess-cat part is just pasted over some background.

KDR_11k

That's almost as gay as DH.

Prs-Phil

hahahaha nice, are you sure you can't fit another rainbow in, maybe as a colloar for the cat

I´m sure she will like it

Psyk0

Yeah the kitty definately needs a colar and add like heartshaped locket or somthin...you know hearts are important as much as cookie rain and birds!

Neo_God

The collar was a good Idea Phil, and a thanks for the idea for the locket as well Psyk0.

Downsizer

I penciled a seahorse for mine recently for the same reasons. I had'nt sketched anything in years. this is just worlds of cool. hope things go for the better.

needs more bunnies in the field though.

Tulkamir

Haha, she should love it.

Although to me (I think it's just because it's a woman riding a cat in a la la land place) she looks slightly derranged.

Wells

The light looks to be fairly ambiant, coming from every direction, but the cat [and only the cat] has a stark shadow off to one side. I'd say put it directly underneath the kitten, might help ground it and take care of the 'floating' thats currently going on.

Other than that, I think its magically delicious

Neo_God

Alright this is final rendition of it, because she should be coming over soon. At least I hope she does. Fixed the lighting Sectaurs and added a bunny Downsizer, haha

Tulkamir, The slightly deranged look is supposed to be there, sort of like a look of someone who's O.D.ing on happiness. Haha.



Thanks for the help everybody!

Wells

haha, love the bunny

I think she'll love this

DeathKitten

Oh wow! That is so cute I want to be sick

The bunny is a nice touch, it seems to really bring the piece together.

My only complaint is the kitten's face... I think it almost looks like a puppy rather than a kitten

It is a super cute piece of art and I'm sure your lady friend will absolutely adore it =D

-DeathKitten =^..^=

Neo_God

She could not to show up today, so I decided to fix the kitten's face to make it look more kitten and less puppy.

fogmann

Cute and very niiiiice!
But I think you made it worse with the new shadow, because it looks like you added drop shaddow effect and that makes kitten appear to be floating above the grass, like there's distance between her feet and the ground where shadow is cast. Also you could make shadows softer (add some blur) and even fainter. Aside from that the only thing that still bothers me a tiny bit is the way it appears that kitten's hair from the ear is right on top of princess' chin, right where you would expect her tongue to be if she were sticking it out. So if you have kitten and princess on separate layers, I think it would be good if you nudge one layer a bit, so that princess' face is not covered.
Anyways, I'm sure you will make your darling very happy with this piece!

Neo_God

I think I will change that with the face. But I want the kitten to look like it is almost flying above the grass, like it's in mid leap or something.

Hooyaah

Dood, You like, totally forgot a fairytale castle in the background. Great effot nonetheless...

Hooyaah

To make the kitty fly, just lower the horizon line and increase the size of the shadow. Go 4 it!

Neo_God

Actually she's already received the image so it's a little late now, haha. But she did love it! So that makes me happy. Plus things seem to be going better with us, so that makes me even more happy.