In recent times, my desk has been a wooden board propped on my lap. There’s a stack of paper on the board, and in my left hand is my trusty Rapidograph. That’s my “studio.”
Our six month old kitten has made a habit of walking over the board as I draw. Usually she just passes by, heading on to more pressing business elsewhere. But the other day, just as I started drawing the woman you see in the drawing below (standing on the sidewalk looking in a store window) the kitten stopped and settled down on my left arm — my drawing arm. And then she fell asleep. Not wanting to disrupt her, I let her be. I was still able to draw, but only with limited range the arc of my hand could travel with my arm and wrist pinned down.
So I continued on, with drawing taking a back seat to not waking the sleeping kitten. I stayed on this one piece of paper, filling the page, turning it ever so slightly when I needed more white space. None of this drawing would lead to anything that could become a cartoon, but it didn’t matter. Wherever I might’ve been going with the woman looking in the window probably wasn’t going anywhere anyway.
I see potential with the Friar.
So… that’s a recommendation for drawing with out a kitten on your arm? I can put you in the “no kitten” column of the spreadsheet I’m putting together?