This sketch painting was done on my laptop/tablet with painter. One of the big differences between painter and photoshop, to me, is painter’s lack of flexibility of quickly selecting and adjusting an image. In photoshop it feel very easy to make a selection and transform it, but it feels truly awkward in painter. As such, I don’t use that functionality when working in painter. I bring this up because Maru’s right eye feels off. I spotted it at the time, but was tired and didn’t want to repaint the whole eye. If I had been working in photoshop, I’d have just selected that area and rotated it.

I like the idea here, but I think I’d like to revisit it. I’d like to clarify the “in the rain” story element and I think by putting the cat in a raincoat and rain-hat would help. I’d like to keep it simple, but I think a bit of color would be fun. I might redraw this one and try using watercolors.