Sunbeams

Contest prize for @GoldenEmotions.  She won third place in Anthro-Fantasy-club's icon contest held a few months back. If you're interested, here's her winning entry: goldenemotions.deviantart.com/…

@GoldenEmotions asked me to draw her pretty Russian blue cat character, Arrowcat. Now, I'm not 100% comfortable drawing felines, but I'm slowly getting better at them. And GoldenDruid was nice enough to help me out with Arrowcat's expression (thanks again!). 

I usually use flat-colored backgrounds on icons, but I decided to try out something different on this icon. I've been looking at darkicewolf's icons ( www.furaffinity.net/gallery/da… ) and I really like how he implies realistic backgrounds with a few simple brush strokes. I thought I'd try out a similar technique here. I still haven't perfected the technique, but it was certainly easier and faster than I thought it was going to be. I might use it again on future icons.

Speaking of which, I need to stop making icons with open mouths. Whyyyyy do I keep doing that? Gaaah.

Hope you like it!

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ART INFO
Art © 2013 by
Arrowcat is ©

Comments and critiques are always welcome.

Tools used: PSE and a pencil
Time Taken: I have no cluuue.

 You are not allowed to use this artwork without my permission! Only @GoldenEmotions can use this as an icon or avatar!