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Cats and kittens are all around you like shooting stars, but there's one in particular who really connects. This one's mine.
The Hunter's Moon this year is 27th October 2015. He makes sure we survive the winter.
Creds:
- Used Photoshop CS5 and graphics tablet. No layer styles; no pen tool.
- I'm hopeless at drawing, so traced a photo of my boy cat (Icarus).
- Tutorial: Painting Planets by Cristian A.G. -- this was just for the base of the globe. It was too big and too plain when I finished, so I painted a random topography and cloud layer on top.
- The style and palette of the mooncat is inspired by NASA: Color of the Moon.
- The background (stars and cloud) is painted with home-made Photoshop brushes.
- I spent so long on this that my entire iTunes collection passed by, probably fifty times altogether... One tune played on repeat was Pachelbel's Canon. James Galway's is my favourite version -- the kind of track you turn up loud till the planets rattle in space.
- Five minutes after I finished this, Icarus reached up just the way he does in the picture. Think he was hungry...
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