enjoyer of cats and tragic men

21+ — character design & illustration! I love tv

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hi i go by cat or catra 🐱 I am 21+!

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🐾 c0mmissi0ns | prints | m3rch

🐾 art tag: #my art | textposts: #miau.txt

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i like cats. and spamtenna. maybe you’ll get the occasional furry. i’m very quiet but i would love to talk to people about shared interests anyway!!!

Feel free to send in an ask for whatever reason! MAY do (fanart) requests, but i’m more than happy to talk or answer questions! Just be nice

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a little spamton angel on bloodie_bees’ (twt) magma :)€

they drew the bg tenna!

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Some pieces from 2024-2025ish that i’m still pretty happy with ! The backgrounds were fun

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gonna be releasing some merch on deltarune 3+4’s anniversary!!! i’ve got a spamtenna design and a couple cats lined up :)c here’s a small teaser!

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Fandom Etiquette

I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist. 

written with the help of @unbreakablejemmasimmons

Fanart

if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you. 

if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages. 

if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes. 

if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon. 

if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from. 

if you appreciate it, don’t repost it. Reblog the artist’s post instead of making one of your own. Let them see all of the excited tags in the reblogs and replies or commentary that people add on. If you come across something on a google image search, try to trace it back to the owner. If someone tells you who the artist is, credit them - but also try to find and reblog their original post.

Fanfic

if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.

if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are great, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote. 

if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. If you want the author to write more things like that, let them know - even if you can’t comment! 

don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often. 

be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”

Fandom

ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway. 

if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you  hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry

if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one. 

if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them. 

none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine. 

actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people. 

[kicsterash]

Putting this on my main blog because it’s true ;)

[catrabbasso]

Hello where did you come from

Thank you so much for the support! I plan on opening cmms and releasing some other things next month, providing time allows >[^)] all info for the former is currently in my carrd if anyone’s interested. Here’s a doodle in the meantime

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hi! im not sure if your blog takes asks so im sorry if not, but i was looking through your blog and think your art is all really cool!! all the colors and shapes and what not, and i was wondering if theres any particular method you use when drawing? sorry if its a bit silly but ive been trying to get better at art lately, so i thought it couldnt hurt to ask! :⁰]

Hi!! Questions are MORE than okay! I’d love the opportunity to be able to help people if they need/want it :D Thank you so much for the compliment also!!

the tumblr app was fighting me every step of the way with this post omg but i have a very lengthy explanation below the cut!

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When sketching I have found the most success starting with a thick/blocky silhouette of what sort of pose or object i’m going for, instead of going straight into “lines” and making myself more confused if it’s a shape or form i don’t already draw a lot

Aside from this, I personally have really found gesture drawing to help me draw faster and looser! Loose lines in particular are something i really like, and even if that’s not what you’re going for, i do think gesture drawing can help a lot to get you used to how a body can move, where it bends, and how

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For colors, i try to make use of color theory to some extent!

Usually the easiest way for me to do that is through complementary colors (oops i use red-green way too often), but sometimes it’s as easy as shifting the color wheel one way or the next as your values get darker or lighter

Additionally i love color jitter <3 hue-shifting textured brushes my beloved. my current favorite pastel brush has a very slight color jitter that really unlocked something for me i think

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LASTLY. i get a lot of mileage as of late out of gradient maps and filter layers! Sometimes after i have a black + white sketch like the first image here, i throw a gradient map on top to get an idea of what colors i’d like the drawing to be.

For the tenna + phone drawing, i picked some greens/blues based on a screenshot of the actual room he’s supposed to be in, and adjusted the levels until it sort of looked how i wanted it. Then of course I painted over top of 90% of it, but having a starting point for colors helped me a LOT more than essentially tossing out my sketch and starting from square one

Other times, i pick my own colors, but they aren’t always quite There at first. a filter over the top of a few layers usually unifies it way more!

I’m not sure I answered this correctly but I hope this helps at least a bit!!

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1-800-ILOVETV

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characters i drew as raffle prizes !

characters owned by:

https://toyhou.se/Caprisam

https://toyhou.se/Prowling

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Spaintonk

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Small dump of some portrait c0mmissions from earlier this year!

“red and green isn’t my favorite color combo”, i say, evidently lying

C0mmissioners in order:

https://toyhou.se/faux_mirage

https://toyhou.se/zivanth

https://toyhou.se/centipederz

https://toyhou.se/sky_soars

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Garbage noise.

[noellezine]

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Get your Noelle book and merch today!! Pre0rders will be open until June 13th!

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another older doodle from last season <3

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any way the wind blows

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BOUGHT HIM SO FAST….

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Applications for the Lights, Camera, ACTion!!! Spamtenna Zine are now officially open!!! Click here to sign up and draw/write these fellas into whatever movies you want!!!