Calico Has A Think by @jessratte (Jessica Ratté)

(Image description copied from deviantART. Forgive the random spaces that are supposed to be smilies.. XD)

Sometimes, when I look at my pictures, I often feel as though the character should burst out into song.

Because, I don't know. It just seems like they are in some kind of Disney movie or something. I'd like to think tho, that my characters and their little world is slightly more realistic than a Disney world, because most of them don't meet Prince Charming and live happily ever after. Infact, it's usually more complicated than that. And, the females aren't freakishly skinny but still have extra perky, large, C sized breasts.

For some reason, I just happen to think that Calico should burst out in song in this picture. Probably a song about Noah. About how he would take her far off into the sea. Or something. Why he would take her far off into the sea, we don't know, but perhaps Noah is a merman or something. Or a pirate. Or a whale or something. I don't know.

Jess should shut up nao.

Anyway. So as you may or may not know, if you've been paying attention to my descriptions, if you can actually make it through my descriptions without busting a nut, you may know that I'm trying to work on backgrounds and stuff. Like backgrounds that are like, real backgrounds, and not just typical Jess backgrounds that involve shapes. So, I've been trying to work on pictures that actually have something to them. Go me! :dance:

I like the beach. And water. I think it's because I'm a Cancer or something. Because we're crabs. And we've got like, booglie eyes and pinchers and stuff. blinks Well, not really, but we're a water sign, and I think we're naturally attracted to water. Maybe that's why I always have to pee or something.

(OMG Jess TMI.)

I'm just saying Brain. Anyway. So, I was just browsing through some magazines for some ideas for pictures, and eventually I came up with this. I hadn't drawn Calico for a while, so I thought I'd doodle her up, evidently staring off into the sea, possibly in deep thought. And for Calico, "deep thought" usually means deep thoughts about Noah's ass or something. She's just sitting on a typical Jess beach, which consists of a little bit of grass, some rocks, sand, and water framing the picture. She's in Canada, so just for the record, our beaches here in Canuckland are pretty varied. This is usually what I see on beaches in Ontario. And now you know a little bit about Canadian geography! OH YAY!

I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out, altho my only major complaint is that Calico's head sorta looks too small, and I should have added some tiddles there to show sand and stuff.

(Tiddles, Jess? :iconimsarcasticplz: )

I didn't know what else to call them, okay, Brain? I dunno, just like... spots on the ground to show sand. (Why I couldn't think of that phrase before I don't know.) But I guess it still looks okay.

Any look at my box!! IT WAS DONE WITH A RULER! But, of course, its still kinda crooked, but not half as bad as previous attempts. I think my boxes are always tilted or slanted because when I'm doing art I always have my table on an angle. I don't know why I just do. I'll have to try and draw without it at an angle. That might help. But probably not. Because once a fail, always a fail.

I like how the background came out, altho I think the grass is a little too full there. Sorta looks more like the sand has a really bad toupee or something. But I think overall this one came out fine.

But then, of course, I scanned it. I was about to say that this one didn't scan in too bad, but then I looked at the picture again and then realized that, gosh, I must have had some Hallucination Goggles on or something because the scan, still, remains pretty shitty as always. The red looks absolutely crappy, and the picture just looks really dull. The original is much more bright and like, happy and stuff. My scanner is a killjoy, seriously. Has to ruin everything that I'm remotely proud of.

So yes. I really do like this one, some things I don't like about it, but it's okay otherwise. Just please, once again, ignore the scan. I know it's hard, because my scanner is an attention whore and makes my drawings so bad it's hard to not pay attention to (Like those really stupid shows on TV that you just HAVE to watch because they are so stupid.) , but please try.

:iconimsorryplz:

I wanna go to the beach nao. And like, hang out with all the fishies and seaweed and stuff. And have it all stick in my toes and then have sand in every single crevice on my body.

LOL that sounded wrong. XD

Anyway, Just Calico having fun at the beach! Lets have fun with her!

Calico here is © to Jess Ratte :D