Cats - Illustration Friday
When I was a young girl, I remember having several bottles of bubble bath; bottles shaped like tall, slim cats. These bottles were made out of a hard plastic, and were usually pastel-colored. This was my inspiration for this week's Illustration Friday topic, "Cats."
When coming up with my design, I started with pastel colors, but played a bit with the color trying to get a more calming hue. After intially sketching my cat by hand, I went into Adobe Illustrator and digitally drew the cats; I then added the background, color, texture and highlights in Adobe Photoshop.
19 Comments:
I remember those bottles!!!! How fun! Love your colors here, and I really like the background! Nice design!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:19:00 PM
this is so wonerful! love the memory and that you reproduced it in luscious colours! bella!!!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:38:00 PM
Hey Trisha! I remember having bottles like that too. There were also pink poodle shampoo bottles. Great inspiration. Your tall skinny cats are great. I love the tail sticking up on the middle one. Have you tried the Live Trace feature in the latest Adobe Illustrator? If you like a slightly sketchy look to your lines, it saves you the step of having to redraw your sketch. Anyway, wonderful colors and I love the soft background texture.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:52:00 PM
How cute!!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:16:00 PM
These are so cute Tricia! I really like the calm colors and symmetrical composition here.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:40:00 PM
These are wonderful - I can almost smell that sweet scent of the shampoo!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:28:00 PM
these kitties are so cool, the design is really prefect. I love it ..After seeing your illo, I certainly sure to learn how to use adobe illustrator( since I am not an art illustrator, my work will just be with an amateur soul:))
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:11:00 PM
I sort of remember those bubble bath bottles--but I was a Mr. Bubble man myself. Great illo.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:20:00 PM
Great cats! I don't know if I think I remember these bottles or if I really do....I love your colors!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:43:00 PM
i love them all!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:46:00 PM
I'm totally amazed that everyone remembers their bubble bath days! Why, in my day we used 20-mule team Borax... and liked it! But seriously, these are seriously great cats (even if I was bubble-bath deprived as a child). Very nice. Peace.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:14:00 PM
I had the cat bubble baths!!! You're image is great - really well done - blue bathroom? :)
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:58:00 PM
Great cats! Nice coloring, would be fun to see cats in those colors for real;-)
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:30:00 AM
Good job! I like your cats and your use of color. :)
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:56:00 PM
What a great way to depict cats - bubble cats!
I love the colours you've chosen and I love the way you've arranged their tails to go in different directions - and as I look at them I'm beginning to believe I had cats like this with bubble bath inside... too convincing!
Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:20:00 AM
Yes! My roommate used to have the purple one, she threw it away about a year ago and I was so bummed out!! Thanks for reminding me…I will send her to your blog!
Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:41:00 PM
Love the cats. I remember bath bubbles in bottles character shaped bottles when I was little!
Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:12:00 PM
Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments! It was fun to read that others remember those bottles...how neat!
Friday, January 27, 2006 10:29:00 AM
So damn adorable!
Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:55:00 PM
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