The Inktober 52 prompt for this week was "Tiger", and I have to say I wasn't excited about it. Tigers are okay and all, but definitely not something I had ever tried to draw before. This prompt was also technically a "double prompt", because it was during the winter Olympics, they challenged artists to draw a tiger performing their favorite winter Olympic sport. So my challenge was to draw two things I hadn't ever tried before, and make it sort of fit in with the theme of the previous drawings in my sketchbook. My favorite winter Olympic sport is figure skating, so that was the start, and from there I had to figure out how to draw a very tiny yet believable tiger.
I'm also not that into drawing anthro style art so I think I had about ten drafts of this tiger trying to make it look right in a human position. You can see I tried to add lots of filler so that I could keep the actual tiger as small as possible. The background was actually fun. Instead of just drawing the sport, I wanted it to be from the perspective of watching the sport on television. Then I filled in the bookcase around the tv with references to the earlier prompts. There is also a mirror that that is supposedly reflecting a person watching the tv. Which is precisely how I prefer to watch the Olympics, because winter is cold. When the previous prompt for "Stripes" came out, tons of artists naturally drew tigers. After adding this one, there are a LOT of tigers for the year! Here is the one and only work in progress photo I took of this one. All said, it wasn't my favorite prompt to work on, and I'm not thrilled with the finished result. But it's another one done:
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