Who can resist a fat black cat?

This is my (as of now) newest design--and one of the ones that Robin will be turning into a cool screenprint on t-shirts and napkins and other fun stuff. In the meantime, however, it's also available as a print or magnet in my etsy shop--if you don't see it right away you can click on any print or magnet that is the size you want, order it, and just note that you want the fat black cat as your design in the "notes to seller.

Or you can find it on a whole bunch of goodies with your own customizable color background in my zazzle shop!

(EDIT NOTE: This post was edited to remove the PayPal buy direct button on 3/30/10 because I get notices more consistently from Etsy when a purchase is made an an issue came up when someone tried to buy direct via PayPal. Until I get that issue sorted I'm keeping everything going through Etsy for my handmade stuff).

Getting going with my wacom tablet: Night Roses

I usually try to avoid titles as dull as that one, but I think my creativity level for the day got sucked up by my drawing and didn't leave anything behind for clever word play. So it will just have to be sincere Becca tonight--what a drag, I know .

So I finally decided to use my new wacom tablet (thank you again, Santa/hubby) to create a piece of art, and I'm pretty happy with the results.

Recently I've been sketching a lot of folk-ish primitive-y style cats, in a very different style than my prvious stuff, but I'd yet to transfer any of them to the computer and make a complete piece (my usual approach is to do the preliminary drawing with pen and paper, scan my original, and digitally colorize the piece). Tonight I skipped the scanning stage and just went for straight drawing into Photoshop via my tablet. I was particularly into the idea of using something so modern to create something that looked very rough and primitive--what do you all think?

Oh--and does anyone have a title idea for the piece? Titles aren't my strong suit :) (added later: thanks Mishkat for the inspiration--the title is now "Night roses")

So far I don't know how to use all the bells and whistles on my tablet, but I'm loving the ones I've figured out so far--like how the pressure sensitive tip will vary the width of my lines and how I can flip the pen around and use the "eraser" on the reverse tip if I draw something I don't like.

Anywho, that's probably enough sincere glee for one night--I don't want to make anyone feel queasy or anything :)

p.s.--I only have this listed as an 8x10 currently--but if you'd like a print version of this as a 5x7 or art card let me know; I'm happy to make it for you.

p.p.s.--Since a few people have asked: yes, a wacom tablet is a device with a digital pen and pad through which i can draw or write directly into programs like Photoshop.