Alleyway Rendezvous
"stay still. we're not done yet."
i read könig's bio. it made me even more motivated doing the render. the pose was supposedly something different (him just standing with a wide stance) but i after pondering on it, i thought this one looked more... feisty.
there are more things that i originally planned that i unfortunately cannot share (if were to be vague, he was supposedly stepping on the... yeah.)
got my rhythm going again. even if i'm not making fully-pledged renders, i like posing random characters.
We wanted to figure out what breed Zouzou (left) and Kilgore (right) our cats might be. You've probably seen that massive chart floating around for identifying cat breeds.
Because they're from the street and clearly don't have any specific pedigree, it means they're going to be a mix of something. However we did narrow down a few things.
Since they are "black and white" that means they're black cats first. Which is confirmed by some of their paw pads and Kilgore's nose. They're also probably part tabby because of the hazel eyes, and because their tails are faintly tabby striped when you see them in bright light. Zouzou's striping is more pronounced.
So if they're black and white cats, that means they're bicolor:
They have mixed black and pink pads and toe beans, and Zouzou has a fully pink nose. They're definitely somewhere on the right half of the chart:
Zouzou is somewhere between Van or Magpie (bottom left, bottom middle) and Seychellois Huitième (middle left). She does have splotches on her legs, and her head/ear patterns aren't quite Van:
Kilgore seems to be some variation of Seychellois Huitième but he has no color splashes on his face. He does have a couple splashes on his legs and paws, like the "wedding ring" someone pointed out once on his left ring finger (no, we don't know the spouse. presumably estranged):
So yeah, that's our cats. They're basically black cats with a really big white spot. Or just black and white :)
Ruby's reaction to Kilgore's lame plan is definitely the bitterness of someone who's spent her whole life reading comic books and always dreamed of fighting an actual supervillain realising she got stuck with one of the D-listers.
They're 10 years old, going to be 11 in July. We don't know their exact birthdays because they were from a trap-neuter-release adoption program but they were born sometime around summer 2012. So we just celebrate on July 1st :)