My friend Boo

[ontos]

I have this black speckled cat that comes around and thinks she lives at my house, we call hier Boo. She tends to sneak up on us, thought I would do a quick drawing of her.

[steve.ledger]

Actually, very nicely done. Can you tell me more about the technique used for the fur?

[ontos]

Thank you sledger, I was just playing with some live effects. I used the transparency tool, Fractal Clouds on a black shape of the cat. Adjusted it where I liked it, then I used the Soften Filter, camera zoom and adjusted the zoom where I liked it, this was the result. There are probably a dozen better ways to do it

I don't know if that makes sense or not, just playing with the different features to try and get a fur look. I could have used the EyeCandy

[steve.ledger]

Merv it's knowing when to stop that bothers me. I play with all sorts of tools and techniques and often get close to the results I want, but then I think "I'll just try this and see what happens" - off I go into play-land for another hour and loose what I found previously! Knowing when to stop is just what you did and with a good result me thinks

[zaphodeist]

Very effective Merv. Now you say it I can see how you did it, but like Steve says it's knowing when to stop!

[ontos]

I hear what you guys are saying After I finished playing with the tools, I thought, I should be writing down the settings as I do them just in case I forget how to do it. But as usual I forgot, or just got to lazy to write them down

Thank you Steve and John I'm glad you like the drawing. I know some people don't like to use filters, I just like to play with them sometimes Somethings I just don't know how to do on my own

[zaphodeist]

That's what the filters are for! Can never remember settings and variations myself, though some filters have an option to save ... I like them!

[gray]

Very cute and nicely done, Merv.

[gwpriester]

Well done Merv.

[a4hire]

Very nice looking kitty. My wife has a black cat too and this looks a lot like him