Just like my recent Sabertooth Unicorn sketch, this cartoon was a prize for one of the followers of my Super Haters Twitter account... in fact, it was drawn for @PeteRogers, my 333rd follower.
By now, I'm already well past 333 followers, and I'll be doing another crazy sketch for the 400th Super Haters follower, so hurry up and start following Super Haters before it's too late! (And, yes, I follow back.)
This Stick Cats pin up was originally drawn (and I know this is gonna sound ridiculous, so bear with me) as a mural for the indie book store experiment, Fleeting Pages.
See, the book store was occupying the space of a closed down Borders. And the former Borders was so big that Fleeting Pages could only fill up the second floor with books. That meant there was a giant first floor that was sitting around empty!
Jodi, the creator and manager of Fleeting Pages, put out a request for black and white art that could be printed out on a large scale and turned into an installation sort of thing. Not a mural exactly, but I don't really know a better word for it.
To be more specific, it wasn't as simple as being printed out and taped up -- Jodi wanted the image to be something with multiple planes because she has a unique process for turning a single image into a three-dimensional display. So I took an hour or so and dreamed up this Stick Cats scene with a foreground, midground, and background (obviously there's no background here in this pin up... that's because I think the action looks better without it!).
Honestly, I never quite understood the process she was planning to use. I'm a cartoonist that makes 2D digital images. Jodi knows all about about mixing art and spaces, but explaining the technical aspects of preparing my digital art for her 3D display was tough. So the mural/installation/3D display was never printed.
But that's all good because I'm psyched to share this moody Stick Cats action scene with you, mural or not!
Last weekend on the Super Haters Twitter account, I made a very special offer -- my 300th follower would receive a personalized unicorn sketch. That 300th follower ended up being Charlie Roberts (@ChuckieRoberts).
When I asked Charlie what he wanted to see on it, he said:
It needs wings. And robotic legs. And missile launchers. And sabertooth fangs.
And when I asked him what "rating" the unicorn should have, he said:
NC-17, R18 - the highest in every country.
So I also made him this extremely NSFW variant version of the unicorn (since it's rather adult, you have to click the link to see it).
Thx Charlie!!! And make sure you're following @super_haters because I'll be doing more fun stuff like this in the future.
More:
- Hi-res regular version on deviantART
- Hi-res NSFW version on deviantART
- NSFW rainbow version on Tumblr
- Regular rainbow version on Flickr
