Hey-hi-ho! Whaddya know? It’s Friday yo! Flashback time go!
Last week’s hint was that this week’s installment wouldn’t be purr-fect but that it would still be pretty sweet. Sass should have seemed like a safe bet. And what character was known for using the purr-fect pun? Why Catwoman (the Adam West Batman version) of course! And didn’t Sass play Catwoman that one time? Why yes she did! Mystery solved! As always, click on the pics you’d like to see enlarged.
I chose to go with the New 52 Catwoman costume this time around. It occurred to me that it’d be really hard for Sass to fit her tail in the costume and I considered having her tail be uncovered, but I didn’t like how it looked, so I chose to make it black like the rest. I had a picture to use as reference for the pose, but I still struggled mightily with her legs, particularly the left. In the reference pic, Catwoman’s right boot reaches to her mid-calf, but the left boot doesn’t look like it extends past her ankle. I was unable to reconcile the two so I fudged it.
Here’s the comparison piece. When I was drawing Iron Cat, I realized that if Sass were wearing a mask, the fur on the sides of her face would be pushed together instead of remaining in two separate tufts. I applied the same principle here. In the original drawing I chose to make the Catwoman a little more purplish because I wanted the line work to show through and there’s a precedent for Catwoman wearing purple. With the way I shade things now, I’m more comfortable using black to colour.
So that’s it for this week. I don’t have a fun hint for next week’s flashback but it’ll feature Deema. Find out which costume she’ll be wearing next Friday!