<center>![DaCC-Cover-Kittens.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWEB1jzPUbe2iQ7EocoZAKXkNn51aAiJYTpvxEZZPHSa3/DaCC-Cover-Kittens.png)</center>

<center><h1>Soft Kitty! Warm Kitty! Little ball of fuuur!</h1></center>

<center>Hello Fellow Steemians, and welcome to my entry for the [Design a Character Contest Week #4](https://steemit.com/designacharacter/@w0olf/design-a-character-contest-week-4-special-edition-win-sbd). As always, I want to thank @w0olf for hosting this contest, and a special thanks to this weeks guest judge @fraenk and his cuddle-bot, namely @steemkitten.</center>

<center><h1>The Entry:</h1></center>
<center>The aim of this week was to come up with a nice visual identity for @steemkitten. So I am honored to present to you my entries for this week. Hold onto your whiskers, because this little guy with his googly eyes (see what I did there) will just melt your face off with cuteness!</center>

<center>![Kitten_final0.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcHYPME5ij6KtoFhGeRUfDLmBfitc6e5m1x8fxYkt9Dqy/Kitten_final0.png)</center>

<center>![Kitten_final1.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUNbegWospvpeZ3qXUKysreswKCnJWtwFGp8gtnR6ZJqP/Kitten_final1.png)</center>

<center><h1>The Process:</h1></center>
<center>All and all this took me quite a few hours, with a lot of experimentation, so I will show some, but not all of the process that I followed in creating this cute little kitten.</center>

<center><h3>A horrifying start... as always!</h3></center>
<center>![colkitten00.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdBvPmCaEh6KuHudC68CQNinYEuNCgLCbggdZUCC77DuP/colkitten00.png)</center>
<center>There was clearly still a lot wrong here. Giraffe like neck, weird ass feet... so many things.</center>

<center><h3>Fixing the weird little legs...</h3></center>
<center>![colkitten01.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeA2SHrFsoK1sMwYbc9KBT6GnVCG8RSMFmqvsC4NGHsWi/colkitten01.png)</center>
<center>This just shows my struggle in trying to come up with legs that look okay... I think the kitten had more of a hover at some point, kind of ghost-like. </center>

<center><h3>Gosh... how do I make this look like the first image...</h3></center>
<center>![colkitten02.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeoQJXv8rQLQc5dJcUxnL7PGJJDvrvK3cCK7t5WRKFXgC/colkitten02.png)</center>
<center>The struggle is real! Took me ages to come up with something fairly decent that actually looked like first kitten.</center>

<center><h3>A little side experiment</h3></center>
<center>![colkitten03.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdxm2UKxedBhxTX9MqQBK5m6FHk9sFN5F3MPi28YAfCUN/colkitten03.png)</center>
<center>Before I did the playful pose I tried my hand at a side view... I don't know what I drew, but it was not... a... kitten...</center>

<center><h1>The Tools:</h1></center>
<center>For those who are curious, this image was drawn on a Wacom Intuos Pro Paper in good ol Adobe Photoshop, forged from the blood of my enemies and the purring of kittens.</center>

<center>![divider.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmThDQvuwUzpNWFDjjf8VgeqBoqTTGJsjdsKboR4yD96sp/divider.png)</center>

<center><h2>Thank you for reading!</h2></center>

<center>Comments, questions and critiques are always welcome.
100% Original Content / Vote / Resteem</center>
<center>Have a wonderful day.
SkippyZA ^_^</center>