About the idea
I made this drawing of Luna, because my mom kept saying I should make a portrait of one of our cats.


About this drawing
I decided to do it on black paper because:
1. I wanted to try it.
2. I didn’t have to draw her whole fur.

I drew her from a photo, which was very hard… it took me more than half an hour, and a lot of patience to make a suited photo to make this drawing.


About Luna
I got Luna on my birthday 11 July 2007, after an awful lot of begging. I wanted a completely black or an completely white cat. I have had a white cat, Yuki… but he died in a car-accident. So Luna was supposed to be a bit of substitute for Yuki. Too bad for me… Luna isn’t much like Yuki.

On my birthday I was bored, and where searching on the internet, so I found an advertise for kittens, they had even a black kitten, and best of all, they live in the same village as I do. So I convinced mom that we should go buy it. She was a bit troublesome when she first got in our home. She couldn’t stand open spaces. ( a bit an opposite of Claustrophobia) when we took her out the cage in which we transported her… she just snapped… she started panicking, running, and jumping against the walls, and after a few minutes, we had to get her from behind the heating system. So we locked her up in the bathroom, with some food, water and the cage in which we transported her, so she had something sleep in.

That evening I also found out the cat I had bought was a “she”… I forgot to ask it when I bought her… I would have liked a male cat better, because they are usually a bit more friendly and level-headed, although I probably would have still taken her, even if I would have know it was a “she”… just because it REALLY wanted a new kitten.
The first two nights she has meowed very long… it sounded like she was crying… it was heartbreaking! Especially since I have calculated, Luna is about 5 or 6 years old in human years. (She is about 10 weeks old) A pretty long time, Luna have lived mostly in the living room. We had also putted a big rabbit cage in the living room, we locked her up every evening in the rabbit cage, and put a blanket on the cage, first we had the blanket completely covering the cage, but we took it off more and more, until she was sleeping without it.
I think Luna liked sleeping in the cage, she doesn’t cry anymore at night, I think she felt safe in a small space.
She also really sweet and loves to cuddle. We have bathed her to, because she had fleas. She was unbelievable… most cats freak out when you bath them… but Luna stayed pretty calm, she was also very relaxed when I wrapped a towel around her, to dry her fur. She also had a pretty long time, that when she heard my alarm clock in the morning she would go sit in the hall, and wait till I came downstairs. These days she just waits in the chair I’m usually sitting in when I drink my juice and take my medicines. And she hates to be alone. It isn’t as worse as it was, but first when she was in my bedroom with me, and I would leave to get something to drink or to got to the toilet or something like that, she would start crying so I usually said: “Sound like a left the baby alone again”


Really she is the weirdest cat we ever had, some odd thinks:
- She didn’t mind bathing.
- She couldn’t stand open spaces
- I had to baby-sit her, as long as I was in the same room, she was fine
- She loves my bathrobe, it’s a thick, red, soft one… and she usually starts sucking on it, like she is drinking.
- She only want to be picked up from certain places, so when you wanted to pick her up, you call her name… she runs to the chair in the kitchen or the old-paper-box, and jumps in/on it, and there she waits excited till you pick her up.
- She can sometimes walk around sniffing with her nose on the ground like a dog.
- She does pretty much things that remind us of a dogs, so sometimes we call her “Fikkie” which is a common dogs name in Dutch, and she listens to that as well.

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Media:
- Fabercastell pencils


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