Cat Feedback

Some visual feedback for Rainbowcolorss via Improvement-Club. 

Here I had some ideas about ways to approach the picture. The reference photo is crazy detailed, with the camera bringing every single hair into focus. I feel you can drive yourself crazy trying to re-create the photo. Instead, you can create the illusion of detail for the eye through fur-like patterns. Close up, it can look like brush-strokes. Zoomed out, it creates the illusion of fur. And as you work from broad strokes and shapes to the more detailed ones, you can come closer and closer to fur-like strokes. With the line of grayscale cats on the bottom, I didn't get too detailed, but I could have kept going, refining and adding. But the big idea was to capture the overall look and the overall color shapes. Avoid starting with the details. Hope this helps!

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