Well, it's certainly been a while since the 'art' header was used!
Here's the Cassandra Cat picture I mentioned in the small update post earlier. This was something I began working in December last year and fully finished it a couple of weeks ago, although I just made a few fixes to it only tens of minutes before uploading the finished picture here. It's a good idea to sometimes take a long time to refrain from publishing something and wait for some time to pass, so that you can look up the picture with slightly refreshed eyes and then notice all the problems that otherwise would've snuck past you!
Slylock Fox is a really fun activity webcomic, obviously geared towards younger audiences as the difficulty level of the puzzles and mysteries featured isn't all that challenging for anyone whose age is in two digits or more. The art style is also quite clean and simplistic, but it differs from a lot of the usual, contemporary takes on minimalistic design by not making me want to gouge my eyes out; it emphasizes functionality for its primary purpose (setting up the visual playground for finding and solving the daily puzzle/mystery) but remains visually appealing, because it never compromises many of the traditional tricks and techniques it uses for construction. If anything, it is stylistically very close to the things I got used to seeing in the 1980s and the 1990s, so I suppose there's a bit of a nostalgia factor happening there as well.
4chan's /co/, in its eternal search for new FOTM (Flavor of the Month) every, well, month, also took notice of the strip a good while ago, and generally homed in on the feline thief character, Cassandra Cat, as being the comic's "eye candy." It got to a point where the strip's creator, Bob Weber, Jr., caught wind of the SF threads there and dropped by to do a very brief AMA and even showcased a surprisingly risqué (due to SF being primarily aimed for kids) pin-up that he had drawn of Cassandra, and I think it was even sold as a shirt at some point! I have to say, that is very cool of him and he also handled it very well (UPDATE: turns out the shirt was originally made for that one guy who has a blog where he analyzes and complains about newspaper comics in a humorous manner, I forget the name of his site but you can post it in the Comments if you remember what it is).
SF threads are still happening there, as new strips continue to be made, the puzzles are fun to solve and new Cassandra references are always welcome. In fact, one such thread ended up inspiring me, yet again, to attempt at doing a Cassandra-themed picture. I think the last time I thought about drawing her must've been more then three or four years ago, if even longer than that. Despite the comic's style being simple, I didn't exactly get this one done in a single try, with the male character going through most of the changes before I settled for him being a big bull with a massive torso. The most inspiration for this pic, its pose and Cassandra wearing red came from the final scene of a porn movie called Secret Diary of a Secretary (2009). The scene in question features Kagney Linn Karter as the titular secretary, first talking about a generic "secretary and her boss" sex fantasy, before actually going in and doing him. She looks stunning there, reminding me very much of Christina Applegate as Kelly Bundy from Married... with Children, and the red jacket and lipstick she's wearing contrast strongly against her milk white skin and platinum hair. Overall, it's a damn good scene and you can try to find it online by searching it with her name and the title 'Perfect Secretary'.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pic! It was drawn 100% with a tablet, no pencils there at all. As usual, you can find the full-resolution version of it on Rule 34 Paheal.
