My dear cat passed away Jan 1, after being with me for 18 and a half years.

I haven't recovered from the tragedy yet. I was very attached to her. She was my everything.

I still feel dissonance and can hardly hold back tears when in the morning no one comes to hug with me and to purr by my side.

At least, she doesn't suffer anymore.

Well, I tried to keep drawing something anyway when having some free time.

Meet Wilhelm from the show 'Metal Family'. As he's going to be an important character in the fanfic that I'd like to write, and as I'd like to make a few illustrations to this work, here's an attempt to find my own style to draw him.

In the 'Metal Family' fandom, there was an interesting conversation recently, dedicated to theories about his family. Most people tended to think that this goof from Dee's class was a mama's boy who probably didn't have a father or who rarely met with him - and when they met, they barely knew how to communicate.

To brighten the atmoshere a little, we figured out a few hilarious situations that the son and the father could get into. One of those was them going to the Zoo where Will's father would suggest going to see reptiles, while Will would rather prefer to spend a few hours staring at a capybara.

The idea of a capybara came to me because earlier, one of the most popular artists of the fandom, Linalee, had figured out a pet guinea pig Philipp I for Will. Kind of, 'What could be better than a guinea pig', I thought? A huge chill 'pig', of course.

We joked that the capybara dude could be named Philipp the Great, or even Philipp the Colossal (referring to their size, and also to the Colossal Titan from 'Attack on Titan', one of the favorite anime series of Wilhelm).

That's what is written in the sketch above made by me immediately after the conversation.
In the top left corner:
'Philipp

the Great (crossed out)
the Colossal'

'Philipp I

the Regular (crossed out)

micro phil lol (crossed out)'.
The phrase in the middle part says 'Wilhelm the Embracer'. In Russian this phrase sounds funnier because it's consonant with 'Wilhelm the Conqueror'. But I haven't found a word meaning hugs that would start with 'c', also having 3 syllables and the stress on the first syllable, so that's what we have.
However, the English version of his title let us joke that Dee would rather prefer to call him 'Wilhelm the Embarrasser'. In Russian the game of words doesn't work as good.

By the way, here's some progress on Dee's portrait.
I fixed his face a little to make it prettier. But I still can't decide which expression I like the most.

And here's how Alice AI sees his expressions (I collected together some interesting screenshots from AI animations).
I think that's going to be a helphul reference to me in the future. Considering that drawing human faces is still a difficult challenge to me, believe me or not.

Although I prefer to stay away from AI usually, the animations that this thing produces turn out to be a great tool for raising the artist self-esteem, so to say: when you see your creation move and it moves exactly the way you see it in your mind, almost without anatomy bugs, it brings the kind of delight that's hard to describe.