Cat Obsessed Artist Vows To Draw A Cat Every Day Until She Can Finally Adopt One

This 100-Day cat drawing challenge finally resulted in the artist adopting her very own cat

Ayoub

• Published in Animal Stories
• August 28, 2020

Drawing cats from memes is not something any average person can do, you'll have to be as talented as animation student Emily Paquin aka Catwheezie. Every day, she posts a different drawing of a popular cat and she isn't planning on stopping until she reaches 100 drawings or maybe even more.

Bored Panda did an interview with Em where she shared her thought process while she draws her cat portraits and why she decided to start this project in the first place. Scroll down and check it out!

Cat lover Em started her projects on June 13th:

“Most of the cats I draw are from popular cat images I find online through Instagram. I've always loved these types of funny cat pictures and remember being a kid, printing out similar ones, and gluing them on my school notebooks,”

Three Cute Cats

Cat Batman

The Cat in the Mirror

Em has been an art lover her entire life, she told Bored Panda that the first thing she ever learned how to draw is cats.

When asked about her studies, she said:

“Currently, I attend an art college and study animation and illustration,”. So we should definitely expect more great things from Em after she finally obtains her degree.

It requires Catwheezie anywhere from 2 to 3 hours to finish each illustration. However, it all depends on the level of detail that she wants to bring out and how much free time she has on her hands.

Roast Chicken Cat

Waffle Kitten

Tank Cat

The artist said that she always has an extra "emergency" cat just in case she's too busy to create new art:

"Usually, I work on several of them at a time so I can make sure I'll have a new cat to post everyday. A lot of planning goes into this project,” 

It's true that a lot of pleasure comes with drawing cats, but drawing cat memes is not something we see that often. It turns out that the artist desperately wanted a kitten and drawing them was her way to low-key let her family know.

Cat Loaf

Toasty Toe Beans

Cats will rule the world

“The project started when I decided to draw a cat every day until I was able to adopt one myself. For a while, I imagined I might be drawing cats forever, doomed to never adopt one. Magically, things fell into place and on day 21, my family and I adopted Beanie, a two-month-old rescue kitten,” Em shared the amazing news.

However, her project didn't stop there as she continued working on it despite getting the cat of her dreams. Which we're all thankful for.

“With many people invested in the journey, I continued to draw even after my quest to adopt a cat ended. I set my goal to 100 consecutive days! After that, who knows! If people aren't sick of my cat art by then, I'd be glad to continue.”

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