Lion Cub with Record Player

Sketching Stuff Challenge March 2025: Sketch Some Nostalgia.

Charlie O’Shields challenge this time around was to paint something nostalgic. He walked us through his painting of a kitten next to an old Record Player.

I also have fond memories of my first record player but instead of kittens I had baby lions and tigers (my father worked at a zoo before they had nurseries, and if a mother refused to feed her babies they were sent home with one of the employees until they could eat solid food). I followed the steps to Charlie’s drawing but made my record player pink like my first player, and changed the kitten to a lion cub. The lion’s were cuter than the tigers (at first, anyway) and I could use the same colors that Charlie did for his kitten.

Kuretake Managaka Zig Pigment pen & DaVinci Sketching Stuff Watercolor in an Etchr Perfect Watercolor Sketchbook.

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