When Steve was like, I wanna draw you, I was like, awesome and immediately started to take off my clothes, because I assume every portrait session is like Jack and Rose in Titanic.
Then Steve was like, no, I actually want to draw you, like, as a cat. Because that’s what he does. He draws cats. As a career.
That’s right kids, your guidance counselors are fucking liars, because Steve went on Shark Tank with the sole concept of drawing people fucking cats, and Mark Cuban was like, yup!
Boom. Professional cat drawer.
This is exactly how I pictured myself as a cat! I’ve honestly never felt so understood. I’m never using a camera again.
From one animal-person drawer to another, Steve, you are brilliant, and I adore and thank you for this hilarious portrait.
Everyone else, go here and let Steve draw you cats. He’s crazy good at it, and if nothing else in this world makes you smile today, let it be cats Steve draws for you.
I love randomly awesome businesses. Do you have one? Do you have an idea for one? Do you want to be a mermaid, also?
you had me at Cats.
Day: Made. :)
I’d settle for mermaid hair. Still growing it out two years strong.
I can’t decide if my desire to have him draw a “family” portrait of me and my two cats is awesome or possibly the most depressing thought that has ever crossed my mind.
I can’t decide if my intense desire to draw a family portrait of you and your two cats is awesome, or possibly the most depressing thought that has ever crossed my mind.
Oh wait. Yes I can. It’s awesome. I want to draw a family portrait of you and your two cats, and I am unashamed! Whoopy!
Every time I want to hide under a rock because my 5th grader doesn’t know his times tables I’m just going to remember that same day he can just make a living for himself drawing people as cats. Yep.
Thanks for the suggestion! And my kid draws already, he’s halfway there.
My 5th grader also doesn’t know his times tables. Maybe yours and mine can start a cat drawing business together!
Meeeeeee-OW!
I don’t know if my business is ‘randomly awesome’ but I make custom ornaments of people’s pets. Right now I’m working on a larger project for a customer – Mr & Mrs Fox from ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ – but Mr Fox is in Army Combat Uniform (ACUs).
I LOVE Fantastic Mr. Fox!!! Link me to your shop or website!
GOD. What a great idea. I love that guy already.
Thanks, Robin! You are kind.
Being that my name is Kathy, but everyone pretty much calls me Kat I think it would be the most awesome gift for my bf to have an epic Kathy Kat cat portrait! Possibly the BEST present he could ever have!!!
I love that Mark Cuban says “yup” to awesomely random, or randomly awesome ideas! I so {heart} him, and watch Shark Tank specifically for that reason!:) good on you, Steve!!:)
Whee! I’ve drawn lots of cats for Kats… I agree, it’d make a great gift!
Thanks a bunch, Kathy.
you know…this is so crazy that it’s brilliant. imagine how much positive change we could effect by disarming people with cute cats and then *BAM!* dropping a truth bomb on them. I would like to see a cat looking in the mirror with body dismorphia and counting how many calories she imagines were in her fish dinner. Yep! that would make what most of us women do seem so…strangely unhuman (inhumane?). xoxo
Hah! That’s a neat take on it, Annabel. I haven’t drawn any self-assessing body dismorphia cats YET, but I’d be delighted to draw one for you!
I DO have a randomly awesome business :) I do research and planning and shopping and preparing for pregnant mamas so they can just enjoy being pregnant (or enjoy working or whatever they’re up to!) and by the time the baby comes, Viola! their house is prepared and they’ve even had a fun soiree where they learned to use all that crazy baby gear! PLUS, once they bring that baby (or babies!) home, I stay in their nursery at night for the first few months and feed, rock, change, do laundry & dishes and do sleep training so the fabulous new parents can continue to be fabulous during the day (because they’re actually sleeping at night!)
I hate cats but I think I love Steve.
Well you are incredibly kind! Thanks Becky!
Great job on the boobs and bottom. That’s one of those weird situations where you want it to somewhat represent the person, but don’t want them skeeved out. I think those are respectable sized cat boobs.
Agree. I am very happy with my cat boobs.
I love this. Not much today has made me smile-I’m homesick today-but the cat portrait is great. Can you draw a cat nurse, Steve? With a husband & a litter of kittens? :)
Whee! Oh I sure can. I’ve drawn all sorts of cat nurses, husbands, and kittens! And I’m happy that Brittany’s awesome blog post brought you a smile today!
The next time my 10 year old son says he wants to be a dinosaur doctor, I’m going to let him because… If he had asked me if he could invent a website and draw people as cats I would have had his head examined! Steve has made me challenge most of my conventional theories about careers and dreams! Love ya Steve!
Hey, thanks Allison!!
I have a memaid folklore story for my family. My 6 yr old granddaughter adores it. It is all true if you take out the word mermaid.
My great granddad was from england. his wife was a mermaid and lived in a nearby cove in the ocean. They had 5 children – my grandma Jean was one. Her dad moved to the US for work and bought a house near Mosquito Lake because the kids required nightly swimming and raw fish eating. Jean was a teen and knew she needed to marry a navy man, to stay near water. She and my grandfather married when WWII was over. They had 4 kids who are a quarter mermaid…all red heads with fair british skin. He left the family, so she remarried a prick who would not live near the lake. However, her new spouse installed a pool and later bought the family a boat, so the could night swim and eat raw fish.
This is why our women, to this day, skinny dip in Lake Erie and wait for our feet to turn into fins, like Grandma Jean’s did.
Not a cat person but this? WIN!
Also, I wanna be a mermaid….and a Cullen. ;)
It’s adorable, but it would totally be better with your toes pointing inward…
Apparently the cat version of me is WAY more awkward in her skin. ONE DAY I hope to garner her posing confidence.
OMG! Brittany! You could totally do this with horses! Your horsepeople are the funniest things I have ever seen. You’d be a billionaire.
I make no money, but I have a weekly podcast that I think you would enjoy! It’s called You’re Doing it Wrong (wrongpodcast.com, @wrongpodcast on twitter) and I think you’d enjoy it. We talk about everything we do wrong like how my friend had no idea what big panties were for and how Forever 21 won’t stop making rompers that enhance my fupa. We’d love to have you as a guest!
Also, regarding mermaids, there’s a current debate about whether my hot friend Ashton should be allowed to be a mermaid. I vote no and proposed she goes as a flaming pile of trash. She gets to be hot all the time. I feel it’s only fair.
I <3 Brittany and Steve! Thanks for the smile.
hey, i think this is awesome, i think Steve makes me realise that Dreams really DO come true, oh and btw… i <3 that Brittany, even as Mermaid-cat, is rockin' the hell out of a pink-stripes and lime green polka-dot ensemble in total flagrant disregard for previously established fashion rules of 'never mix stripes and spots, never, never, never' — way to work it, Steve and B!
Whee! Thanks so much, Alicia!
LOVE!!! I sent Steve’s website to my son. He loves drawing people as animals. It’s how he sees the inner “you” of people. He hides it from almost everyone even though the mom in me is like…. Go for it! He seems to think he is alone in this, even if I tell him otherwise. Love love love!!! By the way, he sees me as a household cat. Because I’m always around the corner waiting to pounce! Lol
Love that Steve does what makes him happy!
Awesome. Thanks for sharing, Allison! I’d love to see some of your son’s drawings!!
I almost died when I read “…Steve went on Shark Tank with the sole concept of drawing people fucking cats, and Mark Cuban was like, yup!” ’cause, man, that would be an entirely different enterprise.
Probably would go over big in Japan. :o)