i wanted to do this character long time ago but i guess i didn't have enough skill back then .. this is Bakeneko she's a Japanese legendary creature .

cats with long tails like snakes that were killed by humans in a brutal manner turns into bakeneko and curse that human, many japanese people used to cut their cats tails to prevent them from becoming bakeneko that's why many Japanese cats today have short tails .. u can check out their full story on wikipedia.



the story idea that i had for this is :

<<<<<There was once a beautiful graceful cat that was owned by a little girl in japan in the countryside the girl helped her parents working on the farm , but she always sneaked away from her job to go play with her cat and that made her father really angry.. the father always tried to get rid of the cat , he threw it far away from home but the cat always found it's way home , he kicked each time he saw it be the cat didn't care as long as she stayed with the little girl , the father also hated the sounds that the cat made at night, it almost sounds like the cat is talking and that kept the man sleepless many night and enraged him.

one night the father got fed up and tried to kill the cat

... in the kitchen he sneaked behind it grabbed it and wrapped a rope around the cat's legs and neck so it can't run away but the cat fought him so hard and he couldn't stab her but he left cuts all over the cat's body.. when the cat scratches the father so hard on his face (blinding his right eye) he threw it away, the cat fell on a cooking pot with boiling water in it, leaped outside of the pot with a mess , the water was so hot it burned the skin on it's hind legs , the burn was so bad u can see the muscles exposed on her legs , the cat limped away running from the man which he was so furious after he lost his right eye , blood was all over his face as he grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen counter , he ran for the cat with furious scream and started chopping off the cat's body ...



....The father threw the cat in a swamp lake few miles from the house before his daughter wakes up to that scene , he got back to clean the kitchen floor from the blood and water..as he was wiping the blood from the floor he felt bad for his daughter and bit of regret was growing inside him for what he did to that poor cat. ..... THE CAT WOKE UP AND TURNED INTO BAKENEKO and will haunt him and curse him until she gets her revenge ... >>>>>>>follow me on facebook for more wips, sketches and updates : www.facebook.com/iBralui