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Say hi to Alex, my brown tabby cat femboy OC! He has thigh highs and arm warmers and a small but round and squishable belly. I hope you like Alex!
I named him so for three reasons: as a typical 'gender neutral' name it is perfect for a femboy, it kind of reminds me of "Ailuros" (supposedly the Greek name for Bastet, the Ancient Egyptian cat goddess), and it also reminds me of "Luxor", a city in Egypt where many of its famous ancient monuments and ruins are located.
Tabby cats and chubby (instead of fully-flat bellied) femboys are two underrated things that I gladly bring together with this character. I also hope you don't mind if I geek out now over the wonders of tabby cat fur. So if you didn't know already, "tabby" is the name for the kind of striped (brown or grey) fur cats have "by default". (I once read that other cat fur patterns like black or calico only started showing up about 1000 years ago, though other sources seem to place this thousands of years earlier and still others say it wasn't common until the 1800s. In any case, the few known Ancient Egyptian drawings of cats only showed tabby cats!)
Despite the cat's popularity, many furry artists who draw them give them colours you won't exactly see on real cats. Nothing wrong with this, but "natural" cat fur patterns deserve love too. If furry artists do even draw anthro tabby cats, they often look more like tigers than cats to me. This is because in my opinion they don't pay enough attention to the specifics of tabby cat fur: unlike tigers, tabby cats have stripes that are not always 100% clearly separated from the lighter parts of their fur, and the stripes are generally surrounded by a gradient from lighter to darker fur. Cat tails are striped of course, but like other cat species, the tail tip is usually black for an extended length. And there is of course the famous "M"-shape on the forehead (which is actually more like a vertical stripe on the forehead, with a ^-shape on each side of that stripe). But this M-shape is too often forgotten by furry artists. Not so in my art, though.
I named him so for three reasons: as a typical 'gender neutral' name it is perfect for a femboy, it kind of reminds me of "Ailuros" (supposedly the Greek name for Bastet, the Ancient Egyptian cat goddess), and it also reminds me of "Luxor", a city in Egypt where many of its famous ancient monuments and ruins are located.
Tabby cats and chubby (instead of fully-flat bellied) femboys are two underrated things that I gladly bring together with this character. I also hope you don't mind if I geek out now over the wonders of tabby cat fur. So if you didn't know already, "tabby" is the name for the kind of striped (brown or grey) fur cats have "by default". (I once read that other cat fur patterns like black or calico only started showing up about 1000 years ago, though other sources seem to place this thousands of years earlier and still others say it wasn't common until the 1800s. In any case, the few known Ancient Egyptian drawings of cats only showed tabby cats!)
Despite the cat's popularity, many furry artists who draw them give them colours you won't exactly see on real cats. Nothing wrong with this, but "natural" cat fur patterns deserve love too. If furry artists do even draw anthro tabby cats, they often look more like tigers than cats to me. This is because in my opinion they don't pay enough attention to the specifics of tabby cat fur: unlike tigers, tabby cats have stripes that are not always 100% clearly separated from the lighter parts of their fur, and the stripes are generally surrounded by a gradient from lighter to darker fur. Cat tails are striped of course, but like other cat species, the tail tip is usually black for an extended length. And there is of course the famous "M"-shape on the forehead (which is actually more like a vertical stripe on the forehead, with a ^-shape on each side of that stripe). But this M-shape is too often forgotten by furry artists. Not so in my art, though.
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Housecat
Size 1087 x 1030px
File Size 337.4 kB
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