This is all about a redraw of a two-year-old piece of mine (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55081942/).

Fun fact: I diligently number my drawings, and exactly 100 pieces have passed between the first attempt at this one — a good reason for a redraw.

Looking at the numbers only, it's actually quite sad life leaves you with only 100 drawings in two years. Nevertheless, these 100 drawings have allowed for significant progress in my work - let's mention the much smoother sketches, the more challenging poses, the more complex settings, or the more contrasting, colorful shading. In fact, today's pieces, while never perfect, have absolutely nothing in common with the cave paintings of my recent past.

However, it didn't look like the redrawing would ever happen, since I'd never taken so long to accept a sketch before, even though the whole scenario was rather simple. But the shortened arms and legs of the anthropomorphic cheetah just wouldn't come together. I mean, they're still not perfect, but at least they don't bother me anymore. In fact, the picture took two months from the initial idea, interrupted by corrections and everyday life, to get to this point. You have to wonder how sturdy watercolor paper is.

I took a gamble with the coloring: I had the idea of ​​placing the blue glass strips under the feral cheetah's fur, hoping the fur would allow the blue stripes to show through – and it worked quite well. The female cheetah could have been depicted with a bit more delicacy; overall, it's still not entirely clear in this image who is inside and who is outside – that's the intention. The tree and the grass were added later and give the image much more life.

Quote from Kidogo 2024 - Captivated (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55081942/):

I gave this piece an ambiguous name – captivated; delighting, enchanting, but also holding captive. This is a very personal drawing, and even if I’m emotionally stripping myself to a certain extent, these are exactly the feelings I have when I visit a zoo to see my beloved cheetahs.

Before I moved, I was used to ne a permanent guest at the nearby Neuwied Zoo, to visit “my” Lianné . Often I sat in front of her enclosure for hours and watched her do nothing or being a cheetah; often with the feeling of fascination, but with melancholy, longing and the feeling of being prisoned as well. The only question is who is captivated here - who is in front and who is in the enclosure? Is it the cheetah doing her rounds in the enclosure, or is it me walking through a biped’s world?

Even if I didn’t succeed in everything with the drawing itself, it still describes the longing; the longing I suffer when I visit cheetahs in a zoo and the longing when I don't.

Life's not that easy.

Here is the redraw of "Captivated" from January 2026.