Same Cat or Different Cat?

I often try to describe the concept that I may create some nice-looking cats, but that is not the same as creating THAT particular cat.

This crayon drawing is one of my best. I am stupid proud of it. People tell me how cool it is (and for once, I agree with them). It is the first Desk Cat Drawing that made people start to ask me to draw their cats.

But therein lies the problem. I didn't even draw THIS cat. See the source material* and compare it to the drawing. I actually did a pathetic job of scale alone. I obviously didn't even try to match colors, though I did try to correlate them to brighter colors. Two of the legs are gigantic. The face isn't the same, but the expression is close. Ok I could pick this drawing apart for an hour. The point is, I can paint and draw cats quite nicely. But I spectacularly suck at painting SPECIFIC cats. It's happened where I painted someone's cat and shown it to them and they said, "nice painting, whose cat?"

It's even worse for people, but that's a story for a different day. Point is, real life is just a suggestion.

Wait, what?


* So many apologies that I can't cite the source cat image. At this point I have no idea where it came from other than "A Cat Calendar" prior to 2016.