r/comics • u/carodoodles • 17h ago
OC Cats anatomy- what anatomy?
For more than 25 years of my life, I lived with a total of 7 cats. That’s 77% of my life. I studied them carefully. I tried valiantly to capture their perfection in my drawings. It’s impossible.
I’ve come to understand one thing:
Cats are beyond our understanding. 😺
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u/MaskOfIce42 17h ago
As an owner of two cats, I didn't even think those cats looked weird because yeah, cats just get in positions like that lol
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u/carodoodles 17h ago
Yup I get desensitized until non cat owners in my life go ???! 😆
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u/Rastaba 10h ago
Non cat owner, even I recognized those were perfectly normal (for cat) poses.
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u/FrtanJohnas 5h ago
I have been around dogs all my life, sometimes I found pretty much all of them in these cat positions.
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u/Odelaylee 17h ago
Well. Cats are a liquid. So there isn't any anatomy... (?)
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u/Compass_Needle 17h ago
Yep. This is my boneless void.
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u/carodoodles 17h ago
Awww this is amazing! Wish I could do that with my back. The stretch must’ve felt so good.
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u/Ok-Elderberry-7422 6h ago
"Let's play the game of 'Are These My Front or Back Paws?' Hell, they're mine and I don't even know!"
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u/YouhaoHuoMao 17h ago
Gonna guess he doesn't have cats.
My cat does the legless loaf a lot:
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u/carodoodles 17h ago
Image description:
Page 1 Panel 1: “Cats are hard to draw!” Image shows a paper with pencil drawings of two cats in convoluted positions. Both are on their backs with bellies up, one paw curled and another stretched out. Their heads look detached. Their bodies are twisted in opposite directions. The right cat’s tail is under their body, and their ears are hidden under their floofy tail. (also, that cat is a floofy cat who was shaven all over except for their paws, head, and tail.)
Panel 2:
The art teacher scolds Carlisle, pointing to the drawing, “These are NOT anatomically accurate.”
Panel 3: Carlisle is signing “but”, saying “But I used the reference photos!”
Page 2 Panel 1 and 2:
Carlisle holds up a phone, showing actual photos of both cats in convoluted positions. They are lying on blankets. The caption below reads “yep, these are actual pics of my cats.)
Panel 3: The art teacher looks at the phone and is too stunned to say anything.
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u/WorldnewsModsBlowMe 10h ago
TIL the sign for "but" is the same sign as the sign for "different".
Been wondering that for years but for some reason never just looked it up. Thanks.
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u/carodoodles 8h ago
Yup! Although, some would say they have a slight different palm orientation. But is signed more outward while different is signed with palms a bit more facing each other. But, context will help you to tell the difference. 😉 (pun intended)
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u/WorldnewsModsBlowMe 12m ago
Context is everything! I've signed with some darn sloppy signers and managed to pull through based on context alone.
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u/ButterflyFX121 17h ago
Cats are basically nature's greatest contortionists. There's no anatomically inaccurate cat.
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u/lesser_panjandrum 17h ago
Cats transcend our very understanding.
I exist because my cat allows it.
I will feed her breakfast because she demands it.
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u/Person899887 15h ago
Cats are extremely flexible with detached joints in multiple places. They can contort their bodies in ways most mammals can only dream of. Makes figure posing fun but a nightmare.
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u/Saiyasha27 16h ago
"Anatomically accurate" doesn't apply to cats. Please specify first if you want the solid, liquid or worm stage.
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u/Noe_b0dy 13h ago
These are not anatomically accurate.
I would only trust a veterinarian to tell me what is anatomically accurate in a cat, a cat is a pile of bones in a skin bag, they take any shape.
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u/Sure_Acanthopterygii 16h ago
Reminds me of when I had to draw my own hands for an assignment and my art teacher told me, if he didn't know my hands actually looked like that, he'd say they were anatomically incorrect 👐
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u/Aggravating_Ad_363 15h ago
I had to use your drawings as reference to make sense of the photos, lol
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u/Intrepid_Ad1536 14h ago
I scanned it over when I was scrolling down fast, and it looked like a anatomical heart, and if I squinted a bit still, Cats are truly our heart and love
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u/tengutie 8h ago
I have a theory called "Schrodinger's Bones" it postulates that a cats bones are in a super position, of both existing and not existing depending on wether that cat chooses to acknowledge them, allowing cats to transition from a solid to liquid and back again at will
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u/Coveinant 5h ago
There is a very popular saying about cats. They're liquid. The biggest thing that determines if they can do something or not is if their skull is too big. Beyond that, they will do whatever they want.
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u/Jealous_Parfait_4967 16h ago
Ah yes the taffification process. It’s how they calibrate their springs.
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u/Ambitious-Incident16 15h ago
I rescued a runaway late last year and these references remind me of her so much XD
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u/Expensive-County4890 13h ago
Idk maybe it's because I know cats can stretch like that but that looks very anatomically accurate
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u/Outlet_Sun 15h ago
He's still correct. The drawing on the right has the outstretched arm placed too low.
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 17h ago
NGL I thought I was looking at an anatomically correct human heart with those drawings for a solid five seconds.
Cat anatomy is weird.