Behind the camera

Ink · 2025-10

Behind the camera, 2025 — ink cartoon by Ray Patrick

Kitty City, Cartoons, Ink, Mersh, B&W

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Subject

Concept work for Kitty City. A figure in a striped suit crouches behind a large film camera on a tripod, shooting down a flight of steps, while cats in clothes and a cat-headed crew member watch from the stairway behind.

Composition

The camera lens is the brightest shape on the sheet and sits at the upper right with the operator curled around it; the steps run diagonally away to the lower left, and the onlookers are stacked along them in descending scale.

Palette

Black ink on white. No colour.

Handling

Bold solid blacks in the suit and the camera housing against close parallel ruling in the background wall, so the two main objects are cut out of a striped field. The fur is drawn in short flicked strokes.

Medium and support

Ink on paper.

Signature

Signed with the artist's name at the lower centre and dated in MMDDYY beneath it.

From the artist:

Kitty city