New TET Painting: Who is The GOAT? - Fun, Whimsical Cat... errr... GOATS? Artwork, Prints Available

Who's the Goat? Art by TET hanging on a wall.

"Who's the GOAT?" by TET 2026
Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas (40 x 50cm).
Buy My Original Artwork or High Quality Prints (ArtPal Store)
Prints Available here. (RedBubble Store)

About a month and a half ago I first wrote about the inspiration for my latest whimsical art cat, Who is the GOAT?, in my post, TET Artwork Diary: Cats, Goats, and Battlestar Galactica's Cylon, Number Six. That particular post covers where the idea came from and the challenges I had sketching the final composition. Worth a read, if you haven't already, to get the full story of this artwork.

This post I'm mostly going to cover the behind the scenes of actually painting the artwork and, of course, give you the links to where you can buy the original or high quality prints.

Rather than go into any great detail on my painting process, which I've talked about numerous times in many of my videos, I'm just going to focus on a few key highlights unique to this work.

First, if you have an eye for detail, you may have noticed right away the goat (that's the goat 'GOAT' not the cat 'GOAT') is standing in the same direction as the cat, where as, in the sketch, the goat's body was turned the other way.

Who's the Goat? Work in Progress collage of images.

Work in Progress photos of Who's the Goat? Note that in the
pencil sketch image the goat's body is facing the other way.
Also, at one point, the cat had dark stripes and was not
as fluffy.

This change in the direction of the goat's body came about because after I had sketched the cat and the goat's head onto my canvas (with red paint) I realized there wasn't enough room to fit the goat's body in as per the sketch. The goat's tail and hind legs would have disappeared behind the cat. So I did my best to change the sketch 'on the fly' as I drew it onto the canvas in paint.

It's not ideal, but the composition still works, and now your eye is drawn up from the cat's tail, to the goat's tail, which then sends you back to the goat's eyes... which send you to the cat's eye's and the circle continues.

The final color scheme remains true to the inspiration photos from my photos in the previous post, green, blues, yellows, greys, black, and white - with a bit of red and pink thrown in.

You may notice in the work in progress photos that, at one point, my cat had very dark stripes and wasn't looking very fluffy. This occurred because the original cat does have some light tortoise shell cat style markings on its head. I was trying to give my cat similar markings, extended out to the whole body but it turned my cat into a more smooth, alien like cat. Not really what I was going for.

I actually wanted a more fluffy cat, like the real cat, but 'fluffy' cats isn't something I've painted a lot, so I wasn't really sure how to do that, and keep the style of the cat looking like my style of cat.

Fortunately I managed to work it out, and am very satisfied that the cat now looks closer to my vision for how I thought it should look.

This is one of the most challenging pieces I've painted to date. I think it may be the first ever where I've used white paint to 'erase' my red sketch lines on the canvas (usually I'll just leave mistakes but this time it was causing me some confusion over where the edge of the goat was).

I love how the finished piece turned out and think it would certainly be an ideal image to share with your 'Alpha pussy' friends (a phrase coined by Marc Maron in Too Real Netflix Special - click the link to see a clip). Maybe that's another angle on this painting... who is the 'Alpha' and who is the 'Alpha pussy'?

Personally I see it as an artwork for anyone who likes to question the world around them, who know that two different things can sometimes be the same.

Buy this Original Artwork or High Quality Prints (ArtPal Store), as well Prints are available through my RedBubble store. Including as a jigsaw of up to 1000 pieces (choose a smaller number of pieces if you prefer). I personally love having a jigsaw on the go, and it's a great way to enjoy your favorite art if you don't have space to hang it on the wall (or maybe it doesn't quite fit your aesthetic).

Who's the Goat Jigsaw (AI Image for illustration purposes only).

Jigsaws are a great way to enjoy my art.
(AI image for illustration purposes only. Your jigsaw
will be way cooler than this with up to 1000 pieces).

Comments

Review: ArtHelper - The All-In-One AI Writing + Marketing Assistant for Artists - 'ChatGPT for Artists'

ArtHelper prides itself on being all 'human-made' art. T he idea of an AI, trained specifically on art business marketing, that can not only offer advice on marketing your work, but also assist with creating all the content too, is certainly appealing. Especially to those of us who would rather spend more time creating our art than trying to sell it. ArtHelper does just that whilst attempting to be your 'home' on the internet. A destination for your profile and portfolio, a marketplace for your art, and a directory of artists as well, with one distinction - all the art must be human made. Which, for you AI artists, doesn't count the prompt for AI generated art - because the idea, according to ArtHelper's creators, isn't the art. Which is a fair point, in terms of promoting art 'made by a human', but can get kind of murky when you understand that not all AI art is generated from a single prompt... and 'found object art' isn't actually ...

What a Future with Flying Cars Might Look Like

Jetsons Style Flying Car - Image by TET & Leonardo.ai Regular readers of this blog will know that flying cars have been a recurring subject over the years. I even collected all my posts into a book you can buy on Amazon Kindle called Where's My Flying Car? The development of a true flying car is a fanciful one, largely because we've yet to come up with anything that actually looks like a car that flies. Most serious projects that even make it to a prototype are either small planes that compact into something you might drive from your home to an airport (if they don't have any vertical landing and take off (VTOL) capability) but you wouldn't drive to you local supermarket for the weekly groceries run, or they're some kind of drone/helicopter configuration with so many propellers you'll worry about shredding pedestrians who get too close. The dream is something that looks exactly like a car but can drive on a road, or hover (kind of like Luke Skywalker's ...

New Cat Art Collaboration: TET's Cats Paintings and OpenArt AI Model Workspace (Photobooth)

TET's Cats AI generated art trained on my own art style. Way back in the early 2000's I started painting stylized cat artworks to illustrate some cat themed poems I'd written, that I exhibited and sold online in an exhibition titled 'Sleeping Cats' in 2004. You can see all these early works in my Flickr Album . Many are also available to buy as prints in my RedBubble Store . Leading on from that I began selling my paintings on ebay where the cat themed works were almost guaranteed to sell over any other subject I painted. As a result I became some what known for my cat art to the point where people would commission me to create images of their own pet cats in my cartoony style. Flash forward a decade (almost two at this point) and I haven't painted any cat themed art in years. To be honest I haven't done any traditional painting at all in years. In the last couple of years AI image generators have really caught my attention. Specifically that they are able t...

Is AI Art 'Art'? The Say NO to AI Art Movement, and Why Human Artists Will Adapt

AI Art No T-Shirt by TET Also available on other items . Right now there is a big debate over not just whether AI art is 'art' but whether AI's are actually ripping off the work of actual human artists, without their consent, to create their images - particularly images 'in the style of' specific artists. From my own observations this debate started to get more traction when artist's signatures began appearing in the output of AI Art image generators. Is It Art? Cool Froyd the Cat Sketch by TET. My style is very much influenced by classic Disney and WB character styles. To get some clarity on how real human artists work (of which I am one)... we, that is all of us... take influences from the art that has come before. i.e. whatever artists we like, have studied, seen etc. we are influenced by. It shows up in our work, intentionally or not. If you really study my own cartoony art style you'll see I'm heavily influenced by early Disney and Warner Bros cart...

West Beach Skatepark, Adelaide, South Australia

Main Vert Ramp, West Beach. West Beach Skatepark , Adelaide, South Australia, is one of my favorite skateparks, even though I can barely skate anything in it well. Most of the park is way above my ability. Located not far from the end of the runway at Adelaide Airport it can be a bit disconcerting seeing how low the planes get as they come in to land. From certain vantage points you'd swear they're about to crash into the park instead of fly over to the runway. The park is nearly an hour's drive from my house in Gawler so the only time I get to visit is if I'm dropping my partner off at the airport (which is a rare occurrence). This particular day was a hot 41 degrees celsius. I didn't think I'd skate but the heat guaranteed the park to be virtually empty (except for one other skater who lasted about as long as I did before giving it away). Below is a video with some highlights from my, about an hour long, session. As you can see, my ability is l...

How to Transfer Any Line Art to Your Griptape - Easy Skateboard Griptape Art Tutorial

Dog Star Griptape Art by TET Griptape art is once again gaining popularity amongst modern skateboarders. For those of us who have tried to create our own griptape art, using paint pens, you'll know reproducing your design onto the grip, without making any mistakes is incredibly challenging. Mostly because you just have to go for it and draw the design freehand, with paint pens, directly onto the griptape. You can make the odd mistake here or there but if you get the proportions of the design completely wrong, it can be very difficult to fix. Often you just have to live with the mistake. To address the problem I've come up with an easy way anyone can transfer a line art design to their griptape, removing almost all the anxiety of getting the proportions wrong. In fact, you could do this with any line art design, even if you have no drawing skill at all. Watch the video below to see my technique in action and/or skip past the video where I highlight the basic steps to get your de...

Tesla Unveils Optimus Robot Prototype and Second Generation Prototype - Movie, iRobot, May Be a Documentary?

Tesla Optimus Prototype One, Development Platform. September 30th finally rolled around along with Tesla A.I. day and the unveiling of not one but two Tesla Optimus Robot prototypes. Which was quite a bonus since we hadn't heard anything much about these robots when I wrote about them in July of 2022. Before revealing the first prototype, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, made a point of managing everyone's expectations, just in case anyone was thinking they were about to see anything close to the actual human concept 'robot' we saw last year. I honestly don't think anyone was expecting that. Prototype One - Development Platform The prototype that walked out on stage, for the very first time without ever being tethered to anything (apparently), was still incredibly impressive despite not being streamlined and highly refined in its capability. It walked quite well - eerily similar to the first generation robots in the 2004, Will Smith movie, iRobot , and even did a bit of a dan...

TET.Life (The Extraordinary Tourist Life)

Search This Blog