"Lessons for life" and "Pampas cat character study" (2008 both)
Some hystorical Palqus! The fact they're both traditional art is really a coincidence, I was well into Digital by then; and IIRC, I was just going through a Traditional rush of inspiration.
I have to confess I misremembered Mr Kitty's "date of birth" so to speak, I could've sworn it was 2009. I wasn't sure about the cat's gender by then, but as soon as Awka as a story began taking shape in my head (I will tell this one in lenght some day! My very first idea was different than it ended up being), and a friend I had back then named the cat, the characters slowly began drifting into place.
My oldest picture of Retama never went online, it's probably from around 2009 (gotta check) and it's a wip I never finished... really tempted to share that inedit never-finished-wip, even if it probably looks even worse than I remember.
Just as a PS, it bothers nerdy me that the skunk is only a generic skunk and not a defined species. There are several of them that could interact with Palqu, but the most likely one (most common) would be a Patagonian Hog-nosed Skunk.
