Witch
A drawing project about the girl Witch from The SHHAN and her black cat companion
Summary
Witch and the Black Cat
In The SHHAN, I conceived Witch as an outsider belonging to neither White Cats nor Black Cats. I developed her companionship with a black cat into separate work, starting from her role as the first human to form a bond with a creature regarded as a beast.
For Witch Manga, I drew on the rough lines and exaggerated proportions of Japanese manga I enjoy. Rather than making a sequential comic, I composed scenes freely: the cat can be large enough to carry Witch or small enough to stay beside her.
The three Witch & Black Cat works depict the same companions in pen. I wanted their postures and spacing to express intimacy and differences in strength without explaining the entire world.