{"id":2014,"date":"2025-09-18T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:15:28","slug":"expressive-kitties-emerge-from-energetic-graphite-lines-in-drawings-by-shouxin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/expressive-kitties-emerge-from-energetic-graphite-lines-in-drawings-by-shouxin\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressive Kitties Emerge from Energetic Graphite Lines in Drawings by ShouXin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Expressive Kitties Emerge from Energetic Graphite Lines in Drawings by ShouXin\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>From simple yet deft strokes of graphite, <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.shouxin-art.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ShouXin<\/a> summons cats that jump, roll, crash, and express their curiosity. Detailed eyes, mouths, and noses complement the artist\u2019s gestural use of pencil for the rest of the felines\u2019 bodies, conveying energy, sounds, and plenty of cattitude through the fundamental use of line.<\/p>\n<p>Prints and occasionally originals are available for purchase in ShouXin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.shouxin-art.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online shop<\/a>, and you can follow updates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shouxin13141\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1506\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a small graphite drawing by ShouXin of a zooming cat, made with emphatic pencil strokes\" class=\"wp-image-462298 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-5-e1758200223260.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a small graphite drawing by ShouXin of an expressively rolling cat, made with emphatic pencil strokes\" class=\"wp-image-462295 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-2.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2500\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a small graphite drawing by ShouXin of a scared cat, made with emphatic pencil strokes\" class=\"wp-image-462294 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-1.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1413\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a small graphite drawing by ShouXin of a stretching cat, made with emphatic pencil strokes\" class=\"wp-image-462301 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-8.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2423\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a small graphite drawing by ShouXin of an expressive cat, made with emphatic pencil strokes\" class=\"wp-image-462302 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-9.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1631\" height=\"1173\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a small graphite drawing by ShouXin of a cat, made with emphatic pencil strokes\" class=\"wp-image-462299 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-6.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1853\" height=\"1842\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a small graphite drawing by ShouXin of a startled cat, made with emphatic pencil strokes\" class=\"wp-image-462300 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-7.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2361\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a small graphite drawing by ShouXin of a relaxed, longhaired cat, made with emphatic pencil strokes\" class=\"wp-image-462296 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shouxin-3.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/09\/shouxin-graphite-cat-drawings\/\">Expressive Kitties Emerge from Energetic Graphite Lines in Drawings by ShouXin<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From simple yet deft strokes of graphite, ShouXin summons cats that jump, roll, crash, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}