>>77722749Trying to obsess over catlike features is probably the wrong way to go when drawing Katia, or most anthro characters. You shouldn't just draw a human face and paint it a cat color, but if you're stupid like Bethesda's artists, you try to incorporate the cat elements into the design and pull back on them a little, rather than doing what they should be doing:
Which is taking a human face, finding what's appealing about it and its ability to convey emotion, empathy, etc (because we're evolved to obsess over those traits) and then animalizing parts of a human face to incorporate those animal features to the point that they don't interfere with the character's ability to convey human reactions at all. Even if you're making a giraffe person it should still have a "human" facial arrangement and ability to express itself.
There's always someone that hates that and wants a realistic animal head on a human body though, and despises when they're sexualized and so on because they want a "true" fantasy creature. I imagine Bethesda had one of these dumbasses on their staff. The end result of that is a small minority of people loving the result but most people being completely unable to engage with the race or character because it's deep in the uncanny valley that Bethesda employees seem to want to live in.
Imagine if Kaz had, instead of using the simplified looking, flat, almost human looking face for Katia, had instead drawn a realistic looking Khajiit skull for her. Same with Quill-Weave. I doubt I'd be doing any fan art of it, that's for damned sure.
