One Cool Cat: Japanimation-Style XingXing

So, you take a nice photo of your kitty on the iPhone and, well, its not quite as sharp and in-focus as you would like. What to do? Process it in a way where sharpness isn't important. Luckily it is quite easy and fun to play with a photo on the iPhone via various apps to do something like this. I processed this photo during a marathon business trip yesterday that included 4 flights of each about 2 hours long. Nice break from work-related reading, newspapers, magazines, etc. I like this photo so much it is actually my new iPhone home screen. There is kind of a Mona Lisa-esque ambiguity to XingXing's expression here. Does he looks debonair, rakish, arrogant, incisive, insouciant, omniscient? Any why on earth are his ears cocked back?


here is another interpretation, pencil-sketch style: