I've been really wanting to do a painting lately but I was having a lack of ideas. Then randomly one morning while taking a shower I had an idea that'd it be cool to get together with some friends and have a drawing night. Then I started thinking "well maybe we should all come up with some ideas, then when we got together we could throw those ideas into a pot and pick some at random to draw". One of the ideas I came up with was the Cheshire Cat. Well I never got around to contacting anyone about the drawing night, but I still thought that cat would be fun and that's how this guy happened.

Here's a quick rundown of my process on this one.

• 1. Threw down some sketches of some elements that I wanted in the piece.
• 2. Scanned in the elements and arange the line-art in PS.
• 3. Layed down some base colors that I'll be using for general tone and selection groups.
• 4-12 Worked on the shading of the cat and elements
• 13-14. added the tag and it's shading
• 15. Overlayed the color layer over the shading and a background
• 16. Messin' with some more color, highlights, and shading.
• 17. Decided to go with a complimentary BG, smoothed out some details.
• 18. Final piece. Added some light in areas, moved some elements around, painted some paint splatter in the BG.