An animated GIF showing each step in making this comic.
The idea for this one came to me when I walking out of school holding the 2yo who'd just clawed a pebble out of his pocket. He dropped it and immediately starting saying "Mine! Mine! Mine!" and without thinking I turned so we could retrieve it. I thought it was funny how my kids have trained me to not even question NEEDING to go back and get their "precious" rocks. And then... *Inspiration!*
I had a lot of fun drawing the kid/Gollum hybrid -it helps that he's already white with blue eyes! Just before coloring him I noticed that I'd made the body too big, which was a pest to go back and correct, but well worth it, because now I got to include the tail for added kitty "hissiness" :)