Santa Scrambles

Today's sketch is of my "grand daughter" - a cat named Scrambles. I have pictures from when she was a cute little kitten and created this. I took liberties and enlarged her head a bit and colored her eyes to match the green of the background (hers are a bit more hazel/gold...?)


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