Grimalkin.  The original "Puss-in-Boots" is taking time out to knit a few things.  It's hard to determine what exactly she is knitting in this drawing.  It could be the start of a sweater or sock or just another thing to do to pass the time.  She is flanked by her most talented and trusted cat buddies.  Today she's decided to keep to her human skin, probably because she was in the mood to knit and needed the thumbs.  She loves striped clothes, hats, glittery necklaces with doo-dads and dangles and gaudy beads.  She also, true to her legend, loves to wear big boots.  She doesn't comb her hair a lot.  Most of the time she prefers to be a cat.  She's more attractive as a cat, but no portrait of her as a cat does her feline beauty justice.  More about that some other day when I'm in the mood to tell a story or two about her.

The images above are just pencil sketches, a few are details of the larger images, things have yet to be inked, stories have yet to be told about Grimalkin's "buddies" and the last image is just a character sketch of Grimalkin from the 1980's when she wore "a raspberry beret!"

I dedicate these drawings to my friend, Miya.  Happy early Valentina's Day!