Drawing my, in a way warped, Alice in Wonderland drawing sometime early last year. At first I just drew some funny looking trees and tried to see what I could do with it.
I love Alice in Wonderland, so I thought that I could make a wire like sign with designs in-between the trees.  Looking at it until it was  decided to incorporate different things from Alice in Wonderland into the picture.
I placed the Cheshire cat in the right tree, and next to him I drew a teacup on a saucer. Tea is being poured into it from a teapot spout-like branch. A rose grows out form the side of the left tree, dripping red paint down into the red paint bucket below.
I doodled Alice on a cobblestone path looking up at the sign with the White Rabbit in the waistcoat, running ahead with his pocket watch. I also put the Mad Hatter’s hat in the left tree suspended in a branch, sticking farther out than the rest of the branches. On the left of the cobblestone path, I put small mushrooms signifying the mushrooms the blue caterpillar told her to eat to grow or shrink, and the one the caterpillar sat on himself. One other thing I worked into the drawing was the butterfly himself, flying on the right side of Alice.
While I was drawing I drew every single blade of grass and thought it would never end. My right hand cramped up several times, and I had to stretch it to continue drawing the picture. Soon enough every tedious blade of grass was done with enough space for the pathway.
Then, as I shaded the space between the tree roots and the ground, in my head it reminded me of the rabbit hole Alice crawled down.  While I was thinking what to make the path out of, I bolded the lines in the trees. After I had finished outlining, it came to me that I should make the path cobble stone, partially because it would be easier and partially because I thought it would look better. In my mind, it was perfect. Shaping the stones in different varieties was the hardest part in drawing the path.

Before I began shading, I kept looking at the legs I had already drawn for Alice. Something never looked quite right about them, and it was the most difficult part in the drawing for me. I began getting frustrated with it and put more detail into the sign. I added a crown and a few roses and then put some swirls on it to make it look a little more elaborate. Turning back to the problem of Alice’s legs, I tried drawing them twiggy, thicker and even too small. When I was finally satisfied, they ended up being somewhere in between all of the things I tried. I then finished the detailing on her dress and worked on the hands that looked like slender mittens. It turned out as if you were to look at your hand on its side with the thumb sticking more downward.
Then I finally felt finished with the one piece of art work I loved that year even though there were lots of moments where it felt hopeless or useless it was finally done and I was proud of myself.