Category: “P is for ________”

this is what started the reaction:

it started with this sketch, as it usually does with me:

and it all started with this little sketch (and it really was little: less than 1/2 an inch wide):

and it all started with this little sketch:

and it all started with this humble, spontaneous, little-bitty sketch:

and it all started with this little sketch:

yep, it started with this sketch, which, I know, doesn’t obviously seem to suggest something as ornate as the final, but I remember what I was thinking – something Victorian would be so cool! it was difficult.

and to think, it all started with this little ol’ sketch:

and it all started with this: