Illustration Job: E-book ( one of the pages, rough version)

This is a version before I made quite a few changes on it.  The pattern on the cat doesn't look like that anymore for starters and more textures were added and etc.  Am not allowed to show the finalized versions but I had permission to put up the drafts and roughs on my blog.  This was a style test.  I hand drew the image and coloured and texturized in Photoshop.  I love hand drawing and fixing stuff digitally.  Best of both worlds, I think!

I am actually working on this job now.  A quick break while I have Milo and write up this piece.

Today...was not a good day.  I was terrible at training today.  Just awful.  My trainer called the session short, I was so bad.  I guess I have a few things on my mind and my diet and lack of excercise last week, did not help this week.  I also got some rather icky news from TAX.  I am going to be paying another hefty amount shortly.  It has put me into major saving and searching for jobs mode.  I have some major doubts that I will ever get a place to call my own but am going to give it a good crack anyway.  It's all I can do right?  It has made me feel really uncertain and when am undertain, I get very pessimistic about everything.  Not good and am trying to get out of this mindset.  I hate taxes though.  I hate it so much.