So, a little backstory on this one. When I'm learning to draw something I've not drawn before, or I otherwise want to practice drawing something I am not otherwise good at, I do two things: I stare at photographs, and I trace over various parts of the subject in different colors. The idea is to sort of mentally break down the thing I'm drawing into a bunch of bits and pieces, and sort of reassemble it in my brain, and by the end I usually have this dump of ultra-colorful sketches that usually gets deleted or lost because it's served its purpose.

In this case, I was trying to figure out the wrinkles on a sphinx cat. And with how many wrinkles there were, the sketch honestly got so colorful I couldn't bare to delete it - so...I didn't. For once. I put a few filters over it, played with a few things in Clip Studio Paint, and then tried to give it a little more oomph by putting it over a subtly textured backdrop, before copy/pasting the cat head and putting each one through a color correction.

Thought the result looked good. I should probably do this sort of thing more often - it would be cool to use those wackass sketches instead of just deleting them. I guess before I just wasn't sure how.