For instance, my walrus here started with a conversation with my agent. For some reason we were talking about walruses... serious, important publishing stuff, ya know... which got me thinking how I'd never actually drawn a walrus before and it would probably be a fun thing to do. So I started sketching. At first all the little guys were very realistic and how should I say.. boring. But as I sketched the character of the animals started to come out.. and then I remembered the Khan images of the Maharajah of Kapurthala, who as it turns out, looked exactly like a walrus. See scan below:
