The idea was to draw something Christmassy to use on a holiday coffee mug. This is a recurring inspiration. It usually hits sometime late September. But this time the idea stuck — and bore fruit — lots of fruit!

What started as one small drawing on one coffee mug, evolved into seven line drawings on seven coffee mugs. Each depicting one of the seven main characters from the novella, A Christmas Carol.

— I ended up drawing a series of 7 characters from the story A Christmas Carol.