My First sketches starting on Leo~ (Patreon)

IT ALLLL STARTED FROM HERE~ 

The way this project all started is because of the little beanie baby cat that I had named Leo. The cat you see in the last image isn't the actual one I had when was a kid, but I had bought another one 3 years ago because I had really missed my childhood doll that day. I first got Leo from my trip to Hawaii and he was my favorite thing in the world but I had unfortunately lost him on the plane during another trip from Korea. I've always imagined that he was traveling the world to kind of cope with the pain. 

Years later when I got older, I was really reminiscing about Leo and there was just a spark of an idea about a cat that flies around the world to learn more about his eight lives. And from there led down to Egyptian history because cats were so worshiped in Ancient Egypt.

I read about the story of Ra vs. Apep, that everyday Ra(the sun god) would fly his Mandjet (solar barge) around the world and eventually go to the underworld to fight his immortal enemy, Apep. Learning more about Egyptian mythology what REALLY stuck out to me was Mau the divine cat, a personification of Ra,  who guarded the Tree of Life which held the secrets of eternal life and divine knowledge (which is why I made Leo a historian!). Mau is also regarded as the 'great cat' of Ra and killed the monstrous serpent deity, Apep, to prevent him from taking control of the Persea Tree of Life and the world. So that is why Leo represents, Ra.