Abandoned teddy bear and the process of illustration

I wanted to share here an another process of creating an illustration. Every time I illustrate, I'm trying to keep in a final work the freshness and spontaneity of sketch, that done on location. The illustration was for the "street" column in internet magazine Hapinkas, series of a short stories about a little boy that explore streets around him.This one was about a teddy bear abandoned on a street. So I took my sketchbook and got out to look for a nice location for the story. I found it in one of the neighborhood's gardens - bench with sleeping cat surrounded by trees and buildings.

Then I've back to the studio and continued to work on the illustration, looking for the right character of the boy - the hero of the story.

Here is the final illustration:

Here is another one I did later for the same column - the boy continuing to explore the street and found the reflection of the blue bird in the puddle: