After a couple painting walls, I wanted to dive back into vectoring...so I decided to finally do a Totoro wall (never enough Ghibli cuteness around in my opinion :) )

I happened to see the new AP Vectorness walling challenge of "rain" and knew that it would work perfectly with what I had in mind

So here you have it...three adorable Totoros in the rain :D
Big totoro vector traced from this scan
Medium totoro from this mt scan
Small totoro from this ap scan

For the background, I started with just the idea of the rain...then came the puddles, the ground and sky, the acorns, and finally the bushes...I ended up trying to create as much detail as possible
I played around with different ways of vectoring the rain but liked this version best

(Final note: "shito-shito" is the Japanese sound word for a rain shower)

Now everyone...a giant awwwwwwwww of cuteness ;)

Technical details:
Approx 18 hours over a week
30 layers after multiple merges
100% Illustrator vector