For years I've been meaning to learn Inkscape.

Recently, I found a nice tutorial where Jurgen Gaeremyn explains very clearly how to draw a kitten in a “vector” layer over top of a “bitmap” layer in Inkscape.

My daughter Erika and I were absolutely enthralled.

Here's the kitten we drew:

The really cool thing is that I emailed Jurgen to say thank you and he wrote back right away saying,

“Your kitten turned our really nice! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. You added some really cool personal twists!”

Erika and I are still hacking away. I'm putting our creations under my wiki page about Inkscape.