Update.

I'm still doing this, but I put the scanner in the closet and it's a pain.

Sincerely,

Lisa.

2/1/09. Blue Crab.

I know. I cheated. "Blue" Crab is not exactly a "B" animal. But I've liked crabs for a while. I used to have hermit crabs as a kid and got to the point where I knew their structure and could draw them from memory. The leg joints are interesting.

Part of this experiment is getting enough experience to know which path I want to travel down, and to get comfortable/reacquainted with the medium.

I reverted to pencil here, and realize that, although pen is nice, and can reproduce well, there's nothing like the feeling of graphite on paper. There's just something about it. There's a tight feeling at the base of my throat. It's like falling in love.

Melodrama...

1/30/09. Armadillo.

We're on the right track with the animal thing. Finding items of interest in the house wasn't really working out. I like to draw things that are alive. Preferably when they're right in front of me. But...in absence of that, a photo of a living thing is better than a piece of furniture that exists in my realm of vision.

So I started doing the animal a to z thing and started with the obvious choice of armadillo.