Today was my first day of a week of drawing rats. I'm doing this as preparation for illustrating my book, "Milkweed Manor." This drawing is not one of those illustrations but is part of an exercise in really understanding the 'look and feel' of rats and being comfortable drawing them.
Also, I'm looking for media that will work well for me. I'm always comfortable with drawing. Tomorrow I'll add some watercolor washes and see how that goes. This drawing is on Strathmore Mixed Media paper and I've found that I can lay watercolor washes over pencil without the pencil smearing - as long as I don't get it real wet and don't do a lot of scrubbing (which I shouldn't do with watercolor anyway!"
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