EDM Challenge #44 Draw an animal. It was a beautiful, perfect day today, so we took Simon to the Lincoln Park Zoo, a favorite free city activity of ours. I had SO MUCH FUN! At first it was scary to take the sketchbook out of my bag, but once it was out and I was drawing, I had the absolute best time. I'm kind of getting into this drawing in public thing! I told Shawn that if he ever needed to get me a present, it would be a day at the zoo (or some other place, but the zoo was perfect) where I get to draw and he and Simon have a great time looking at animals. Plus lunch. My present should involve lunch, too. Then Shawn came up with the idea of doing a sketching scavenger hunt at the zoo, where you roll dice to determine which animals you find and how long you sketch them. It sounds like a great time, I think!
Because I was doing this so quickly -- it was basically gesture drawings of animals -- I used charcoal. The only problem is that no matter how carefully I turned the page, it still got smudged. I cleaned them up a bit when I got home, but is there a way to avoid the smudges? I didn't want to bring a can of fixative and start spraying things at the zoo! Any tricks and tips out there?
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