Ballpoint pen is surprisingly fun but also a little messy as an art medium. Watch out for smearing!

Stalogy pen with black, low-viscosity ink on Canson multimedia paper

I based this off a photo I took at the precise moment a Great Blue Heron dove for a fish. My camera, a Canon PowerShot sx740 HS, is perfect for carrying around in my purse, but I haven’t mastered taking a really great photo, especially from a distance. That hasn’t stopped me from using it all the time, and nearly all my artwork is from my own reference photos.

In real life, the fish wasn’t as lucky as the one I drew. I added the fish and then decided to keep the theme of “almost” going by adding the little, tiny dragonfly above the fish.