Here is my day 2 drawing for my 30 Day Drawing & Design Challenge.  Today’s assignment was an animal.

Growing up, the only animal I really wanted was a hamster. I got my first one in the 2nd grade from my cousins, and it was the best pet. We would make elaborate mazes for it with old VHS tapes and blocks, I would make B-movie horror films with it attacking my doll house and its residents, and of course the hamster ball was always entertaining. I would let Sturgeon the 1st down on the ground, and he wouldn’t run away, but played around my feet and crawled into my hands. I miss him so much. I had 8 hamsters in my lifetime, all named Sturgeon, except for the last, who was named Ferdinand.

I also wanted to share some other submissions from Day 1 from some of my peeps who are also playing along!

Here’s my big brother Drew’s self portrait.  See his art blog here: http://penandpencilarts.blogspot.com/

And my BFF Lacie indulged me and drew this lovely self-portrait on her ipad.  It really, truly does look like her!  I am very impressed!

My assignment tomorrow is a childhood memory.  It will be hard to choose just one!