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Another of the more detailed Inktober pieces done with an Uniball Vision Elite. This interestingly shaped cedar trunk with a burst of yellow early autumn flowers behind it caught my eye a bunch when I'd walk past it on the way to and back from other drawing sites, so I made sure to draw it before the flowers went out of season.
I knew I wanted to add a critter to it but wasn't sure what. But as I'd been working on it on an early foggy morning, I'd heard some vague rustling in the foliage further back-- I didn't really register it since there are always squirrels and birds making such noises. But I noticed a motion that was suddenly coming towards me, and I noticed a copperhead pushing slowly through the foliage towards me. I leapt up from sitting to a crouch, and the snake stopped, startled, and turned to go back the other way.
Since there was no real danger involved, mostly the encounter left me feeling privileged to have seen the animal-- and that I had been the one it had come upon on the path and not someone else who might have tried to kill it. So, of course that wound up being the critter that I paid homage to in this drawing!

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