A lot of the images that follow were done as an exercise for me to become more comfortable drawing in pen & ink. It's not my most accomplished medium and therefore requires practice for me to do well. So one evening I picked up this fantastic National Geographic photography book and began to draw many of those images. I did so without sketching them in pencil first, which was part of my training. Doing so forced me to limit the number of mistakes I could make. I ended up liking the one above best.