The site that spoke of the meander book also mentioned Zines. I haven't been able to get out to the park for awhile, but I decided to go ahead and make a simple zine to introduce some of my critter friends there anyway.
At first, I was just going to draw outlines but decided to color them in. found myself shading and highlighting, adding details I hadn't planned on at the beginning.
I made myself stop when I caught myself starting to layer with color pencil for more detail, or I would never get back to blogging.
I drew my friends: Bilbo the Red Ear Slider (turtle), Coffee the Crow, Slit the Carp, Venetia the Butterfly, Alabaster the Egret, Golden the Spider, and Dian the Ao Daisho (snake).
There are many more critter friends at the park, but mini zines are...just that: "mini". So the mallard, dragonfly, lizard, roly poly, kawasemi, frog, hornet, more will have to wait 'til later.