for love of drawing

This is for (dA) Children's Illustrator Club's June topic: Hidden Garden.

I just feel so dried up when it comes to drawing. So for this illo, I just kind of went with it. No sketch, just straight up color pencil and doodled. My motto was "If I can fill it with color, it's all good!" And it took me about 1 hr with some stretching in between. I'm one of those super-anal drawers, where one illo can take me a week, even if it's SO small. I'm going to keep practicing with this doodle technique to loosen up, you know what I mean?

I made so many mistakes and you can probably see the glaring ones. I used GIMP to soften it a little so my crappy scan wasn't too bad . Maybe. Heh.