This is late, but I wanted to do it anyway.  Illustration Friday’s "Sprout" challenge.

I did it first in colored pencil but I am never happy w/ my colored pencil work.  I see patches of color, and so I draw patches of color, and then it looks like awful patchy patches of color.  So, when I was done, I did a "quick sketch" of what I was drawing, in like 2 minutes, just so I’d feel better.  These are camera-phone images for now, I’ll scan them in tomorrow because my computer is doing something intensive now and I don’t want to "push" it right now (don’t want computer to freeze up).  Gee, I wish I had a macbook pro.