Not a Velociraptor

There are some drawings which are very easy to start. With these particular drawings you know just where to place the first pencil stroke. There are others however which refuse to make this easy. This was one of those drawings.

I was trying to convert one of my rough sketches onto A2. It's a Utahraptor on a penny farthing.

This is the original rough drawing. It shares a page with the initial "Music Hog" sketch.

I started the transfer with some very dodgy circles....

I was off to an awkward start but I did eventually recover and progress with the rest of the drawing. It was important that I drew the bike first as I know too well that if someone, with varying poor spacial judgement like me, drew the raptor first the bike might just have disappeared off the side or bottom of the page. As a result I had to draw the utaraptor from the feet up, in order to make sure he connected with the bike properly. I would usually start with the head as it makes judging proportions easier.  Anyway, at one point, my picture was looking kinda weird.

Weird...

Eight hours latter it was nearly done. I couldn't finish the initial pencil sketch as I have places to be but tomorrow I'm hopping to finish it entirely, ink and all.