Ballpoint Kirin

When I finally came to, I was laying face-down in a field of dampened grass. I could make out the dark outlines of trees in the distance under the moonlight, masked and grayed by the thick cloud cover that had rolled in. I could smell the grass under my face, feel the dew on my cheek as I stirred and fought the blur of sleep from my eyes- which was an irony in and of itself. Wasn't I already asleep? Or was that a dream and this was the reality? I remembered only pieces of my 'real life', but I could feel the grass under me, the cold air biting through what clothing remained on me, I could feel it moving through the feathers on my wings. The smell of the grass was so alien but familiar at the same time.

A glint of moonlight caught my eye as I finally sat myself up, confused by the almost animalistic nature of the hands I'd been laying on. A figure outlined in moonlight starred right back at me with a pair of haunting eyes. Though it was nothing like I'd depicted or imagined from the many descriptions of the creature I knew down to my core what it was...

The kirin threw its head back and let out a sound unlike any equine I'd known. A haunting but beautiful sound, all the sudden there was no question in my mind. It was real- all of it. Not a dream, perhaps another reality past the dreaming. I watched it run from the gate before which it had stood just a moment ago- now fading away as the creature vanished into the darkness...

Today during lunch all I had to draw with was a black ballpoint pen that I'd temporarily liberated from the registers. I didn't want to just sit and watch Judge this-or-that on our break room TV so I popped on my iPod and started drawing. Surprisingly enough, it came out pretty well. I've been working hard at equine anatomy though this is the first time I've not murdered paper with erasing....'cause I couldn't. XD

It's a bit different from the kirin I normally draw but I like it. ^_^

All done in ballpoint. I added the color 'paper' in photoshop because black and white was boring to look at. >_>