After 2 weeks of Collography, we started Lithography while keeping the same project topic.  I very much prefer lithography because I'm free to draw a lot more than I am in collography.  After hitting a dead end with the music approach and thought about who I am as a person.  Then I thought of my pets and I'm very much a dog person.

I worked off a picture I took of my dog at home and decided to do my first Lithograph of her.

I changed the image around a bit on Adobe Photoshop CS6 to make it easier to draw from.

I then did one practice run in pen in my sketch book before I drew her onto the stone.

After 2 hours, I finished the picture on the stone and began to print.  I found drawing in crayon hard because I never use it.  In this case, I had to because the ink has to stick to the grease for the image to come out.  So far, this is the only image I've done because there's a lot of preparation for lithography like grinding down the stone (which took forever after this!), remembering the various steps to printing the image and so on.

This was my first attempt.  Overall, I did 12 of these to get the right one.  I wanted the image to be like the photograph, as black as possible and in Lithography, the more prints done, the darker the image.

This is the final draft.

I hope to do a different image before the week is out.