I was getting ready for bed last night, and I was struck with the idea that I should do a quick drawing of Yoda freehand. Do these kinds of thoughts ever happen to you?

Anyway, I got out a nifty variable-width inking pen I have, and just started drawing from memory. In about 7 minutes, this was the result:

Meh. He looked like half-Yoda, with a mixture of a gremlin and Tweeg thrown in. Not great… so today, I actually found pictures of Yoda and started again. 12 minutes later, I had this:

Better. It was still freehand with ink, which means that once you’ve drawn a line, you’re stuck with it, so I’m pretty happy with this. Light sabers never look right without color, though.