Litho of BOBBY!!!!!

I started Lithography last week. Looking forward to this as I only had a brief encounter with it last year. After initiall demonstrations I prepared my plate for usage. Grinding the stone proved difficult but I got there in the end (with a broken back, may I add)- I am sure this gets easier with practise.
I explored possible images for my litho. For my first one ( I'll be doing two) I have decided to do a portrait sytle drawing of my good friend Dwans dog Bobby. Bobby was rescued from the house a week after his owner had died. Dawn has provided him with a happy home to live out the rest of his life. I want to capture Bobbys personality and his appreciation to be getting a second chance at life.

After apllying gum arabic to the rim of my plate and measuring my paper size I drew Bobby onto the stone using Crayons No.3 No.4 and No.5. Once happy with the image I applied the first ethching and I am currently waiting to take my first proofs of the image.
Ill update again during the week when progress has been made.
I have been continuing to work away on my sketchbook, drawing various depictions of dogs and playing around with ideas and images. Photoshop is proving to be the great tool that it is im helping me to experiment with collage.