This is my first Threadless sub -- always meant to, and the "Drawing" competition got me going. It was great fun preparing this for submission, and I got to say, one morning -- "Aliens made me late for work". True.



- DOWN the long endless light-years they journeyed,
- Blood burning high and hot with longing for
- The one whose steady beeping answered theirs;
- Whose four keen arms promised fourfold embrace
- And whose bulbous body echoed their own..."

Here's the original sketch, and the second stage adjusted version:


And further along: