Ni más ni menos

I have a swap "victim" who put in her profile she likes Goya.  Not recalling I've ever heard of him I looked him up and this piece caught my eye.  Anyone who knows me knows I have an affinity for equines and love mules.  How could I not try and recreate it?

This is a postcard 4"x6".  What a frustrating yet fun thing to make.  I drew it out in pencil, used Sharpie to ink the lines. Then what to use for the background?  Time was running out.  I originally wanted to watercolor the background but I couldn't find my watercolors.  I did find my box of charcoal pencils I had never used.  So I sharpened one and it was absoultely terrible!!  There are hard pieces in them that do not leave color behind and spots on the paper wouldn't take it.  Frustrating!!  So it ended up looking like it is scribbled and blotched.

But now I like it.  Ha!  I am having a hard time giving it to our lovely postal system.  I hope it makes it in one piece.