The mechanical man dipped the pen into the ink and began to write.

The above is a piece of fan fiction based on The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick. I tried to begin the sketch the way the automaton would, with markings all over the page that do not seem to connect (I think the automaton still accomplishes this better than I do). I scanned the sketch at that stage, then again when it was more developed, then again as a finished drawing. The sketch is based on a still from the 1907 Georges Melies movie L'Éclipse du soleilen pleine lune (The Eclipse).