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Sometimes when I went to do the answer sheets I was shocked to find that some very basic words had been left out of the drawing....

There are SO many H words in this tiny little corner of the H drawing which is satisfying but I especially like the art history...

This E is a bit crazy but I enjoyed drawing the cage a little bit and I am satisfied it didn't turn into a complete mess.

I am choosing this one because I often jotted down the first nonsense sentence my mind could come up with as I began the word lists for...

I like the squashed but solid perspective in this one. There is no space for the dodo to be if it's feet are poking out of the bars but...

I enjoy the unexpected play between these two characters. The extremely popular fairy working as a gas attendant and the frog acting like...

The C evolved from the Phoenician and Hebrew gimels. The Greeks reversed it also and used it for the hard G sound. Even after the G was...

This still cracks me up. It came together as I was making the word list for G. Girl Scouts and gingerbread men went together quite...

Yeah the Greek beta was a flipped Phoenician beta which meant house, which probably came from a hieroglyph that meant house but what what...

I just love this little embalmed guy an I still feel such empathy for his ennui. It's probably one of those little things that no one...

A may have begun as an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head. The first letter of the Phoenician alphabet looks like an A laying on its left...

Sometimes it is the satisfaction of making tiny little ink marks on paper and have them successfully convey what you intended. I like my...

Z – The sad little straggler at the end of the alphabet, Z, was actually discarded by the Romans for about 200 years because it was used...

Sometimes it just how it comes out on the first try and just clicks that makes it special. The crane craning its neck out from its cell...

Y – The Greeks took the Phoenician Y, named waw, and renamed it upsilon. The Romans took it and called it Y Graeca (Greek Y) and mainly...

I chose this bit not because how it's drawn (there are definitely marks that bug me) but because I like how the composition pulls you...

X – X began with the Greeks simplifying the digraph ks and giving it the name chi. The Etruscans continued the ks sound and named it X...

I am posting on Instagram some of my favorite little parts of each of my drawings from AlphaQuest starting with A. I like the play with...

The name of the letter W was always just a sound until one day I was teaching preschoolers to pronounce it. When I realized it's name was...

As I began to compile a list of words for each drawing I would often write down the first sentence that would come to mind. For G the...