Focused on a Butterfly

Hello, gentle readers and viewers. I hope this Sunday is treating you well. Thank you for being here.

A coworker and I had the wonderful opportunity to have a young student job shadow us this week. I am always surprised and honored to know that someone from the next generation is interested in my chosen career path—being creative and making a living doing that.

It’s always a pleasure, but this time, because I’ve learned it myself, I gave one bit of warning. Always protect your heart and leave a space to be wonderfully, beautifully, and imperfectly unrestricted in your creativity.

The experience was also a wonderful distraction from a hard week.

I decided for myself, the young student, and all the gentle readers and viewers to go through my sketchbook archives from this year and post anything and everything I thought was wonderfully, beautifully, imperfectly unrestricted—things that made me smile, things I misspelled, stuff I forgot, and things that made me feel like a human being.

I made it to March, so there will most likely be more to come, but I hope this helps in some small way. Focus on those butterflies, and thank you.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

Also, I always get a notification when I create longer posts that they’re too long for emails. I don’t entirely know what that means, but there should be 23 drawings here. You may have to read this on the App if you don’t see that amount in your email.

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