Purposeful Drawing!

I've been rather quiet on this blog lately. Mainly because I am simply so slow and drawing and creating any art at all. My excuse is that I'm a mother and I have limited time for art. But realistically, I think I'm just slow. LOL.

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I was recently inspired by a meme going around on Facebook saying that Vera Wang wasn't in fashion until her 40s and Stan Lee hadn't published his first major comic book until he was 40 and some other facts like that. It gave me a bit of hope that I still have time to develop a career for myself, despite all the time I've spent "experimenting" and generally messing things up! Being married to someone who's known all his life what he's wanted to do isn't really easy when you really haven't spent your time the way they have developing a career in something you love. 

But I digress. The whole point of this update is to spur myself on. I've been doing the above WIP (work in progress) for ages, now. And I think part of the reason why I'm so slow is that I'm really just drawing for no reason at all. But as this year speeds by (how is it already the end of April?!?!?!), I'm not that far away from having my toddler begin pre-school (OMG!), which means I'm not that far away from thinking about my future and completing my education. And all art schools require portfolios. So from now until then, I'm drawing for the sake of putting together a portfolio that is (hopefully) worthy of applying to some schools. And that means completing things! So it feels good to have a purpose, and it feels great to work toward a career and a future. :-) It also feels good to think that I may actually complete some of these drawings I start! Ha...

Anyway, I thought I'd just continue this blog and encourage myself to keep going. But for now, I think I'll go sleep...!