So, yeah. I barely draw these days. It's been long enough, that I kinda feel like I've lost the knack for it. Things that I used to do fairly easily take a lot longer now and honestly I just get depressed half the time I pick up the tablet. Recently though, I've had a bit of incentive.

See, a friend of mine (who is an artist and has her own webcomic... two actually!) kind of expressed a bit of sadness when she heard that I was thinking about giving up drawing all together due to what I mentioned above. She expressed hope that I wouldn't give up and that I'd keep trying because she'd really like to see where I go with this hobby of mine. It wasn't much, but that little bit of encouragement planted a seed but wasn't quite enough to get me going just yet. That was about two, maybe three weeks ago. Fast forward to last sunday: I find out that her birthday is coming up. As usual, I have no idea what to get her (I'm bad at birthdays, Orz). All I really know about her at this point is that she loves art and honestly just loves watching people draw and enjoy themselves with art.

So, my solution? 1 sketch a day for this week. I've allowed myself 1hr per sketch and I write an accompanying journal entry (short, 1 maybe two sentences) explaining what I drew and why, and what I was thinking about at the time. The focus is to show her how much she inspired me.

I'm pretty set on this as my gift to her.

The reason I'm writing this is because 1) I plan on sharing the sketches that I like and 2) I kinda feel bad that people watch me and I haven't actually put much, if anything, out in a long time.

So yeah. I'm not dead and might not be giving up on this whole art thing. Yay?

Edit: I think I'll just upload them as scraps for now, since they're mostly going to be messy sketches.