‘Better Days Ahead’ | Daily Drawing #532

It’s been quite a year.

I haven’t posted on here since March of 2020. I’d pretty much stopped doing the daily drawings, and for a good long while just didn’t draw anything at all.

I put this illustration together in May of last year. I posted it to Instagram and that was about it. I just didn’t have it in me to post here or to write anything,

It wasn’t for lack of time, since, like everyone else, I was locked down in the house.

I believe now that my ‘coping mechanism’ was to just throw myself into work. I’m lucky that I’m in a sector that experienced growth instead of decline during the early days of the pandemic. Once we found our footing and realized that we’d make it through, we went full throttle. And that’s pretty much all I’ve been doing.

Sleep, eat, work, eat, sleep.

I definitely lost a step in the last year. And not creating things for myself really started to wear on me - but like any creative will tell you - once you get into that rut, it’s hard to dig out.

It’s now February of 2021, almost one year of dealing with the pandemic. We’re also in the death grips of Winter on the east coast of the US, which isn’t helping the mood around here.

But, spring is on the horizon. There’s a vaccine (a true scientific miracle, if you ask me). It’s going to take some time. things won’t change overnight. But I try to be optimistic, take the time to make something, and look for the better days ahead.