I'm personally finding it incredibly difficult to focus on drawing children's illustration at the moment, and have to keep reminding myself that despite the chaos created by their parents children still need imagery that speaks to their hearts and minds and development as human beings. I am repeating "The children are our future," as a mantra right now. LOL!
So I'm finding personal projects and prompts quite useful currently, if for nothing else but to keep me distracted so I don't disintegrate into an ineffectual blob of stunned anxiety. Thank-goodness this month's SVSLearn prompt is here--I've been diving into that temporarily and diving into the SVSLearn classes with a gusto I haven't done in a very long time. It's nice to just let yourself be a student and drink it all in like a sponge sometimes, you know? Ahhhh.... 
So I'm posting part of my <unfinished!!!!> Light and Shadow homework, and some of my thumbnails for this months prompt. And really really happy that I have the lot of you to be an awesome, distracting mental escape that, when I need it, reminds me why I'm doing all of this. Thank-you for... just being here right now. Thank-you!!!

