There is still joy ahead, I promise.

I didn’t have as much time to work on drawing this week because I’ve been busy with lots of medical tests and assorted anxieties (more on that in the future, but not today) but this one poured out of me and helped me to remember that even the scariest things cannot stop joy.

Normally I take my drawings outside to take brighter photos that look better here, but today it is overcast and stormy, so the sketch is also dark and gray and I was feeling very frustrated about it but then I realized that the weather matched the theme, and sometimes when you come up across something you have no control over you have to trust that the universe is working on your behalf, even if you can’t always see how at the moment.

I super crazy love you,

~me

PS. Someone asked me how big my doodles are and it depends on whatever sketch pad is on sale at the time, but here’s a picture of my hand for scale on this one:

PPS. I just realized that when I took this picture in black-and-white that it gave me the exact super-light background that I wanted at first and now it makes everything in the beginning part of my letter to you pointless. *sigh*

But…now that I look closer, the first image has details that are lost in the second.

So perhaps there are more lovely surprises in the shadows than we expect.