This year I hope to change this internal story that “I'm not a green thumb” and give gardening another try. And for inspiration, I chose to create an illustrated vision board of gardening tools.

And then, just like that, as I was journaling on the 2nd day of the new year, I started doodling on the lined pages instead of writing, revisiting one of my character ideas, catching in my mind what the character was telling me it wanted to do.

Work wise I come from the Fashion Retail Industry and I’m used to companies pushing seasonal product incredibly early. But even so, I never felt the seasons turn so quickly. I wonder if this feeling is related to how much social media I’ve been consuming lately.

I started by asking myself, what would be the thing that keeps me moving forward? what would be the thing that would motivate me enough every day to keep creating? The thing that if I did, would open the flow of more ideas and more illustrations.

Since last year can be qualified as my burn out year, this year, I said: enough is enough! I know burnout too well and it is a good indicator (for me) that it’s time to re-invent my life.

I constantly remind myself that every artist I’ve ever followed has their own process, and that inspired me to inquire within and come up with my own.

I’ve learned that ideas can come at any moment. I get flashes of a drawing and if I ignore it, it chases me until I add it to my sketchbook.