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Challenge 144: 10 Years, Looking Forward: See You Later Alligator, In Awhile Crocodile

I have to say I never really liked goodbyes. Goodbyes always felt very solemn to an end, a question on whether there would be a return or not. With that idealization of goodbye, I find myself using instead “see you later”; giving instead an impression of I might not see you today, but later on. With this comes a lovely humorous play with the saying, a beloved allegory of "See you later Alligator, in awhile Crocodile". Regardless goodbye and see you later, present themselves as that of stepping stones to move us forward and leave our past behind us. Whether that might mean they come back or not, they shape us into the people we are and the path we are on for our future.

Concerning that of our future, we seem to for the most part think in terms of decades. All grouped up into passage in time, trends that we rather forget, and events we must never forget. A part of life capture in the measly span of just 10 years. A long time that sadly will be here before we know it and pass without the idea that it was even here. Just like thoughts questioner sheets we all receive throughout our childhood. Where do I see myself in 10 years, in 2031?

In all the ideas for the future, I have roughly the same impressions of consistently better-than-now ideals. But reality has its own plan for your life that seems to change things up, even after finish SCAD in 2017. So now whenever asked where do you see yourself in 10 years, I like to have an ever-changing plan, more of a "C’est la vie," mentality. As I like to live my life personality day by day, my plan for the future is for the ability to create the things that are so vividly in my head and share my dreams, my ideas, with others and just continue that cycle. Partially the same as I do nowadays as a freelancer as well as doing artist alley. Only hopefully with others who can spread the love and positivity and vice versa to them as well. As well as continue the love from this group of amazing awesome illustrators and individuals. That has helped me in so many ways build up a confidence that I don’t see in myself sometimes and gives me the drive and energy to push and expand my mind of what I could do and where I can go to. Thank you so much and I can't wait to see you later on and see what awesomeness you all will create.

Challenge 141: Story Time Through Patterns: Birdie and Wormy

With Spring right around the corner, and all waiting for the brisk winter air to slowly slip back into its hibernation again. With a careful ear and mindful eye we can hear the birds chirping in the sky and the earthworms squirming in the ground. A fresh awakening and a feeling of anew amongst all the showering dirt feelings of the past springs. It's time of new growth and seeding into this year, reaching new height as far as a bird in the sky can fly and planting in new plans rooted and grounded in the earth as the earthworm. Equally provide for each other and equally working together to prosper into what will be an amazing year.

Challenge 139: Illustrated Info: Toilet Paper

Ever wonder what we’re flushing down the toilet? It’s fascinating what goes into some of the common everyday household items. Truly gets you questioning what we use to clean our derrière. This being; Toilet paper, a rare commodity earlier this year, but at what cost will our butt have to bear when our valued resource such as our “tree” gets flushed down the pipes. Just something to think about when your on the can.

Challenge 136 : Fairy Tale Swap : Shippeitaro

An amazing sketch from Jordon of a Japanese fairy tale of a magnificent heroic dog “Shippeitaro". (Read the tale here) It’s amazing how alike ideas and sketches seem to form from this challenge, like ourselves. That it only feels right to style swap with Jordon sketch with my own, a great artistic partnership I believe.

Challenge 135 : YA Book Jacket : Speak Never of What’s to Come

What an adventure to jump into a book and find out where it will all take you. Down a fictional fantasy adventure, a romantic in counter, a building friendship, a comedic dystopian bond, or a horrific mystery of unconscious devastation. What is beyond the pages, of what we soon will never find out. An adventure none the else creating a book jacket with the brilliant mind and idea from art director/ author Caitlin. All the different ways of interpretation you can truly never judge a book by it cover but love the mystery of what’s to come from it.

Challenge 137 : Magical Forest : Sable Traveler with a Magic Wand

It’s always such excitement when doing challenges. They allow your imagination to expand and push what you can create. This challenge was no different, including learning of a new animal to me the "sable," such a cute creature. With this challenge and Halloween around the corner, I just had to send this little sable on a witchy/ wizardry ride with his new fully charger magic wand app.

Challenge 133 : WAKE UP: Times Up

The 2020’s, what a year so far. A year full of metaphorical, and literal fires; a chance to process in a for seen uproar and a un-forsaken reality of fragility of normality uprooted. Not only just a year but a view into many reservations we seem to put on snooze way to often. Oh next year will fix the government systems, oh our next generation will fix our environmental mistakes. Why don’t we fix it now, not wait on later, not say, oh the next. Why don’t we fix it now? When we can clearly see the problem and the force that disproportionately fail in helping in the matters at hand and make changes that we can see and feel the effects of now. Create a light and path for our generation and the next, rather than leave a problem to fix for the next. We can’t be perfect but we can strive for better than.

Challenge 134 : Freebie : Let’s Make Friends

When you were a kid did you ever created toy friends, out of things around you, to give you company? Allowing your imagination to run wild and create characters out of the crazy things, in this case, milk cartons. Repurposing common household items into character if only for a few moments or until pick up day comes. So let your inner child out and let’s create a toy, a friend to play with and talk to.