Every time I write one of these, I forget to give it a title and have to publish it again once I come up with one. I would love to title it at the beginning, so as not to forget, but half the time I don’t even know what I’m going to write about until I’m done with the post. I could try to come up with a full on plan ahead of time…but I know myself well enough to know that isn’t going to happen. Speaking of remembering…it’s amazing how much of my drawing skill has gone out the window due to lack of use. I’ve been trying to draw some illustrations to go with some of my designs, but I’ve had to keep forcing myself to go back to the basics…practice drawing eyes, practice drawing lips, currently need to force myself to go practice drawing hair…I’m currently really bad at hair…and it was stuff I used to be able to draw in my sleep. Now I have to concentrate and end up really frustrated. Apparently drawing skill is like a muscle…you lose it if you don’t use it. So I’m going to have to force myself to practice every day…or at least much more often than I have been the past few years…to try to regain and keep up my skills. To any artists out there…do not let your skill go…it can be so valuable to you through any type of emotion…It is a way to express things that you may not have the words for, and a way to release emotions you don’t want. So don’t ever let that skill go. Hold on to it, practice a little bit regularly. It’s very difficult and frustrating to get it back once it’s gone, and it’s too precious to give up.