This was a GREAT project. I've been struggling with what to draw and also with alot of feelings during quarantine that I've been having trouble expressing and this just opened the flood gates. I haven't been able to stop drawing!

This is definitely going to be a part of my art habit now. Thank you, Jordan!

Art Journaling - image 1 - student project

My inspirational sketch is a reminder to myself that I have the power to change my own life. For a big chunk of my life I've allowed myself to feel like a victim of circumstance and events and I have to remember that I have the power to make changes.

Art Journaling - image 2 - student project

1. My new puppy Sallah has discovered his bark and it is loud. He barks at EVERYTHING. Trying so hard to train him otherwise.

2. Police beating peaceful protestors. Speaks for itself.

3. Anxiety about my student debt.

4. Exercising in the San Antonio, TX heat. I'm trying to stay healthy but OMG...so hot. This northeastern girl is melting, y'all.

Art Journaling - image 3 - student project Things I want...

1. Peace and quiet alone. Two dogs, two cats, and a husband all locked up in quarantine together is damaging my calm.

2. See a movie in a theater. I miss movie theaters and drinking a beer in a movie theater.

3. Being more assertive of my needs. I'm a church mouse. I'm trying to be less of one in the bedroom.

4. A creative career.

Art Journaling - image 4 - student project

What I fear....

Compromising myself and my dreams for my husbands...starting to disappear. Marriage is about compromise but I have allowed myself to be slowly chipped away through compromise. I dropped my creative career and world trekking to take corporate jobs to support us, helped him get his degree while I worked. I'm working to change this and this fear is helping to keep me motivated on that journey.

Art Journaling - image 5 - student project

Freestyle: You have to fight for your Dreams. No one else will.

I found the act of writing down and illustrating my first quote a really powerful meditation. So I tried it again - I think I will do this with quotes when I need to think deeply and truly about something. It was a really powerful exercise.

Vanessa Hayes

Illustrator in Training

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