Today's prompt was "hope" but I haven't been feeling so hopeful lately, for numerous reasons not specifically relevant to this drawing. I tried to think of things that made me feel hope in the past, but at the moment lots of them make me sad. I thought about being witty and trying to draw Bob Hope - we all know, based on my Erik Estrada portrait, that my celebrity portraiture skills could really benefit from the practice. But I finally decided I was copping out, and I should think of something that I really do hope for. 

In college, my nickname was "Bean" and I felt smart and strong and confident and occasionally even attractive in ways I haven't felt so much lately. I ended up drawing this:

Maybe if I hold enough soil in my hands, I can regrow Bean, regrow the sense that I can accomplish anything, that there's no place to go but forward, and that forward is exciting.