Day 003 — Encouragement (2020)

I almost stopped here.

In those early days, I was still using basic colored pencils on plain paper... no soft or oil pencils yet, just simple materials and a lot of uncertainty.

Then I finished this piece.

My daughter looked at it and said, “Maybe my artistic talent came from you.”

That one comment changed everything.

A little encouragement — just enough to keep the pencil moving.