What Gives Me Hope

I had a couple of vague ideas when I first saw the prompt for this week, but nothing that I felt would visually translate very well. Then, I caught my dog and cat in the middle of a carefree afternoon snuggle session and immediately knew the two little beings that give me more hope than anything else, every day, would be the perfect subjects for this week’s prompt.

I snapped a few pictures of them which I’ll include here:

And since I’m always looking for an excuse to practice some digital illustration, I used Procreate on my iPad to create a digital painting using my photos as references. Then I found a quote that really explains exactly why these little creatures give me so much hope, and hand lettered it across the illustration. Here’s the final product! I hope it gives a cozy, sort of holiday vibe 🙂