Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. Bank visits and eye doctors have filled my week, along with starlings and pool floats. I hope you’re all squeezing in as many chances to be in the water before the summer is over.

Here are a few of my favorites this week.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. A random collection of sketchbook drawings this week, but they are always fun.

I thank you again for all your kindness and support.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. It’s been a busy summer, but it’s been a good one. This week’s set is mostly bird jokes. As per usual, the drawings are a bit behind, and these are from the spring when Carrie and I were doing our best to pay attention to all the birds, especially the warblers.

Thank you all again for your kindness and support, and I’ll see you soon!

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

My apologies for ghosting last week. The days got away from me with adulthood duties and a short trip to the woods. These things happen, but thank you for your patience and kindness, as always. All is well over here, though. We had to buy a third major appliance this year (washer/dryer, water heater, and now a fridge), which hasn’t been the funnest way to spend large amounts of money, BUT the fridge offered me plenty more time to be in the crawlspace amongst my favorite creatures, and we finally invested in a deep freezer. Exciting times of life.

Thank you all again for your kindness and support.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. I hope this Sunday is treating you well. Thank you for being here.

All is well over here. I often forget the exact context of my sketchbook drawings when I’m setting them up to post here. I could tell that this particular week I was most likely a little sad, probably prompted by a letter from the student loans, something I said or did that made me feel ashamed, and a doctor's visit. A solid recipe for a hard week. But I’m grateful that I at least put those feelings to use.

Thank you again for all your kindness, and here are a few of my favorites for this week.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well. I’ve officially reached 100 Gentle Drawings posts on Substack today. It felt nice to think of all those drawings.

All is well over here. We recently had a visitor to our backyard, and it was a moment when I wondered, “Do I come up with cartoons or do the cartoons find me?” I’ll use my favorite quote to explain my thoughts on the matter:

With that, here’s a Gentle Drawing for the week. I had some fun, and I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for all your kindness.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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P.S. Our goat buddy didn’t actually destroy my vegetables. He just took some lettuce. Which I was happy to share. Hard fella to catch, though.

Hello, gentle readers and viewers. I hope this Sunday is treating you well. Thank you for being here.

I’m grateful to be back in this space, and thank you so much for your patience.

All is well over here. We’ve had a busy summer, but we’re doing our best to enjoy the gentler things out there, and I’m looking forward to sharing them with you all.

Here are a few of my favorites from the past week or so.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. I hope this Sunday is treating you well. Thank you for being here.

Carrie lost a loved one this week, so we’ve all been staying close together. I always try to make as much space as I can when needed, and so this week’s Gentle Drawings is a repost, but I felt it was appropriate for the time. Thank you all for your kindness and patience, and I will see you very soon.

May your tears be there when you need them.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. We’ve had some busy weeks, but my mind has been on my backyard and waiting for the wildflowers to bloom. It’s a brief moment each year, but the sight is overwhelming.

We’ve really ramped up our plant and garden collection this year, and one pleasure of a sketchbook is drawing from lists. Usually, when I draw a plant or a flower, it’s a standard scribble with a petal attached, so I thought it would be fun to try and grow my drawing vocabulary a bit and use the plants we’ve obtained as my subjects. So, that’s this week’s topic, along with some silliness.

Thank you again for all your kindness, and I hope you see some flowers today.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. This week is an assortment, but a few of them are related to our fly-fishing adventures so far, which include a week-long class and one attempt at ACTUALLY fishing. Needless to say, we’re still in the failure stage of this hobby, which has its humor. Life has slowed us from pursuing it more at the moment, but I’m hopeful we’ll get around to it soon.

Thank you again for all your kindness and for being here.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

P.S. There won’t be a new Gentle Drawings next week, unfortunately. It’s a busy one, and I’m trying to give myself a little breathing room, BUT I’ll most likely send out an older one, and I’ll see you very soon! Thank you again!

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. I’ve been daydreaming about summer activities and watching our neighborhood become rich and green with plants. It’s my favorite time.

I hope you all are getting an opportunity to enjoy the warmer days, and thank you again for all your kindness. Here are a few of my favorites from the past week or so.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. I took a walk with a friend this week, and the topic of looping worries came up. A problem I am no stranger to (I brought the topic up). Our conversation was fitting because that seems to be the theme of this week’s Gentle Drawings.

Also, I just thought I’d share a remarkable list of advice from Liana Finck, a cartoonist I greatly admire and just wholeheartedly find myself relating to very often. Her advice is aimed at graduating illustration students, but I found it refreshing, useful, and brutally true. You may have to claim a free post to read it.

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Hi! I️ gave a speech to graduating illustration students at Parsons last weekend. It was a long list of advice. Was this the type of graduation speech a graduate would like to hear? I️ have no idea…

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. We had a nice break. The fly fishing was a disaster (we tried, though), but the birding was good, and I was grateful to spend time with my brother and father.

It’s been prime birding season, and so my sketchbook is filling with lots of bird-related material. Warblers have been almost entirely evasive, but we caught sight of a few on our early morning adventures, and the coastal birds just let us stare at them all day. It was a wonderland. So, this week, I thought I’d just share the new birds we’ve seen with our eyes so far this year (I colored as many as time would allow). I’m sure there will be some hyper-specific bad birding jokes coming soon. Hang in there, and thank you for all your kindness!

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

P.S. - As ever, I got a warning from Substack about hitting an email limit, so you may need to open this in the app to see ALL the birds. Just look for the “Thank you” at the bottom, and you’ve made it to the end of the scroll.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. I hope this Sunday is treating you well. Thank you for being here.

All is well over here. We are currently on our way out of town to spend some much-needed time with my brother and father and try our best to do a little relaxing, fishing, and birding. Speaking of, there will be no Gentle Drawings next week. Thank you all for understanding, and see you very, very soon!

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

Here are a few of my favorites from the past week or so.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. I hope this Sunday is treating you well. Thank you for being here.

All is well over here. I’ve moved from sleepless nights worrying about gardening and planting schedules to worrying about birds and migratory schedules. I generally worry about things constantly, so I’ve worked hard to at least make my worry subjects include a positive and rewarding experience, as well. So many birds to see, so little time.

As always, thank you all for your kindness here. I am always so honored. This week, paying subscribers will get a little behind-the-scenes extra post. Including a paywalled section in this post immediately denies non-paying subscribers the ability to comment, and I don’t want that to happen, so a bonus post it is.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Welcome to a little bonus section of Gentle Drawings.

First, I want to extend my enormous gratitude to all of you who have become supporting patrons of Gentle Drawing. I do not take it for granted. I very much feel that creativity does not come from empty vessels. My cup always runneth empty, and my responsibility to …

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. I hope this Sunday is treating you well. Thank you for being here.

Carrie’s quotes are a tough act to follow, and she loved all the kind notes. I’m in agreement with you all.

Things are going well over here, though. The garden is in full swing, and we’re just waiting for that brief moment in summer when all our vegetables and flowers are at the height of their lives, and our backyard feels like a green oasis.

Thank again for all your kindness and here are a few of my favorites from the past week or so.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

Well, it’s my favorite time of year! My muse, Carrie, has been hard at work saying hilarious things, and I’ve been squirreling them away for the second edition of Carrie Quotes. These come randomly, so I can’t say when volume 3 will be, but I hope both you and Carrie are surprised and delighted with this batch.

Thank you again for all your kindness and support.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. Life is in full speed mode and I’ve been enjoying McDonalds coffee while I’m speeding but I’m also ready for it to slow. The nice part is that when I can day dream, I’ve been daydreaming about dirt and flowers. It could be worse.

I hope you’re all daydreaming about good things and thank you again for all your kindness here. It’s my most favorite space and I’m grateful to share.

Here are a few of my favorites from the past week or so.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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Hello, gentle readers and viewers. Thank you for being here. I hope this Sunday is treating you well.

All is well over here. Springtime is in the air (I’m ignoring the cold snap this week), and I’m grateful. I’ve started my little seedlings under the grow lights, and it always brings a smile to my face when I tend to them. I know we couldn’t appreciate the spring without the winter, but I’m glad it’s coming to an end.

Thank you again for all your kindness, and I hope you’re all enjoying the gift of spring as well. Here are a few of my favorites from the past week or so.

Take care of yourselves, seek inspiration, draw slowly, have fun, and stay gentle.

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