So…

…I kinda…

…forgot…

…to do the…

…to do the drawing…

…yesterday.

As the post title quite rightly suggests: Oops.

I’m not going to try and make any excuses. I don’t think there’s any that can be made, and it would only cheapen the effort and reason why I’m drawing daily.

I can give an explanation, however.

I spent most of the day sorting, scanning, and uploading the last week or so of drawings and photos. This took longer than I expected. The result, with sweet irony as the icing, is that I was so focused on getting my old work sorted that the new work slipped my mind.

That’s not entirely accurate. I did remember, but I kept putting it off. That’s why there’s no excuses to be made. After all, I still managed to go outside and have an enjoyable time sitting on dirt in the afternoon sun taking photos of a toy Wall-E.

Yes, there were other factors – my brother arrived home for the weekend after months away, I spent the afternoon watching The Big Lebowski, House was on, Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure was on, Lost was on – but I’ve managed a drawing a day for the past few months and I could’ve done the same yesterday.

However I’m not going to whine about it or beat myself up over it. It’s just a bump in the road. And not even a very big one. It’s just big enough to make itself distinct from all the other bumps that give the road its texture, but not big enough to send the car, or wagon, or segway, or whatever, careening wildly off the road into a tree that resists for a moment only to fall away with the vehicle into a ravine, a fall that lasts an eternity before smashing into the rocky floor, followed by a brief moment to consider, ‘oh, that wasn’t so bad after all-’ before exploding in a fire storm that would make even the demons of Hell, used to this kind of thing, sit up and take notice.

In short, while I’m disappointed, I’m not too worried. I’ll continue this endeavour of drawing once a day because it’s too important not to.