Rising like the smoke

She is Krishna, she is Kali -- the sacred and profane, breathing fire into the universe.

I struggle to not throw a halo onto everything I draw, more so now than ever with Raja, since she is a cosmic deity.

This is the first thing I wanted to draw when I got into Raja, but I just figured it was out of my skill class. This is exactly how I pictured it and better – like Miss Nadia said, I swear I will never say ‘I can’t’. I can and I did.

There are a lot of things I learned that I can do, most importantly that I can balance being a mom and drawing. I can step away from my project and not lose momentum. I can take my time and execute ideas that are beautiful and exciting to me. These are things I pretty much gave up for lost after I had David. My mom stopped drawing when my sister and I were born, and it always broke my heart.

I promise I won’t quit. I promise myself, I promise my mom, I promise David.