Illustration Friday "Fail"

Sometimes things just don't work out. Like this illustration, for example. It's a digital piece I did to accompany an article on Adult ADHD. The story describes a typical workday of a mom with ADHD where she moves through a number of tasks – reading email, answering a phone call, getting a file for a coworker and making coffee – without actually completing any of them. There was also a cute reference to multiple bottles of glue misplaced around the house so I threw that in there.

Conceptually, I think that covers one aspect of this week's Illustration Friday theme "fail" pretty well: Failure to follow through. And here's another one: For whatever reason, the illustration was not acceptable for the publication. It failed to meet expectations. There was a time when I would have been upset about it but I've managed to detach myself pretty well. Perhaps that's why I failed to get it right in the first place. Who knows. But now that I've written about it I can move on with my life in peace.