For day 9, I settled on something generic because I had a hard time coming with something a good friend would say to me that I wanted to translate to a drawing. I am very good at negative self talk and putting myself down but I’m getting better at being a good friend to myself and having self-compassion. A lot of what I was feeling was someone cheering me on from the sidelines so I stuck with “You got this”. I spent more time focusing on the painting. I wanted to try to play with getting really opaque white lines, and I like the consistency of the white that I got. It felt like I was drawing with white out. Waiting a little for the background to dry helped get a more matte look.