Yup. It's more charity stuff.

So what am I going to do here? Well, it's simple. I'm giving away free sketches. Nothing fancy, and it'll have to be in between classes, finals, etc, but these sketches won't cost you anything.

Well, I take that back. They will cost you something. I'm willing to give you a free sketch if you do one of the following:


1. Donate your time volunteering to some organization--Whether it be a library, a church--Any place where someone needs help. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, help tutor children for free--Anything!

2. Make a donation of things you don't need anymore, such as clothes or books, to an organization. You can also donate food or new toys if need be, or donate to one of the causes I'll be highlighting.

3. Make a monetary donation. I don't care if you drop .50 into a donation jar on your way out of somewhere, just, something. I'll still draw something for you, as long as you give.

4. Anything else you can think of that will count as giving back to charity.


I won't know for a fact if you'll actually do this, but I'd really, really like it if you didn't fib about helping out the needy. That'd be... Just... Wrong. Just tell me what you did, and then I'll fulfill my end of the bargain. We're going on the honor system here, guys. If you're in high school, colleges love the look of charity work on your resume anyway.

I know the holidays are coming up, but even if you don't celebrate, it doesn't mean you can't help out somehow.

So why am I doing this? Well...

A while back, I was feeling very, very sorry for myself. No dates, laid off, living at home. Poor Lucy. I was at the Laundromat sitting feeling sorry for myself and like the world hated me. Then a man next to me asked if he could use the seat I had next to me.

He was homeless.

We talked for a bit. He wasn't a crazy guy. He was a very, very intelligent man who had been laid off from his job. It'd been a very, very good job. By the end of our talk, I realized that... Yes, I was laid off, too, but I had a family to lean back on. I had forgotten how lucky I was. I'm grateful every day to that man, even if we didn't talk long.

I know times are hard everywhere right now. As someone who at this moment has seven dollars in their bank account, I understand that. That still isn't a reason to give back a little bit.

So I will be taking requests up until the New Year. Given the stressful time of year it is right now, there might be a bit of a wait.

I don't know if anyone will take me up on this offer. But at least I'm giving it a shot, right?