Mom's Best Friend, page 13 (Patreon)

I met Jemma in junior high - she was one among a creative clique whom I would be friends with throughout school and into adulthood. When we all got together, it became a standard greeting to trade our manuscripts and sketchbooks we were working on. Jem's was always the most popular sketchbook, everyone wanted to see her artwork. 

She was the first among us to master using professional grade markers and ink. To develop a distinct cartoon style, while improving her realism skills. Her sketchbooks were colorful, alive, and flooded with joy. As an insecure teenager, I used to get jealous of Jem's artistic skills. However, self-reprimanding would quickly follow - each hour I'd seen her pour into sketching, I knew there were three hours I hadn't witnessed. She put in the work. Every success and opportunity she achieved was one she had earned. If I really loved drawing comics, and wanted a career out of it, then I had to put in the work, too. 

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