A good friend of mine has always been a man of self-imposed routines and rule-sets and we, his friends, have come to rely on these for both entertainment and a feeling of consistency in a world so fraught with chaos.

He is a teacher.  And he has a system for that as well.

Purple is a keystone of system, anchoring the week, bringing a sense of optimism and victory to the week’s end.  He tells a story of a time when he’d quietly established this pattern during his student teaching, and one day (I think it was Greenday) the day’s shirt lost a button and was unsuitable.  And so another day’s shirt was worn.  The students noticed the wrinkle in the system and fretted.  He reassured them that the system would resume and their sense of confidence in a world where goodness was possible and real was restored.

And then this happened. Click on it to see it move.

And the original sketch, just for fun.  He’s great fun to draw because of his iconic features, like a well-designed character.

(There’s been much more personal work in the blog lately, but that’s because the professional work I’m doing can’t yet be revealed! I hope to be able to show some exciting new projects I’ve worked on soon!)