June 26, 2024 - A wise art teacher gave me a piece of advice that I’ve never forgotten, and I want to pass it on to you. I had left my job as a math teacher to go back to school and learn about illustration…but after about one semester of steady progress, I hit a flat spot and I started really struggling in my drawing classes.  I felt like I was going backwards, and it seemed obvious that I was doing worse every day. I told the teacher I thought I’d lost something  and was that I was considering the possibility that I had made a huge mistake. She told me that these phases of struggle  happen to everyone at some point- and that when they do, you should “get down on your knees and be thankful”l because the…