Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it, how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker. I'm Lee. And I'm Samantha Caudrill, and let's jump into it. All right, Lee, take it away. You had some stuff you wanted to talk about first. Well, it's the new year. Should we greet each other formally? We've been chatting for like 15 minutes. Hey, hey. How are you going? I have missed you guys. I've missed you guys. I've missed you guys. It's been a couple weeks and it just felt, it just felt wrong. It's weird, right? Because we are solo people in our studios,

and this is our social sort of outlet

between all of Anthony and David and us too.

Like, it's my social outlet,

and all of a sudden it stops.

And I feel like I'm...

You have to talk to your family.

I know.

No, I don't want to do that.

My social life depends on our Zoom calls.

It's weird.

But it's been, yeah, it's been good to kind of, what would you say?

I stepped away and spent a lot of time with family, but then I also got some work done, too, that was not like, I didn't get interrupted with any sort of communication, any sort of emails, any sort of meetings that I had to go to, which was also kind of nice as well.

Because we've sort of set up our lives now where we fill in the gaps

with work. We fill in the gaps with like artwork and the rest of meetings and full consult

scheduling. Whereas before it was like, you know, if you had a gap, you would take a meeting

or you'd have a phone call or something like that.

So, I don't know.

I thought that's true.

It's nice to be able to step back too, right?

And sort of evaluate.

It is.

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