Illustration Friday is a well attended weekly event that used to be hosted by penelopeillustration.com, but has recently graduated to its own domain, illustrationfriday.com. Every week, artists submit illustrations with a common theme, and then they go look at each other’s submissions. There is no competition involved, nor judging, nor pressure, nor payment. The only thing it has in common with real work is a deadline (it’s Friday).

Here’s what I submitted for this Friday’s theme, ‘adoption.’ If you want to do one, you go right ahead.