Do what you could-- practice.

Charcoal on 9x12 paper. It's been more than a year now that I have not been in art school and it's sad. It's just too expensive and I'm tied up with some other stuff in life that I cannot completely commit myself to it. However, I continue to draw and paint, and apply what I learned in school. I tried to post them everyday, good or bad; it's all raw, no pretense, what you see is pretty much where I am at my level of skill. It's still a long way....