September-03-2010
When I was in middle school I was considered the best artist in my class.
Since we were the biggest class in the school at 11 kids, there wasn't
much competition. I'd say that my skills were typical of someone who
wants to be good at drawing real-life, but lacks any formal
training and is 13 years old. It was common for other people to ask me to
draw stuff for them, and for the most part I enjoyed doing it. However,
one girl would constantly ask me to draw a picture of her as Buffy The
Vampire Slayer. I never did it, because of three factors: First, I had
nowhere near the talent required to do a realistic fusion of two people.
2nd, the only thing that this girl had in common with Sarah Michelle
Gellar was the fact that they were both human beings. And beyond that,
Buffy the Vampire slayer is a girl with hair who wears clothes, there's
nothing visually identifying about her, so WTF? And third, I didn't like
her, she was a pain in my ass the entire time that I knew her. And even
if I
did like her, I wouldn't have done it, because what she wanted
and what I'd give her would be two totally different and confidence
crushing things. My confidence would have been crushed if I tried and
inevitably failed to draw her as the hot girl that she was hoping I would
see her as, and her confidence would be crushed when I handed her a
picture of a frumpy bitchy pre-teen girl holding a wooden stake.
The girl depicted in today's comic is based on my friend Jessica, aka BTJ,
aka Big Titties Jessica (cuzz there's two Jessicas in our social circle
and that's the most obvious way to differentiate between them). BTJ has
been nagging me for some time to put her in a comic, and I always said
that I couldn't because it's too hard to draw breasts on these characters
(which is true), and plus she didn't fit the strict guidelines that I have
for incorporating people into the comic (also true). But I guess a cameo
won't kill
anybody, and I figured out a good way to draw her boobs,
and she showed
them to me once, and I didn't have any other ideas for a comic
today, so
there we go. But I will say that her character depiction is a far cry
from the actual personality behind the mammaries. I think that this is a
more accurate portrayal:
So, I finished those last three missions on Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, and
sonofabitch! They threw more at me, and these missions are
BEEEEEEEE-otches. So no end in sight right now. Yaaaaay. I still love
it though.
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Mohan,
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