Re: Training Montage, Part Eight

[rynling]

Yesterday afternoon I went to the art supply store where I buy Copic markers to ask if they offer classes... and also to buy more Copic markers, because I love them. When I asked the woman who rung me up, she gave me a smug look and answered, "Sorry, we don't offer adult classes." The way she said "adult classes" was sort of like the way some people say "adult diapers," and it hardcore rubbed me the wrong way. I wanted to be like, Wow my bad for not spending my early twenties learning to draw, but AT LEAST I DON'T WORK IN RETAIL FOR MINIMUM WAGE. Instead I just said "Okay, thanks," bitterly satisfied by the knowledge that I routinely piss through more money than she earns in every paycheck when I go out for lunch with friends at a restaurant not two blocks from the store.

NOT LIKE I'M INSECURE OR ANYTHING.

So anyway, I'm planning on calling the Washington Studio School later today to see what's the haps.

Also, I've decided that a third skill I need to focus on, along with drawing on-model characters and working on actual comic page layouts, is drawing big and beautiful men being big and beautiful, like so:



I totally copied this character from a side story that Daryl Toh drew for the webcomic DeadEndia, which just published its first book. I've been a fan of Daryl Toh's art for years, and in fact I'm in the process writing up his most recent short comic for a feminist pop culture website, so when I got to this one-shot comic at the end of the DeadEndia book I was like HEY I KNOW THAT GUY. And then I copied his art, because why the hell not pun totally intended.