Re: Training Montage, Part Eight

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:

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