Today at school my old drawing teacher* pointed out to me an A1 size poster that had been the center piece of the main hall wall for the past week. I had never even taken a second look; it was drawn my freshman for god's sake. As it turns out this comic happened to be a tribute to my friend Norna and me....
Extended version: This drawing teacher shows my drawings to newcomers of her class as a (bad?) example. Apparently she also tells the story of how Norna and I are the only American students of the school and we plan to move to the states and pursue graphic arts, comes college. These kids thought that was so neat that they drew up a huge comic poster in which we move to the USA, attend school there and graduate; as a tribute to us two Americans. First of all, since they didn't know who we were personally, they had to research until they knew what we look. This tribute poster is the first non-discriminative reference to my citizenship I have received here. I found it pretty flattering. How many times in one's life do you receive a freakin' A1-size tribute in comic-form?
In fact, it cheered me up so much I think I'm going to go doodle some comic strips this very instant!
(* = at my school you only get one year of drawing class.)
the best that has happened to me is someone in the year below rip off what i was doing for one of my major pieces..... and ripping it off badly. it looked so bad, and was all out of proportion, but she came up and hugged me and said she loved what i was doing and so she had to do it herself.
yeah. i hope they didn't draw you [too?] badly liz!! ^_^
i'd ask to see it, but it might be a bit hard to get onto a computer o.O
Aww, you're story is cuter since it had to do directly with art you made. ^_^
As for the scanning... erm yeah. Would be very difficult. They drew everything very simplified but it's the thought that counts in this case. They did hear from a teacher of mine that I wear "punkish" clothing, so my outfit is suiting!
I drew a bunch of big elaborate logos and graphics on the marker board for the various consoles in the electronics dept at the Toys R Us in Lexington, including a pretty decent Mario, Link, and Samus on the Gamecube board. Thanks to one annoying Microsoft fanatic who works in the "R zone", nobody else there likes the X-box much, and I didn't feel like drawing anything for it anyway, so instead of some big X crack in the ground or whatever, I drew some characters from ARG! and wrote <i>xbox</i> really small over in the corner. Now we keep getting people asking which video game has that cool minotaur character in it...
