It was so much fun having Lilah hang out at school with me for a few days! On Friday she was our model for Life Drawing class. I was a little worried that she might get nervous or shy at the last second, but she aced this! We broke the ice by getting there early...
Our artist today was John Martz, a cartoonist and kids' book illustrator from Canada. One idea I'd like to steal is to find a signature character (his is a robot) and use it as a daily drawing exercise - fill a sketchbook with just that character interacting with the panels of the...
What a class we had today!! Wednesday is always a long class (10-4) but we seem to be really packing it in lately. Today we did presentations in the morning about great comics writing - I talked about Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi. I particularly love this book because the main character is not only a...
When we got our homework last week, I saw the assignment and joked, "96-pages??!!! I can have a breakdown in only 4 pages!" Silly girl. When will I learn not to brag. The Breakdown is still going... On the positive side, the rough week has inspired some interesting plot twists. If I could...
Some of our teachers are really good at that kind of slow, mind-torture that makes you want to curl up in a ball with a bag of chips, mindless tv and just gnaw on your toes. Know what I mean? No? Fine. They all pretended to take pity on us after finishing the grueling 1950&...
I emailed my sister about this and then thought... Yeh, I do seem to whine a bit about stuff and complain, so maybe I'd give you a little break and tell you about something REALLY nice that happened. Sound good? I went home Wednesday night after class to say "Hi" to...
