Logically Illogical

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2.  So I’m a big fat hypocrite.  I’m going to sit in the corner and wear my cone hat of shame.  I’d tell you all about how this semester I ended up being busier than last semester, but it’ll just sound like an excuse.

3.  I’ve still got a long, long way to go in my journey, but I got to where I’m at right now through lots of practice and lots of time spent just drawing and/or studying the artists I look up to.  I’m not very talented, so I try to make up for that through hardwork.  Most importantly, you must have two things:  1) the willingness to sacrifice other activities to make time to do art, and 2) the attitude to never look down or dislike the pieces you produce, no matter how bad you think they are.

4.  Sperm and KY Jelly.

5.  I like to keep my art life and my teaching life separate, mostly because I tend to draw questionable things that my students may not understand.  The last thing I want is for my students to come up to me and start having discussion about Pokemon or One Piece with me. 

Funny story: there was one instance at AX 2008 when my cosplayer friend coerced me into cosplaying Moria from One Piece.  She guilt-tripped me with “but I already spent weeks making this outfit for you!” so I put it on, but refused to have make-up put on me.  The jacket that she made turned out to be too small and it was hard to move around in it, but I toughed it out for that day.  I was at my artist alley table drawing commissions when I saw a girl who looked familiar standing not too far away from my table.  Our eyes met, and the words that came out of her mouth was:

“Professor?”

She came over to my table, laughed at me, asked to take a picture with me, bought a print, and left.  The following week she sat in front of the class with this giant smirk that has “I know your dirty secret” written all over it.

Never again.