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Jinger -> RE: Ask me anything (11/8/2008 1:37:56 PM)
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For the last year?
Everything?
Last year in November I was more or less busying myself with what I'm doing now: schoolwork and art. However there have been some incredibly moving things that have happened since then. Christmas was great, the spring semester was okay enough, but it was this summer where everything began to really change.
I got a job washing dishes in a pub. My first and worst job. I got fired for drawing comics on the job, though I still don't see the harm in it, as I was doing nothing otherwise. In the restaurant business it pays to be lazy and inefficient when there's no work around. I am neither of those. I would complete my work-load within an hour or two of my six hour shift and have nothing to do. I took 45 minute breaks every ten minutes. I poured sweat lifting, carrying, chopping, frying, sweeping. I learned discipline there. But more importantly I learned I couldn't survive in a career that didn't allow me to create "art".
Like I said I got canned four pages into a graphic novel. Then we went to Cape Cod, an annual family trip. Only this time my best friend came along, as my brother can't make it now that he lives in Seattle. On top of the bliss that is Cape Cod I lost my virginity. I have since learned a lot about myself when it comes to sex. Not to toot my own horn but I have to say it: I'm more than confident now when it comes to sex.
But out of all this I realized that my passion for making comics can carry me. Since then I haven't been able to stop making them, and am now on page 20 something of an autobiographical work.
Life in college has proven very stressful this semester. I'm taking too many art studios, there's very little time for myself these days. And yet here I am. I will likely disappear again sooner or later. I look forward to the breaks. Oh man.
Does that answer your question?
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