Tonight is the Season premier of Lost! I am so excited! Martin and I watched the first 5 seasons together on Nextflix. We should have timed it better so we wouldn’t have to wait so long for the premier, but they were just so good we couldn’t stop watching! Now, we have to suffer with the rest of the Lost fans in the world, waiting week by week to find out what happens. I don’t know if I can handle it!

I hope you enjoy the comic! Come back on Friday for the next update.

Hey everybody!

This is a scene from the first week of my Art History class, Myth, Bible, and Symbol in Art. I can’t take credit for all the jokes, I have some very humorous classmates, but I am the brainy nerd who asks all the obscure questions.

Drawing Leonidas from 300 was a lot of fun! I’ve been working on a still life of an Abe Lincoln bust in my Drawing II class and it’s really helped me understand the shape of the male face better.

Remember, another comic is coming on Tuesday! Keep a look out.

After three weeks of slacking off, I’m back with a new comic! Obsidian of Commissioned Comic threatened to take me into his office if I didn’t get back on track, and if you’ve ever met “O” you know he’s one convincing little dude. He’s the person who got me started doing this comic in the first place. When he spoke up, I felt like I got caught by the Man! (He’s also an illustration teacher in Colombia, so he’s got that authority thing down!)

In the mean time, both my brothers and my Mom sent me messages asking where my comic was! That was a pleasant surprise! I knew they read the comic, but I didn’t know they liked it enough to miss it when it wasn’t posted on time! That makes me smile and feel very warm inside.

You will get comics every Tuesday and Friday until I’ve caught up from the three strips I missed. After that, we’ll see what happens.

Thanks for sticking with me!
Lonnie

Edit: I changed Columbia to Colombia! My poor American geography education was shining through! There’s so many of those African nations anyway, how can you expect me to keep track of the spelling!?!

PS: I was joking! I know Colombia is not in Africa. It’s south of America somewhere.

Ha ha! My brother Matt surprised me with a guest strip so my site will be nice and fresh until I get things updated again. I love that he took the initiative to do this for me! Matt is the brother featured in my Christmas strip. He works for The Mouse in one of the hotel/resorts.

Thanks Matt!

My new strip will be up on Tuesday. I’ll be updating Tuesdays and Fridays until I get caught up from the last few weeks of missing strips.

My brain is so tired from all the learning I’m doing at SCAD!
It’s too easy to give into brain-vacation gaming when you have another gamer to give into it with.
Seasons 1-5 of LOST were SUPER Addictive!!!
My time management skills are CRAP!!! (What day is it?)

I know none of those are valid reasons for not doing my comic, but they are the demons I’m battling currently. Plus, if you check back to the comic before Thanksgiving, Dalia said she wasn’t going to stick up for me anymore, and I don’t think she has! Where are you Dalia???

I need a deadline. Someone set it for me. Not Martin.

Let’s remember though, Fear is not your master. You are the master of your fear. You ARE good enough. If you don’t believe this, listen to something you do understand, money. Your scholarships say you ARE good enough.

Stop worrying that your relationship isn’t blissfully perfect. Every new relationship has its ups and downs. You and Martin are very suited to each other. You know this. Don’t let your stress and fear get you down.

Now, while we are at it, let’s talk about Fear and your decision to major in Animation over Sequential Art. You’re scared that if you major in Sequential Art you won’t find a job when you graduate and you’ll be tens of thousands of dollars in debt with no way to pay it back. The indicative word here is “scared”. If Fear is the governing reason for choosing Animation, it is the wrong one. So how do we resolve this?

Let’s talk. Point number 1, you’ve wanted to draw comics since you were a junior in High School, almost 16 years ago. Your dream was to attend the Joe Kubert School and go draw the X-Men when you graduated. However, you’ve also been in love with 3D renderings since you were 13 years old, nearly 20 years ago. The idea of taking something from your head and turning it into a visually tangible Three dimensional object has fascinated you since that exhibit on holograms at the Museum of Science in Boston.

Is there a way to combine Sequential Art and 3D Modeling? Well, the Concept Art for Games minor teaches modeling and applying textures. And if you still want the option to work in Films, you could always take the storyboarding classes as your Sequential Art electives.

Well, it sounds to me like you know what you want to do. You want to be a Sequential Art major. Remember, your first love is characters and their stories. And stop negating your strengths. You know you can do this; you just need to set your mind to it. TV is not more important, neither is World of Warcraft. You can tell yourself this all falls into spending time with your boyfriend, but you’ve got to balance that with working working working.

I want to compliment on what you’re doing right. Good job going to that club fair and finding extracurricular activities that suit you. I think the sketch club and the Sequential Art Society will be very good for you. The Art History Society will be good for you as well, even if French art films aren’t your thing. The discussions make you think, and we all know how much you love to think about things! Now don’t forget to get started on your term papers! No waiting until the last minute on them.

Finally, get back to work on your comic! People enjoy reading it! Even your Mom is wondering where the next strips are! Get to it girl!

Oh yes, and stop talking to yourself. People are going to think you’re crazy.

I have just finished my first week of classes at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Overall it’s been a good week. I feel a little out of step with the other students since I’m living off campus with my non-SCAD boyfriend, only have two classes, and am around 10 years older than most of my fellow classmates. I like to believe that strangers are just friends I haven’t met yet, but there’s quite a gap to overcome in meeting people.

The first class I’m taking is an Art History Elective, Myth, Bible and Symbol in Art. I’m loving it! The material is interesting and I’m even looking forward to my projects! The first project is to make my own religion, and the second is to compare and contrast two artworks of the same mythical or biblical story. I already know what I’m doing my religion on, and I’m pretty sure I’m going with the story of either Pygmalion or Narcissus for my paper.

My favorite visual of the week came out of this class. We’re studying Greek Mythology currently and we were looking at a Greek vase depicting a young Zeus with neat, dark hair and beard giving birth to Dionysus from his thigh. I asked if the Greeks usually depicted Zues this way as opposed to the Renaissance tradition of painting him with flowing white hair and beard. Our professor explained that, to the Greeks, the Gods represented a perfect form of Man and the perfect age in Greek society was between 16-24. He said to think of King Leonidas in the movie “300“. I added, “With a baby coming out of his thigh,” to that. Everyone laughed and another student said, mimicking Leonidas from the movie, “This… is… a BABY!”

All joking aside, I am really enjoying this class and find the professor the be interesting and enthusiastic about the subject. I’m very happy I gave in and took this 8 am class. It’s the only one of it’s kind offered this semester.

All is not hearts and roses for me at SCAD though. I’m in my first studio class this semester, Drawing II. Now, I’ve taken Drawing II, III, and Illustration at Tunxis, my previous school, but my portfolio placed me in the Drawing II class at SCAD. I am battling some serious personal demons in this class. First of all, I know I can draw. If you ask me to draw a wagon, I can draw you a wagon and it’ll be a really good wagon too! However, if you put a wagon in front of me and say, “Draw that wagon exactly the way you see it, reproducing it’s angles and proportions correctly,” the wagon I put on that paper looks like a little kid drew it! I cannot perfectly reproduce the object in front of me to save my life! If my proportions are right, my angles are off. If my angels are right, my proportions are off! I don’t understand how these things could be mutually exclusive like that! There is just something I’m not getting. I can feel it darting around in my brain like a caged animal trying to find its way out, but it just won’t click! I was so frustrated when I got home today that I lied down on my bed, squeezed Horse with No Name three times (He says “We love you Lonnie, we believe in you” in the voices of 15 of my friends back home) and just let some tears fall.

The thing is, I made a point of telling my professor that I’d already taken Drawing II, and now I feel like I’m shaming myself and my former school because I’m having such a hard time with stupid observational drawing! I am determined to do it the way she’s teaching us and not be lazy about it, but my fear and my short cuts keep showing up in my drawings. I know there’s value in what she’s showing us, the results will be a much more technically correct drawing, but I am having trouble letting go of the idea that I’m supposed to be good at this already! This is not going to be an “easy A”.

In my mind, if I can’t learn to draw, and be the best of the best at it, then I might as well throw away all the money I’ve spent in school because I’m not going to find work after. There are a whole lot of “nots” in there that I need to work out of my brain. Worrying about money and jobs is not going to help me draw any better.

Sunday, January 3rd 2009

This comic almost didn’t get made this week, but I buckled down and got it out, even if it was late. Between New Year’s and Orientation at school, my momentum was focused in other areas.

Also, if you are ever in Savannah, GA, and especially if you are visiting me, you MUST go to Leopold’s Ice Cream! We’ve been twice so far and I’ve tried the Egg Nog, Frozen Hot Chocolate, and Dutch Utopia flavors! Normally I’m a cookies and cream girl, but not one of those other flavors disappointed me! I plan to make it a regular visit and never have the same flavor twice, unless I get two scoops, then the second scoop can be one I’ve already had.

School starts tomorrow! Wish me luck!

PS: Don’t hate Dalia for being honest. She’s right, she’s all the best parts of me.

If I did everything right, this comic should post at midnight on the 25th. For an explanation of this comic, read my blog post below.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!

He made the reservations for the 23rd-26th! We communicate very well in my family. So, with two hours notice, I’m off to DisneyWorld for the Holidays! You guys will still get a comic, but it was drawn in 30 minutes and colored in less than that! Today was supposed to be my comic day.

I’ll be twittering from my phone while we’re away, but I don’t have one of those fancy data plans that lets me actually check messages, so I won’t be able to reply to anything until I get back.

Have a very Merry Christmas!