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Saturday, September 17 6:47 am (link) -
While trying to line up the dialogue for today's comic I fell asleep for the whole night, so here's a non-storyline related comic instead! Storyline will continue tomorrow. This comic actually features a replaced first panel, because the original version ran on Feb 1 2002, and the first panel just looked a little poor. Not terrible, I guess. Just dated. You know, like the rest of the strip does. So panel one now features a piece of fan art I did for a site that never used it. Hooray!
This comic comes from the low-level art class that they make you take in college in order to get to Life Drawing. Laura Beth and I took Drawing I together sophomore year, and all we did was draw paper bags and chairs while listening to a single Sigur Ros song on repeat. I still can't listen to their early work without getting flashbacks to drawing inanimate objects in charcoal. Laura Beth had taken art classes in High School, but I never had, so she thought it was pretty funny when I did my contour line drawings with heavy shading. She ended up quitting art classes after Drawing 1 to take Chinese or Russian or German or something.
I soldiered on so I could get to Life Drawing, a class level in which all you do all day was draw a (usually naked) model that posed in the middle of the room. Proper anatomy was important in case I had to draw superheroes. It's pretty hard to get to into a good art class in college, though, because they heavily lean towards giving spots to "Art Majors". Pfff. Drawing II started with a class much like the one above in which we drew logs for 2.5 hours while listening to "Kid A" on repeat. That sucked. I need some variety in both music and subject when not allowed to go anywhere for 2.5 hours. I'd post some of the stuff I created in my Life Drawing classes, but a majority of it got thrown out before my evaluation one year. Someone emptied the drawer the art was kept in so that they could take theirs out and then didn't put mine back in, so it got thrown out and I was given a B. More importantly, my best naked people pix were tossed.
I would say this comic caused some discussion in my art class, but let's face facts here. The Art Dept. doesn't read the college newspaper, let alone low art like comic strips.
Death of the Party is funny.
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