And you will always be an arrogant
Yes.
I'm working at changing that. I joke with my friends about how I just as well could have been gay and had the same reaction I got from my family. I come from a guy who I don't know what he did, and a woman who really didn't do much but get married to escape the po-dunk hicktown she was raised in for "the big city".
They didn't know what to do with a kid that wanted to draw. My grandparents at least left me alone with my imagination, butcher's paper, and crayons. Pre-computers. Pre-internet. Pre-cable.
Go to school and win awards for art, get no recognition from the family. Ask to go to an art focused high school, nope! Get out of high school, get pursued by Pittsburgh Institute of Art, nope! Didn't have the grades for scholarships and since my old man told my mom he was sterile (
hey, I'm sure that was the olde timey "I can't feel anything" excuse for not wearing a rubber) I was something of an unplanned event.
Fuck man. Making marks on paper is pretty much the only things I've got and the only thing I value. It keeps me sane. No joke, drink and draw is like therapy for me.
And I realize I'm not the baddest motherfucker to walk the Earth, but I know what I can and cannot do and accomplish with hard work. It's the hard work part that I'm trying to get at and not fucking up opportunities like I did in the past when I could have been doing clown work for the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame (LOLOLOLOL).
Folks on neogaf love to throw around "privilege" all the god damn time without taking a moment to reflect on the privilege they're awash in. Got a family that cares? Privilege. Got a family business you can get into? Privilege. Got somebody that's got your back for the rest of your life (or until divorce)? Privilege.
I'm working at that. Sadly I can't be overtly aggressive because that involves a crowbar and I'm averse to spending my remaining days as the bottom bitch in prison. D:
Bullshit.
Ivory tower GAF casting aspersions down upon the hoi polloi who live amongst that 13% of the population, rather than just observe it from afar on a chart or a video on youtube.
Yes.
But you're
my jerkass, TTOB
Darn tootin'! At least until I start making money off of drawing, or just off myself. Which has been on my mind an awful lot lately. YAY! Comic books. :|