"Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone."

My "bomb-diggity" artist is Craig Thompson. He is the writer and illustrator of the graphic novel, Blankets, which he is most famous for. I first came across him when I read Blankets back during freshman year and I instantly wanted to be a graphic novelist. I actually still want to...kind of.
Blankets is a 200-page autobiographical graphic novel that took him three and a half years to write making it being released in 2003. Ever since reading it for the first time I have always had this strong pull to draw my own story of my life and having people portrayed the way I want them to.
With comics there is less rules of how to draw figures but as Wy-Fi always says, you have to know the rules and express that you know how to apply the rules in order to break them. I like that about them. When an illustrator draws something it's like they leave you, the reader, to interpret why certain features have been made the way they were and it leaves us making thousands upon thousands of interpretations...that's the way I like to make art.

I would also like to say that until I wrote this blog...I didn't know that Craig and I share the same birthday.

When I Grow Up I Wanna Be Famous...I Wanna Be A Star...

I've always wanted to do something that was like a social taboo within my family so I've always wanted to be a tattoo artist or a graphic designer.
A tattoo artist doesn't really need to have any education past high school or even a high school degree, most places require licensing though. If I were to pursue this career I would like to have a basic art degree in order to get better at 2-D design.
A graphic designer on the other hand require a Bachelor's or an Associates degree in fine arts or graphic design; along with some basic skills like creativity, communication and problem solving. You might also want to take a couple of crash courses in computer graphics and design software.
A bachelor's degree is required for most entry-level and advanced graphic design position even though some may only require an associates.
Some of the classes you would have to take include: studio art, principles of design, computerized design, commercial graphics production, printing techniques, and web site design for design courses. You also will probably need a liberal arts education that includes: art history, writing, psychology, sociology, foreign languages and cultural studies. Marketing and business are useful in helping designers work better.