u/mrgooseyboy

A workout on diversity of character and shapes

I followed some of y’all’s advice from my last post and played around with different positions and poses. I drew it in ink pen it has more depth. I stylized the faces a little more so that the characters had more personality and i tried a motion drawing to see if i could up the expression factor. Looking for opinions

Used regular lead pencil for these guys. My style is cartoony and little more expressive than most but the thing that I’m worried about is if my character’s neutral expressions are too similar and bland. I do want to maintain my style but I also don’t wanna be repetitive. especially with the nose, the eyes, and the mouth. Just looking for critique on things I could change

Doesn’t matter which decade

I’m a senior in high school and I’m graduating in 2 weeks (🎉). When my mom and I were at church this past weekend, she was inviting some friends to my grad party. Some people walked up to me and said “congratulations!” or “¡felicidades!” and I thanked them respectively.

One of Mama’s older guy friends came up to me and he jokingly asked me if I was excited to escape high school yet. I said yes (because duh). We started talking a little more and then he said something like “I know you’re excited about college but enjoy high school while you can because these are some of the best years of your life.” His last sentence made me think.

Best years of my life? Really???
I’m sure the old man meant no harm with his statement, but nevertheless, these CANNOT be “the best years of my life”.

Looking back, my high school experience has been extremely lukewarm.

I had OK grades. I sat alone most lunches. I had good friends but as we got older we drifted apart and don’t see them as much now. I never went to any parties. I was a benchwarmer most of the time when I played sports (⚾️). I had a girlfriend for a while and then she dumped in the middle of prom night (which I’ve written about previously). With all this, add essays and MCQs and AP testing. 🤢

Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t all bad. I still have good friends, I was in a few clubs (i.e. creative writing), and I had great teachers that taught me a lot about different things.

My point is that high school can’t be the some best years of my life. The average American life expectancy is like 70 something. That means I’ll have at least 52 years left of this earth.

I have to know that college life or even adulthood is at least a little better than high school was. It has to be.
Because for me, high school SUCKED.

This happened to me a couple weeks ago but I’m still not over it so here goes.

It’s prom season and I’ve been going out with this girl for like six months or something.

Obviously, since we’re together, I ask her to go to the prom she says to me that she doesn’t think she can go because she didn’t have a dress and the prom tickets were too expensive (she was low-key right it was like 70 bucks a person).
I understood that and I was like OK that’s fine you don’t have to go. It wasn’t like I was gonna force her to go to prom with me.

Meanwhile I was really excited for my senior prom. My mom, she took me over to the local outlet mall and she got me something real nice: a black two piece suit with a gold lining. It was so good looking and expensive.

I asked my some of friends kinda last minute if I could go with them to their prom as like a group. Most of them either had a group at capacity or they were going with their girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever (that’s low-key kind of my fault because I asked last minute but still).

So I decided to go alone. By myself.

Prom night comes, I have my suit on, and I’m feeling all confident and shit. I’m in the venue where the dance was hosted in and there’s food everywhere and everybody’s dancing in the ballroom next to the food. I see some of my friends in the ballroom so I go inside to start partying. It was like a a couple hundred people in one room.

Now I’m dancing to music trying my best to enjoy myself, and I was at the time. I danced for like 30 minutes until I wanted to walk around and find some of my other friends to talk with.

As I’m walking around the ballroom looking for my friends, I get to a point where I see my girlfriend in a sparkly black dress stuffed in the corner of the room along with her friends and she’s DANCING WITH ANOTHER GUY. Some random that I’ve never seen before. WHAT THE FUCKKKK??
I’m confused as hell because WHAT ARE YOU DOING AT PROM?? You told me for days on end that you thought you couldn’t even afford to go to prom because it was too expensive!

So I walk over to her and her friend group and I try to talk to her. She sees me and then she starts walking away from me like I’m some creep following her and not somebody she’s been dating for six fucking months.

I go out to the main lobby to get something to drink because at this point I’m really just confused about everything that’s going on. She comes out of the ballroom to approach me so that she could “talk to me about something”(you probably know where this is going).

She brings me over to where the bathrooms were in the back of the venue and she dumped me on the spot. She tells me: “ I’m just not ready for a relationship right now” mixed with other excuses about her job and her family issues and whatever. She gives me an insincere “sorry” and then leaves me alone to go back to the dance floor to continue dancing with her friends, like she didn’t just break my heart in half.

I was distraught. Bamboozled and confused.
She broke up with me on prom night. The night where I’m supposed to relax and have fun and enjoy myself. I didn’t feel like breaking down and crying in the middle of the venue so I paid for an UBER and went home.

When I got home,I cried my fucking eyes out and I’m not an emotional guy.

Even now like almost a month later I’m still fucked up about it because how do you do somebody like that?
I know I’ll get over it eventually, but it breaks my heart that we had to end it like that.
I really liked that girl and this whole thing ruined my perception of dating.

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