by Marty Coleman | Oct 24, 2012 | Art, How To Draw A Napkin - 2012 |
Take a road trip with me across the country!
Steps 8a-8d: See 1a-1d
Step 8e: Give up looking for a college teaching job after 8 unsuccessful years.
Step 8f: Retrain yourself in computer graphics, using your family’s and friend’s computers during the day while they are at work.
Step 8g: Land a dream job in Tulsa, Oklahoma after you promise the company you will use your own computer as your work computer.
Step 8h: Drive sight unseen 1,692 miles across the country with your wife and kids to start a new life.
Step 8i: Start at entry level pay that is less than you made working four part-time jobs back in California.
Step 8j: Work hard and get promoted until 18 months later you are the Art Director and Producer at an educational software company.
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Concept, Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman, who doesn’t actually have a cowboy hat but wants one.
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Fact of the Day
Oklahoma originally was going to be 2 states but the Republican controlled congress did not want 4 Democratic senators added to their ranks. They made the two potential states into one so that only 2 would be appointed. Oklahoma was admitted to the union in 1907.
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 23, 2012 | Art, How To Draw A Napkin - 2012 |
Yes, I am trying to draw you in.
Steps 7a-7d: see 1a-1d
Step 7e: Get a part time job teaching drawing at a community college.
Step 7f: Get another part time job doing the same thing at a different community college.
Step 7g: Get a third job doing the same thing at yet another community college.
Step 7h: Keep your job working in a restaurant, creating art and raising your family.
Step 7i: Apply for full-time teaching jobs at colleges and universities all around the country.
Step 7j: Repeat steps 7e-7i for 9 years.
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Concept, drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman
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Trivia of the day
The teaching job I applied for that had the most applications was at the University of Virginia. There were 0ver 600 applications for one Assistant Professor position.
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 22, 2012 | Art, How To Draw A Napkin - 2012 |
It’s a new week and we are graduating to step six!
Step 6a-6d: See steps 1a-1d.
Step 6e: Move 515 miles to first college out of high school. Miss first semester because of being blown up.
Step 6f: Move 919 miles to second college because first college closes down. Lose girlfriend.
Step 6g: Move 3,072 miles to third college because you can’t afford the second college. Get Religion.
Step 6h: Graduate from 3rd college. Get married, have kids.
Step 6i: Move 2,399 miles to go to graduate school. Have car crash that should have been an omen.
Step 6j: Move 2,431 miles to second graduate school because you get kicked out of first graduate school for being a crappy artist.
Step 6k: Graduate from Graduate school. Start looking for jobs.
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Concept, drawings and commentary by Marty Coleman, who wasn’t really as crappy an artist as the professor said, but was still pretty bad.
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Fact of the day
There are over 2,700 colleges and universities in the US as of 2009. My immediate family has gone to 12 of them and graduated from 5 (so far).
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 21, 2012 | Art, How To Draw A Napkin - 2012 |
I know you have been waiting for this, so I am putting it on the table for you!
Steps 5a-5d: See steps 1a-1d
Step 5e: Get job at a restaurant.
Step 5f: Draw and photograph many of your co-workers and patrons (but not the ones you spill things on).
Step 5g: Meet art teachers, dealers and collectors and show them your work.
Step5h: Meet famous people and rich people and encourage them to buy your art.
Step5i: Repeat for 13 years.
Step 5j: Draw another waiter (not me, in spite of the resemblance, really) spilling food and wine all over.
Step 5k: Color in drawing of waiter. Use pretty colors.
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Concept, drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman, who never spilled wine or food on anyone but did drop a few plates.
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Fact of the Day
The highest amount paid for a painting by a living artist is 34.2 million dollars at an October, 2012 Sotheby’s Auction. The artist is Gerhard Richter and the seller was Eric Clapton.
Here is a photo of the painting being sold. It's the colorful one.
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 19, 2012 | Art, How To Draw A Napkin - 2012, Marty Coleman |
I know you weren’t expecting this, but it was due!
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Steps 4a-4d: Repeat steps 1a-1d.
Step 4e: Meet someone.
Step 4f: Marry them (traditional version)
Step 4g: Have sex with them (traditional version)
Step 4h: Get pregnant, or help at least (traditional version)
Step 4i: Have baby (traditional version)
Step 4j: Repeat 4g-4i as often as you wish.
Step 4k: Draw baby being born from memory. (don’t draw as it happens, that would be rude).
Step 4l: Color in drawing (be accurate)
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Concept, drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman, who contributed to this scenario 3 times (and added another in an untraditional way).
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Trivia of the day
An average of approximately 3,000 babies in the US are dropped upon delivery each year.
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