I decided I wanted to become a cartoonist when I was in first grade. I never talked to anyone. I was a quiet kid who just changed schools to one of French Immersion and found everything about school in general terribly monotonous.
So I entertained myself by drawing cartoons about video game characters like Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog, on manilla notebooks. They were hilarious cartoon novels (I had more way personality at 6 than 18) - and to this day I wish I could find those books.
I used to bring them home and when most kids would be happy to show their parent's their A or B - I was happy to show my mom my brand new book. Video games were my friends (they unfortunately still are).
When I got a little older, nine at this point I took art seriously and began to sketch portraits. I took an art class at 11 and got the highest marks in art class in grade 9.
Today I love doing digital video game fan art; I have a deviant art profile "Jaden Amber", and when I'm done with my Lara Croft sketch I'll post it.
I haven't been able to draw in a few weeks but I'll finish by the weekend, since I have some free time from all that studying I don't actually do.
This week I've been writing a lot, getting ready for my weekend release of my eBook series "Prissy Little Chloe" a cartoon novel about my trouble marking little yorkie Chloe.
The second book is holiday-themed - Chloe's favorite time of the year (I got her for Christmas a few years ago - come to think about it she hasn't changed a bit. Don't know if that's good or problematic.)
and my dog always wants to steal the attention on Christmas (and every other day), so she'll jump up on someone's lap, no matter what's already there.
When I try to take a picture of her she'll turn away, but always wants to be on Christmas videos, blocking gift opening and all.
When we're eating dinner, she weaves in between the chairs and scratches anyone's leg to get a scrap. Then you give her some and she turns her nose up at it and walks away. That's my girl!
Here she is on my sister's wedding dress. The photographers just had to get a shot. In fact they got a few shots of my dog on my sisters wedding day! She's so cute though, just likes to do whatever she wants.
Choosing what to write a cartoon children's series about was an honest no-brainer. It helped that I already had journal entries from the day I got her, so I just had to turn them into a book.
Chloe may not be well-behaved but that'spartly my fault. She's really very smart - too much for her own good. Dog has the sense enough to know when she's doing something wrong and still do it.
I taught her a lot of tricks though - sit, lie down, roll, beg - and trickier ones like paw, high-five; even combos like beg/high-five and lie down/paw, dance and play dead. She knows practically every trick in the book besides two very basic ones - come and stay.
You could only imagine what havoc comes of not being able to get a fast little dog to stay or come back. Except you don't have to because she runs down the street every single day.
The worst part is I taught her those "tricks". She just doesn't do them. She chooses not to fetch either.
You throw her blue bear (or what appears to have once been one) and she wants you to chase her around the place just to throw straggly thing.
It's actually much harder than it sounds and she's really fast for a 4-lbs dog. She starts running past you one way and when you try to grab her runs the other way. She can slip between doors ajar and through your legs.
I end up not minding so much touching the "bear" so I don't beaten at tag by a little terrier. I never win.
It becomes a real treat when I try to bathe her (she hates it) and she jumps out soapy water
and all and runs down the stairs and all over the house.
It takes ten whole minutes just to corner her. If she doesn't dart the other way when you try to grab her or slip through your legs.
So I entertained myself by drawing cartoons about video game characters like Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog, on manilla notebooks. They were hilarious cartoon novels (I had more way personality at 6 than 18) - and to this day I wish I could find those books.
I used to bring them home and when most kids would be happy to show their parent's their A or B - I was happy to show my mom my brand new book. Video games were my friends (they unfortunately still are).
When I got a little older, nine at this point I took art seriously and began to sketch portraits. I took an art class at 11 and got the highest marks in art class in grade 9.
Today I love doing digital video game fan art; I have a deviant art profile "Jaden Amber", and when I'm done with my Lara Croft sketch I'll post it.
I haven't been able to draw in a few weeks but I'll finish by the weekend, since I have some free time from all that studying I don't actually do.
This week I've been writing a lot, getting ready for my weekend release of my eBook series "Prissy Little Chloe" a cartoon novel about my trouble marking little yorkie Chloe.
The second book is holiday-themed - Chloe's favorite time of the year (I got her for Christmas a few years ago - come to think about it she hasn't changed a bit. Don't know if that's good or problematic.)
and my dog always wants to steal the attention on Christmas (and every other day), so she'll jump up on someone's lap, no matter what's already there.
When I try to take a picture of her she'll turn away, but always wants to be on Christmas videos, blocking gift opening and all.
When we're eating dinner, she weaves in between the chairs and scratches anyone's leg to get a scrap. Then you give her some and she turns her nose up at it and walks away. That's my girl!
Here she is on my sister's wedding dress. The photographers just had to get a shot. In fact they got a few shots of my dog on my sisters wedding day! She's so cute though, just likes to do whatever she wants.
Choosing what to write a cartoon children's series about was an honest no-brainer. It helped that I already had journal entries from the day I got her, so I just had to turn them into a book.
Chloe may not be well-behaved but that's
I taught her a lot of tricks though - sit, lie down, roll, beg - and trickier ones like paw, high-five; even combos like beg/high-five and lie down/paw, dance and play dead. She knows practically every trick in the book besides two very basic ones - come and stay.
You could only imagine what havoc comes of not being able to get a fast little dog to stay or come back. Except you don't have to because she runs down the street every single day.
The worst part is I taught her those "tricks". She just doesn't do them. She chooses not to fetch either.
You throw her blue bear (or what appears to have once been one) and she wants you to chase her around the place just to throw straggly thing.
It's actually much harder than it sounds and she's really fast for a 4-lbs dog. She starts running past you one way and when you try to grab her runs the other way. She can slip between doors ajar and through your legs.
I end up not minding so much touching the "bear" so I don't beaten at tag by a little terrier. I never win.
It becomes a real treat when I try to bathe her (she hates it) and she jumps out soapy water
and all and runs down the stairs and all over the house.
It takes ten whole minutes just to corner her. If she doesn't dart the other way when you try to grab her or slip through your legs.
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