Relax, Emily: Motherly

Relax, Emily: Nature Scenes

Relax, Emily: Montreal

Relax, Emily: St. Patty's Day

Relax, Emily: More Figure Drawing

CCS Appreciation Week!

So apparently this week it's Center for Cartoon Studies appreciation week, where all my friends (check out their links to the right and see what I mean) have been waxing poetic about how this school is AMAZING.

Sitting in this Bertucci's restaurant in Boston (across from the uber douchey bar "Clarkes") is where I found about CCS. A very pregnant friend told me. I went back to my cubicle....saw the website, and it was like love. I had to go.

When I applied, my art looked like this:

Yeah. I mean, it looks a lot like what I do now but I couldn't do anything except lifeless people, so I didn't think I was going to get in. In fact, in my portfolio review, I was told that I had "obvious hurdles." When I got in, I couldn't believe it. =)

I left a lucrative and decent financial job to go to CCS. I also left Boston, a city I had really enjoyed but Vermont -- is amazing. So it's okay.

I have learned SO much at CCS. It was the best decision I have ever made in my life. I now know what I want to do with my life and CCS made that possible. The teachers are amazing, my classmates are all wonderful people, and I am having the best time. When I graduate in May, I'm going to be so sad.




Here's a montage of fun!!

Relax, Emily: Tsunami

Relax, Emily: Marilyn Monroe

Relax, Emily: New Yorker cartoonists and me

Relax, Emily: Pills, Pills, Pills