A run-in with the law

[suddenleap]

I have finished my Place page at long last! This one was definitely the most annoying of the three, not least because in the process of making it I attracted the politely concerned attention of The Fuzz. You see, last night I decided that 55th Street at night was a good place to draw because it has awesome streetlights, and I love streetlights. So

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[delphizyx]

I like your sketches. I seriously can't draw straight lines, which is why I usually revert to drawing bulbous creatures.

I think their concern was thinly masked suspicion on behalf of homeland security. They probably thought you were up to no good and were more worried that you had a backpack bomb than anything else.

[suddenleap]

Thanks! As for straight lines, though... can anybody draw them? I can't. Mine are actually prone to quite a lot of wobbling, but a perk of this assigment was that I had to reduce all the pictures to less than a quarter of their original size, which made them look all technical and delicate. Makes me see why cartoonists almost always draw bigger than their intended printing size!

Man, if the university cops are patrolling 55th Street in the name of homeland security the nation really is going to hell. If someone set off a backpack bomb on that traffic island, the only thing they could count on blowing up would the the island! In my opinion, most of Chicago is too lame to be a terrorist target, but even people who disagree with me on that have to admit that the neighborhood of Hyde Park is most likely safe. :)

[wonderlandkat]

you should see what they do when 4-10 kids hang out in front of my building (I live near the highschool). Seriously, I've been told once or twice not to head towards my building because..... there's a riot! Yes, now a bunch of bored high school kids=riot!and not at all safe for you little (white) girl!

completely love the drawings though

[suddenleap]

That is just silly! How do they possibly call that a riot? And why does everybody assume white women are wimps? That makes me want to cry. I mean kick asses....

Thanks!

[philena]

Y'know, you say that it was quite safe and no car was going to hit you, but it looks to me from the pictoral evidence of the bottom right picture that you were in a direct line of traffic!

[suddenleap]

Naw! The main thing that looks like it is surging towards me in the sketches is another traffic island--quite stationary, despite my bad drawing seeming to imply otherwise! I know that in the last one it looks like a car, but the thing that looks like a headlight is meant to be a rock, and the windshield-looking thing is a patch of concrete. Also note the several lines meant to suggest grass and not rushing wind. There are some cars and a bus along the sides, but they were going safely off to my left. If you don't believe me, feel free to check out the place for yourself--eastern traffic island at 55th and Kimbark.