My name is… Justin… and I like drawing.

5 Aug

Yes, that’s my name and it plays a major role in this dashing original piece of art:

My sister found this drawing of mine today while cleaning out my parents’ hallway closet. I had forgotten all about this but I can’t remember when I would have drawn this. Must’ve been elementary school or Sunday school (I sincerely hope I was not drawing “kiddie” stuff like this past the 5th grade) and I’m sure it was some project the teacher gave us to keep our mouths shut for a bit: “Draw your name, kids!”. My guess is this was drawn sometime between 1991 and 1993.

I’m not really sure what I was going for here. Why is there an old lady, some guy, a mouse, a rabbit, a fish and a hound dog in the ‘J’? I guess that’s a shirt and pants-wearing (complete with belt) dachshund making the ‘U’. The ‘S’ snake is pretty cool, reminds me of a Brite Crawler gummy worm. The two guys forming the ‘T’ is kind of odd. The ‘I’ is a balloon and… a piece of Big Red? I have no clue and then the ‘N’ is a bridge with graffiti (you can make out “S-E-X” but I didn’t do that on purpose, I swear!) and a car driving on it.

Kind of interesting right? It’s retro and nostalgic, right?

Also notice the poorly erased pencil marks. Ah, to be so young and naive once again.

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One Response to “My name is… Justin… and I like drawing.”

  1. rattrocker August 6, 2010 at 12:00 pm #

    interesting, I am surprised it survived this long, now you better frame it and put it on the wall, also I was linked here but can’t find the link

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