Susan Draws is One!

It only occured to me after the fact, but Susan Draws is now officially a year old! As a belated commemoration: A timeline is in order! With commentary by myself! In third person! Huzzah!

7/6/09: After nearly two years as an accountant, Susan decides that her art-person is dangerously close to extinction due to lack of channels for artistic expression while working the 9-5. In a desperate attempt to keep the inner artist alive, she makes herself a blog and sets to draw a picture.. but has no idea what to draw.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/07/1-introduction.html)

She continues to have no idea what to draw for the next two months.

9/4/09: Then the fateful post to start off all other posts and a general theme is unleashed: office rants. She initially draws pen on paper, then scans on the office multi-functional printer and posts images only, with minimal or no text. Drawings are initially crude because there's no crtl+z to utilize against mistakes. Also she has to make these quick cause she's drawing em in the office.
(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/09/blackout.html)

9/11/09: She attempts colors (coloring scanned pics at home) but quickly folds because it is time consuming.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-fortune-cookie-said-to-me.html)

10/15/09: The first significant typed rant is triggered by The Boys. "The Boys" are Susan's coworkers, all of which are male.
(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/10/coffeemaker.html) Everyone gets aquainted with the boys.

10/22/09: On this faithful day, Susan's work computer dies, and the new one (outfitted with Windows Vista), does not have a driver for the office scanner. That is the end of the pen-on-paper scanned drawings. Susan starts drawing at home via tablet mouse on her laptop during the hiatus and discovers she likes this medium far better (ctrl+z FTW!!!). Drawings start featuring pink cheeks.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/10/hiatus.html)

11/19/09: The blog takes on a whole new level of usefulness with the first ever (and presently only) Office How-To: "How to Motivate (and/or manipulate) your very own middle aged man in three words or less".

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/11/office-howto-1.html)

12/31/09: Celebrating New Years Eve! Yeehee!


(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-nye.html)

1/11/10: Susan starts pinning her bangs up.
The significance of this is beyond me. Who even cares. I don't.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/01/death-by-business-trip.html)

2/22/10 and 3/9/2010 and 3/31/10: Everyone gets to meet some of the boys a bit more up close and personal.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/02/hi-kj.html)


(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/03/company-nurse.html)


(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/03/office-man-fad.html)

Those transition glasses still annoy the heck out of Susan and emobody all things crass, all things kitsche, all things common sense would govern anyone NOT to wear in public.

4/16/10: The first full-color feature! It was quite the time consumer so does not happen again for a good long while. Susan's friend Christina, Teddy's mama, prints and frames the picture to have and to hold forever and also to embarrass Teddy with when he is older.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/04/teddy.html)

6/1/10: Color becomes a regular part of the drawings after the epic June 1 Dreamer series inspired by my roomie and BFF: J.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/06/dreamer1.html)

6/24/10: Susan discovers a love for mixing funkylicious colors.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/06/diet.html)

Susan Draws: To Be Continued!
Thank you everyone for stalking/loving/supporting Susan Draws for an entire year! XOXOXO