teacher
how do i depict the feeling of all eyes being on you? i know! i’ll just draw a bunch of literal floating eyeballs staring at the character! you’re a genius thomas!
Webcomics from sedna
a comic about space and dinosaurs.
bully
you know you’re in trouble when you make dini so mad his veins pop out through his beanie.
primary school
finding reference images for aussie primary schools on google images is surprisingly hard, so it was lucky i thought to take some photos last time i went to my sisters’ school on parents’ day a few years ago.
to preemptively answer a few questions:
– yes, our desks are arranged like that.
– no, it’s actually a pretty great system. everyone else is doing it wrong.
– no, no one calls it elementary school except people who watch too much american tv.
– year 6 = 6th grade, but since the first grade is kindergarten it’s technically 7th grade.
class is starting
after one of my first ever days of school i turned to my mum and asked in a voice of pure desperation “you mean i have to do this for 13 years?!”, and she’s never let me hear the end of it. to be fair, 19 years later and i still stand by 5-year-old me. it really did suck as much as i thought it would.
make sure not to forget the whirlybirds (or “attic fans” as some boring people like to call them) when drawing buildings in australia, they’re a quintessential part of our culture.
school day
that’s right, we’re doing a school arc mates. apparently i still have some childhood trauma to work through or something, and this is as good an output as any. also, do kids in any other countries wear these wide-brim hats as part of their school uniform, or is it just an aussie thing?
relativity
look at me, actually drawing launch towers properly for once.
plugging some quick numbers into wolfram alpha, the energy required to propel a 100 metric tonne ship to 99% the speed of light is roughly 5.472×10^22 joules. this is equivalent to 1/9th the energy of the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, or 225,000x the energy of the tsar bomba, the largest nuclear bomb in history. and that’s not even to mention the energy required to stop, come back, and stop again.
which is to say, sedna’s being a little optimistic in her dream here.
tiny ninja vs alien invasion
(click here for a high resolution version of this illustration)
“hey! complex geometric structures are fun to draw!” – said literally no-one ever.
oh no! tentacle aliens are attacking the sydney coathanger! but fear not civilian, ninja sedna is here to… poke holes in it i guess. ever wonder what would happen if aliens attacked a country that wasn’t the us or uk? or what it would look like if an iconic bridge that wasn’t the golden gate bridge got destroyed for once? well, wonder no more!
in hindsight, i probably should’ve picked an angle where you can see the opera house, because without it this could really be any lemon-slice-shaped bridge in the world.
one more chapter
when i lived in japan there was someone living nearby who started their motorbike at around 5am every morning, so whenever i stayed up way too late playing strategy games or watching anime (which was pretty often considering my classes started at 12:50), that revving sound was what rudely let me know that i screwed up.
fast forward to when i’m back in australia thinking i’ve been freed of that accursed bike alarm, and alas, i forgot that all our damn birds start singing at 5am. it’s like the universe wants me to have a proper sleep schedule.
you can’t tell me what to do, universe! you’re not my mother!
bedtime routine
personally i read with my kindle every night as a way of making myself tired enough to fall asleep, but i have to read in my second language to give my brain some work to do. if i read in english i risk sailing through the book until suddenly i look up and it’s 9am the next morning.
i mean… not that i’ve ever done that before… ( ⚆ _ ⚆ )
wish
of course, sedna doesn’t believe in superstitious nonsense like shooting stars granting wishes.
…buuuut it doesn’t hurt to try. ;)