fun fact: the average 8-year-old weighs approximately 4.3kg on the moon. make what you will with that information.
Posts tagged classroom
barrage
seriously, someone should totally do this story for real. it’s like the last samurai meets 300, but with aliens. i’m a little busy with another story at the moment though, so hollywood, if you’re reading this, i’m totally ready to sell out.
ninja sedna
well, now you know why i started this story arc with the last illustration. now i’m half tempted to write a spinoff series about the adventures of “sedna the space ninja”, a brave young girl warrior who travels the galaxy saving planets from the threat of destruction by an evil alien empire. quick, someone stop me before i talk myself into it!
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!
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.