lost & found services: 02/01/2005

"...good, good.... You Knee?"

AAS pg.1

~~> this was a project i did for my asian american studies class, to get out of doing a book report which turned out to be both good and bad. anyways, basically the story talks about chinese kinship; aunts, uncles, nephews and etc. but not by blood. yeah chinese people are weird like that anyways basically the guy is telling his girlfriend what he knows about this kinship thing within the chinese culture. and there's a twist at the end of the story...well, depending on how you look at it.

basically this chinese idea of kinship came into play when many chinese men began coming over to the U.S. a long time ago. many of these men came from the same province or village and since they had no family they relied on one another, you know back-up and/or support one another in times of need. coming to the point of addressing one another as 'brother'--so-and-so. when women were allowed to come over (finally!) the women would treat their husbands' 'brothers' literally as blood family and this carried on through to the childrens teaching them that 'oh so and so is your third uncle and so and so is your 18th auntie' and other b.s.. this of course is carried on to the present generation where people who we call 5th uncle actually has no blood relation to any of us which many of us in this generation see this as being pointless because then by now every chinese in any part of the U.S. is related to another which means family members are marrying another. remember even though they're not related, they treat one another as blood-related so...!

i really messed up with this, looking back at it now, like i shouldn't have hand-drawn the word balloons or hand-written the text as well but then i didn't have any software for the word balloons plus it was close to the due date when i finally finalized the idea of the story. but the point of this is show my inking skills, which isn't all that well but it'll have to do. if any employers wanna hire me then you have to look over this and then make your decision. i'm a penciller who'll ink over his work but i am not an inker period. i have a bit of confidence in my inking ability but not an arrognant a-hole that "yeah! i'm a pro!" so not me. so there.

--holden

p.s.--this was done back in '03 or maybe '02 so these are actually old. i'm still progressing in my penciling abilities; again not an arrognant a-hole that "yes! i'm a pro penciller!" cuz i'm not, i'm still learning...later nitez.