Friends on a Large Foot

Artist: Gaven

I drew this picture way back when I was in 3rd year, and looking back on it now, I find it rather silly. At the time though, I was quite upset, be reasonably or not, and used the picture to vent my emotions. Many of my early pastel pictures were rather “venty,” but now I’m rarely pissed off, so these days I mostly just draw things I find interesting.

Sometimes I’m pretty vague about explaining the story behind my pictures, but since I don’t think anyone who reads this was actually part of the whole fiasco, I’ll be a little more specific.

So here’s the story: Awhile back I was chatting with a friend (call her Agnus) and we got on the topic of going camping. We decided that someday in the summer we should go camping together with the “gang.” The summer was a long way away, so it was just a tentative plan. Later I started going out with this girl (call her Beatrice), but that didn’t work out too well and so it abruptly ended. I was still new to the whole relationship world, so I didn’t take the breakup at all well. Anyway, Beatrice was part of the “gang,” that is, Beatrice was friends with Agnus, so the tentative plan of going camping seemed potentially at risk. But the gang pushed on and everyone went camping, well except for me, I wasn’t invited!

Okay, so I said before that a tentative plan was made, so it’s not really like I got kicked out of something I had planned, more like something I had mentioned, but that’s not how I took it. I saw it as a group that I considered as my friends, leaving me behind because it would have been awkward with Beatrice and all. The truth is it probably would have been, and the “gang” knew Beatrice far better than me, so it made sense that if someone had to go it was me. And further, the people that planed it probably didn’t even know that Agnus and I had discussed going. But these are all thoughts I refused to have at the time.

I still remember exactly how I was feeling; like a giant foot, straight from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, came out of nowhere to stomp on me.

So you probably understand this picture pretty well now. The people on the foot and the background are members of the “gang” (including Agnus and Beatrice). I of course am the one below.

If by some weird chance you are reading this and were a member of the gang, know that this is a historical post – no hard feelings remain, I’m just a baby about things from time to time.