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I Might Have An Obsessive Problem by Zgrooz

I Might Have An Obsessive Problem

Zgrooz

A quick drawing that pretty much illustrates that I might be a bit obsessive with drawing Wile E. too much, and I might know a long reason why.

TL;DR: Boot Camp + Self-Inflicted Brain Damage = Obsession to Draw Wile E. Coyote

You see about a year ago I signed up to join the Navy. It was around March 11 that I was sent to boot camp up on Chicago, and boy, was it just miserable. The physical aspect of the training didn't bother me too much, but the very intricate things like memorizing a whole bunch of stuff, trying to fold clothing, getting up & getting ready in the morning in such little time, a whole lot of stuff. And if either you or someone else messes something up, everyone suffers by some disciplinary action; which is just aggravating.
During the past 3 weeks in training the stress really got to me that I started to develop a bad habit of making violent neck twitches and hitting myself on my forehead with the fore knuckles of my hands. I even at one point banged my head on the side of my bunk bed that it was irritating me; which of course THAT would be damaging some brain cells.
It was until the 3rd week that one day I really was on the brink of exploding, and the instructors were catching on of my behavior that they put me in separation that puts me in honorable discharge, and put me in some other group where I had to wait about over a month for me to get some legal stuff out of the way, and then get a ticket to come home. While the wait was monotonous, during the time I had a notepad that would keep me busy while I had to wait for my process. While it was filled with various things like some old long time original content I used to make, there where plenty of doodles that involved Wile E.
Now before the venture into boot camp, I had drawn Wile E. Coyote from time to time, but not as often as I have been doing since the closing year up till now. I'm not so certain, but maybe the brain damage I've inflicted upon myself might have done some kind of childhood-like opening within me about my fondness for the character that it has been opening up so much artistic motivation to do more art of him. When I was really young I used to enjoy watching Looney Tunes, and of course my favorite shorts where the ones with Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. I guess I had a fondness for the silent comedy that the shorts had and Wile E. was my favorite of the two. Even though surprisingly I had never had any memorabilia at all that had anything with Wile E. Coyote or anything related in my childhood (can't say I've seen any toys or whatever in my childhood to have).

It might not be the real reason of why I have been drawing Wile E. as of late, but I would have a theory that from some of the recently past occurrences may have affected my intellect somewhat that may have opened up a rather bizarre obsession of Wile E. Coyote to be some kind of muse for my art motivation.

Wile E. Coyote (c) by Warner Bros.

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