{"id":237194,"date":"2018-01-10T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T16:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sassypantsdesign.com\/?p=237194"},"modified":"2021-03-29T21:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:40:53","slug":"the-art-why-draw-dogs-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sassypantsdesign.com\/?p=237194","title":{"rendered":"The Art. Why Draw Dogs and People?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wait. What? Counseling to Art?<\/h4>\n

What leads a person to a particular vocation? This is fascinating to me. It turns out that most college grads end up in fields that don\u2019t relate to their major.<\/a> This could not be more true for me. I have a BA in Human Development and a post graduate degree in counseling. And now I draw funny pictures of dogs and people. (And Stacy, our resident comedian, has a math degree. Huh?)<\/p>\n

But life is a journey. Wouldn\u2019t it be boring if our own didn\u2019t have some speed bumps and detours along the way?<\/p>\n

One of my detours was a certification in graphic design. This undergirded my lifelong passion for anything visual.<\/p>\n

Graphic Design to Art for the Sake of Art<\/h4>\n

My evolution has its roots in my beginnings in the graphic design field as a graphic and web designer. I realized that I loved creating art for the sake of creating. But designing for someone else stressed me out.<\/p>\n

Maybe that harkens back to my fear of rejection, but that is another story for another time.<\/p>\n

Drawing Dogs and People to Making Greeting Cards<\/h4>\n

Enter Boomer, my full-of-himself, oh-so comical Wheaten Terrier. He never failed to deliver when it came to comic relief. He stole and ate underwear from houseguests suitcases. As he aged, his eyesight waned. But, <\/span>Mr. Magoo<\/a> insisted on running an entire <\/span>agility course<\/a>, even though he couldn\u2019t see most of it. (I was right there, hanging on to him for dear life on all of the risky parts.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Boomer: Always into Everybody Else’s Business<\/h4>\n

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Inspired by Boomer, I began dabbling with drawing dogs.<\/p>\n

Enter my longtime comedian friend, Stacy. One day, we started lobbing funny captions back and forth for the dogs I was drawing. This was fun, and it made us laugh. And we said, \u201cFunny greeting cards! We can make those!<\/a>\u201d We added the \u201cladies\u201d, because our lives are rich with humor. This provides unlimited material for our cards.<\/p>\n

Sassypants Design was born. So now I draw dogs and people. And it’s fun.<\/p>\n

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…read <\/span>this true story about Boomer.<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh how I miss that dog!<\/p>\n

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