Posted by sean on 5/8/2006, 9:29 pm why do we do this? how can my normal, rational mind know that Sheila is not real yet allow me to have some sort of crush on her. i've seen katie leigh, i know someone (mark? michael?) made that character up on a piece of paper as a stereotype... the chipette girl wasn't even a GIRL, she was a chipmunk standing like a girl, wearing girl clothes and talking, and i loved her! i'm insane! now, here i am, a full grown adult (not in my head, though!), and i still have a soft spot for Sheila. and i know that if i met katie liegh and she wasn't exactly like sheila, i'd be bummed. well, i know she's not sheila, she's a real human being, complex and intricate. sheila's a couple of black lines with some purple and pink splashed on. why do i, in my heart, want katie to be like sheila? why do i sit down to draw venger and immediately proceed to draw sheila. i can't still be in love with her. i've grown out of that. haven't i?
so this weekend, to relax, i opened up my new favorite (favoUrite, for your brits!) program, ArtRage, to paint a picture of Venger. 15 minutes later, i'm looking at another sketch of Sheila i drew. i kept working on it, and will post a link to it when i'm done, but today i was thinking about it. about this fascination with Sheila, or other "crushes" i had when i was a kid on not-real characters. remember the Chipettes? remember the one with glasses? damn, did i ever love her!
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