And so enters Art Girl.
We couldn't have Long Hair and Punk Rock talking to themselves forever.
I wasn't sure how I was going to draw Art Girl, and in the end I gave her Goo Goo bangs with dark hair and stripey leggings. Now that I have her design down, we'll flesh out her character as the strip goes along.
To clear up any questions about her name, I chose Art Girl because when I was in college if I didn't know someone's name, I just applied the context of where I knew them, or quick descriptions. My friends in college knew exactly who I was talking about if I said names like "Art Girl", "Siouxsie clone", "Bauhaus jacket", or "Beer" (there was a scroungy looking guy that was a boyfriend of one of my roommates my freshmen year, and I never saw him without a beer, so hence his name). It wasn't meant to be cruel, just a way of keeping the conversations going.
Calling her Art Girl also accomplishes the fact that I don't have to come up with a real name, like I did with Long Hair.
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