Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Cup #7: Brenda

Is the cup half-empty or half-full? With Brenda, it's filled to the brim, teetering to the point that if you dropped a shotglass into it you'd have quite the mess on your hands.

Brenda is a wealthy socialite who, despite being in her mid 60's, still likes to party like she's back at her prestigious Ivy League university using all of daddy's money to finance her horticulture degree and collection of vintage wines. She is the type of girl who refuses to settle down and is always determined to look better than the other girls around that are less than half of her age. Believing she's "still got it," Brenda often can be found on hotel bars trying make new friends whilst wearing enough makeup to pass as either a mime or a birthday party entertainer. Depressed and lonely after her husband left her when he realized that she was good for nothing but spending his money (and also not aging nearly as well as the bourbon she constantly stores inside), Brenda does her best to uphold her "holier than thou" appearance, but sadly falls short of that goal when she falls asleep on a barstool in a puddle of gin and cigarette butts.


(I decided to use color for the first time with this cup, limited by my restricted assortment of markers and highlighters already sitting at my desk. Some cups in the future will have color, when appropriate, while others may stick to the self-proclaimed "classic" black and white style of the first run.)

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