Olympus or bust! (no pun intended)

         Sound the trumpets! Open the gates! Before you lies the goddess of wisdom, Athena. This is no ordinary Athena however. This particular rendition of Athena only came by way of twelve hours of back breaking sitting in my art class. Thank goodness though I was accompanied by my friend Billy Talent to get me through the particularly rough times, such as the day I attempted those curly locks of hers. Special thanks also goes out to the All American Rejects for making multiple visits to sooth my discouragement as I looked around the room at the various other student works and realized that mine was how do you say it... special, in a "you did your best" kind of way. For those who didn't catch that subtlety, basically everyones was better than mine, but hey who's comparing anyway. I know if some of the other art people in the world  were reading this they would laugh at the mere twinkling of an eye's time that I spent on this, but for me it was my longest drawing yet. I learned some good shading techniques and also the benefits of taking your time. So here's to you Athena goddess of wisdom and crazy awesome memories of sitting in the most uncomfortable stool known to man kind.