So, you’ve found the perfect match. She's the most beautiful girl on earth. He's the sweetest guy you've ever met. She loves baseball and beer. He loves kids and your parents. Parents, one of the biggest steps in a relationship. Of course you know their daughter or son, and you are madly in love with her or him, but frankly, besides the pictures hanging on the fridge, you don't know who the in-laws are. And it scares you, because your beloved soul mate’s opinion about you can change in a second if you don't have the parents’ approval. Oh don't worry, we’ve already taught you how to deal with a hangover, moving house and an unwanted pregnancy, we won't let you down. That's why our artist is with us today, to help us prepare for this big encounter! Please welcome Sang Han!
Sang, or Sammy (anecdote time, his family gave him a more American nickname so he wouldn’t be teased as a kid, however, now his family have got used to calling him Sammy while everyone else now calls him by Sang. Anecdote time is over, gosh that was quick) is 23 years old and lives in the magnificent city of San Francisco. But wearing some flowers in your hair isn’t enough anymore, life has changed since we invented traders, Sang is going to move out of San Francisco as he can't afford to stay in the city, so he will be moving to live with some friends in the east bay.
After he graduated from the Academy of Art University, Sang became a freelance artist, working as an illustration and animation artist. He is currently working for an indie game company in Canada, where he's developing an xna videogame (readers note: an xna videogame is an Xbox live community game) called Kaleidoscope. In his free time, Sang works on a comic book that he created, hoping to be published one day. He seems pretty happy to talk about what he’s up to, and we love people who love their jobs, and that's why we ask him why he's enjoying being an artist so much:
" The thing I enjoy the most from being an artist is that I can create a whole imaginary world of characters with just a pencil and paper. I want to become a storyboard artist in the future. I love that storyboarding is putting two things I love most about being an artist together: storytelling, and drawing. "
As Sang loves drawing, creating a blog became a good way to display his work to the world and to network with other artists, that's why Threepeasoup was born during his college days. Sang confesses that it was at first kind of intimidating, and we understand him. There are a lot of artists posting amazing art work on their blogs and websites, and then you look at your own publications and feel like they shouldn't even be posted. But today's artist realized soon enough that there’s a fan out there for every piece of art, no matter what style or technique you use, so yes, it's always worth posting, and yes, it's always worth giving it a try by sending an email to alice@fmylife to be the next published artist on FML!
Let's get back to the point. Threepeasoup. It’s a strange name isn't it? We tried to understand it by ourselves, but without Sang's help, we never would have guessed. Naturally, a super-creative-cool name was needed. After days of brainstorming, he finally came to a decision with "three piece suit", it sounded so cool and even suave like James Bond. Sadly, the website was already taken, and he realized that it had nothing to do with being an artist. But Sang didn't give up, he kept saying "three piece suit" in his head over and over so much that "three pea soup" came into his mind and he loves it! The name has food in it and is truly unique. James is getting jealous. And we’ve heard Barney is souping up.
So, Sang has two names, he lives in San Francisco, he loves James Bond and food. He even likes food so much he would like to own a pastry shop in a few years. He seems to have a normal life (except he has Justin Timberlake in his iPod) so why did he choose this particular FML?
" I recently had to meet my girlfriends' parents, and I know the feeling of nervousness. Thank goodness her parents were the coolest people ever ! "
And thank goodness they don't own a dog. But wait a minute, we thought the FML Team and Fonzie were the coolest people ever? Anyway, thank you Sang for this illustration!
Threepeasoup (the website) is here: http://threepeasoup.com/
Threepeasoup (the blog) is here: http://threepeasoup.blogspot.com/
Threepiecesuit is here: http://threepiecesuit.com/
The headline "FML meets your parents" is sort of misleading. The article itself details a short biography of the artist who drew the cartoon at the bottom, and only briefly touches on why he chose the FML that he chose to draw. I was expecting the article to be something like, say, a list of ways to avoid certain meet-the-parents FMLs.
Yeah, I was expecting an actual thing about parents, not a totally unrelated story about the artist.
#14 - On 07/01/2009 at 11:32pm by tempaccount
I guess I'm going to be the only person to say what a great illustration this is.
#7 - On 06/29/2009 at 4:39am by biskitbukit
WTF is up with this story? there is a reason FML post are no longer then 3 sentences. Before everyone goes on a rant that i cant comprehend this, who will go past the first 2 or 3 paragraphs. I'm just saying this is pointless.
Dude, calm down. Nobody is forcing you to read this (I presume). Just go back to regular FML and don't read the blog again.
#9 - On 06/29/2009 at 8:39am by arienh4
The story the artist drew for was about meeting someone's parents. Pay attention and i agree..no ones forcing you. It's about the guy that drew it..who, yes did a great job. I'm sure your stickfigures are just as great..or atleast mommy says so.
#10 - On 06/29/2009 at 9:31pm by lilajeanlynn
lol what is the signaficance of the pic of the kitten?
#12 - On 06/30/2009 at 12:52am by cheer_leader247
get off there back honestly... if you thought you were mislead then why dont you write a letter to your mum... come on your big kids now.. get over the fact that you were slightly dissapointed and move on..... and personally i enjoyed reading about the artist.. so jog on
#13 - On 06/30/2009 at 8:58am by elpoida_90210
I have a question: if you are a regular acount of FML, do this take any money? Do you have to pay 4 it? Or is it free?
#15 - On 07/02/2009 at 5:57am by missClumzy
I think this seems to be missing a key element: what the heck was the FML that the illustration was about?
it was the one about the guy who was driving with his girlfriend to her parent's house to meet them for the first time and he accidently drove over their dog.
#17 - On 07/02/2009 at 9:51pm by indian_goddess
You have to click the picture in the initial blog and it will bring you to a full sized one. Don't feel stupid, the cat was misleading, and the post was terribly written as well.
#18 - On 07/03/2009 at 3:27pm by now_ill_post
