The Art of Getting By
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Dirk Strider is an artist, a loner artist with a penchant for drawing and skipping class. Dirk had also a nihilistic view of the world which is why he never does his homework and skips school frequently. For him everthing was just an illusion...but it all changed when he met the photographer Jake English...
//and was kind of based in a movie .. xD //
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