Oh my god, I was such a stupid kid.

[Valkysas]

I forgot all about this, until I found an old "school stuff" folder. I'm almost too embarassed to share. but what the hell.

for my fourth grade art class, we had a final project. that project was to draw something emotional. Any guesses what I drew?

any?

did you guess it had something to do with transformers?

yes? you did?

good job. it did. but what do you think I drew?

Did it have something to do with my favorite transformer, Hot Rod?

Yes! It did!

Was it a picture of Hot Rod crying at the side of a lake?

Yeah! you're right! I did draw Hot Rod crying at the side of a lake!

Well, actually I dont know what he's doing there or where the hell he is, but it looks like he could be crying, and I'm guessing that the setting is the lake from the beginning of the TF movie. although it could also be a really big tarp.

Oh my god, this is almost as bad as when I drew Voltron as part of my family back in kindergarten, or when I painted a picture of the Dinobots instead of my mom, also in kindergarten.

Oh yeah, I failed the project.

[Smurf Taco]

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[Loki]

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I think that's pretty emotional.

[Magus]

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I've done worse.

Darth Maul. Art class. Ugh.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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Oh god, you should see my grade 5 art portfolio. At least 20 pages of it has nothing customized mechwarriors. I even wrote descriptions for them all.

[TheHonorableRyu]

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For one project in my fourth grade art class we had to draw a hot air balloon, so I drew a hot air balloon with a werewolf pictured on it.

My best friend from 5th grade to 10th wrote Star Wars, Castlevania and Rival Schools fan fiction. We co-authored and drew a Street Fighter comic, made six RPGs ("planned" video games notated on paper) and constructed a really insane comic that lampooned DBZ. We filled sketchbooks of characters that corporately look like a mixture of G.I. Joes, Street Fighters and Ronin Warriors.

[Riotsword]

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In my senior year we were asked to take a common object and place it in a drawing, for some reason, I forget details... I had just started playing the original NES Final Fantasy again, plus I really liked 8-Bit Theater at the time, so I made a picture of FF's Fighter attacking with a Bic pen.

I think I got like a 12 out of 20, which isn't all that great.

[Vonwert]

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I am sorry, but that is really good! It shows a lot of emotion of loneness and sorrow.

Perhaps Prime was destored by a powerful foe....

I hate art teachers that demand everything to be drawn in one way.

[Nixon]

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I think that's a great drawing, it's certainly emotional.

Art teachers that refuse to reward a person's unique creative views should be axed. My dad told me a story about what killed his love of drawing. It was a grade school teacher that ripped up a picture he did because it didn't fall within the "rules" she had set. That's really sad.

[Big Rick Cook]

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Gah, Jesus Christ.

I can't draw that well NOW, and you did that in 4th grade.

Blast every one of you with art skills beyond mine.

Which is like... all of you.

All I can draw are guys with vaginas on their backs.

[Magus]

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What's to understand? They're all a bunch of ****tard molestors anyway!

I hated each and every art class I took. ...WHY DID I KEEP TAKING THEM?!

[Riotsword]

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Yeah, I thought the point of these classes were to expand your horizons blah blah blah...

But if you do something that they wouldn't do, they fail you. *Flips the bird at his art teachers*

But, then again, Galileo was ostracized for thinking the earth was round. AND GUESS WHAT!?

[Vonwert]

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My one experience occured when we were to draw a perspective of a city street with buildings.

I put an beer ad on the side of the building and even though I was one of better artist in the class, I got a D for it, "just" because it had the beer ad.

[Nixon]

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I had one crappy art teacher in high school and later one really awesome one. The awesome one saw where I was with my art and decided to let me set my own projects and schedules, which I always adhered to. He let me work on my first real comic book as a semester project.

In college, I ran into some of the same problems again and again, mostly with the fine art profs that thought all cartoons were ****. One of my profs made me stop drawing something I was working on because it wasn't "visual poetry." She even told me to my face "Cartooning isn't art."

A few days after that, someone called the art building and it was routed to her studio. The request was for a cartoonist, and I was the only person that could take the job. It was a big rush job, and I made a lot of money off of it, and I was sure to tell her just how much money I'd made off my "non-art."

When I was forced to participate in an art show for my senior year, I submitted a lot of cartoony-esque works that were on canvas. The show director seemed to hate my stuff, and again the other fine artists turned up their noses. But of all the stupid crap in that show, my stuff got the most attention and most positive responses. I was hanging around outside the show for most of it, because of my hatred of the entire ordeal. There was one guy that walked in late, pointed at my self-portrait and exclaimed to the crowd "NOW THAT IS COOL." I felt a little better after that.

I guess the bottom line is: Art teachers and profs are ****ing weird.

[Loki]

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mostly with the fine art profs that thought all cartoons were ****

My college art teachers were the same way. They're the reason I droped out of an art major and switched to film.