Just to give everybody fair warning, the 100th person to tell me “oh, I’m a terrible artist, I can’t even draw a stick figure!” WILL be thrown into a volcano. However I will not be disclosing what number we are at now
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
See one day you'll come to a conclusion that you no longer give a fug what anyone says about you, they are neither here, nor there. That is when the block button became my best friend, and realized, that had to do with them, the ones who had no inspiration, no skills, just blah blah blah Keep moving
I just need you to know that I am about to plug in my guitar and noodle around the pentatonic scale until I've created the stick figure of guitar solos.
If you like them, give them Ivan Brunetti's book or one of Lynda Barry's making comics themed books. If you don't like them, tell them to go to the library and look for those books!
I can draw much more than a stick figure. However, I have been drawing for over 20 years as an adult and my art still gets regularly stomped by 16 year olds. I guess I just don't practice enough?
Have you ever heard this one before? My brain does not process directions, mass, or distance well. I cannot visualize it. I also cannot rotate a figure in my mind.
Retired art teacher here - had a student with CP say that to me. I told him to look around - god can’t draw a straight line- everything god makes has curves. Man is the one focused on straight lines. Kid cried -asked if god made him. I said “you were definitely on gods personal work bench”.
I used to lead a class of 4 & 5 year old children at a private art school and couldn't believe how many of them told me during our first session that they couldn't draw. How do you know, I asked? They alway responded with "Mommy or Daddy told me so". So disheartening.
See the reality is, EVERYONE CAN draw, but everyone’s skill level differs. Unless you’re a prodigy, drawing art doesn’t just come naturally to many people. It’s a learned skill. So yeah, I’d agree that people saying that to compliment an artist is kind of annoying.
I'm a terrible artist. But I learned how to draw stick figures while learning to teach yoga poses. And I guess I like my paintings. I sing sometimes. I guess I just hate myself, and creating isn't always about loving the process. Sometimes, you are doing it instead of jumping into a volcano.
I am a terrible artist but I can draw a damned fine stick figure! 😉
(I also have fun playing with art in various forms and couldn’t care less about anyone’s opinions anyway! 🌋😄)
Oh my god this was my daughter for so many years.
But I didn't throw her into a volcano and now she draws cats every day and tells people she's an artist.
I taught middle school science for 36 years and woukd ask studio draw what the saw when they looked threw the microscope and the first words out of their mouths were I can’t draw. But I made them draw something.
Weird people man, nothing like a non-artist too tell an artist that he's a terrible artist. I was in a couch this last week and a guy starts like that couch is horrible so I said what are you up? Antique roadshow guy people are weird.
I used to be one of those people until I went into Art therapy, it changed my life by instilling in me the conviction that the only opinion that mattered was mine.
Now I love to create💙
I’m a fiber artist, but one with a strong interest in painting. I approach with curiosity, and seek teachers for guidance. Why not? It’s so fun to approach with joy and a willingness to learn!
Just throw me in—the world is going to hell. My job sucks. My ex boyfriend turned roommate (because my job sucks & I need the $) killed my 7 yo Rosemary plant because it was growing over the path where he parks his bike. Didn’t ask me to trim it back. If a volcano was close I jump in it!
Thst is what happens whenyou lean intonthr suck....
Lol i did an entire TED talk about using an AED in the Star Wars universe.
All the drawings were MS paint crayon drawings like a 5 year old would make.
Reasons:
-that was my art skill level
-looked super funny
-no way id get sued for copyright
that's what I tell people! then they point to someone famous and I'm like "please. go look them up on YouTube, they totally use rulers and erasers and pencils."
Comments
*enters the sweepstakes*
Although the volcano idea is good too.
*leaps into the burning pit of lava*
(I also have fun playing with art in various forms and couldn’t care less about anyone’s opinions anyway! 🌋😄)
But I didn't throw her into a volcano and now she draws cats every day and tells people she's an artist.
OMG you're so TALENTED you must have been BORN with so much TALENT that you never even PRACTICED
PLEASE BE ME
Now I love to create💙
...darn.
Hello yes, I heard you were throwing terrible artists into a volcano?
I'm working on being less bad, but I've got a ways to go in all areas.
Fingers crossed
Don't threaten me with a good time.
Is transportation included?
Then depression killed that.
bask in its brilliance
Scarier version of the abominable snowman in SkiFree (1991).
This is peak.
Lol i did an entire TED talk about using an AED in the Star Wars universe.
All the drawings were MS paint crayon drawings like a 5 year old would make.
Reasons:
-that was my art skill level
-looked super funny
-no way id get sued for copyright
Below my creation "Mother And Child":
Do we have 99 other people around here?
I say, Mother, no one can. That's what rulers are for.
“Oh, I’m a terrible artist….”
I pick a volcano in Iceland or Alaska.
We can toss them into the Atlantic, mix things up 🌊
Art teacher for 23 years. First time people hear that, they say it. 🤦♀️