Today, my students turned in their male figure artwork. One absolute idiot had the smart idea of drawing me and the TA as some kind of gay lovers. I was torn between disgust at the explicitness, anger at the disrespect, and yet awe at how well-drawn it was. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after nearly three weeks of hard work, I finally completed my best drawing yet, a self-portrait. I was incredibly excited to take it to class tomorrow. That is, until I came home from a walk later on, only to find my brother had drawn a stick figure on it, wanking into my face. FML
Today, I saw a naked man for the first time in my life. It was the nude model in my art class. I was forced to draw wrinkles and fat rolls in places I didn't even know existed. FML
Today, my art teacher fawned over my friend's photographs of random children and people making out, while she called my picture of an old man looking thoughtful on a pier "creepy" and "voyeuristic." FML
Today, in art class, our instructor called me up to the front to model for a drawing. I agreed to pose because it was nice to be called on, and I needed a self-esteem boost. He then thanked me, saying it's a great exercise for the class to draw such strange proportions. FML
Today, I collected my students' notes in class to check them. One girl, who is always drawing weird anime crap in her sketchbook, turned in just one piece of paper that read, "FUCK YOUR CLASS." FML
Today, after finishing a test, I decided to draw to pass the time. My teacher looked at the drawing and gave me a referral to the principal for drawing an "anti-Semitic picture." I'd drawn Superman. FML
Today, I was doodling randomly during a meeting at work, and I noticed my drawing was beginning to look a bit like a penis. A coworker was eyeing it so I tried to make it something else by adding... oh good, now it's a penis and balls. FML
Today, I was in art class in which we were drawing mythical creatures. I spent the entire hour and a half drawing a Minotaur, which turned out extremely well. It turned out so well that the teacher thought I had traced it, and told me to start over right before the bell rang. FML
Today, my friend made the effort to draw a penis on every page in my analysis textbook in pen. I have to return this tomorrow. FML
Today, a friend asked me to come with her to the art building at school so I could pose in the stance of a figure she was drawing for her exam. I obliged and sat for the pose. When the art teacher walked by, she looked at me, then at the sketch, pointed to the legs, and said, "Make them fatter". FML
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A1BROS 4
As my father once told me: "Son, I appreciate all artwork, though I don't always agree with it."
madellen 16
Guess you could say it was a hard decision;)
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erenjaeger 16
Just tell the student that while they're very talented, that the particular drawing is inappropriate and to draw something else next time.
kingdomgirl94 29
I agree. Mark them based on the criteria objectively and then have a talk with them about personal boundaries and what is appropriate for content in this particular environment.
awkward_welcomes 8
Good grade- bad citizine ship.
jsp16 24
Was it drawn by that same kid from Wedding Crashers?
worldclassrager 41
Really great drawing deserves an A but how disrupting it is gives an F to make it a C or somethjng
ohishkabibble 21
I mean, if the student's work was marvelous, suck it up and give them an A. The "disrespect" you perceive should not influence their grade, because they are obviously extremely talented. Better yet, troll your student and have a long discussion with him about all the explicit portions that you just LO~OVE and point them all out while looking him straight in the eye.
Metalkitty 15
"I really enjoyed how much detail was put into the veins on-"
starbucks_girl 6
Omg I'm sorry but this is hilarious
rybaby23 8
Why are you getting so butthurt? :P
cakefete2 31
Well... When two men really love each other and want to express their feelings with one another...Any way butts tend to suffer greater casualties in homosexual relationships
Superwholock86 6
That's how I feel on Tumblr
dispwned 8
Fail them for disrespect; they need to learn, somehow.
mikbrooke 25
if the work is good, it is not fair to fail them because of disrespect. the grade is based on how good the work is, not how it makes you feel.
BrotherPhil 35
Part of how good it is is how effective it is at making you feel something, but what emotion it evokes should only be a part of your aesthetic judgement.
kingdomgirl94 29
I was taught that art, as long as it makes you feel SOMETHING is effective. There is no greater failure as an artist than to have everyone look at it and go "meh..."
raspution 21
Maybe the student is expressing his fantasy.