Today, I turned in my best painting yet for a scholarship competition. For once in my life, I was actually proud of a piece I'd done. I ended up losing the scholarship to some dickface who'd basically just glued together some crap from the dollar store and called it conceptual art. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I lost an art contest to some talentless arsepipe whose piece was literally just a broken heart crudely drawn in her own blood. FML
Today, one of my paintings was accepted into a local art gallery. It would've been a dream come true, had my "best friend" not submitted it under her own name and taken all the credit. FML
Today, I brought my best painting yet to college. I showed it off and everyone loved it. Or almost everyone. When we came back from lunch break, we found someone had sharpied the words "JIZZ BUTT" all over it. That painting took two weeks to finish. FML
Today, I found out that my art project, the one I've been working on for the last two weeks and the first piece I felt really comfortable about turning in, was stolen out of the art cupboard. FML
Today, I finally finished my art project, which was worth 50% of my quarterly grade. I came in first period to give it to my professor. When she turned to look at it, her elbow hit her coffee and spilled it all over the canvas. I got 60%. She said I would have had a 100%, except for the giant coffee stain. FML
Today, after submitting a 500-word essay to a writing contest, I found out that I lost to someone who wrote 3 sentences. FML
Today, I finished a big art project. It was a self-portrait done in acrylics. Proud of my piece, I showed my mom. After some thought her first comment was, "well, I'm either going to insult your art or your face." FML
Today, I was supposed to hear back from a major scholarship competition. After months of waiting, during which my parents were convinced I had won, I discovered that my entry had never been received. Apparently the woman I had confirmed with had had a long day, and lied so that she could go home. FML
Today, while sitting on a bench drawing, some guy went up to me, yelled, “YOUR ART SUCKS” and flipped my sketchpad out of my hands. I’d been working on that piece for hours and now there’s a big black pencil streak on it. FML
Today, I was looking through an old box of personal artwork when I realised the entire box was damp. This was all my own art from the past 3 years, smudged and smelling of cat urine. I was supposed to showcase some of it in a competition winning gallery this month. FML
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thats_savannah 10
Always the ones who don't try.
eaglerob 20
Maybe next time finger paint a few stick figures and glue on some macaroni? ;)
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Comments (91)
rawlings123 17
Maybe your painting wasn't as good as you thought. He probably worked hard on his project as well. No need to criticize him because you lost.
Lang88 13
That Dickface you called might of put all his effort into it. Don't critique other people's art if you don't know the behind story of it.
orsombre_fml 11
It sucks OP, but still, YOU did a good work. In the long term it'll make a difference. Good luck OP!
donutcallmethat 16
Sometimes the people who judge art have horrible taste. Don't let it discourage you. Keep improving your skills, and do it for the enjoyment. Eventually, you can become a success, and that is better than some crappy art competition.
geni310 10
Art just isn't art these days.
Buzz995 3
As an artist myself...I feel your pain...it's never fair in the art world unfortunately! Especially with this modern art stuff...I visited a museum and one artist had covered a canvas in a huge thick layer of neon green acrylic paint...then stabbed the canvas a few times in the middle...gave it an abstract title and now people are paying to see this...uhhh lol
ByTheThroat 0
Same thing happened to me in my art class. The guy actually admitted to using his sister's project she had done in 5 minutes, a year before.
curmudgeonly 1
It only gets worse once you're in school for art. The bullshitters have totally taken over. If you were smart, you enrolled in college instead of university. I hope they actually teach you techniques, unlike my shit ass program.
jennamwaldman 10
That really sucks. Sorry that happened ;-;
NamelessFace 22
Reminds me of that episode of Spongebob...