My boyfriend never drew, never painted, said he sucked at it and I believed him for years. Then I happened to see his "notes" from a boring meeting...

Mar 3, 2017 2:13 AM

He hides his creativity and writes off his skill, he shys away from the idea when i encourage him to be proud and create freely. It's beautiful, deep, and playful. Full of detail and hidden surprises, don't you think?

The meeting was so boring that he learnt how to draw and practiced quite a lot.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm sorry but that is utter horse shit. I can clearly see he has practiced a lot.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

its no masterpiece, but thats pretty fuckin neat.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't believe the premise, but I admire the work regardless...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Next level doodle

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Kind of a betrayal to post it here. He obviously didn't want to share.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

If I wrote a graphic novel, I'd have him do the drawings

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He's ready to turn pro and play in the big leagues

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Please tell him he's talented and continue to draw and hopefully soon, share his work.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

folder[art]

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I feel like he could be an amazing comic book artist.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Dorohedoro

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would have that tatooed

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wish I could doodle like this, my doodles consist of mostly tiny flowers or hearts, that's talent

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dude fuck yeah go you dude, go you

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Shit i wish i could draw like that! That is mad!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the flying penis with the ax threw me off for a second... otherwise well done

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The smoke reminds me of dorohedoro

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"I can't draw." Proceeds to outdraw 80-90% of everyone with boring meeting doodles. wow. just wow.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hint: it's bullshit.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How do you know? People second guess their work all the time, some more than others. PS: if you have actual proof this is fake, let me know.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"My boyfriend never drew"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Well, that she knew of. Obviously, if it is real, @OP's BF didn't show her the 'doodles' he had drawn before.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's fucking amazing.

9 years ago | Likes 611 Dislikes 3

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's fucking amaze

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why?

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 88

I mean look at it! But really I am curious why you think its not that good.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bcuz

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

Wow rest in peace

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Let him have it. Not everything special is meant to share. It's personal.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Some of my favorite details are the way that he creates delicate hair on the arm, and the way he depicts a metallic gleam on the weapons.

9 years ago | Likes 86 Dislikes 4

Couldn't agree more. The shine on that knife is perfection.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Is he an introvert? I know a few artsy creatives who do this for just themselves and don't want the attention from showing other people.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Not an introvert, but not an extrovert either. He's humble in all he does though.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

That hand is amazing though, it's one of the hardest things to draw

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I think the reason it's so common among artists is because we aim to create masterpieces, but just end up with something "really neat".

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

you do? I just make designs that for art principles. That's it. No bs about masterpieces.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or the "you shoulds". Sucks the inspiration right outta me.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Plus if you're just doodling and it looks good, it feels cheapened in that you didn't try.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

That's not a skill you have without practice...

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Guessing he doodles constantly, just hides the results.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, lmao. Drawing like this takes hundreds of hours of practice. Cant believe people think art just boils down to talent

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Yeap, pen stroke and shading required practice, OP just trying to get some sympathy point, and everyone come around forming huge circlejerk.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Looking at OPs post it looks like their SO is a game graphic developer or content creator of some sort, so "never drew" is BS on every level

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah I'm calling heavy bullshits on this.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

There might be something behind why he hides it, talk to him.

9 years ago | Likes 379 Dislikes 5

Yeah, like a cover up story to get this to go viral

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Or.. maybe he just doesn't want to share his art, that it is his own thing, and you just shared it on the Internet...

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Yeah he's likely a liar. He's probably dicking some lady in a washroom right now and you should be sad "To catch a predator" isn't on air.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*looks at picture* drugs, the answer is drugs

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

yeah my dad was an amazing writer but his mom made fun of him about it so I didn't read any of his stuff till after he died.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

He may not want to talk about... The event.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm sure she can draw out his potential

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or he made a deal with the devil, regrettet it after and used the clause in the contract that he only has to fullfil the pact if he makes1/x

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

money with this gift. 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Maybe he got denied entry into art school and blames it on the Jews.

9 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 3

You're probably Reich

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I hide my art skills because a lot of my drawings are weird. Also because it's nice to surprise people.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hiding your skills surprises people? How?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It can be a huge surprise if the other person knows you fairly well. I didn't know a friend could play guitar until hearing it. 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, I mean, the surprise will come when you reveal. Not if you continue to hide!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Aah, I get what you were trying to get at.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2/2 Prior to that, when asked if he had talent with music, it was a flat 'no'. He did good playing Fuel & Before I Forget.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seriously, maybe his parents put him down all the time: "you know what artists say at work? You want fries with that?" :^\

9 years ago | Likes 173 Dislikes 2

I mean, that's not incorrect for the most part.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Because graphic designers and illlustrators and other jobs in the art field are just made up right? Everything is designed.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Arts are closer to saturation than other jobs are, so field-related employers can be more picky about who they hire. Some people lose out.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it's tough. My brother has a fine arts degree. He's brilliant, but never made any money. Had to get another degree to find decent work

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

A page out of my mom's handbook.I've heard this daily for years.Fast forward,a useless degree later and my sketchbooks still hide under bed.

9 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 1

I'm in the same boat, man. But I bet your art is beautiful, never give up on it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The degree itself may sometimes be useless to you, but what of the experience gained from it? Unless that was useless too, I guess.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I had a language arts teacher tell me when I was 12 "repeat after me: would you like fries with that?" because I couldn't answer a question.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Put me out of wanting to write for the rest of my school experience.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Ah! Write a story about the 12-year-old you orchestrating a revenge murder!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Should'a a stabbed a bitch.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Why the F is this so common with artists. Wish I had half that talent!

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

They you will shy away

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You need to be good at something to know how bad you are at it. If that makes any sense. The worst singers are usually very confident!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Drawing is a very learnable skill, you could get there with practice and instruction. No talent required just stop selling yourself short.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Most artists I know, good or bad, really just rip into their own work. Kinda depressing really

9 years ago | Likes 202 Dislikes 0

The good ones do. A lot learn to use that behavior constructively to improve their work. I always praised my art and so I was a 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Complacent and lazy artist. Never pushing myself, etc. Part of the reason I've geared away from it a little bit.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For me it's just feeling that it's not good enough. It's a path to self-improvement, and not in itself a negative.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The same with musicians, for the most part

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Musicians are artists :) I think it has to do with art, in whatever form, is very intimate and personal. To share it takes a lot of courage

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It is called the creators bias. You are unable to appreciate your work in an unbiased way. Some people never get over it sadly.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

An artist is their own worst critic. And sometimes the Internet too...

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

because when you look at our drawings you see an overview and like it, we see all our details and where it went wrong.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As an artist, I can attest. I can be incredibly cruel to my own work and getting compliments can sometimes embarrass me.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It's because they often see the work of master artist and they feel like they are so behind.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I do commission art as a hobby, most of my friends like my drawings, but I never feel they're adequate. Don't know why!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I do that on occasion

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

For me it's because what's on the paper doesn't match what was in my head. The art is a disappointment but nobody else can see why.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's the nature of good art. If you made you will probably stare at it for longer than anyone, seeing everything that doesn't match what 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What you wanted it to be. I want to be a writer and I think I can write well, but I always scrap it

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's my secret, my writing is actually bad so I don't have to lie to be people to be humble

9 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

We are our biggest critics. It comes down to thinking nobody will like it and not taking the step and putting it out there to see.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Or thinking that yeah, someone might /like/ it, but it's not good enough to be pro, and you could have done better if you just tried more...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Art is also an extremely personal/intimate thing. It's pretty much a piece of our soul that we are putting out there so we want it to be

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the best it can be so we don't get judged.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not depressing, it shows that these artists know that they can improve on their work, which is good for creating better art.

9 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

While this is true it can also be self destructive. You can be proud of your artwork and still want to improve

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Some of the greatest artists are very anal about their work

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Sasha Grey?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

I sent a picture to a friend and could only comment on all the stuff I felt like I hadn't done as well as I could have. :/

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0