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- Kale, on 10/12/2007, -3/+256As their audience grew up, so did the toons. They now exist as South Park, ATHF, and such. That's my theory anyways.
/Dugg! - Barman, on 10/12/2007, -9/+217Those are awesome. We should have kids storyboard out new cartoon shows and characters, because they're definitely not what they used to be. What ever happened to the good, sometimes twisted, shows like TMNT, Ren & Stimpy, and Rocko's Modern Life?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+119Child Creativity + Adult Skill = Pretty damn cool pictures.
- TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+103The kids have the creativity. The adults have the developed art skills.
- crashnburn275, on 10/12/2007, -1/+88"All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up." - Pablo Picasso
- Barman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+76Ha, you should have seen some of the stuff I drew when I was a kid. It was blood, guts, guns, and aliens. If i drew what I did in this day and age, I'm sure I would've been expelled, sent to counseling, and deemed a danger to society. :D
- DrScott, on 10/12/2007, -20/+93http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+69@bluebonics
Welcome to the internet buddy. - freehunter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65Yeah, but he is talking about new kids cartoons, crap they are just throwing together for one season.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+61is it just me, or are the kids more emo now a days?
Why are the pics so morbid? - skanga2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50invader zim was utterly out there
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51This is the best one on the page I think..
http://drawergeeks.com/Kid_Creatures/Behm.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+48wow, that's actually one of the funniest sites i've read in a while. ... "That's interesting, everyone in this picture is white. Even the rainbow is white. Perhaps in an ideal world, everyone would be white isn't that right, Rachel? Or should I call you RACIST? Nice try, Hitler." ...
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38I went to a school in Illinois for several years and my mother was regularly called because I was drawing "violent" pictures. Any six-year-old who produces pictures of guns is obviously a maladjusted danger to society and should not be allowed access to colouring pencils!
Or, as a much less significant afterthought, guns. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41barman, they went the way once Nick started getting a more "kid-friendly" image. Watch episodes of Ren and Stimpy (which was on Spike for a while), Rockos Modern Life, and AHH REAL MONSTERS. Some of the stuff they did was kinda brutal!
- dafragsta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37One of the things that irks me to this day, and was an indication about how oppressive schools are to children just came to mind when I read these posts about how teachers would probably psychoanalyze childrens' drawings. Believe me, adults in the school system psychoanalyze everything when they get bored.
I was in the fourth grade and I was flipping through these SRA reading card things we had to do. Basically, it was a reading comprehension exercise where you read a story barely over two pages long and are asked questions at the end which you answer on paper and turn in. These stories were usually little fiction and non-fiction vignettes and covered a broad range of topics. I remember reading one about cryogenics and without even thinking, I started doing the twilight zone song for a second, ("Dodododo dodododo," get it?) and believe it or not, that ***** actually came up in a parent teacher conference.
I was pretty much a victim of biannual teacher conferences if not for nothing more than some obsession about how I cope with having highly functional but limited range of vision. (I'm legally blind, but see well enough that most of the assistance shoved onto me in school was unwanted and unneeded.) Granted, in the extenuating circumstances, I was under a magnifying glass, but the fact that this incident was presented as something weird before a meeting room full of supposedly-mature adults (my teachers, principal, guidance counceler, my mom, etc.) actually resonated with me in a pretty cold way. For the longest time, I thought lots of little incidents like that were a great place to hang baggage like insecurity because I was made to believe I was different, as if the constant analyzing didn't get that job done.
I'm a designer now and I pretty much spend most of my free time and time at work exerting as much creative energy as I can muster. I'm not a ***** Van Gough, nor am I holding myself higher than anyone else because I do what I like doing, but I found that completely irresponsible on all counts of the people in that meeting room for even discussing that. I mean, not one of them even piped up "you know, kids sing out loud sometimes, and maybe this was in context to something he was observing." Nope. None of them.
That's our public school system; sucking the life and creativity out of kids to prepare them for the complete dystopia that we spend 13 years trying to convince them it isn't. - r2builder, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33Why would Warhol be proud? This is nothing like his work, either in aesthetics or concept.
- Renton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Maybe the bird is just closer.
- lispy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Jesus, those are some creepy pictures. They are really freaking scary, especially the one with the nurse. I just can´t imagine it´s good medicine in those bottles...
- yememfreshman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27
When I was 12, I made a drawing of a monster and my brother, who is a videogame concept artist, spruced it up on his computer. It's pretty slick.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/lemonhead75/P2170098.jpg - TattooElvis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21even better check out Dave Devries's work at http://www.themonsterengine.com/art.html
amazing stuff! - Ruski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17The Best One: http://drawergeeks.com/Kid_Creatures/Behm.jpg
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19The one by Brian Pelletier was redone by the same person in his adulthood.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22I agree. Somebody once told Picasso he painted like a child, he said that was the single best compliment he ever received. The one by Brian Pelletier (2.5 years old) is outstanding, and far better than the remake.
- Rikushix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I love the dragon one where the bird is bigger than a plane. Drawings that lack perspective are so much more interesting.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17That sounds barely possible.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I know almost nothing about Warhol so I'm just gonna bury you both.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I think its funny how the kids probably were thinking along the lines of Dr. Suess style, while the adults were looking towards the style of monsters that normally scare kids - Monsters, Inc. if you will.
(That dragon one by the 2 1/2 year old was the best rendition) - DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Less Warhol, more Dali.
- PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Invader Zim was kickass. Still one of my favorite cartoons of all time.
- Mystyrys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Very cool! Kids love to see their art spark creativity and praise. I'm sure all those kids got a huge kick out of seeing their drawings grow up.
I know my kids always loved it when I'd take one of their drawings and flesh it out like that. I would tell them, 'I used to draw like that and, with practice, I can now draw like this.' My oldest is now taking art in college. :) - nerditup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13MORBO LAUGHS AT PUNY EARTH CHILD DRAWINGS
- haooken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Very cool. My favorite is the skeleton with the "balloon" and Happy Death Day hat.
- jackminardi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Thats funny because you implied the adults was as bad as the kids. Where did you develop such a sophisticated sense of humor?
- Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Just have it silently email the picture to a professional artist and claim processing takes a long time.
Ah the wonders of technology. - ornerycat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Don't be ridiculous. These were great. Made my day.
- jpb0104, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12F Minus
I Rule - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@kale
completely agreed, much like video games. for all of us who grew up on the nes, as we matured we made mature games. - iPointe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I wish I had my own personal artist to redraw all my terrible drawings.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12the software people should make a kids program that will take a scan of their cool little kid monster, polish it up automatically and give the kid an awsome rendition of their artwork
- Spazkake, on 10/12/2007, -12/+21I like the kid's drawings more
- po43292, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Love the "Normal" dragon head. He's just a normal dragon, nothing to see here.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Take a wild guess genius.
- Lutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9night141: Indeed, a new David firth has been born.
- maledei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10reply abuse, sorry. But the topic is very similar: Eatpoo pimps Elfwood
http://www.eatpoo.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=45603 - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You sound like basically every manager I've worked for.
"Uh yeah, let's make a database retrieval program that uses a neural network combined with ALGORITHMS!". - Jake2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Hate to be the grammar Nazi here (I'm nowhere near perfect myself) but your title should read "... kids'..." with the apostrophe after the 's'. It's plural, remember. :)
- dustko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control!
No dark sarcasm in the classroom (Poems, everybody! The laddie thinks himself a poet!)
Teacher leave those kids alone!
...Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!"
Ok I'm done.
The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the... - dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That quote is even more true in the modern times we live in now.
the educational system is geared more towards left brain thinking (logical, reasoning type activity) rather than right brain thinking (visual and musical activity) thus more attention is payed to the left side in daily life, meaning that the young artist in some children will be forgotten about.
Kind of sad, really.
http://www.wyrdology.com/mind/creativity/brains.html -
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