I

just

raged

SO HARD.

Earlier today I mean. But raged nonetheless.

So we were supposed to draw our 'happy places' in Focus. Which I thought was a pretty kickass assignment, it gives me room to move and stretch my creative muscles. :D

WRONG.

I drew my 'happy place'. I colored it on my computer. I print it out, turn it in face-to-face with my teacher.

This is the piece I turn in.

And she tells me that it's not exactly acceptable.

I'm like 'WAT'.

APPARENTLY, it's too 'creepy', and not 'happy enough'. I should use brighter colors over more of the picture and have like, some flowers in there or some shit.

Goddamn I am so pissed.

IT'S MY HAPPY PLACE, HOW ABOUT YOU STFU AND SIT DOWN

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Your happy place is a chicken coop? haha My Great Uncle had a chicken coop and we always used to go in there and collect eggs with him when we went to visit. It was lots of fun! He also had an amazing frog pond. I miss that place.

LOL thats awesome i love your SIGNATURE to :D

I THINK YOU SHOULD SAY THIS TO YOUR TEACHER speak ur mind.

all of my experiences with art teachers have been the same. they ALL thought there was a strict method to art. they ALL that art HAD to be something specific, things HAD to be drawn this way. maybe it is, i'm no artist, but if thats the way you do things that's the way you do it.

the assignment was to draw YOUR happy place, not hers. if she fails you i would take it up with her.

If that's your 'happy place' and you were my child I would paint your room rainbow and put pictures of ponies and puppies in there ASAP. :(

So, were you really excited or really RAGED when Oprah gave out coupons for free KFC?

Your happy place is YOUR happy place. Nobody can change your mind and they'll just mess someone up if they try. Fuck that teacher, creative form is from an individual's mind, not propaganda (excuse me if I used it wrong, I'm trying to use new words) from the media. Like me, I like a cement alleyway where you can feel the rain pattering down on your hair.

KFC =/= no.

It's not, like... a really weird thing. I mean, I'm not just crazy, reasoning happened.

1; I love chickens. I love them. The sound they make makes me happy.

2; I love Buckethead. And what does he love? Chickens, motherfucker.

3; Holy shit, what about a coop? With chickens and Buckethead? Where I could just sit down and listen to Buckethead play music and pet the chickens and be happy?

FUCK. It wasn't even an art teacher. It was Focus, the lamest class ever.

Thinking of being in that happy place makes me sleep. And thanks Vietcaterpillar, my signature, too, makes me happy. [: It's a silly naive thing, but it stops me from wanting to throttle someone.

I can easily see where that would piss me off as well.

Tell your teacher to suck an egg, your piece is very good. :)

..Really? Really? How could someone really judge about whether or not your personal happy place is, well, happy enough? ...Please, If I drew my happy place, it'd be pretty freakin' terrifying. And probably not acceptable at all. By most modern standards.

...pretty awesome picture, by the way.

How the FUCK is that 'creepy'? I love chickens. (And I must say you draw the BEST chickens!)

Plus it's YOUR happy place, not hers. She can't really say it's not 'happy' enough.

I want those chickens. They're so cute! :'D

Love the picture. Love it.

How could she know it wasn't happy enough .. for you? I mean, they told you to draw YOUR happy place, and you did the right thing, you drew YOUR happy place but apparently, she thinks it's not happy enough? wtf. It never became her happy place. :|

Stories like this just make me appreciate my old art teacher more. Hani was great. He'd let us do whatever we wanted to express ourselves, no matter how odd. We wanted to do some way out-there thing? He'd find a way to get the materials. Everything was about coming from within, expressing who we really are. Nothing was off-limit. <3

You really should bring up to the guy that it's YOUR happy place. You shouldn't be judged by that. If she had wanted a picture of you with flowers and rainbows and unicorns than she should have assigned you draw yourself with flowers and rainbows and unicorns.

I think it's awesome. XD

My happy place would probably look like a pastel unicorn vomited all over, but! Art teachers are lame. :/ Mine is always like NO FIX IT. NO THAT'S NOT RIGHT. It's OUR art, not yours. >.>

This reminds me of the Mile run in gym. That was your personal best. As long as your personal best is under 12 minutes.

HEYTHXGUISE

I can see how it might seem creepy, but... that's not even... her decision to make... ]:

Everyone else drew themselves in like, a field of flowers or climbing a tree or something like that.

Except one guy. Who drew himself at a concert. And everyone was ogling over how IMAGINATIVE and DIFFERENT he was.

And Knoxville raged on.

I'm dead serious when I say that if this place really existed... I'd probably never leave...

edit;

Mile run. Second'd.

I mean, this reminds me drastically of my old drama teacher.

He was nice and all, but he'd give us a character to play, and then tell us HOW to play it...

Like, once, I was supposed to be the 'brainy' one in a group of friends, so I was kind of spewing information left and right and correcting people and using big words, and he was all, 'No, you should be quiet, and reserved, and elegant.'

It's like... the same deal with the Focus teacher up there. I think she just kind of doesn't know how to understand that some other peoples' happy places are happy because they're so strange.

I didn't find it creepy, but I can see why someone would (Buckethead's mask used to creep me out when I was younger XD). Even so, it's your happy place. She can't tell you what you like and makes you happy...

If it were me, I'd probably just turn it in the way I want it to be. But I don't know how important your grade is to you.

I'm going to turn it in as-is, of course. ...yeah, I think probably the most likely thing to give her the willies is the Buckethead, lawl.

I'm going to talk to her calmly and try not to explode: 'This. Is my. Happy place. I. Imagine. I would be happy. Here. I'm turning this in.'

If you want to humor her, you could always put a tiny little flower in the background, by the trees. :]

Here's an idea draw a rainbow flying unicorn with kittens and bunnies and flowers in the background put a sparkely rainbow in the sky! Make it so digustingly happy that it burn your eyes! Then write "IS THIS HAPPY ENOUGH FOR YOU!?" in big black letters on the bottom ,then hand in the other picture.