'Aight. I haven't posted anything in forever, so I felt obligated to do/say something....
Today's Daily (well, monthly, give or take) Culture is about this project I had to do for school. The whole thing made me really mad and jazz, but it probably doesn't sound like much to you reading this....
Now, the project involved designing and constructing a city and stuff.
I'm a horrible procrastinator (which is why I back out of so many fan art contests: I miss the deadlines) in general, so I didn't really start until two days before it was due.... #productivity
So I built the whole thing out of cardstock: cardstock buildings, cardstock cars, cardstock people... it was pretty structurally sound and the folds and cuts were clean and the whole thing had this utopian air about it.
I drew the building facades and colored in the cars and stuff with my Derwent Coloursofts.
So I turn it in, right? And I get one point off because it was "a little bland".
Okay. I didn't hand-draw each individual book in a library that was a couple of centimeters tall and a couple of centimeters wide just because I thought it was fun. I didn't draw the BBoy practicing his sets on the first floor of a townhouse that was even smaller just for the Hell of it. I didn't draw the girl playing the piano or the guy cooking with his dog at his feet just because I wanted to. I didn't spend hours drawing in the flags of 100 or so countries on the embassies and international affairs offices because I had free time. 'Aight? I drew the little details on the department storefronts because I wanted that grade. I don't waste hours of my time on school projects because I care about it looking good and making a good impression or whatever for the sake of just caring for the project's value and such, I waste hours of time on school projects because I want the grade and I want to have a relatively successful/sustainable lifestyle. 'Mkay? So don't you be deducting points because my project that I wasted my beautiful Derwent Coloursofts on was "a little bland".
'Cause next time, you know I ain't going to be trying so hard if I can get the same score for less effort, 'cause I know you, teacher, gave that other guy (idiot) full credit when his project was an uncoordinated, styleless, Hell of a hot mess.
Ugh. That really made me mad.
And it may not sound like a big deal or anything, but this kind of thing matters to me because I get it a lot.
I take the time and effort to accentuate every little detail and apply my inner interior/fashion designer to my projects and really give it that artistic effect as well as fulfilling all academic expectations, and then I get points deducted for various reasons. For example:
"Layout was not quite conducive" - when I was given the task of designing a coat of arms with symbolic resonances, and instead of using the given layout, I actually did my research and employed the saltire layout (meaning 'resolution') instead of the gobony layout (meaning 'constancy')... and this project I wasted my Derwents on, too
"Too focused on people, not cause" - when I had to make something to attack the issue of LBGTQ-related hate crime and stuff, and I focused more on the victims and the people/organizations fighting the hate as well as their views on it than defining and drawing theses concerning the subject itself (this project won 2nd place in a national competition, by the way-- and it was pretty freaking beautiful: I'm quite proud of it).
You know what I mean, right? Has this ever happened to you? It makes me so frustrated....
