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Scribble. Scribble.
Erase. Erase.
Ink. Print. Done.
Life is like a piece of paper
with a picture drawn.

Splash some color
and shade it out.
Making the picture
is what it's about.

You write, erase,
and write some more.
Whatever you write is yours alone.

Why do you think mine is better
when really, it is worse.
Stop saying that it is,
for really, it's a curse.

Your picture's beautiful too.
Mine's not so great.
Why can't you see that
or is it already too late?

Don't ask me how to make it.
You should do, it's your own.
Trust me, I should know...
I did mine all alone.

Sometimes you get help
but don't come to me.
I can't really tell you
what to make, what to be.

I bet right now you are thinking,
"I know who wrote this!"
WRONG, and guess again.
So then, WHO IS THIS?

I bet you can't guess
because you don't know
the nature of the person
and their history down below.

Look at their picture
and what do you see?
Crimson, black, grey,
midnight blue and white run deep.

But everyone is different.
It's so obvious, can't you see?
Now try to make yours...
A hint: that picture was me.
©2007-2009 ~BlossomingArtist
:iconblossomingartist:

Author's Comments

Ok, the actual title is "Paint me a picture and tell me then" but that didn't fit so I nicknamed it "Scribble"

I wrote it for an essay that was supposed to be about yourself. Well, everyone at my school seems to have it etched in their minds that I fart art out my butt. It gets really annoying to me since my drawings REALLY suck compared to A LOT of deviants I've seen on here. So I wrote about that.

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:iconturtlevvisperer:
Woooow. That's how I feel all the time. I'm new to DeviantART, and I'm still getting the hang of this whole concept of art, but already I feel that everything I do is smashed down into little bitty pieces by all my friends here.
:icondamasca:
There were quite a few lines that struck me about this piece: "Making the picture is what it's about," after the comparison to one's life, as well as the lines "you should do, it's your own. Trust me, I should know... I did mine all alone," as well as some of the concluding lines.

It captures such a variety of truths and feelings, as well as experiences (as your comments also show). Students who either don't want to or don't try to develop their art and express this through comments on others who they've labelled as "artistic," and nothing else, do really get annoying. It's as you say, there is a bigger world out there. But it's also true when you say that there is not "best" (or "better," really). They're all landmarks we've established by comparison, wanting always to "get better" or be recognized as "better than before." It's not easy. Living, drawing: complicated. ^_^

Like I say, this work puts it all so well.

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gallery: [link]
'scraps' gallery: [link]
thanks for looking.
:iconradical-radish:
Wow. So true.

--
過激な大根
“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.” -Raymond Williams
"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes." -Samuel Beckett

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