NO, MR. WIND, I EXPECT YOU TO DIE

Enjoy what is probably the only thing I have ever drawn that isn't absolute rubbish. (It is, however, relative rubbish.)

This was actually used as a portion of an art exam in high school, so sharing this is probably in violation of some obscure policy. Good! If you didn't want it shown to anyone, why did you give it back, you bureaucratic authoritarian numbskulls?

The remainder of the exam was a thoroughly banal parade of multiple-choice questions, of the same caliber as "what is the definition of a line?" You didn't need to know that, but now you do.

I believe the prompt for this drawing was "twist a myth" or something similar. Because we can't let anyone decide on one inspiration, we had to sketch a number of possibilities before starting, using the 4th most humiliatingly unnecessary organization/planning diagram in recorded history. (The honorary 0th most humiliatingly unnecessary organization/planning diagram is the postulated NeanderPlan, which wiped out the Ancients with its raw intellect-underestimating power, as the Void Tomes teach us. I shall spare you descriptions of 1-3, lest they rupture the fabric of the skill-exposure continuum.) Within the teacher's example of a properly filled out diagram - which he did every single time we had to fill one out, mind - his examples of myths included Santa Claus (legit) and the concept of slipping on a banana peel (wat).

Don't forget, highschoolers can't have any exposure to any weighty artistic themes, and especially not violence of all things! Someone whose life it casts a shadow on might portray it negatively! How could students possibly kowtow to the football team and JROTC if their heads get filled with such unhallowed platitudes as "beating people into submission might be wrong"?! This of course locks out a very large swathe of human mythology. I'm unsure how *literal personified death* got past the radar.

The rubric for this exam is... interesting as well. I'm not one to say that the quality of art can be objectively measured, but these points are something else. Ah, I know exactly what the difference is between "Shows effective compositional skills" and "Shows excellent compositional skills." I also like how the lowest possible score includes "work relies heavily on copyrighted photographic resources" (and is called "emerging" rather than "ya dun goofed" or similar.)