History Main / HollywoodScribbling

A subtrope of StylisticSuck. Whenever a character not already informed or displayed to have any talent with art creates something, it will almost always be a crudely drawn thing that would make a grade school art teacher weep. Expect inconsistencies, weird space and size relations, a lack of perspective, and the coloring (often in crayon) to be both uneven and often go over the lines. Often, the actual drawing won't be near as bad as the reactions they garner (this is the entertainment industry, after all), making this similar to HollywoodHomely in a sense.

* ''JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' features Happy Noodle Boy, a "Comic within a comic" about a [[TalkativeLoons gibberish-spouting]] stick figure, drawn by the [[strike:hero]] [[HeroicSociopath main character]] himself. The segments are deliberately done to be so awful, they actually [[SoBadItsGood end up extremely funny]]. The creator, Jhonen Vasquez, also uses them as a nifty way to illustrate Johnny's current mental state?

* In [[MSPAintAdventures Homestuck]], Terezi Pyrope can't draw very well at all. Justified, in that she's blind.

->''"With your crappy drawings, [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible the comprehensible becomes incomprehensible]]."''

* [[Homestuck Terezi Pyrope]] can't draw very well at all. Justified, in that she's blind.

* ''AzumangaDaioh'': Sakaki can't draw for crap, and both [[LampshadedHanging Kagura and a caption in the manga point this out]]. And when Osaka tries to draw a panda, it scares the rest of the group.

* ''AzumangaDaioh'': Sakaki can't draw for crap, and both Kagura and a caption in the manga point this out. And when Osaka tries to draw a panda, it scares the rest of the group.

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* The film version of ''I Never Promised You A Rose Garden'' manages to screw up so many things in so many ways that it's no wonder instead of Deborah's canon artistic gift, they show her doing this.

* Wasn't there an episode of South Park where an artist draws the four kids and they're realistic? Their reaction was horrified/pissed so this would be playing it super straight correct? (Assuming that's how it went down, been a long time.)
** "Free Willzyx" has a realistic picture (as shown [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/media/wallpaper/913_Composite_Sketch_1280x1024.jpg here]]), but I don't remember the reaction to it.
*** The real world reaction [[UncannyValley should be obvious...]]

* [[OlderThanTheyThink Possibly the earliest example of this trope]] would be the TexAvery Porky Pig short ''Porky's Preview'', which centers around Porky showing off an animated short he made-only the animation consists of doodles and the film as a whole is incredibly sloppily made. What makes this short even more amusing is that the ending leaves it ambiguous whether [[spoiler: it was the skunk that scared off Porky's audience or the horrible quality of the picture that scared them off first.]]

* A near RunningGag in ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]''is Sokka's [[http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep44/ep44-889.png failure at]] [[http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep44/ep44-850.png artistic rendering]] - which he does not allow to stop him from pursuing the aesthetics! This was even a part of his [[TookALevelInBadass crash course in badassery.]]

* In ''RatchetAndClank 3'', [[FakeUltimateHero Captain Quark's]] "Genius plans" for military operations against the robots are crayon scribbles mostly involving air-dropping Ratchet alone in the battle zone and hoping for the best.
** [[OneManArmy Which is, nontheless, a good plan]].

** Actually, some of her sketches of ''places'' in KH2 are quite good, crayon or not. It's ''people'' she can't draw, and considering that [[FridgeBrilliance some of them are people she's only briefly, if ever, met...]]