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* When Miley loses her horse, Blue Jeans, during part 1 of "Miley Says Goodbye", Lilly draws a sketch of the horse to use on the lost-and-found poster. The horse looks very stick-figure-like, to Miley and Robbie Ray's chagrin.

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* When Miley loses her horse, Blue Jeans, during part 1 of the [[HannahMontana]] episode, "Miley Says Goodbye", Lilly draws a sketch of the horse to use on for the lost-and-found poster. The horse looks very stick-figure-like, to Miley and Robbie Ray's chagrin.
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* When Miley loses her horse, Blue Jeans, during part 1 of "Miley Says Goodbye", Lilly draws a sketch of the horse to use on the lost-and-found poster. The horse looks very stick-figure-like, to Miley and Robbie Ray's chagrin.
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* One DoctorWho EighthDoctorAdventures novel has the Doctor attempt to draw a map for his companions. It includes squares which obviously represent houses, but there are also some... other things. Everyone who sees it feels compelled to comment on them, describing them as "trees", "duck ponds", "giant pools of jam", and "puffy shapes". Oddly, in an earlier book, he showed that he's more than competent at sketching.

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* One DoctorWho Series/DoctorWho EighthDoctorAdventures novel has the Doctor attempt to draw a map for his companions. It includes squares which obviously represent houses, but there are also some... other things. Everyone who sees it feels compelled to comment on them, describing them as "trees", "duck ponds", "giant pools of jam", and "puffy shapes". Oddly, in an earlier book, he showed that he's more than competent at sketching.
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** The promotional material for her division, the thirteenth, includes bunny-Ukitake.
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* Whenever [[TheWorldGodOnlyKnows Keima]] tries to explain something via drawing, the first reaction he gets is usually "wow, you suck at drawing".
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Sniping at movies, no matter how bad they are, in unrelated tropes: not the greatest thing


* 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.
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* Any attempt at imitating the ''{{Sonichu}}'' art style - Chris draws so bad, it's impossible to imitate his style properly (especially if it's drawn by a talented artist).
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* Wile E. Coyote's blueprints for catching the Road Runner feature what looks like stick figures.
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* Followed shortly by the Popeye short "Cartoons Ain't Human." Popeye makes his own cartoon and screens it for his nephews and Olive. Popeye furnishes the voices, music and sound effects during the screening.
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** In a hilarious case of [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight his idiocy hitting the spot]], Luffy's scribbles of a disfigured carpenter accurately predicted the appearance of their shipwright.

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** In a hilarious case of [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight his idiocy hitting the spot]], Luffy's scribbles of a disfigured carpenter accurately predicted the appearance of their shipwright. Even later, his sketch of what mermaid Nami would look like (a cartoon fish with legs and long hair) is ''exactly'' what a fishwoman or mermaid in the background of one shot looked like.

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* ''TheSlayers''. Gourry [[http://celesstar.osiriscomm.com/anime/slayers/monster.html draws]] a picture of Lina. People think he has drawn a monster.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Hang on a second...]]

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* ''TheSlayers''. Gourry [[http://celesstar.osiriscomm.com/anime/slayers/monster.html draws]] a picture of Lina. People think he has drawn a monster.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Hang on a second...]]
monster which, given [[PersonOfMassDestruction Lina's reputation]], isn't that far from the truth.
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* Miyako of ''HidamariSketch'' is a variation. She's not bad per se, but her drawings range from demented scribbles to [[NightmareFuel horrifyingly freaky]] depictions of however the object being drawn appears in her demented brain.

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* Miyako of ''HidamariSketch'' is a variation. She's not bad per se, but her drawings range from demented scribbles to [[NightmareFuel horrifyingly freaky]] depictions of however the object being drawn appears in her demented messed-up brain.
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* Miyako of ''HidamariSketch'' is a variation. She's not bad per se, but her drawings range from demented scribbles to [[NightmareFuel horrifyingly freaky]] depictions of however the object being drawn appears in her demented brain.

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->-- Kurosaki Ichigo (regarding Kuchiki Rukia's "artwork"), ''{{Bleach}}''.

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->-- Ichigo Kurosaki Ichigo (regarding Kuchiki Rukia's Rukia Kuchiki's "artwork"), ''{{Bleach}}''.


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** Also consider the following: 1) [[ScottPilgrim in the comic books]], Scott just pantomimes Ramona's hair with his hands, and 2) that scribble was drawn by the author himself, Brian Lee O'Malley. Weird, huh?
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* In ''SketDance'', Himeko's animal drawings end up looking like [[NightmareFuel grizzled/mutated/freaky]] versions of whatever she intended to draw.
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** [[DisabilitySuperpower Toph]] [[DeadpanSnarker enjoys mentioning how similar to the subject his drawings look to her.]]

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** [[DisabilitySuperpower Toph]] [[DeadpanSnarker enjoys mentioning mentioning]] [[StealthInsult how similar to the subject his drawings look to her.]]

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* When Daikichi is looking for Rin's birth tree in ''BunnyDrop'', he asks Masako (Rin's neglectful mother), who is the only living person who knows where it is. She draws him a map. It's terrible. The fun part: Masako is a ''published mangaka''.
-->'''Daikichi:''' I thought you were an artist?!?
-->'''Masako:''' Not the kind that draws '''''maps!'''''
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* Played with in ''CalvinAndHobbes''. In a variant of ArtInitiatesLife, Calvin becomes the scribbly version of his drawings.

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* Played with in ''CalvinAndHobbes''. In a variant of ArtInitiatesLife, Calvin becomes the scribbly version of his drawings.drawings and ends up not knowing what to do because he can't for the life of him figure out what he's supposed to ''be.''

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* In ''ArtemisFowl'', when [[LovableRogue Mulch]] is helping the heroes break into Koboi Laboratories, he makes some diagrams, the crudeness of which [[DaChief Root]] is quick to comment on. Koboi Labs itself is represented by a rectangle, a fissure leading up to it is a wobbly line, and a foundation pillar ends up looking kind of snake-like.
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* ''TheSlayers''. Gourry draws a picture of Lina. People think he has drawn a monster.

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* ''TheSlayers''. Gourry draws [[http://celesstar.osiriscomm.com/anime/slayers/monster.html draws]] a picture of Lina. People think he has drawn a monster.
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Often combines with HerCodeNameWasMarySue when in comic form. In some ways the opposite of FourthWallPortrait.

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Often combines with HerCodeNameWasMarySue when in comic form. In some ways the opposite of FourthWallPortrait. When applied to the calligraphy, becomes TheIllegible.
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* Inverted in ''FoxTrot'', where Paige's supposedly horrible paintings were way better than the art style of the strip, getting closer to the baseline quality as she got "better".

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* Inverted in ''FoxTrot'', one ''FoxTrot'' strip, where Paige's supposedly horrible still-life paintings were way better than begin in a very photorealistic and eventually progress to the art style of strip's cartoony style. Her parents praise the strip, latter as evidence that her skills are getting closer to the baseline quality as she got "better".better.
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* A few DarkLegacyComics strips have Donald as the artist (and hero). They're crudely drawn and after the 2nd one, Keydar remarks that Donald's never allowed to draw again.
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* In AVeryPotterMusical, Draco Malfoy draws AWESOMELY!
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** Teen Girl Squad, the animation-within-an-animation, has this. The characters are drawn crudely and the plots are completely bizarre.
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* Max's scribbles and graffiti doodles in the ''SamAndMax'' comics are crude, but quite stylish and proportionate with decent shading. Averted in the Telltale games, though, where they're convincingly bad drawings - presumably a less artistically-gifted member of the team was drafted in to do them.

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Often combines with HerCodeNameWasMarySue when in comic form.

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Often combines with HerCodeNameWasMarySue when in comic form. In some ways the opposite of FourthWallPortrait.



* Reversed in ''OrderOfTheStick'', where a police sketch artist tries to draw pictures of Nale and Thog based on witness accounts. The pictures are highly realistic... [[FourthWallPortrait but being this a world where everybody is a stick figure, he's promptly fired.]]
-->'''police officer''': "What are those bumpy things in the middle of their faces?"
** It was also a TakeThat at people who claimed the author chose to do ''Order of the Stick'' the way he did because he can't draw.
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** John K originally intended it to be a [[GeorgeLucasThrowback full fledged tribute to classic cartoons]], but he was fired by that point [[SeasonalRot and the episode was mangled with by Games]] [[WhatCouldHaveBeen into a mere shadow of it's former self.]]

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** John K originally intended it to be a [[GeorgeLucasThrowback full fledged tribute to classic cartoons]], but he was fired by that point [[SeasonalRot and the episode was mangled with by Games]] [[WhatCouldHaveBeen into a mere shadow of it's former self.]]point.
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[[FourthWallPortrait Different trope.]]


* SouthPark inverts this with an incredibly realistic drawing of the four boys used in "Free Willzyx" as police sketches. The characters react as if the kids in the show look like that, the show itself originally being of a crude construction-paper-ish composition.
*** [[UncannyValley The real world reaction, however...]]
** No idea about that show, but TheSimpsons did it once.

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