Basic Trope: A character has comically bad art skills.
- Straight: Bob tries to draw a picture of Alice, and it ends up looking bad.
- Exaggerated: Bob tries to draw a picture of Alice. He somehow ends up with various scribbles that look vaguely like alien creatures.
- Downplayed:
- Bob's drawing isn't too terrible, but notably misses out on many of Alice's important features.
- Bob is actually a quite comptent artist, but there are certain parts of human anatomy that he just can never get a handle on (usually hands and/or feet) and they always end up looking weird he attempts to draw them.
- Justified:
- Bob doesn't have much practice drawing.
- Bob is a young child.
- Inverted: Bob's drawing of Alice is excellent.
- Subverted: Bob reveals that he was just pretending to have bad art skills.
- Double Subverted: His real art skills are even worse.
- Parodied: Bob even looks like a professional painter, but when he tries to draw Alice, it still looks terrible.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Bob is good at drawing, sometimes he isn't.
- Averted:
- Bob's art skills are never brought up.
- Bob has average art skills.
- Enforced: A method of Stylistic Suck.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob takes an art class.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why are some characters so bad at art?"
- Implied: Bob's drawing is never shown onscreen, but other characters react to it with some form of disdain.
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