Rename (alt-title crowner added): Hollywood Scribbling

The trope is about bad artists and stated so in universe that they are bad. Getting reactions like Blue with Shock and so on as a subtrope to Stylistic Suck.

It's not exactly part of the Hollywood set of tropes.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Bad Artist, Bad Art, Bad Drawing, Hollywood Bad Artist (going on how it says that the in-universe reactions to it are much more horrific than a real life example would be), Draws Like A Little Kid. Maybe?

Crappy Crayon Coloring?

I think "character's horrible art inspires other characters to react (often disproportionately)" is a trope and I agree that Hollywood Scribbling does not really describe that trope very well.

Still, I also feel like "character's art is described as horribly bad, but being drawn by a professional artist is not actually that poor or is bad in an inconsistent way" is a trope as well and I think I have seen it quite a bit before. I would support a split or a trope transplant in order to deal with those examples.

edited 20th Aug '11 3:13:13 PM by LouieW

Support

Brown Note Art?

Oh very good name there.

I opened up an image picking thread since the current one doesn't show the in-universe aspect.

I feel that a simplistic name like 'Bad Artist' would be the best choice. Still, if one can think of a better name, by all means go for it.

Art Fail would be nice

If there are multiple tropes tied up in here, this is one of them:

That's from Ebert's Movie Glossary

edited 30th Sep '11 11:09:33 AM by Elle

Bump.

Got a holler for a rename but I'd like to see some more name propositions and discussion before starting a crowner. </Dehat>

To my mind the trope is not just Brown Note Art, it's pointing to: a) Character attempting art who are not very good artists will be very bad artists. b) "Bad artist" is commonly telegraphed in a specific way: exaggeratedly bad "childen's art".

Not so easy to get a) and b) into the same name though. I tried that and I got Art Skill Dicotomy Flag, which seems a bit meh.

So then we have two tropes here? Art made to look bad but can tell that it was done by a skilled artist trying to make it look bad.

Then Art so bad that it makes people gag, faint etc in universe reaction that they suck ass. IE this sequence in Yuru Yuri [1]◊ [2]◊ [3]◊ [4]◊ [5]◊ [6]◊ [7]◊ [8]◊ The In-Universe Bad Artist (Art equivalent to Lethal Chef.)

I suspect "professionally bad art" is another idea again. I'm not sure that it is art so bad that it makes people gag, faint. I can't see that in the text.

I'd be interested to know what the wicks "think" this is. It's got 60 wicks so whatever it is, it's not doing so bad.

edited 16th Dec '11 7:32:36 AM by Camacan

Crowner for a name change? I'm for it; Hollywood Scribbling makes me think it's for cases where what the artist appears to be drawing doesn't match what's on the paper.

How about Awful Attempt At Art?

Brown Note Art is a name I really like.

Art so bad people go Blue with Shock, usually the artist will think they are good and sometimes the people who see it try not to insult the artist.

Lethal Chef, Dreadful Musician you know stuff along those lines.

edited 18th Dec '11 3:58:09 PM by Raso

Character(s)'s Artwork looks bad

• Animation Bump
• Artemis Fowl
• Azumanga Daioh
• Beauty Pop
• Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
• Engine Sentai Go-Onger
• Manga/Eyeshield21
• Characters/Eyeshield21
• Hidan no Aria
• Hidan no Aria
• Kirby of the Stars
• Michiko to Hatchin
• Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
• Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
• One Piece-Others
• Popeye
• Power Academy
• Revenant Three
• Running Gag
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
• Scenery Porn
• Sket Dance
• SKET Dance
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Stealth Insult
• Strangers with Candy
• These Web Comics Are So Bad
• The World God Only Knows
• Avatar The Last Airbender/Tropes A-H
• Vinci And Arty
• Anime/Yuru-Yuri
• Characters/Yuru-Yuri

Artwork that looks bad:Childish

• Bleach
• Bleach 2
• GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
• One Piece-Straw Hat Pirates
• S To U
• Tex Avery
• The Family Circus
• Bleach/Tropes H-K

Other

• Creator Backlash: Character purposely draws something poorly to be released from a contract.
• 8-Bit Theater: Artwork is supposed to look poor, but ends up not looking like it.
• Hollywood Scribbling: "Characters who aren't established as artists will have horrible art skills," but the examples seem to be more like "characters who are really poor at drawing."
• Kingdom Hearts: Character's drawings do not look very good in crayon.
• My Neighbor Totoro: Averted.
• Rune Factory: Character has a reputation as a bad artist, but the player never sees her artwork.
• The Official Unofficial Ouendan EBA Formspring RP: Reaction is positive despite the drawing being pretty basic.
• Virtual Shackles: Artwork is not as good as another web comic artist's.
• Webcomics: Web comic artist's art is poor.
• Yuu Kobayashi: Person can draw well, but chooses not to.

Little Context/Unclear

• de Blob
• Eerie Queerie
• Fairy Tail Guilds
• Housepets!
• Langt Fra Las Vegas
• Transformers: Prime

Index / Related Trope

• Hollywood Style
• Playing Pictionary
• Stylistic Suck: A supertrope to Hollywood Scribbling.

I am not sure how great this wick check is, but from what I can tell, most of the examples are just "character is bad at art." The only example of the trope idea I mentioned earlier was the Eight Bit Theater one, so there might not be grounds for a trope there. Most of uses of the trope had very little context and aside from the ones I put in the childish category, there do not appear to be many that clearly telegraph "bad artist" in a specific way.

Whatever we decide to do with this trope, I think the laconic probably needs to be adjusted since whether or not a character has been established as a artist does not seem to play into most of the uses of Hollywood Scribbling. In fact, some of the examples actually mention artist characters who do have problems making good art.

edited 21st Jan '12 1:11:27 PM by LouieW

Based on that Terrible Artist might make sense for revising this.

Bad Art Is Bad

There is now a single proposition rename crowner for this trope here.

Bump for votes

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