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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Picture of Innocence", one of the photographers entire body of work consists of photographs of every meal he has eaten. When Joyce comments on how similar all of his photos are, he says that he has eaten the same meal every day for more than a decade.

* In ''Film/{{Superbad}}'', Seth has an obsession with drawing penises. Penises with blades and spikes, penises dressed as clowns, penises melting like Dali art, penises on cars and on fire... the art is of a pretty good quality, mind, but understandably his parents and art teacher find it pretty disturbing and Seth starts the film being forced to go to therapy. He is also not on speaking terms with a former childhood sweetheart because he believes she is he one who told his parents about his art.

* Saturn of ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'' is obsessed with horses, which he considers his [[MagnumOpus personal masterpiece]], and would try to incorporate them in almost all of his subsequent design submissions.

* In ''Film/{{Superbad}}'', Seth has an obsession with drawing penises. Penises with blades and spikes, penises dressed as clowns, penises melting like Dali art, penises on cars and on fire... the art is of a pretty good quality, mind, but understandably his parents and art teacher find it pretty disturbing and Seth starts the film being forced to go to therapy. He is also not on speaking terms with a former childhood sweetheart because he believes she is he one who told his parents about his art.
* In ''Film/BlackMirrorBandersnatch'', it was mentioned that the writer of the Bandersnatch book had been driven insane while writing it, including obsessively drawing the same symbol over-and-over again. In certain endings, [[spoiler:Stefan]] will do the same.

* ''Literature/JudgeDee'': The judge gets the better of a smart-aleck artist when he notices every female character he paints has the exact same face, revealing he's obsessed with that particular woman, who turns out to have been missing. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the PsychoLesbian kidnapper thought she'd been found out and murdered her.]]

* ''Series/TheFastShow'': Johnny Nice Painter combines this with MadnessMantra: while he's perfectly able to paint other things, any mention of the word "black" in his presence causes him to start smearing black paint over everything he's painted up until that point while rambling incoherently about negative things.
* ''Series/UglyBetty'': When Matt's FleetingPassionateHobby is art, nearly all of his paintings have Betty in them.

* Squidward Tentacles from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' always makes paintings and sculptures based on [[ItsAllAboutMe himself]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'': One pretentious character in "To Mar a Stall" remarks, when busted, "Yes! I draw toilets. Beautiful toilets. The perfect marriage of form and function, of style and substance, of water and porcelain."

* [[http://www.damienhirst.com/texts1/series/spots Damien Hirst and his friggin' spots.]] He's made over ''one thousand'' paintings of colored dots. He has done plenty of other stuff too though.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Vidalia's gallery consists mostly of portraits of Amethyst, which she kept making even [[OldFriend years after they'd last met]], largely because Vidalia considers Amethyst [[TheMuse her biggest inspiration]]. Reuniting with Amethyst seems to have gotten Vidalia to do other things, as she's later shown making a portrait of her husband then of Garnet and Steven.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', velvet painter Edgar Teglee suffers from an AmbiguousDisorder that gives him a HairTriggerTemper and an odd obsession in painting bulls and bullfighters and nothing else. He is assigned by his "psychiatrist" Dr. Loboto to paint his portrait as a part of his treatment, but every time he tries, his psychosis gets in the way, leaving him literally chained to the floor of the abandoned asylum. When Raz uses Sasha's mind-portal to enter his mind (portrayed as a Mexican villa painted on black velvet), he discovers on the surface that it involves his wife Lampita getting seduced by the bullfighter Dingo and ultimately leaving Edgar to be with him. Edgar was devastated by this and was driven mad with heartbreak, painting nothing but bullfights to symbolize his anguish. [[spoiler: Or at least, that's the romanticized version, as what ''really'' happened was that his high school girlfriend was stolen away by a male cheerleader, breaking his fighting spirit and causing his friends on the wrestling team to abandon him, leaving him nowhere else to turn but the art lab; the connection between bullfights and the events is instead born out of him having had a bull-themed wrestling persona.]]

** This as a RunningGag with Saikawa in ''Kanna's Daily Life'', who will always theme any art she makes around Kanna. She even manages to work her into a self-portrait in the ''Minidora'' shorts [[ReflectiveEyes by having Kanna reflected in her eyes]].

'''Edgar:''' EVERY TIME! Every time it's the same! The matador! The bull! How I despise you both! But my hands... my hands won't let you go. That is why I am here, chained more ways than you can see.\\
'''Raz:''' A prisoner of art.\\
'''Edgar:''' A prisoner of art.

* [[http://www.damienhirst.com/texts1/series/spots Damien Hirst and his friggin' spots.]] He's made over ''one thousand'' paintings of colored dots.

-> '''Raz:''' So why don't you just finish the painting and go home?\\
'''Edgar:''' Why don't I... [''struggles with the brush before applying paint to the canvas'']\\
'''Raz:''' Wow. See? Sometimes you just have to... you painted a bullfight over the doctor's face. Why a bullfight? Huh? Edgar, why do you--\\
'''Edgar:''' EVERY TIME! Every time it's the same! The matador! The bull! How I despise you both! But my hands... my hands won't let you go. ''[throws away and replaces the canvas]'' That is why I am here, chained more ways than you can see.\\

* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', velvet painter Edgar Teglee suffers from an AmbiguousDisorder that gives him a HairTriggerTemper and an odd obsession in painting bulls and bullfighters and nothing else. He is assigned by his "psychiatrist" Dr. Loboto to paint his portrait as a part of his treatment, but every time he tries, his psychosis gets in the way, leaving him literally chained to the floor of the abandoned asylum. When Raz uses Sasha's mind-portal to enter his mind (portrayed as a Mexican villa painted on black velvet), he discovers on the surface that it involves his wife Lampita getting seduced by the bullfighter Dingo and ultimately leaving Edgar to be with him. Edgar was devastated by this and was driven mad with heartbreak, painting nothing but bullfights to symbolize his anguish. [[spoiler: Or at least, that's the romanticized version, as what ''really'' happened was that his high school girlfriend was stolen away by a male cheerleader, breaking his fighting spirit and causing his friends on the wrestling team to abandon him, leaving him nowhere else to turn but the art lab.]]

* ''Series/TheFastShow'': Johnny Nice Painter combines this with MadnessMantra: while he's perfectly able to paint other things, any mention of the word "black" in his presense causes him to start smearing black paint over everything he's painted up until that point while rambling incoherrently about negative things.

** This as a RunningGag with Saikawa in ''Kanna's Daily Life'', who will always theme any art she makes around Kanna. She even manages to work her into a self-portrait in the ''Minidora'' shorts [ReflectiveEyes by having Kanna reflected in her eyes]].

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''. After spending all of chapter 60 trying to find a new hobby, Tohru decides to funnel her obsession with Kobayashi into making various works of art including paintings, sculptures, and music (much to the annoyance of Kanna and Ilulu).

* Saturn of the is obsessed with horses, which he considers his [[MagnumOpus personal masterpiece]], and would try to incorporate them in almost all of his subsequent design submissions.

* Saturn of the ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'' is obsessed with horses, and would try to incorporate them in almost all of his design submissions.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E3InsaneClownPoppy Insane Clown Poppy]]", its revealed that, during the Gulf War, Krusty prevented a solider's attempted assassination of Saddam Hussein to keep his act fresh. Years later, when Krusty meets the daughter they illegitimately conceived, he finds her apartment full of paintings depicting clowns getting murdered.

* The Sculptor in ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'' is constantly carving out wooden statues of Buddha. Moreover, the statues always look furious, regardless of his intent.

* ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'': Being shy and raised in a sheltered environment, Hagu learned art by drawing sketches of her porch everyday up until her grandmother's death.