Today, one of my second graders was working on shape name recognition, and we got to this picture of a pyramid shape with a wide-ish base. When he saw it, his eyes lit up and he turned to me with a huge grin on his face, pointed at it, and said “When the teacher forgets to assign homework” before bursting out into hysterics, covering his mouth and giggling.
I don’t understand what happened except this kid CLEARLY knows about the strong comedic and memeable value of mathematical shapes and emotions that I, an old millennial, cannot comprehend
I did, however, try to recreate this moment as the meme this child must have seen in his head
She had curves in all the wrong places - some of them cast a 3-dimensional shadows, still others hummed a low, discordant note as they flitted about like flies. She was nothing like other girls - she was an abomination from the 6th plane of torment
These are the ones I know of/have seen/draw, and how I refer to them. If you have come up with or seen any other styles let me know ::D
I usually alternate between these styles when drawing depending on mood or the drawing’s scene’s tone or what characters I’m drawing.
1- “Simply shapes” or faceless or plain style idk
basically they are Just shapes and lines. Colorless/grayscale perhaps. No organs or facial features: merely shapes. Maybe ur tired of this anti chromatist non sense, you just wanna have fun with the shapes, so you color their insides. Pretty simple.
The 1965 Flatland short film is a great example. It is also very great. Go watch it! ::D
2- “Bi-dimensional cellular organisms” AKA Flatland Film style
They look like bacteria lol. Pretty identifiable! have one eye and mouth on one of their sides and little hairs all over! Usually also have simple visible organs, and a characteristic cog shaped brain.
You may either draw Women as stiff lines like in the film, or as bendy lines like snakes.
3- “Bill Cipher” or “Flat Dreamers” style
The shapes are simple, occasionally colored on the insides or bearing patterns. Occasionally also wear clothes or accessories! They usually have one eye on their inside and limbs.
4- “Insides out” or charseraph style
I believe it was charseraph who came up w/this. Correct me if I am wrong ::D
This style portrays a more realistic organ design/arrangement, and is most prominent by the fangs or beaks of the Flatlanders! It is easier to distinguish from the bacteria style because it lacks eyes and hairs/cilia.
Bonus: I made the last/extra style based on non-Euclidean geometry. The style and the world of Flatland inspired by it arent finished yet as I am barely learning about this topic. I will post about it soon though ::D it also bears my view of Flatlander organs, with really the only interesting thing to note being that they have 1 lung and it works more like an accordion than a balloon. Kinda like bug breathing. Will make post on Flat Biology laterrr.
Note: Yeah I forgot about Shapehumans, Humanified Flatlanders, and the Flatland Movie. Cuz I don’t draw in those styles. But hey I’m acknowledging them right now !!!
so I was going through some old VHS tapes and I found this really BIZARRE shoujo OVA…it’s called “ENA: Dream BBQ” or something? I can’t believe no one has ever seen or heard of this show before
