Bad-ass.

good work sir.

psst!!! Rukis is a ma'am!!

--Kyuu




...lol

My apologizes.

Good work madam.

haha, some teachers have no imagination.
Thanks for posting this though, I think I'm going to steal it for a lesson plan.

Your teacher was idiotic. Great work ^_^

I love your icon. That movie is awesome.

Thanks ^_^ It is a cool movie.

But not as cool as this can opener! ^_^_^_^

Well...maybe a little cooler =P

^_^

"I got a horrible grade, because apparently 'dragons' do not count as 'real' living animals. Blah blah blah. I had a long habit of pissing off my teachers in both high school and college. "
That sounds just like Me.

Regardless, it's very creative, I like it!

holy shit I will see this in my sleep

Thaaaat's bull about the grade because zomg awesome.

When I was ten I used to pretend mine was an alligator

Real or not, great drawing.

You... got a bad grade on that?.... I hope to god that teacher got fired.

Very creative idea and concept! And your teacher sounds like a jackass. >.> You probably could have just said that it was a dinosaur, or lizard, then, or one of those freaky deep-sea fishes. But sounds like he/she was just out to screw you over anyways. -.-

You got a horrible grade?! This is a very clever idea that's executed very well; I don't see how any teacher could fail to see otherwise.

?? you got a bad grade what the teacher have a mental disorder??

ill never look at a can opener the same ever again

Wow that´s absolute cool. You do something like this more often?

should have called it "hound from hell" instead then :) And then sic a junk yard dog on that teacher's sorry ass.
Fine job on that, btw. I love the eye especially.

WOW that teacher should not be teaching art classes, cus seriously WOW its so fluid in the change and perfect :3

you did quite the lovely job.

Bah, humbug. Some teachers can be such sticklers. My art teacher in highschool probably would have approved of that kind of creativity, given it a great mark.

But great work.

LOL this is incredibily awesome, I'd get it if it was for selling!

Great imagination! We had to do a deconstruction of a leaf for a project very similar to this, it was a fun exercise.

the teacher that gave this a bad grade needs to be kicked in the nuts. this is awesome

--Kyuuketsuki

That teacher is a douche.. like a inanimate object can turn into a live thing. THEY should get a bad grade!!

Can you make one thats a tiger?

DUDE! This is pretty cool

I remember when I was taking a video editing class, the final assignment was to create a 15s commercial from some lame-ass stock footage they supplied. I asked if I could make a movie trailer instead. The teacher agreed. So I made a ~60s movie trailer for Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, and it rocked. I got a B, because I used different material than the assignment required.

Aparently your teacher was an asshole. This piece would have gotten an "A" if I was the teacher. :)
Very well done and nice process at that. Your handling of line and shadow at the time shows you had a good understanding of it. I hope you keep this one as well as a few of your other ones. If you have to, tape them up nicely and put them in a portfolio. All my work is in a box or zipper portfolio. :)

Pheh , your teacher was a real dick.

You could've said it's a crocodile

Thanks to you i'm now damn scaired to use my toaster...

Your teacher honestly gave you a bad grade because dragons aren't "real"?

The execution of this is fantastic and the transformation sequence it so well done. Whether or not dragons are real or fantasy should not have been why she chose your grade.

what a jerk, usually art teachers are pretty cool when students take the initiative like that!

I hate art teachers like that -_-

But this looks kickass. It's not like you just slapped teeth on it and went 'dhurr dragon' you actually morphed it into a dragon with other features and such. So I think it counts.

They gave you a bad grade for this?

For their part...FAIL!!!

This is an EPIC WIN!

Bad grade???Sheesh, idiot teacher! This is VERY cool!

Don't feel too bad about the bad grade. My sister did an expressionism piece once for her art class. It was this great, moody drawing of a bar, all done in dark tones. Very effective. The idiot teacher told her it needed to be brighter. Some people really shouldn't teach art.

thats is so cool looking. i had the same crap from my teachers to. witch i told them that if you look for perfection in art you will never find it and if that is what you want then you are not an artist and do not belong in the world of the obscure

what did they think of that?

they told me im odd and that i should stop being a asshole. witch i sed i am not that i was stating that art is a freedom of expression and that art is about being open and odd and that there is no such thing as perfect. in witch they sent me to the office

typical....*offers hugs*

Thanks Rukis... I couldn't use my can opener for supper... I was scared that it would bit.

Faved...because this is how my mind works. o.o Nicely done, Rukis!

Your teachers were morons, then :I

could of lied adn waid it was a not yet finished crocodile or something like that! :P

but tis really impressive, you have a lot of imagination and talent!

I wonder if Ron Popeil knows about this? I can see the infomercial now:

"Introducing the Dragon™ Can Opener! Guaranteed to open any can -- and we mean ANY can, including industrial strength drums and barrels -- faster than you can reach for your safety gear. Disclaimer: not responsible for stained carpets, walls or ceilings, nor for cans or contents ingested (accidentally or deliberately) by the Dragon™, nor for lost fingers, hands, arms or entire family members." ;)

That teacher clearly had no idea what they were talking about. The level of detail in the last panel for a tenth grade art project is astonishing. Your teacher took her statement too seriously and FAR too literally.

Wow, what an asshole of a teacher. I'm of the opinion that if something, like a dragon, has existed in mythology all over the world for thousands of years, so it's fair game.

Yeah, it seems taking "artistic lisence" with anything is frowned on by all sorts of teachers. For the quality of work, if the only "flaw" was in not properly following directions (even if only by technicality because the directions weren't defined properly; a dragon is a living creature, albiet a fictional living creature) then if I were the teacher I'd have given a B, knocking a grade off for deviating from directions.

I do believe however that this assignment would make a pretty good all around creative exercise for drawing. I mean, look what you did with a can opener. That's pretty awsome. Imagine what I could create (if I had any visual artistic ability) if I opened up my letherman or something. I think it's a great way to get some creative juices flowing, taking an existing shape from a common household item, then adding and blending until you end up with something completely different.

Bleh. I had that project in high school too. At least your teacher let you do black and white. We had to do colour pencil. I love this though.. I wish I had thought of it. My teacher hated my guts though, so it probably wouldn't have mattered.

This is awesome, your art teacher was stupid as hell!

h'mm, sounds like the teacher was just embarassed by your awesome skill and felt like bringing you down to their level through your grade

That is such bullshit about the teacher giving you a bad grade. I hate art teachers and how they do that. Gah!

It's their fault for not specifying the animal be real or not before hand.

Outstanding work!

I'm not surprised though that your grades weren't good.

Too many teachers these days stifle their students' learning and creativity. They lack vision and compassion.

See 'Waiting for Superman.'. You'll see what I mean.

Haha high school art assignments. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1629405/fintofeather.jpg :D

nice

I don't see how in the hell a teacher can give you a poor grade for this.
I've seen things like this in Gallerias being drooled over by critics :P

I guess your teacher (like some of my own have, too) gave a bad grade because you were "better" or "smarter" than they were, using some lame excuse.

Finally i can open up my canned soup! *grabs dragon's head and opens can of soup* There :3 *skedaddles before dragon gets a chance to eat him*

this is really cool! i also got into trouble with my art teacher because i would draw people in cartoon form instead of realistically.

That teacher was full of shit for giving you a bad grade. The imagination that went into this piece as well as the talent and quality of the artwork are superb. You should have gotten an A+ on the quality of the drawing alone.

Interesting. That could turn out to be a new genre of furry art.

looks real and alive to me...

I love these type things.

Pff guess the teacher must've been very conservative/puritarian to blow you off like that...

Just called it a mutated horse. That's living thing.

Reminds me of a sculpture of a fox my boyfriend did for his high school art class. The teacher gave him a lower grade due to the fact that he painted some black near the nose of the fox (you know, those black stripes that people often draw on the muzzle of foxes) The teacher argued that foxes don't really have that and it was unrealistic.

Anyways, this is an astounding piece and I'm glad you shared it with us. The amount of detail and craftsmanship on this is AMAZING given the fact that you did this in TENTH GRADE. I was never able to make this kind of work when I was in tenth grade :C I am extremely jealous.

Wow, that took incredible talent and creativity, Rukis. Your teacher must've been a real dick to give you a bad grade on that kind of quality!

The power of imagination :D I too used to and still do have my 'Rugrat' moments. It helps me think on the outside of things On a second note, I found it still very phenominal that artists, including you, can draw innanimate objects and have them look so... well, for lack of better terms, surreal? The geography is very stable and not shakey, thus has the perfect 3D illusion.

On the other hand, Art proffessors are hard to please because the lot of them are perfectionists :P Just saying from past experiences with my art teachers, but I understand why they pushed me so hard the way they did. I wish I could find my old works, I used to do buildings and city scaps.

Very awesome ^x^ Use to do this too all the time, find creatures in simple things around the house ^^


Coolz ^^

Ah, I love the uptight art community and how it has to be from something "real". I really like this transformation. :3

You got a bad grade for that!? Preposterous!

This is awesome, sorry that your teacher's an ****. If my student did this, I'd given them 9.5/10!

What is the breath weapon of this dragon? Marinara sauce?

Far more awesome than my shoe-into-a-cuckoo clock thing I did in art way back at school. I swear my teacher had an obsession with shoes, I must have been forced to draw my shoe in some way or another at least 5 times over those two years.

Dragon? I see something more akin to a Pterodactyl

I can't believe your teacher gave you a bad grade because of that reason. What a sad, unimaginative dick

You keep right on annoying authority as long as it leads you to creative thoughts like this.

do more!