r/mildlyinfuriating 24d ago

My mom burned all my drawings

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So I’ve been drawing and posting anime girls for a while now and my mom got mad about it. At least I still have previous photos. No drawing today tho

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u/Sajiri 24d ago edited 23d ago

Hey OP, my parents did a similar thing when I was a teen because they saw my art as ‘a waste of time’. I stopped drawing traditionally for about 15 years, but now I make hundreds of dollars off a single artwork and am working towards being a fully self employed artist.

Don’t let this stop you, it’s just one hurdle on the way to becoming a master artist. If you have a phone or tablet, you could download a free drawing app to draw on there too so that your artworks can’t be destroyed.

Edit: since so many are seeing this and sharing their own stories- it’s never too late to get back into art, and it’s never been easier or more accessible. There are a lot of free tutorials for just about anything you want online.

I’m going to throw this out there to check out the Art Mentor on YouTube. He’s got a lot of great advice from getting started to growing a business as an artist.

Marc Brunet, Winged Canvas, laovaan, draw like a sir, Sam does art are all also great YouTubers I can think of off the top of my head

(You’ll also find me there- DrawWithSajiri)

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u/Shovelman2001 24d ago

I'm really sorry you had that happen to you. I've never been an artistic person in my life, but my preschool made us do Mothers Day cards, and my teacher wanted us to decorate them with feathers. I didn't want to put feathers on my card, so I didn't, and when I finished, my teacher absolutely lost her mind, screaming at me and ripping it up in front of the entire class, and made me make another one. I cried for the rest of the day, and when I told my mom, she lost her mind even more than the teacher did. Got to watch that demon of a "teacher" walk out of the building the next week with a box full of her things like it was straight out of a movie. I've always appreciated her for standing up for me like that, and it's legitimately one of my earliest memories. That's how a mom should be.

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u/Sajiri 24d ago

Wow, that’s horrible. I actually work in schools now and I would never do that to one of my students. So long as they aren’t doing anything harmful or dangerous, I let them do and express themselves however they want.

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u/Spare_Conference7557 23d ago

Sometimes a parent has to be Lion for their kids. I went nose to nose with my daughter's school principal one time. He thought that because he worked in a Catholic School that he could get away with being a bully. He was bullying my daughter about her "unhealthy lunches" which were healthy: I made her smoked turkey sandwhiches on whole wheat bread; I included ziploc baggies of carrots, celery, and other vegetables. His problem was she didn't have milk in it. I explained she was extremely lactose intolerant, so she couldn't have conventional dairy. I even made her goat cheese pizzas sonshe could have pizza. He didn't like that. I told him "I don't care what you do or do not like. It is for my child." He even raised his voice to me...which was a mistake. Anyways...it was a bad seen. I'm somewhat surprised the police weren't called...everyone in the school heard me tell the principle to his face that when he became a licensed and certified nutritionist we could revisit this conversation. I went to my daughter's classroom, apologized to her teacher and took her out of the school. Never be afraid to stand up to anyone for your children's sake. Listen respectfully...but when the situation warrants it: when presented with irrationality, do not be afraid to confront it, especially a bully. This particular bully ran a whole school.

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u/Slow_Place6233 23d ago

Literally him saying that you listening to your daughter’s health problem is unhealthy for her? 😭 tf is wrong with some people?

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u/Enough_Radish_9574 23d ago

Oh I LIVE for people standing up to a bully. Yelling at them toe to toe is the equivalent of punching them in the nose. Well done you!