Art Student Owl Meme Generator
Watching the football with your dad, you support the team with the better kit. You explain the kerning on the shirt sponsor. He switches over to the snooker.
Your tutor says your piece reminds her of early Rothko. You nod thoughtfully. You go home. You google Rothko. You cry, briefly, into a pot of noodles.
The café menu is in Comic Sans. You leave. You are very hungry, but you have principles.
Three in the morning, the night before the deadline, you mix the perfect teal. It covers half the canvas. There's no more. There will never be that teal again.
Why it caught on: the eagle-owl with a cigarette began on Tumblr in February 2011, on a blog run by an art school student. Art students finally had a mascot that looked exactly as tired as they did.
Best Art Student Owl posts
- geek loser in high school. / sex god in college.
- Watch sports / root for team with better logo
- professor compares your work to an artist you've never heard of / go home. google them. cry.
- Mix the perfect shade of certain color / Always run out halfway through painting
- Creative burst in the middle of night / Get more done within an hour than you get on a day
- can't spell Painting / without pain
- "OMG YOU CAN DRAW?! I CAN'T DRAW A STICKMAN!" / yES YOU CAN. EVERYONE CAN.
- "You've got some something on your-" / I know
- Eating while painting / More concerned about getting snacks in chemicals than chemicals in snacks
- PERSON ON FACEBOOK HAS PHOTO ALBUM LABELED "MY ART :D <333" DECIDE TO OPEN IT / DIE
- go into art store / must touch everything you see
- Too inspired to sleep / too tired to create
- get Heart broken / most powerful creative boost
- If i end up living in a cardboard box / I will decorate the shit out of it
- GO TO BED AT 3 AM = COMPLETELY AWAKE THE NEXT MORNING / GO TO BED AT 10 PM = FALL ASLEEP IN CLASS
- make an art student owl meme submission / it gets more attention than your art ever will
- BUY EXPENSIVE SUPPLIES / TOO PARANOID TO USE THEM
- see a knocked down trash bin in the middle of corridor / Carefully walk around it - might be someone's graduation piece
- New Student turns out to be art god / hate and worship him simultaneously
- Create a piece you actually like / Don't stop starting at it until you hate it