D:<
Man, fuck da lines/poe-LICE.
Yeah I used colour a lot when I was younger, as far as I can recall I’d use vaguely correct colours but be completely out of the lines. I just liked to see colours interacting in elegant fashion. I did pretty much everything, watercolouring, crayons, pencils, whatever I could get my mits on. My favorite was a technique I think was called marbling, that would end with the sheet of paper covered utterly in blending and intermingling colours.
The only time I stayed inside the lines was when my baby-infants (that’s age 5 <<) teacher offered me money to. I earned my cash.
Edit: And a person in Northern Ireland can (and does!) join the British army, if they want. I think an Irishman probably could as well, but I’ve never heard of it happening!
Speaking of changing forum colors, where is my Sinistralian Delight?
I colored in the lines using colors appropriate to nature, and I didn’t draw extra often except for more flowers. I’m so boring.
Too bad Mojo freaked out, all I said was hi.
Anyway, I coloured however I pleased, sometimes in the lines, other times out, and other times making my own. I was a 5 of all trades and master of none (jack was way above my level).
Where’s my trip to The Varsity?
And no, you’re not boring. You freely admit staying within Society’s lines. You have shown the ability to conform with what Society says is Proper. However, by adding flowers, you demonstrate that you not only exist but rather THRIVE in Society. You blossom with it, so to speak. Society and set norms helps you be you. I think any nonconformist would admit that what is important is that a person does that which lets her be a person rather than a mere sheep. Your expressiveness while doing what Society dictates demonstrates your ability to be a Person among People.
As for Cav, he’s a corporate shill that does what money commands him to.
Sellout!
100%.
Sheesh! This thread’s spreading through pages faster than a three year old with a can of paint.
As for coloring book adventures I still remember one Christmas getting a LoZ coloring book, which I still have somewhere, buried amongst a pile of crap which was buried under more crap that since was buried under even more crap and despite my best efforts remains buried underneath all that crap along with a layer of junk (I bet you thought I was going to say crap) and so on.
Edit; @LockeJV: That picture deserves this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqU_0xpILIU
Bah, coloring books are too much work. I always bought sticker albums instead. So much easier! No coloring to do, just stick the stickers (sold separately 
) in their place! I actually still have my Mazinger and Battle of the Planets sticker albums. (yes, really. 
)
…Although I will confess to coloring the black-and-white comic book reprints I buy. With pencils, not crayons. And yes, I stay within the lines and color schemes. Conformist much? 
I really appreciate the extra effort to post a colorig book page. Will post it after am done. Hopefully I can learn to color in the lines!
So was anyone a big fan of connect the dots?
Wilf demonstrates the laziness of modern society and the decline of artistic expression. Rather than working to create something beautiful (whether it be Arac’s anarcho-counterculture political messages, Vicki’s traditional-yet-conformist works, Hades’ deconstructive analysis of art, or Cav’s corporate pandering), Wilf decides to lazily accept what others create for him. He finds little joy in the process of creation, choosing instead to concern himself with what is sold to him. He is part of the greater base that keeps Cav in business.
However, by coloring in comic reprints, there’s some latent desire to do something more. While Society has taught him that paying for things is better (indeed, Wilf may come straight out of Brave New World), there’s some primal urge to create. However, because society has indoctrinated him to think that buying is better, he releases his desires by molding them to conform with the Capitalist Pressures he faces. That is, he colors in exactly how he knows the Companies want him to color. Vicki flourishes in her conformity because that is who she is; she naturally holds the same values that Society holds which allows her to flourish under its system. Wilf, on the other hand, conforms because he has been taught to do so.
I was told this evening the reason for the parent teacher conference was, indeed, because I refused to color in the lines even when Mrs. K politely told me to. This probably has more to do with poor manual dexterity than disobedience of authority, though. Apparently I’d also draw additional things like wings or horns on people, and she found this “disturbing” because it was a fire safety coloring book we had to do. I don’t understand her logic, but I can’t really ask her because she died a few years after I had her.
True story: My kindergarten teacher urged my parents to hold me back a year, claiming that I wasn’t socially prepared to move on to first grade.
The crux of their argument: “He colors everything purple!” No joke.
They wanted to hold me back, too. Shit, son. Coloring must be important.
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Ahaha…you people are incredible. Have fun with your ignorant selves xoxo
My Kindergarten teacher slapped me. beat that.
I was never one for art, admittedly, though I think I had this one Super mario brothers-based coloring book I colored the shit out of. I also used Mario paint a lot. Does that count?
Edit: I thought you left, Mojo.
OH SNAP, YOU GOT ME. I AM A BIGOT. WOE IS ME.
WAIT, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?