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I am glad that I am exempt from your "types" since I went to school for engineering !

You should add the "No Formal Art Training Guy Who "THINKS" He's an Artist" in the future reprint with Addenda !

Is this where the 5000 nickels went ?

Ha ha ha! No, but those 5000 nickels will definitely help!

Awesome, the book looks great!!!

And I loooove your drawings!!

This is so AWESOME! When I saw this, I was just off college with an art degree and I was laughing and reminiscing about these real characters in life. Now, I'm an art teacher and it's funny that these characters are still around.

Good stuff!

These are absolutely hilarious ---and true descriptions. I will be forwarding this link to all of my colleagues and friends who teach in art schools.

-Thanks for making my day.

-Joanne Kaliontzis
Adjunct Professor,
NE School of Art & Design
at Suffolk University, Boston

These are GREAT! I hope these have a life beyond this blog - I could see a hip art school using these in their advertising. These are really funny and painfully honest.

Me? I was a mix of the snob/brown noser/loner/stressed/average - sad thing is I haven't really changed that much..

well it's awesome to know that our teachers are having fun with stereotyping/judging us and our style like this.

:D !

really funny. i posted a link on my new art blog. would it be okay if i posted one of the images (i.e. snob/fine art) in addition to the link?

I find most people see themselves as a combination of a few which is probably a good thing.

I was this one:
http://blog30x30.blogspot.com/2009/04/through-years-part-2.html

thanks! :)

Wonderful post, but I was at a loss. I fit into at least 5-6 of the stereotypes here. On paper I was a "C" student but it was my gen. ed. classes that seemed to get in the way of my 4.0. I was in honors drawing classes and did well but I was never the best in the class. I'm very personable and take critiques well but I did have the odd disagreement with an instructor that failed me because I didn't attend his class as much as he would have liked. It looks like I fit into the average student type but I knew those types and I was far from it. I'm passionate about what I do but not so much that I'm pompous.

I don't smell funny or look weird but I also couldn't afford expensive materials. I put myself through school with loans and a full-time job and I'm not a returning student. I put a lot of stock in my sketchbooks but also know they can't be precious. I'm smarter than the average person but I'm the first to ask questions in hopes of learning more but I'm no brown-noser. Like I said, I'm an amalgamation of a lot of these students and I love that you categorized them. Anthropology fits illustration so well. Cheers!

Chuck - You're really observant and these are hysterical. What kind of student were you? Ah, now I see the "through the years" link. Very funny!

Oh NO! I'm Average! I guess that's not too bad. I'm an interior design student, I think it's close enough to an art student. Anywho, great observations

I went to "fine art" school, but these types exist there as well. I can't decide which one I was. I think I'm a mixture of a few actually.

Great job. I love these.

These are wonderful! Water came out my eye.

The average student looks AND describes me fairly well in the school days.

absolutely hilarious. really great great work.

Problem here is that there's not one type that anyone would want to be suggesting that you don't really like your students (all disclaimers to the opposite, notwithstanding).

Which one of these horrible losers were you?

I'm thinking the one whose ___ doesn't stink.

Those are awesome! Just the hip-hop guy, you forgot to make his pants down to his knees with his boxers shorts and butt completely out.
:)

AWESOME!!! Had so much fun looking at all these types of Students, and a realy nice flash back came up in my head!!!!
I just posted a link on my own blog
www.thatsprettycool.blogspot.com
with credits, etc...

Hope its OK.
Delson

My boyfriend and I went through and for all but 3 of the kinds we could personally name classmates that fit each kind. We couldn't really find ourselves on the list, but that's probably a good thing.

loved all those students you drew have to have a second look

Yeah you forgot the interior design student. Shows up to every class, always shows up with her homework in hand, hates the fact she is surrounded by stinky tattooed weirdos, wears the loud pointy toed shoes etc. Hahahah.

Wow, I can think of at least one person who fit each of these profiles while I was at my college's fine arts program.

Dare I suggest another type called "The Elective." The person who has a completely serious and professional-sounding major like business or biology and takes a few art classes as a forced requirement for cultural studies. Their characteristics would generally be lost and weirded-out by all the hardcore art students. They can't draw worth a damn and often ask other peers desperately for help with simple things like 2 point perspective.

This is spot on, you drew my graduating class! Nice!
-Dd

A few of these descriptions contain a grain of meanness that I personally don t find funny any more, but some I enjoyed reading. I found the snob student personification most applying to me.

Needs the Indie Art Student: All Clothing either Hand me Down, Salvation Army, or Hand Made, except for the extremely obscure band that no one has heard of; Portfolio is filled with half finished ball point sketches that are covered with coffee stains and are of strange random objects and scenes from a twisted imagination; book bag is old military surplus; profolio case is covered in obscure band stickers, skin is pale from too much time in Coffee Shops; Etc. Etc.

can this be tranlated to spanish? if its ok I can do it, really funny drawings, you can contact me at [email protected], keep it up.

What's really funny is I nearly look exactly like the average student.

Spot on hilarious illustrations!

Put it on a shirt!!

These are so spectacular, I can't even handle it. Nice work!

As it turns out, I'm mostly Metal Student with bits of Student 1.0 and Stressed Student in the mix.

This is so accurate and funny. Man, this really brings back memories. I've been out of art school for about 12 years now, but I can put a name of someone I knew to each of these illustrations.

Personally, I was probably a combo of the Brownnoser Student and the Metal Student with a healthy dose of the Stress Student near the end of each semester.

I can certainly say that I went to school with a lot of people who really lived to be the stereotype, but I'm not sure I (or anyone else I know) could fit me into one any more than another. I was a slightly better than average student, social, hygienic and had the brain of a mad scientist.

Come to think of it, I'm still that way.

trully wonderfull.

congrats from brazil!

I am most certainly a bastard child of the Loner/Alien student and the Metal student.

And I recognize all of my friends and classmates here. Wow. This rules.

I'm a student at Ai, and I swear some of these look like people I know.

It's too bad this is not about video students, I would say I'm the stressed out kid.

Wow these are awesome. I'm not an art student, I'm an applied mathematics student and I think your observations can transcend more than just the realm of art students. I am by far the metal student (replace fantasy art with sci-fi though). Definitely well done.

Im laughing so hard!

But sadly Im none of them! Maybe because I live in Sweden those doesnt really apply? We have another category called "the esthetic" which is often a girl (or a girlish boy) with lots of colours, stripes, cute stuff from japan, big fluffy hair with bangs and some cute stuff in it, cajal and piercings piercings piercings (and a tattoo of a star somewhere)

Im more the entrepreneur...wait, Ill just draw it for you. Be back in a day or two ;)

HAHAHAHA *nothing else* HAHAHAHA *and so on* HAHAHA

Coming from a design school, i love it, but where is that graphics I <3 APPLE person, so clean, so crisp, so down to the details. probably one with very thick black plastic eyewear.

And also within my school the ID students (a group of them) were the Bike obsessive person, they draw and then go mountain biking. and they wear the north face brand jacket, street skater shoes, and jeans...too, got any of those at your school?

I love the sketches... but unfortunately none fit me... :C

Hey everyone-
I just wanted to give proper credit to Dave Valeza for his Draw Yourself as a Teen, make sure to check that out! (I apologize for not posting this sooner, I wasn't entirely sure where it originated from- thanks to Charley from linesandcolors.com for the info).

Dave Valeza's Draw yourself as a teen:
http://davario.livejournal.com/30861.html

I was a combination of the "College Chuck" and an 80's version of the Metal Student... possibly Grunge Student (not represented). I had a flannel on or tied around my waist every day and a pair of Military Surplus combat boots.

So little of that has changed in 19 years. I still can't finish anything.

Great stuff!

@eric_merced from twitter linked to your Which Student are you and I had to laugh. I'm the mom student!
Gonna forward this on!

Man, these are fully as hell. Yeah, sure, they are stereotypes, but some of the points are pretty true, and after all the humor in these resides with the fact that they are stereotypes.

The only thin more funny here is that there are so many people who are upset by your obvious humor and are actually taking offense. You, I believe, have struck a chord!

I got a couple requests to have these made into t-shirts so here you go.

They can be purchased at my fully secure site, store30x30. They are available in men's and women's sizes and come in 31 different colors.

www.printfection.com/store30x30

Mix between Average and brown noser, though mostly average...
not a good thing I'd say.

recently i've become more talkative

Holy Crap - I'm the "Mom" Student - but without the kids. Scary.

These are AWESOME!!! I went to art school TWICE (who doesn't) and I think I covered about every one of these. I CANNOT stop laughing!!

Julia Singh

Absolutely brilliant...I think I am an amalgam of some of the characters thought...
Not any of the specifically.

P

These are so great - I can see a lot of my classmates here, especially the stressed one, and the comic book one (omg haha) and the metal one, DEFO.

Someone posted that there should be one for the student who has a near paper fetish - that would definitely be me. Other than that, I don't really see myself here! That's probably a good thing :)

Still have a bit of everything. These keep getting better.

One of my students sent me over here and I started spouting acronyms... lol, OMG!

This is brilliant. I'm a new teacher and still a bit gob-smacked that anyone would whine when learning animation, but there they are right there in the list and in my class.

I even see myself in there as a student.

Can't wait for the 'art teacher' series (don't forget to include the animation teacher).

Not a Professor or anything
Just an animation teacher
Brisbane, Australia

I could not avoid laughing loud at these, since i saw many of my classmates and myself reflected on your "student analysis"...Great work on this!!!

So to be a good student you need to be average? hmmmmm

That's Ingenious!!!
AND - True!
I've met almost every type out there...

Awesome! I think I have abit of everyone of them in me.

wow, i can't believe people are getting offended by these...it's SATIRE people...
i like these a lot....like others have said, there are definitely crossovers to be found, but i like the ones you have....
i may have missed it, but i didn't see The Photography Student on there, who from my recollections, were a whole different breed from the rest...

hahahahaha !! L-O-V-E !!

Hi Chuck, Love these illustrations! You should check out the National Student Show & Conference. http://nationalstudentshow.org/ Each spring we host a conference and competition to find the nations leading talent in art & design.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/National-Student-Show-and-Conference/83667369231?ref=ts

If you have any questions, or ideas for next years event please contact me. We'd love to hear from you!

Thanks,
Angela
Chairman // 6th Annual National Student Show & Conference

Nice selection of very white stereotypes.

I'm definitely the brown-noser.

Except I never brought cookies....but I did live at home and did have a massively heavy portfolio. AND No matter what I do, my hair always migrates to that ponytail that I managed to learn to do on my own in the first grade.

I like how apparently the only good student is the one slavishly hovering in mediocrity - plain clothes, bland expression, no apparent interests.

Oh God, I was totally an anime brown-noser. One of the worst possible combinations...

I always loved the Mom students. Nondescript, but with awesome work. One even had her daughter in the same school...she was the one who never had stuff in!

Man, I wish i could find one of me, ugh. Oh well i went to state school for art, too many arteeest in art school.

Luv them all!

THANK you for sharing your insight! I can't stop laughing.

WOW! Love them! I can totally relate being an Art Teacher myself. I'm going to share this with my students.

Jay Montgomery
Adjunct Illustration Professor
SCAD Atlanta

I was definitely dirty student. And then became disappearing student. Years later I taught for a little while and had to deal with some of these, the worst being whiny student. Oh Whiny student why do you bother!! And why all the flesh hanging out when you are so obviously overweight?! AAARggh!

These are hilarious. You really should add one on the beginning photographer who can't figure out the menu, buttons and dials on their new digital camera. Web design, to graphic design and into illustration in January. I'm positive I've been several of these at some point.

Inspired, if derivative, work that could have been much better if the artist had spent even two minutes trying for legible lettering. I'd give it a B-.

;)

Hahahahah love it!!!Done something like that in my blog about different types of couples, and a friend of mine who found your blog thought you 'rock'!!! You do!!!

ah, jeez, this pretty much sums up what was my 2d design class. Man, the truth hurts. xD

100% accurate, congrats!

Where the Asians? :p

With the emergence of Web 2.0...I think you might have to "upgrade" Student 1.0.

These are spot on :D! Though i'm not an arts student (cs), i'm the student 1.0 kind.

for your information goths and emos are not the same thing, emos are goth wannabes who cut them selves abd are prone to greater fits of depression and horrible hair styles.

sincerly a concerned goth

I'm a little bit of all of those! LOL

i was an average student. *wipes an average tear*

This is so incredibly true. XD As a current art student, I definitely know at least one person of each "stereotype" listed, and I found it hilarious to go through the list and match who was who in my own classes, for fun. XD As for me, I'm a mash-up between the average and the stressed...definitely stressed, either way! XD

Jesus!Still giggling and looking at my own students doesn't help either.Can see myself as metalhead/stressed student back in the day.when's the calender/posters coming out,i wanna post some around my classroom.
cheers

Damian

Humorous and well-done and yet I can see how this would wound some people's feelings.

I am a combo of the Anime kid and Art Snob, which by all accounts (according to everyone but me), these two should be polar opposites. Hmm......I'm also the Comic/Geek, because I'm a dork, but I don't like superhero drivel. I'm also not overweight, I do maintain good hygiene and my family cannot afford me expensive *anything* and I'm paying for school with financial aid. I am definitely Stressed student, too.

I'd also qualify for the Scene kid/hipster/indie whatever student because I wear skinny jeans, bright colors, thrift clothing and maintain asymmetrical, unnaturally colored hair. This type must be included in EVERY art school. If you build an art school, they will come.

However, I sense a bias when describing the Metal kid's 'great' fantasy art (and the Mom student, as someone mentioned). You may dislike anime art, but not everyone is impressed by dragons and sorceresses, either.

I wish there were the foreign student represented on here. I was one of the several at my art school. I have no clue how some of the other "alien" kids got in the school because they hardly were able to speak any English and as far as I remember I had to bust my ass to get a 550 score on my TOEFL test. Are any of you remembering the interesting variety going on with our teachers, there was some great characters I can remember. Thanks for posting these awesome stereotypes soon to be archetypes. LOL

Which of these am I ... none of them, really, but then I'm an applied mathematician, not an art student.

How did I find my way in here, again?

Wow these are really great, loved 'em.

Overall wonderful, but where is the "hipster"?? He/she has nut-hugger jeans & always a cigarette and very apathetic attitude.

I agree with the idea of a printer obsessed with paper to a point of it being a fetish, that was totally in my art school!!

I can't find myself here at all!

I think there's a type of art student (fine art) that deals with only self portraits, and many many many of them, and does photography, painting, and is usually female. You know, the feminine angst type, like Tracey Emins, Sue Williams?

There's also the exclusively 3D art kind of geek boy who keeps posting on deviantArt. You can't miss that one!

Hhm. None of students in my art class resemble any of these. We must have been an exceptionally cool bunch to so thoroughly defy convention.

I do believe you have just described everyone on my art course. I think I'm most Student 1.0.

:D

Aaaah so good!

Alien Loner here. Shy people REPRESENT!

sad that so much categorization has to go on in your work day and in the world. obviously you are not to blame necessarily, as 'self-marketing, self-categorization' eugenics nightmares like facebook etc continue to reinforce this venom saturated, reductive style of pattern recognition.
would it hurt you if some gifted student drew a gallery of bloated, alcoholic, bitter, self-deceiving ad agency parasites that they see in gloomy dioramas in the staff lounge?
follow the talent, teach, fuck the rest

Wow, great. Now do a series where you categorize and belittle your students based on their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, etc.

looking forward to that,

Matt

What about a student that is a little of all? I am still a student (for the next 2 months :p) and I don't recognezie me in any of them... I only see little bits in each. What type is that? A regular person? A real student?

Anyone coming down on this guy for sketching these is a hypocrite! Come on! Have you been back to art school since you left? ITS EXACTLY THE SAME except now there's technology which just adds another level. Art teachers see the same thing year in and year out! Yeah there are good students/ artists, but there are also what seems like the same kids again and again and again. Can't blame the guy for venting a little. Plus its funny. Opening scene of Art School Confidential (terrible movie, only good for intro) --- barefoot girl steps on glass. Classic!

I think should of taken the shoes off dirty guy. Dirty guy doesn't wear shoes.

After reading all of it I think I'm a brownnoser, even though I'm a dude.

PDN has not responded to the accusations of passive racism, so it is hard to say whether it is an oversight on their part, or something more sinister. It appears more to be a symptom of the culture.

Wonderful! As a "currently former" college art instructor myself, I must concur. Yes, they are stereotypes, and that IS bad, but a stereotype is just a ghetto version of the more respectable archetype, no? In any case, of course no one student is EXACTLY any one of these, but most are combos - I see a bit of myself in all of them.


A challenge for your nice summer break: Art instructor versions! Preferably "where are they now" versions of the original students that eventually will become college art professors in the future (based on existing art professor stereotypes). And props due to D. Clowes!!! Righteous big up!


P.S. - I'm the post-punk-anarchist-cum-white-rasta-wannabe - is there such a thing?

i smell a facebook quiz.

"Art School Confidential" revisited with some worthy stereotypes added to the cast...LOL!!! Daniel Clowes would crack a smile.

I'm sure you've stopped reading comments at this point but I'd like to just say... if you knew these drawings would hurt some people, why did you post them anyway?

oh wow~

these caricatures really reminded me of my BA years back then :D

really cool works!

Initially thought this was great and requires further reading... but now I see how it could be hurtful to the most sensitive types out there - fellow artists.

You should do some drawings on art school instructors.
Here is a list of characteristics that may help get the ball rolling:

-Bitter failed artists who lack any sort of professional competence, and have resolved to teach because they need a paycheck.

-After years of being surrounded by students, an inflated and false sense of importance has developed and is ultimately worse then the "cliche" students they laugh at.

-Depressed after realizing that their lives, occupation, and general existence is amazingly trivial, and benign.

-In order to get through their lives, and the dismal reality of it, they adopt the concept they are intellectuals or scholars (Which is extremely pathetic because most art school instructors are poorly educated.

I could go on, but don't have the time.

But I'll you with this. After graduating "art school", and working a bit, I realized what a joke college was, and looked back at it as a waste of my time. Luckily it was only 4 years. I also realized what incredible idiots the instructors were, I was not surprised that they ended up teaching....Probably could nothing else.
Anyway, enjoy your future, seems like it will be warm and fuzzy, and filled with rewarding experiences, and lots of friends, and companionship!
Keep on teachin' !!!

Hilarious...thanks for making my day

These are FANTASTIC!!! It's funny 'cause it's true. I was one of these and now I teach them.

I am really amazed how I can recognize every single co-student from my class :) My colleagues are ROFLing too!

Great stuff!

You need to add the "Smart-Ass Cartoonist" stereotype. I saw a few of these guys when I was at Hussian.

The ones who never seem to be paying attention in class (buy really are) and always have their head down drawing in their sketchbooks.

The ones who fill about 10 or more sketchbooks a year and are always drawing funny/weird/sarcastic cartoons of their classmates, teachers and life in general.

The ones who always win all the drawing awards at graduation because they're constantly drawing.

If you don't do it, I just might do it myself.

Hey, thanks again everyone! I just wanted to say that I am not ignoring your comments, I read everyone and take it into consideration for new types.

I just got back from vacation and have been very busy but I will be posting a few new types soon (I always planned on 25 but time wouldn't allow it just yet).

Also, I wanted to address the "race" issue. I intentionally made these all white because that is what I am and I thought these types had nothing to do with race. I find these traits in all of the races. The fact that people are relating to them in every part of the world is proof enough for me.

Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!

I'm an art student in Brazil and i work at my college as an asst. instructor at the printmaking ateliers... All the instructors and technicians here are LOL!!! We recognized so many students!
Love it!

Awesome...love the commentary from other bloggers as well! UGHHHH. Brings back all sorts of gross memories about art school and the people who were once the center of my universe. Agreed on the suggestion for the Smart-Ass Cartoonist. :)

I added another one making the total 21. I think I have a few more in me but I have been busy so I'll get them done when I get them done.

Also, the t-shirt store (http://www.printfection.com/store30x30) has full color versions of the students although at this point I only have anime, metal and comic book completed. The rest will hopefully be up by month's end.

I am so glad I'm not any of these people... gross.

These are great!!! Awesome perception and drawing skills!