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Observers said:
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As a history lover... and Fantasy Cartography hobbyist this makes me want to cry..
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I feel your pain my brother!

And why please tell me why is (what i can only assume is hungry) taking a massive dump forming Africa? that actually looks more like a inverse south America.
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Funny, I thought it was supposed to be Anatolia, though that would sort of suppose Chris has any geographic knowledge or artistic talent. And that he'd include Turkey in Europe. Interestingly Russia and everything beyond the Urals is also missing, as is Scandinavia, Britain, Iberia and the entire Asian continent. Actually, I'm not entirely sure as his African continent seems to include a gigantic bridge attaching it to the Eurasian supercontinent. It looks suspiciously like the Levant, but it might be the Sinai or Arabian peninsula.

and i also thought the help was a misplaced Iceland :(
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Ha! I though it was supposed to be like Cuba or Hispanola, but you're right, it does look a lot like Iceland...
 
GrandNumberOfPounds said:
I want to see Chris's attempts at math too, to see what he meant when he said he "excelled" at math.
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Well, I think its pretty apparent he excelled in math with quotes such as, "This chair is a grand number of pounds", saying a car is ~50 tons (I could be mistaken though, he may have estimated a number less than 50 tons), and telling Kacey's father that Patti's confinement house weighed at least 5-10 tons. He excelled in math indeed.
 
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Some JERK said:
Well there's also the issue of talent. Art isn't just something you learn if given enough time. If you don't have artistic talent, then you could hack away at it for a million years and still not be any good.
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It takes talent to reach a level where you stand out from the masses like Chris wants to, for sure.

But I don't think that you realize just how bad of an artist Chris is. Find any random person on the street and tell them to draw three heads, each looking like they belong to the same person. Even if they're at a level where their idea of a head is just a circle, if they're really putting in an effort, they'll draw three heads that are at least roughly the same size and shape. And if they messed up, they'd grab the eraser until they got it right. Chris doesn't even manage that much in his art. As they say, no two Christians look alike. Barring people with severe mental and physical disabilities (the former being the kind that can't process semi-complex activities like driving, selling things on ebay, and so on), that's a level of skill that can only be explained with a complete lack of trying.

Moving to his "style", he's not even at the level of an average beginner. That's a kindergartner's lazy scribbles. Again, barring people with severe mental and physical disabilities, nobody who puts in an hour or two of daily copying and construction practice is going to find Chris's level to be the end of their potential, insurmountable even with years of consistent hard work.

The real problem is Chris's ego and his aversion to work. You'd be hard pressed to find a skill that takes more time, focus, tenacity, patience, and general dedication than becoming a proficient artist. Chris would find it very Stressful to go through the practice needed to reach a point where his people are anatomically correct and a tilted overhead shot no longer makes it look like the hallway just turned into a vertical shaft with the characters appearing to be falling. Could you see Chris sitting in a hallway with a sketchbook and pencil in hand, meticulously measuring and copying the scene in front of him, and turning this into a regular exercise, setting aside at least an hour or two several days per week for this and similar exercises? Could you see him pouring over books and websites on theory to get pointers and then taking those to heart? When he could be relaxing in his room with videogames? The guy can't even put two hours into a page that he's planning to release to the public and possibly monetize someday. Making the matter even worse, he refuses to take criticism, and is convinced that he doesn't need to improve to be employable.

So does it take talent to become an amazing artist? Yes. Is talent alone the reason why Chris's art looks the way it does? Definitely not.
 
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DeadMansHand said:
I just realized what bothers me about Chris's handwriting: It hasn't changed at all in the last 15 to 20 years. Most people will change their handwriting over a period of time, so if you look at their signatures from 10 years apart you can tell it's the same name but there will be distinct differences. But not Chris. It's like someone taught him the shapes to put together to make his name, and that combination is permanently set in stone.
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Over the course of a whole decade most people have to sign their names a lot, so signatures tend to get streamlined over time. They have to sign checks, job applications, tax returns, marriage licenses, design reviews, mortgage applications, and so on and on and on. I don't think a day goes by when I don't have to John Hancock something.

Chris has no truck with any of that. Sure there's the occasional credit card receipt, but mostly he puts his signature on his "art", and he doesn't really produce very much of that. So it's no surprise his signature remains static. He doesn't use it enough to knock off the rough edges.
Mogambo said:
War of 1812 maybe? That or the 1844 border dispute...
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Fifty Four Forty or Fight Motherfuckers!
Good Soothing Coffee said:
Actually, if Chris marketed his art as Low Brow or Outsider Art, he could have a chance to do obscenely well in the underground gallery scene, even for just a little while. I wish I were lying but I have seen far worse, far more derivative garbage sell for thousands at shows, and we're not even talking like Lichtenstein or Warhol levels of competence.
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LOLno. Chris is not the next Darger or Robertson. It's possible some gallery manager might purchase something of his on spec, but not for more than a few dollars.

If his "art" ever does somehow get recognized by the foolish end of the art industry, it will be after he's dead.
 
Thetan said:
Looks like he was reading Goosebumps in geography class as well.
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He probably didn't care enough to learn it, let alone let it sink in.

"He had a tough time with Australia a few months back before he finally got it through his head where Australia was." - Bob, BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
He probably didn't care enough to learn it, let alone let it sink in.

"He had a tough time with Australia a few months back before he finally got it through his head where Australia was." - Bob, BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7
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The fact that he couldn't find an entire bloody continent speaks volumes. I mean, we're not talking some tiny country like Luxembourg or Saint Kitts and Nevis, we're talking about an entire continent. Gah...
 
Mogambo said:
The fact that he couldn't find an entire bloody continent speaks volumes. I mean, we're not talking some tiny country like Luxembourg or Saint Kitts and Nevis, we're talking about an entire continent. Gah...
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I'm pretty sure BlueSpike came after PandaHalo, which means he really didn't care where his internet heartsweets came from.
 
Seahorses said:
Canada is just mad we can afford to pay for healthcare.
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Or they're mad because you keep making the continent look bad, so they have to really phone in their Canadian-ness when they visit foreign countries.
 
DrChristianTroy said:
So why do Canada hate America?
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Also: for the entire cold war the American defense plan if the Soviets nuked them was "deflect that shit into Canada".

And you snub us for Mexico all the time, because you take us for granted and know we'll just put up with it like a battered wife.

Or they're mad because you keep making the continent look bad, so they have to really phone in their Canadian-ness when they visit foreign countries.
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When I was in Ireland one time, some lady at a shop mistook my family for Americans because of our accents, and when we corrected her she was so apologetic, like she had unjustly accused us of killing a dog.
 
I hadn't really paid attention to the Map part at all until I read something about Alaska; and I was like "wait, someone said he drew Canada, did he really not draw Alaska?" And I looked at it and BAM, he put Alaska near a small Hawaii... But the best part? When you look at pictures that do the whole "put Alaska near Hawaii" it's usually just a US map; because the moment you get a world map, they put it near Canada. But here? It's a world map with Alaska next to Hawaii and then Canada just ends; there's no Alaska lump. I'm so fucking confused by this fail. Obviously he didn't look at a map when drawing these... but seriously, wtf? I have never been so blown away by Chris-fail than I am right now. What the literal fuck, Chris? How do you draw Canada and the United States and not put Alaska where it's suppose to be? I'd get it if he just drew the US and that's how it looked; or if he was suppose to draw Canada and that's what it looked like. But BOTH? The hell. The only explanation my little ol brain can come up with is that he was told to draw the US, then some other countries and then was told to draw Canada. Like it wasn't just a one class project. Only explanation there is. Even "Autism" isn't responsible for this because I've met and dealt with people with severe mental disabilities who could understand maps better than this.
 
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