Artist Commentary

5/23/2012 00:18｜800×700｜SAI
いじめっこが新たな標的を見つけたようです
「おい、お前ちょっと写真撮ってやるから、黒板の前に立てよ。……撮るぞー、はーい笑って笑ってー、ピース！――(ﾊﾟｼｬ)――プッ、何この写真、やべえ超ウケる！お前も見てみ？　……あん？黒板の文字？気にすんな。ちょっとしたお茶目だよ。……あーそれにしても、イイ写りだよ、うん。あんまり出来がいいから、ちょっと裏サイトの掲示板に貼って来るわ！　よかったな、お前明日にはきっと人気者だぜ(笑)」　　　いじめっこの多い学校ですね。酷い奴ですよいじめっこは。若干天然なのをいい事に、いろいろ騙されてイタズラされる少女の運命やいかに。いや流石にいたずら書きされてるのには気付けよ、という気もしますが。　　　絵とはあまり関係ありませんが、みなさんは黒板アートやったことありませんか？自分は昔、放課後の教室に誰もいなかったので、後ろに設置してある黒板に落書きして帰ったことがあります。翌日登校すると、なぜか描いたキャラにヒゲが追加されておりました。さらに日を跨ぐごとに翼が追加されたり、角が追加されたり筋肉盛られたりと、だんだんと悪魔的な謎のクリーチャーと化していきました。ある意味クラス合作のマスコットキャラです。まあマスコットというには邪悪過ぎる容貌でしたが。クラスでは『悪魔紳士』とか『デビル男爵』なんて呼ばれてた気がします。元は女の子の絵だったんすけどね。

Translated:

It looks like the bullies found a new target

"Hey, you, I'll take a photo, so go stand in front of the blackboard. ...Taking it now, there, smile, smile, say peace! *clack* Phew, what's with this photo, it's really amazing! You, wanna take a look? ...Huh? The writing on the blackboard? Don't worry about it. We're just fooling around a bit! ... Aah, even so, it's still a nice picture, yeah. It turned out pretty well, so I'll post it on the BBS of some underground site! Aren't you happy? You're gonna be really popular tomorrow. (laughs)" [TN: Likely a female speaker.]

There are a lot of bullies in this school, huh? They really bad people, those bullies. With them taking advantage of her being pretty much of an airhead, deceiving her and playing pranks on the girl in various way, what will be her fate? Rather, I get the feeling that she still got encouraged despite the prank scribblings.

It's not really related to the picture, but did anybody else do blackboard art? As for myself, a long time ago, there was nobody in the classroom after school, so I scribbled on the blackboard installed in the back before going home. When I went to school the next day, somehow a beard had gotten attached to the character I drew. Moreover, as the day went on, wings and a horn got added and muscles started growing on it, turning it into a mysterious, demonic creature over time. In a sense, this joint production of our class became our mascot character. Well, I say mascot, but it looked way too evil for that. I have the feeling that our class called him the "Demon Gentleman" or "Devil Baron" or something like that. Originally it was the drawing of a girl though.