YMMV / Our Drawings

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • Mickey describes himself as “The Notorious Animator” with a cheeky grin and a shifty glance. What exactly does he animate?
  • In the song Back To The Drawing Board, Paige sings about how her wrist aches because she's been drawing for hours. If that's what you call it...
• Anvilicious: Art is good! Stealing art is bad! If you bully people for drawing or liking art, you deserve to get the snot kicked out of you!
• Ass Pull: Mist using an “art style” to reverse his defeat at the hands of Paige just so he can randomly decide that Paige won their battle anyways because he’s seen the error of his ways.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • Mist murders an entire group of stick people with a meteorite and none of the cast cares about it or brings it up ever again.
  • There’s also a plot point about the drawings trying to find food for the human characters so they logically don’t starve on their journey, but Puzzle gets distracted getting a haircut and only brings back two grains of stale rice, which angers Calobi to the point where he curses him out.
  • During the song Back To The Drawing Board, there are a few random shots that have a dark-skinned character with a white t-shirt and Afro doing a rigid dance. They don't appear anywhere else in the entire movie, not even other shots of the same scene.
• Bile Fascination: Most of the movie’s viewership are from people who watched videos about it and are curious on how bad the movie exactly is.
• Broken Aesop:
  • The primary moral of the story is that everyone has the power to draw and that you have to hone your talent to improve it. The Wizard, however, is just plain bad at art and is implied that he’ll never actually get better at it, tracing or art theft be damned.
  • Mist is a villain who demands artists should deserve respect and be treated as kings and queens, and Paige tells him he’s wrong for being so selfish. But then the movie goes out of its way to call Paige a princess and worship the concept of art as the most impactful thing ever, so are they really any different asides Mist’s massive ego?
  • So… it’s wrong when the villains are lazy and look for cheats to get around doing actual work, but when Puzzle does it, it’s funny in an endearing way?
• Captain Obvious Reveal: Mist is Paige’s art teacher.
• Crack Ship: Calobi/The First Drawing has been gaining traction both ironically and unironically.
• Don't Shoot the Message: While none of the heroes are wrong in saying that art and artists deserve respect and for their art not to be stolen or used without their consent, the message would probably go down easier if it wasn't delivered with all the subtlety of a nuclear warhead.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Beatboxing Puppy is well-liked by many watchers of the movie despite being an relatively minor character with little to no plot importance. It’s to the point where they’re considered the only good character, and at some occasions, the only good thing about the movie as a whole.
• Fridge Horror: Pillow is attacked by a monster Paige drew and has her head and body continuously slammed against the ground until she stops moving. She doesn’t get back up. Paige may very well have killed her sister for bullying her. No wonder she doesn’t like talking about it!
• Fridge Logic:
  • Mist mocks Paige for not having a college degree. She’s in art school! How can she have a art degree if she’s still working towards getting it?
  • If Mist wants Paige to trust him and says he respects artists, why is he taking out his anger on her and trying to destroy what she made?
  • If The Wizard's drawing is so bad that the magic doesn't work on it, how did The First Drawing and all of the other stick figures in this world come to life?
• Humor Dissonance:
  • Puzzle is clearly meant to be the comic relief of the film, but both the audience and all the characters in-universe find him more grating than actually funny.
  • “Moisty!”
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The Beatboxing Puppy scene, which usually gets paired with the statement right before it, “Girl, we’ve been knowing how to draw!”
  • "Maybe we're all tracers!"
  • "I need DAAAAAAAH!"
  • “Anyways, I’m going to go seek power.”
  • Pillow’s insults to Paige have gained infamy for how cruel they are, as well as the ruthless verbal beatdown that the art teacher gets from an offscreen bully.
  • People cracking jokes about clips from the movie being cut scenes from Miraculous Ladybug.
  • “Shut the fluff up!”
  • “Are you from Ohio or something?”
• Moe: Beatboxing Puppy is unironically adorable.
• Narm:
  • The constant Character Shilling of Paige Foster by Calobi about how perfect and kind and amazing she is. Related is an incredibly on-the-nose scene where Calobi is offered an orb of water and a massive pile of money by The First Drawing and is told that literally everyone else before him was a greedy bastard that took the money and didn’t want to train with him to improve themselves.
  • Puzzle’s Verbal Tic of stopping in the middle of his sentences to start screaming. Speaking of Puzzle, both he and Calobi’s character models are blatantly children, even though the attempt was for them to be stylized adults.
  • The painful usage of Gen Z memes and pop culture references, like ASMR and the Ohio meme. It wouldn’t be so bad if the creator didn’t insist they’d been working on the film for six years.
  • The Wizard's sheer unbridled hatred of the beatboxing puppy, where he says that anybody who even thought up the concept of a puppy that can talk or beatbox is a complete psychopath. He then tries to crush its head for this reason.
  • The sheer fact that in the world of this film, wanting to pursue art as a career is the most embarrassing and shameful thing imaginable, to the point where someone can walk up to an art teacher in the middle of teaching a class and scream at them for having a worthless job!
  • Paige and Calobi are the only heroic characters that do anything while everyone else stands around watching them fight, which makes them look completely pointless.
  • No matter what you do, there’s no way to make “Shut the FLUFF up!” not sound goofy.
  • When a paralyzed young Paige first gains the magic pencil and enters her fantasy world, the very first thing she does is hop up and down over and over.
• Relationship Writing Fumble: Calobi is meant to just be Paige's friend and protector, while her love interest is meant to be Hunter. In practice, Calobi constantly complimenting her and calling her a princess has much more romantic undertones than any interaction she has with Hunter. And with his model looking so young, it could almost be interpreted as a Precocious Crush.
• The Scrappy:
  • Puzzle, with his obnoxious tendency of stopping to yell in the middle of his sentences for no reason and his weird tangents.
  • All of the humans, who quite literally stand around doing nothing while Paige and Calobi try to stop the villains.
  • Calobi himself, who tends to hog screentime and do nothing but stand around preaching about art.
• Signature Scene: The film blew up on Twitter less from its plot and messages and more because of the Beatboxing Puppy's music number and the sheer hilarity and ridiculousness of the scene's content.
• So Bad, It's Good: Between the confusing nonsensical plot, awkward dialogue, ugly 3D artstyle, and bizarre non sequiturs, everything adds up to make for one hell of an entertaining viewing experience.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • One of the scenes in the Beatboxing Puppy’s song isn’t fully rendered.
  • None of the animation has resampling disabled, leaving the film looking blurry during fight scenes.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Calobi's model is fairly gender neutral, to the point where upon first glance people think his character is a little girl... right up until he starts talking.