Line People Attempt Sports
My gym has a lovely wall filled with motivating art of athletic blobs attempting various sporting activities. Sadly, these poor little line people have some issues. Let’s dig in!
The Archer
Our first scene is clearly archery. A great place to start, alphabetically. Okay, clearly we’re dealing with archery here. Now, I might be missing something, but it appears our athlete is holding the string instead of the bow. It might work if we say that the hands are implied, which would correctly place their other hand near their jaw. But I don’t see evidence of invisible hands in any of the other drawings so I’m not going to give it to them on this one.
Grade: C-
The Biker
Another close one! The athlete looks good enough to me. Ideally, the bike seat post would go towards where we imagine the pedals are, and it feels a little weird for the bike to be in two pieces here, and I would also love for the steering stick thing to be going forwards instead of backwards.
Okay, so not super close, but bicycles are very difficult to draw from memory. Why was this artist working from memory again?
Grade: D
The Dribbler
Hey, basketball!
Grade: B+
The Hurdler
We’ve got our classic hurdler here. This one just has proportions from the nightmare realm. Let’s move on before we gaze too long here, trying to marry this image to reality.
Grade: D
The Racket-holder
Doesn’t really look like the kind of powerful stance I would expect from tennis, so let’s call this…badminton?
Grade: B-
The Swimmer
I think this one is my favorite. There’s action and the blob person is engaged and active. I feel like their arm is bending the wrong way, but I don’t know, I’m not a swimmer.
Grade: A-
The Dunker
Slam dunk! Wait, didn’t we already do basketball? Have we run out of sports already? Oh well, I like this one, too.
Grade: A
The Kicker
Ooh, another dribbler. Looks great!
Grade: A+
The Boxers
Active competition! Here are a couple low-energy boxers just waiting to get punched in the face. Gloves up, blobs!
Grade: B
The Stick-Wielder
Help! I cannot figure this one out for the life of me. Pole-vaulting? Javelin? Baseball? Kendo? Bouldering? What sport is this??? Why would someone hold a pole like that? Please help me!
Grade: F-
The Weightlifter
Back into the realm of the known. The bendiness of the barbell gives us a reference for how seriously we should have been interpreting the rest of these figures, I guess.
Grade: B
The Rowers
This looks fine to me. The person on the right has a defined leg where the one on the left does not, so maybe they are wearing a skirt?
Grade: C
Conclusion
Well, those are our line-people. A pretty messed-up bunch, but better than staring at a blank wall. So, thanks to whomever doodled these iconic athletes.