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Painting for Emos

'I cut my wrist in a school bathroom'

By Drew Cullen

Posted in Software, 8th June 2010 12:09 GMT

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It's like Post Secret, but for Paint addicts
To draw a secret click HERE (online tool)

Welcome to the world of Draw Secret [1], a new community for people who turn their secrets into pictures using a drawing tool called Flockdraw [2].

Some submissions are skilful. But what a miserable crew: weight, unrequited love, loneliness are big themes.

Take this:

Jagged red line - looks like heartbeat monitor on black background. Text reads: 'I cut my wrist in a school bathroom, I have the scars to prove it. I'll never forgive you for not being there for me.

I cut my wrist in a school bathroom, I have the scars to prove it. I'll never forgive you for not being there for me

And this:

Text on postcard I once called my GF my future ex. Guess what? She dumped me shortly after… So this is what it feels like to be right.

Rights and wrongs

And this:

I'm so mediocre it's depressing. People think I'm easy going and fun, when in the inside I just really want to die.

I'm so mediocre it's depressing. People think I'm easy going and fun, when in the inside I just really want to die.

Oh dear. Oh dear.