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Starving Artist
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They've got little money, and lots of talent (or not). Being an artist isn't a career with steady pay, and art supplies are expensive. Artists that haven't quite reached commercial success (or haven't gotten picked up by a wealthy patron) often live poorly. Due to several influential artists having historically been starving artists, the inherent dramatic potential of being talented but cash-deprived, and the appeal of living a life without material possessions, these portrayals are often quite romantic. If they've got all of the starving but none of the talent, they're Giftedly Bad. If they are still in art school they are also a Starving Student. If they wear shabby clothes and eat mac & cheese because they're actively trying to project the image of being a struggling artist, they're probably a hipster. Because Most Writers Are Writers, the Starving Writer is a common protagonist in these circumstances. If combined with One-Hour Work Week (as it often is), the reader may come away with the impression that they'd have a better chance of making money if they ever did any writing. If the Starving Artist has relatives, expect them to be pushing for the character to "grow up" and "get a real job". Generally, if success is elusive, expect them to eventually take up a steady but unfulfilling job with a boring, bourgeois lifestyle, or to die tragically. Related to Brilliant, but Lazy, for the genius who has no money because they don't apply themselves. See also Reclusive Artist, Sensitive Artist, and Eccentric Artist for other artist stereotypes. |
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La Bohème, the famous 1896 opera, as well as RENT, its modern update. | |
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In Gate, Risa is a doujinshi artist, but she can barely afford to pay her electric and heating bills and often has nothing to eat but soy milk and cereal. | |
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Inverted in Make the Exorcist Fall in Love. Imuri is a world-renowned artist whose paintings are so beloved that she is said to be one of the wealthiest people in the world. She claims to have an income rivaling the top 3% of earners. | |
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Another character is a (supposedly talented) poet who borrowed money from The Mafia, ostensibly to work on his poems and make a better life for himself and his girlfriend, but ended up gambling it all away and having a huge debt to pay back. He tries pleading with Clair to allow him to either get an extension on the repayment or get the debt forgiven. Clair agrees, on the condition that the poet writes him a poem that's to his liking. (None of the poems are, needless to say. To be fair, they were pretty painful to listen to, but it's unlikely that Clair, being the Smug Snake that he is, would have forgiven the debt even if the poet had written genuinely wonderful poems.) The poet gets a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Clair and is (literally) thrown out the door where his girlfriend is waiting. | |
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Satoru Fujinuma is one in ERASED. He's had one hit manga but has mostly been in a slump, with his editor telling him that his stories don't seem to connect for some reason. He works part-time as a pizza delivery driver to help make ends meet in the meantime. | |
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At the start of Some Like It Hot, Jerry and Joe are poor musicians in Chicago who have to sell their overcoats (in February) to make ends meet after Joe makes a bad bet. | |
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The protagonists of Design for Living, played by Gary Cooper and Fredric March, are a starving painter and playwright respectively. March proudly declares "I write unproduced plays," and Cooper freely admits his annual salary is zero and that he survives "on miracles." | |
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Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti: French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin decides to leave France for Tahiti, where he thinks he will be able to paint without having to worry to make ends meet. | |
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In Three Jaguars, Artist would be this, if the Business Manager let her. | |
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Poor Stanislav from Kraken Academy!! just wants people to see his commission sheet and share his art on Kraken-Net. He's by far one of the hardest working students and actually focuses on his schoolwork, and yet seems to be absolutely broke. He's even admitted that, in his desperation, he's accepted commissions of a certain blue hedgehog doing "things you wouldn't believe". | |
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Émile Zola and Paul Cézanne are doing this in 1937's The Life of Émile Zola, to the point that the opening scene looks like a Shout-Out to La Bohème. | |
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In the Tokaido episode of Table Top, Wil takes on the role of Hiroshige, an artist who gets a bonus to their painting skill. He starts with the least gold out of all the playable characters, has to give money to one of the other players due to going first and the game having a First-Player Advantage Mitigation mechanic, and makes very little money over the course of the rest of the game due a combination of bad luck and the other players colluding to screw him over. On his final turn of the game, he arrives at the inn and realises he can't afford any of the food, and lays his meeple on its side to represent Hiroshige starving to death. | |
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Airheads: The Lone Rangers start out this way. Rex works in a toy store, Pip works as a pool boy, and Chazz is unemployed, living off his girlfriend, who works as a secretary. | |
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Resoundingly averted with Amy from Double Homework. She’s a royal brat who doesn’t need the money from her Twitch channel, but she makes enough from the channel so that she can help pay for inexpensive student housing with her Twitch earnings. | |
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Max (2002) features Adolf Hitler as a young artist after World War I, barely able to afford to eat. | |
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Brian Topp in Spaced. His work is inspired by "anger... pain... fear... aggression..." and is "a lot more complicated" than watercolours. His Perpetual Poverty once left him unable to pay the rent and required him to make an, ahem, arrangement with his landlady. He's never been able to live it down. | |
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Sunset Boulevard has Joe Gillis as a starving Hollywood screenwriter. | |
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Supernatural, "Crossroad Blues": George Darrow sold his soul to a demon in exchange for artistic talent and spent the next ten years making amazing paintings... that nobody wanted to buy. Broke and alone, he spends his last days working on his final masterpiece and wishing he'd asked the demon for fame and fortune instead. | |
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The Amy Virus: The reason why Cyan's father discourages her drumming and songwriting hobbies, and doesn't want her older sister Tam to go to Rhode Island School of Design for college, is because he believes that being a doctor is the only way to make a living in the current 2010s US economy. However, this belief also demonstrates one of the ways Daniel enforces his control over his family. Not only is he insistent that they attend Caltech, his Alma Mater, despite being other good colleges out there, but he also goes so far as to confiscate any of Cyan's music and instruments to keep her from practicing her hobby. Also, in Tam's case, she's planning on averting this by majoring in Industrial Design at RISD, which would help her find a very good career where she can use her artistry. | |
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The Gods Lie: Natsuru Nanao's mother Ritsuko is a widow who tries to make money writing light novels; each time we see her at home, she is suffering Writer's Block, and what little Natsuru gets to read indicates that he doesn't find her writings that interesting. As a result, the two of them frequently have cheap take-out and microwaveable food for meals. | |
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Stuart from The Big Bang Theory is a graduate of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design and a talented illustrator, considering the quite stunning sketch of Penny he did back in season one. He's also spent most of the series' run stuck in Perpetual Poverty, as the comic store he runs, which is also his primary source of income, tends to barely allow him to make ends meet. Occasionally his luck does improve, though. Subverted late in the series when his financial status improves permanently, so that he no longer qualifies for the "starving" part. | |
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Robin: When Tim needed to hire someone to play the part of his non-existent uncle indefinitely he looked for actors who were good at their craft, looked enough like family to pass as such, and were so chronically out of work and broke that they'd be willing to take the bizarre job. He didn't have any trouble finding one. | |
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Rosaleen among the Artists: During her marriage to Lawrence Iverson, Rosaleen works as an illustrator, but she can't bring in enough money to make ends meet, especially with Lawrence's expensive tastes. She's resorted to borrowing money she knows she'll never be able to pay back, even though it makes her feel humiliated. | |
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Funny J. Floyd of Sam and Silo is a poet who can't sell his books, wears shabby clothing, and at least appears to be homeless. | |
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Averted in Melody. All the professional musicians in the story are able to make decent (if not luxurious) livings with their music. | |
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Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5 is an artist who's literally starving, not because of any lack of skill or interest in his art, but because his mentor/adoptive father Madarame steals all the credit and profit from his work and leaves him overworked and poor. Even after Madarame is taken down by the Phantom Thieves, Yusuke is still seen constantly eating in the background and gets excited at the mention of food. Conversations between him and the other Phantom Thieves reveal that he spends all his money on art supplies, often in unusual ways (he at one point spends a large amount of money on two lobsters; not to eat them, but to paint them). He also, as a result of the abuse he suffered from Madarame, has severe issues with the idea of actually making a living through selling his art. A major part of his Confidant route is helping him come to accept that doing so does not make him some sort of monster or sell out. | |
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Nelson from If You Could Say It in Words is a struggling painter who longs for the opportunity to sell out, but nobody's buying. One scene has him listening to a series of messages on his phone about how he's behind on different payments. | |
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The Swedish edition of MAD Magazine ran a comic in the early '80s set in Konstfack, the University Of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. One of the classes shown was teaching the students this trope, such as surviving an entire week on a glass of ketchup and painting your semester final project, a mouth-watering oil painting of a three-course dinner made out of food-scented wax after a month of starvation. Needless to say, the students taking that class are somewhat worse for wear. | |
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Wendy Watson in The Middleman, which is the plot driver for her to take the job at the Jolly Fats Wehawkin Temp Agency. To a lesser extent, her young, photogenic, animal activist room-mate Lacy Thornfield. | |
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Wallace from Sin City is an artist who has a great deal of talent but his perverted boss demands that he make pornographic artwork. He refuses and barely has enough cash to scrape together. Dwight, an aspiring photographer had the same problem with the same boss. | |
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In Squid Row, Randie ekes out a living from her jobs. | |
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In Doraemon, the title character and Nobita go back in time to help a starving artist at least once, and on another occasion tried to use time travel to buy the works of a now-famous (and obscenely rich) painter. They ended up buying a painting made by Nobita's father, who apprenticed under the artist as a college student. | |
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The Key of Awesome's parody of "Somebody That I Used To Know" has an entire band of them. | |
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In Seinfeld, Elaine's ex-boyfriend was an artist. She remarks that he's pretty fat for an artist. Most of the time when the Girl of the Week was an artist on Seinfeld, there were remarks that it was probably why their work was expensive. | |
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in the Inside No. 9 episode "Tom and Gerri", Gerri is an actress who's been unemployed for several months and owes her boyfriend a lot of money (which causes tension between them.) She's reduced to auditioning for the part of "D-Day Doris" in a play touring retirement homes because she can't find any other work. | |
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My Sister Eileen and The Musical Wonderful Town have Ruth Sherwood, an aspiring young writer whose stories don't come back only when she can't pay the return postage, and her sister Eileen, a would-be actress. They don't get much choice in what food they eat and have difficulty coming up with money for subway and bus fares. | |
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Of Human Bondage has the protagonist and all of the supporting characters in this situation at some point; the view of the artist ranges from one committing suicide because they have completely starved, and the others romanticizing it and foolishly comparing it all to La Bohème. | |
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Deconstructed with Kathy in Daughter for Dessert. She wants to be a writer, but due to a lack of focus, she can’t write anything substantial, so she has a job waitressing at a diner to pay the bills in her “crappy studio.” She finally resolves to do better halfway through the story, and in the “good” Kathy ending, this effort bears serious fruit. | |
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Dame Lyra Heartstrings of RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse is not this trope, but seems unable to convince her friend Dame Trixie that she actually does make plenty of money. Though even Lyra will admit that while her work pays well, the hours can be pretty random, and she does sometimes run into cash-flow problems. | |
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Girl Genius: The Storyteller seems to do okay for himself given the Crapsack World in which he lives but his family, especially his ancestor Oggie, treats his traveling minstrel ways as not a real job to the point that Oggie gives the Storyteller's eventual wife a very valuable piece of jewelry and explicitly tells her she can pawn or sell it anywhere if her husband never gets a job. | |
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The eponymous protagonist of Inside Llewyn Davis lives a hand-to-mouth, semi-vagrant existence crashing on the couches of acquaintances and relatives, at least those that he has not completely antagonized yet. | |
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Subaru in My Roommate is a Cat is this because he's The Shut-In who gets so fixated on trying to meet his deadlines as a writer that he forgets to eat (or sleep). Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs and he ends up passing out due to lack of food the first time we see this. He winds up reflexively eating a bowl of Haru's catfood after she becomes so worried about him that she pushes it over to him after he collapses. All his friends and neighbors comment on how underweight he looks, too. As the series progresses, he becomes better at taking care of himself. | |
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Living with Insanity: David has no day job, he just makes comics with Paul. But it's shown this nets them no income. | |
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The final murder victim of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Drew Misham, was a poor artist who turned to making forgeries through his daughter Vera to make money. | |
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Kia Freeborn from Heat Guy J. He works several odd jobs while trying to become a famous guitarist. Incidentally, Kia once did lead a very comfortable and pampered life (also, Kia is not his birth name), until his father (a famous musician) fell victim to the Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll trope, and eventually left his wife when he got The Mistress pregnant, and started a new life with her, leaving Kia and his mother in the lurch. Another character is a (supposedly talented) poet who borrowed money from The Mafia, ostensibly to work on his poems and make a better life for himself and his girlfriend, but ended up gambling it all away and having a huge debt to pay back. He tries pleading with Clair to allow him to either get an extension on the repayment or get the debt forgiven. Clair agrees, on the condition that the poet writes him a poem that's to his liking. (None of the poems are, needless to say. To be fair, they were pretty painful to listen to, but it's unlikely that Clair, being the Smug Snake that he is, would have forgiven the debt even if the poet had written genuinely wonderful poems.) The poet gets a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Clair and is (literally) thrown out the door where his girlfriend is waiting. |
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Laurel (Laurent in the NES translation) from Torneko/Taloon's chapter in Dragon Quest IV is a traveling poet who decides to take up work as a mercenary because poetry doesn't pay the bills. | |
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Discussed at the Academy of Art during Dan Vs. Art. | |
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Another Swedish example is the satirical comic Arne Anka, which is partially biographical and based on the artist's life as a Starving Artist in the early '80s, though unlike him, the main character Arne is a poet and writer rather than an illustrator. Arne's best friend Krille is a bit more successful, being a semi-successful director, but still often had money issues. | |
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Tony Hancock's character in The Rebel has a hard time getting by in Paris until a fellow artist's work is mistaken for his, at which point he becomes the toast of the town. | |
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At the beginning of The Sorrows of Satan, Geoffrey Tempest is an Impoverished Patrician who tried to find work as a writer, but was unable to get any of his manuscripts published, and has recently been fired from a steady job as a Caustic Critic for writing a positive review. By the time Lucio enters his life, he's on the brink of starvation. | |
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The Dillards: "Ebo Walker" tells about a farm boy whose fiddle-playing hobby became a full-time vocation. He left Kentucky after his father cussed him out for failing to do any work on the farm. Afterwards, he wandered around playing the fiddle, living off food and drink from listeners. | |
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In Veniss Underground, Nicholas starts the novel as an unsuccessful holo artist, dependent on loans from his sister. | |
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Mr. Jellinek on Strangers with Candy quits his teaching job to pursue his dream of being an artist and within days is homeless and penniless. Somewhat justified in that we pay teachers shamefully low wages so it's not unrealistic that he wouldn't have much savings. | |
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In Luigi's Mansion, the Mook Maker Vincent Van Gore takes this trope to both his death and his Boss Subtitle. | |
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In Fawlty Towers, Polly does sketches, but doesn't sell enough to let her quit her hectic waitressing job. | |
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Doctor Who: The episode "Vincent and the Doctor" focused on the starving artist Vincent van Gogh. As mentioned in the Real Life section, Van Gogh's paintings never sold well when he was alive, and the episode focuses heavily on the man's mental health on account of this, his depression, and his psychic visions which make him seem crazy. The Fourth Doctor, "the bohemian", borrows heavily from the romanticised image of this character type in terms of his scruffy physical appearance, fashion sense, interests (art, poetry, music, acting - he is one of only a few Doctors who show any interest in creating art himself) and other superficial personality traits. The original concept for his costume design was the famous poster of Aristide Bruant by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. His actual personality is much weirder than this, though. |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: Feyre, although she's not starving because she's an artist, she's starving because her family fell from grace. Still, Feyre loves painting and art, and secretly dreams of living a peaceful life where she can paint all she wants. Eventually she loses the "starving" part. | |
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DC Showcase: Death focuses on Death meeting a down on his luck artist named Vincent; she even namedrops this trope. | |
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Richard, the protagonist of Metaphobia introduces himself with these Exact Words. He acknowledges he does not "make much", yet manages to afford anything he needs. | |
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Nina Tanleven: Byron Fletcher is specifically referred to as one in The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed, and identified as "following in the family tradition" because of it. | |
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Many webcomic artists and indie game developers tend to be this (or support their job with a steady job like retail). The few artists one hears about spending several years of pure work on something generally aren't as starving as one thinks. For instance, the creator of Braid, Jonathan Blow, was able to spend the two years working on just Braid because he was able to spend 200K of his own money on the project. This is becoming less common as subscription-based services like Patreon are making it easier for artists to earn a steady living off their art. | |
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In an episode of The Golden Girls Blanche gives money to an artist she meets in the waiting room at the mental health clinic who had burned all his brushes to stay warm. He turns out to be a compulsive liar. | |
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The Bohemians in Moulin Rouge! — all of whom are so absinthe-addled and otherwise quirky that it's not hard to see how they can't keep steady employment even in world Montmarte. | |
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Averted hard in The Victors Project: Where Luxe St. James, the most artistic of the victors, is also the wealthiest due to having been from an affluent family even before receiving his victors salary. | |
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: Due to a string of bad financial decisions, including not copyrighting his art, illustrator Louis Wain descends further into poverty as he gets older. He is only kept from passing away in a dinky mental hospital by pure chance. | |
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There's a homeless artist ("Will paint for food") in Least I Could Do. The character is based on Lar deSouza, a friend of the author who really was a homeless artist for a time. Years after the creation of the character, deSouza took over as artist for the comic strip. | |
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Richard in Caroline in the City, scraping by on being Caroline's colorist while waiting for his break. One episode addressed it directly when a doodle he made and accidentally sent in with Caroline's comic generated some interest, Richard flat-out refused. Richard said he didn't want to sell out; Caroline wondered if he wasn't just in love with the whole romantic idea of the Starving Artist. | |
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In Arknights, Dusk is one of these, being an incredibly talented painter who has no home or job. In fact, the entire "What Is Real?" story event where she is introduced involves her sister Nian bringing her to Rhodes Island so she'll have a place to live and work. This is easier said than done, as Dusk is not only a massive introvert who has little interest in the outside world, but she is also part of a shattered god, and her paintings can create objects, life, and entire worlds. It turns out one doesn't need a home or job when one can paint up whatever they need on a whim. | |
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In Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano is a talented artist/writer. He's still dirt poor because he spends most of his time writing satiric letters that insult everyone he sees as false — which is everyone. His willingness to spend an entire month's allowance on a single grand gesture doesn't help either. The poets who frequent Raguenau's company are less sympathetic examples: they claim to love his poetry but only want to eat his food for free. | |
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The blonde dad from My Two Dads was this and was called this by the brunette dad. | |
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In Friday Night Funkin', there is a mod where you rap against a literal starving artist (with the mod name being the ¨Starving Artist Mod¨, no less). | |
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After Squidward quits his job in Spongebob Squarepants, he becomes a starving artist. No one wanted his paintings so he had to eat them. | |
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