"I have many other talents," Riku says, as if he really needs to defend that fact. "I just never got the hang of it."

Or maybe he just had too much fun giving the drawing teachers problems, that he never learned to get past the basics.

"I just wanna draw stuff. I don't want to spend all this time on 'laying foundations', or whatever it is you're supposed to do."

It was boring and really really dumb! Who cared about straight lines, anyway? Was there some sort of cop that went around, arresting those with the slightly crooked lines?