/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>like 14ish years old, early high school
>start getting kinda into furry stuff, still completely shit but full of cool character ideas and settings
>even though it's 2006(?) and I'm basically still a fetus who can barely use the internet, I still know it's kinda cringe
>only thing I really want to draw though
>later that year, art class
>teacher tells us to sketch something simple, an object or a figure, and bring it in later
>so I draw a couple of furry OCs after school that I'd been working on
>day comes to submit it, i hope she'll just see them as cool animal characters and not some internet fetish shit
>bring it to art teachers desk, I rush over after most of the class has left like I'm carrying drugs
>put on my most confident face, stammer at the teacher "h-hey miss have you ever heard of anthropology??"
>give her the drawings
>"anon, this isn't anthropology, i think you mean anthropomorphic."
>i steam in place for a few minutes while she grades it
>take them afterwards
>leave
>

i actually got a pretty good grade on it iirc, i hope it wasn't out of pity or something. Might have been because I was in the minority of high school art class that actually enjoyed making art instead of just using art class as a free ride and excuse to goof around.
I'm long since over it but it burns me to so confidently reveal my powerlevel to a stranger and then say wrong things like that