Paging Zoe, your drawing is fabulous!

by Meg on June 14, 2006

8-year old Zoe just captured the essence of C.O. in her simple gorgeous drawing, titled: "Cutie McCutestein". Zoe, WAY TO GO, girl! We can’t bear it either!!!

Cutiemccutestein

Thanks for sending in, Mom Rachel and Pop Kenny.

{ 73 comments }

1 Constance 06.15.06 at 12:04 am

!

PERFECT!

2 lazyj 06.15.06 at 12:04 am

perfection!
“out of the….crayons?…of babes”. clearly zoe is a true fan (& arteest)

3 hrh.squeak 06.15.06 at 12:05 am

Oh, the eyes -

Eight years old and she kicks all our ‘tocks. OutCuted.

4 warrior rabbit 06.15.06 at 12:14 am

And there’s a small ear-to-head ratio! And the tongue is out! And I think the paws are curled! Zoe gets an A in Rules of Cuteness 101.

(Wow, second delurk in one day. Record.)

5 Angela 06.15.06 at 12:15 am

Aww! Just…”aww.”

6 Kristine 06.15.06 at 12:29 am

ilovethispicturesomuch!!!

Excellent work Zoe!

7 Arvay 06.15.06 at 12:35 am

Hehehe!

8 Wanda Ball 06.15.06 at 12:44 am

Uncanny. I just blogged the kitten-falling-asleep video, with the caption, “The eyes! Oh my God, the eyes!” Does this so-called human child have telepathic powers of persuasion?

9 Theo 06.15.06 at 12:47 am

…Baroo??

10 punkpie 06.15.06 at 1:04 am

LOL! That is freakin ADORABLE! :-)

She gets extra kudos for drawing the little “shine” spots in the eyes.

11 lydia 06.15.06 at 1:25 am

…I think you’ve found yourself somebody to follow in your happy trail, when the day comes.

12 VaCKo 06.15.06 at 1:44 am

McCutestein? Very multicultural!

13 E. Collison 06.15.06 at 1:46 am

Not only did Zoe put the “shine” spots in, she was most careful about rendering the irises and pupils.

Way to go, Zoe! You’re the best.

14 michelle 06.15.06 at 1:54 am

Yay Zoe!

15 eeeee 06.15.06 at 2:04 am

Wow! only eight, future artiste right there.

16 arbed 06.15.06 at 2:08 am

fridge art rocks!

17 Michelle 06.15.06 at 2:14 am

Wow! Way too cute, Zoe! I can’t bear it either! :D

18 Serena 06.15.06 at 2:14 am

haha! hilarious!! indoctrine ‘em early, ‘eh? ;) love the pun too!!!

19 Serena 06.15.06 at 2:16 am

um… yeah, i’m stupid. it’s not a pun, strictly speaking. i was thinking to myself that the correct spelling is “bare” and thus zoe was making a pun for “bare” & “bear” and that her drawing was of a bear… but it obviously isn’t supposed to be “bare,” so… yeah.. i’ll go now.

20 Theo 06.15.06 at 2:18 am

No worries, Serena. We’ll bear with you.

21 kate 06.15.06 at 2:20 am

The previous cuteness of this website was extreme, but Zoe just took things to the next level. Nice work, Zoe.
Well done grasshopper, well done.

22 A thinker 06.15.06 at 2:21 am

Yup, best to start ‘em young.

Those parents sure have a lot of sense.

23 Aubrey 06.15.06 at 2:29 am

Serena, we don’t believe in pun-ishments here.

24 bleh 06.15.06 at 2:50 am

This is really stupid.

25 TheIdleReceptionist 06.15.06 at 3:10 am

Do you hear that?

That’s the sound of a million people changing their desktop wallpaper image.

26 AuntieMame 06.15.06 at 3:16 am

Thanks for sharing, bleh.

(Must be that regional accent again…)

Way to go, Zoe! You’ve captured CO in a nutshell!

27 Li 06.15.06 at 3:28 am

The wee hiney and the teeny tail are killing me. Yay Zoe!

28 Aubrey 06.15.06 at 3:30 am

Zoe has a way with detail and composition which I hadn’t dreamt of when I was eleven.

Seeing this ability to match caption with illustration, Meg – the next time you’re accepting awards out of town you just might have someone to step in!

29 Lee Gibson 06.15.06 at 3:38 am

SPEAK!

Never thought I’d see a capybara on CO.

30 alice 06.15.06 at 5:30 am

Awww very cute bubble eyes! I can’t bear it either! :)

31 Saint Stryfe 06.15.06 at 6:52 am

Strongbad is actually a 8 year old girl? Lil Brwudder! Bwahh-ah-ah-ah….

32 chibi 06.15.06 at 7:23 am

sigh…that is so cute. way to go, Zoe! I didn’t get down the “eye-gleam” effect until my teenage years (mastered through copying manga during class). Brava!

33 apricotmuffins 06.15.06 at 8:56 am

That right there, is a future illustrator.

we are the superior race. ;)

34 pheral 06.15.06 at 10:27 am

aww what a sweatheart! that’s adorable.

35 mariser 06.15.06 at 11:13 am

Lee G.,

you are right, it is SPEAK.

cool! I mean, SPOON!

36 Otter 06.15.06 at 11:31 am

Two words that can describe this artistic rendition of cuteness:
“Pure Genius”

37 Doubleclick 06.15.06 at 11:56 am

*applause* :)

You’re a genius, Zoe!

38 ariel 06.15.06 at 12:55 pm

proshness in pencil

39 little_fleabag 06.15.06 at 1:19 pm

*rustling sound of 350 million parents scanning their childrens drawings to send to CO*

40 zelda 06.15.06 at 1:27 pm

Zoe, you’ve captured the essence of CUTE!

41 TheIdleReceptionist 06.15.06 at 1:30 pm

UM, I just noticed that Zoe cleverly added TOCKS to the bear.

TOCKS!

42 Theo 06.15.06 at 2:15 pm

Teeny tiny ‘tocks.

43 Erin T. 06.15.06 at 3:58 pm

Dude, dare I say…T-shirt design #3???

44 ariel 06.15.06 at 4:01 pm

YES!!!!!!

45 E. Collison 06.15.06 at 4:20 pm

“Zoe has a way with detail and composition which I hadn’t dreamt of when I was eleven.”

In my case, much later!

I, too, nomiante Zoe’s drawing for the next t-shirt.

46 Serena 06.15.06 at 5:54 pm

hahaha, theo and aubrey. puns aren’t just for groan ups, after all. ;P

and yes! tshirt #3!

47 Silence Dogood 06.15.06 at 6:03 pm

Great picture! The resident 8-year old at my house also shares an interest in cuteology. He was intrigued last night when I informed him of the existence of cuteoverlord.com. So cuteoverlord and this drawing are on the agenda for tonight.

48 Theo 06.15.06 at 6:12 pm

Silence D — just to be clear, there *is* such thing as Cute Overlord (with an R) as well as Cute Overload (with the usual A).

The yang to our yin:
http://cuteoverlord.blogspot.com/

49 arbed 06.15.06 at 6:42 pm

Normally I think that references to the next t-shirt design are thrown about with abandon, but in this case I heartily agree.

50 mlle_x 06.15.06 at 7:17 pm

T-shirt? ABSOTIVELY. I want to hire this kid to do the logo for my company!

51 Action 06.15.06 at 7:50 pm

I kind of think that cuteoverloRd is kind of cute too. A fun little page. Thanks for the link, Theo!

52 Nova 06.15.06 at 8:32 pm

The more I look, the more I think: This kid is brilliant. Really good eye for the right details.

53 E. Collison 06.15.06 at 9:29 pm

Oops, that was supposed to be “nominate,” *not* “nomiante.”

And hey, cuteoverlord actually has some truly cute pics, including some of the supposedly scary shots. (Like the one with the flying Yorkie.)

54 Brie 06.16.06 at 2:55 am

Um, is that supposed to be cute?

55 Muffin 06.16.06 at 8:21 am

Kind of freaky looking. o_0 Love the caption though. XD “The eyes! I can’t bear it!” It’s a puppy, not a bear. The shape of the ears.

56 Erin 06.16.06 at 2:59 pm

Not cute at all. wtf??

57 tabbycat917 06.16.06 at 5:28 pm

it’s cuteusmaximus!!!

58 Fairywench 06.16.06 at 7:24 pm

I would buy this shirt. And this is the first time I have ever said that. Zoe will obviously do brilliantly at whatever career she chooses – unless she ends up working with lesser mortals who are threatened by her genius.

Be careful, little Zoe – the world is full of mediocre people with bad attitudes!

59 gammer 06.16.06 at 8:58 pm

OK I guess the only people left visiting this site are those who see cuteness everywhere, Brie, Erin, Muffin, and myself. I think that is one damn ugly freaky lookin thing, and I don’t care whose wittle pwessis feelings get hurt by hearing it. Ya’ll aint doin that child any favors by pretendin shes a (gag) genius, its a tough world, especially for artists, get some lessons kid. If I drew that, and didn’t pretend to be something other than a grumpy yet wise old lady, would you call me a genius? pahh, lets keep our standards high here people. The world is full of mediocre people with lame nicknames who think they are great because people lied to them.

60 Brak_Silverbone 06.16.06 at 9:57 pm

Hey, gammer:

She’s eight.

Give her a break.

61 Laurie C 06.16.06 at 10:02 pm

Looks like fairywench called it.

62 arbed 06.16.06 at 10:05 pm

For some reason, the haters of this pic disturb me more than those on “the thread whose name shall not be mentioned”.

63 mariser 06.16.06 at 10:55 pm

brak, laurie c, arbed, and others,

you got it right. some folks either have “issues” to work through or are humorless/unsympathetic.

to the Zoe-pic-dissers,

whatsamatteU? the child is 8!

64 CJ 06.17.06 at 5:40 pm

I don’t think it’s cute. But it’s not a bad drawing for an 8-year-old. I do think it’s kinda pretentious to put this on CO instead of, say, Mom’s refrigerator, like most kids.

65 Denita TwoDragons 06.17.06 at 10:52 pm

It’s cute, she’s 8, I’m impressed, and all the asthetically-challenged haters on this thread should print this image out, fold it into a small and pointy triangle, and cram it into the area of their bodies most frequently used for stuffing their squinty little heads.

–TwoDragons

66 Meg 06.18.06 at 12:31 am

Denita, LOL! God God woman, hilarious.

67 Lindsay 07.12.06 at 12:48 am

Seriously, gammer & company. There are people more worthy of bashing than little girls you don’t even know. Like, wth. She did nothing to you. Why not leave your basement and tell somebody more deserving how much they ruin your life?

I think it’s an awesome drawing. The caption is way cuuute.

68 Bill 07.17.06 at 12:23 am

Go Learn How To Draw!!!!!!!!

69 Dragonlily 08.01.06 at 2:00 pm

Nice drawing! A girl’s heartfelt homage to Meg’s masterpiece “cute overload” = CUTE.

Haters of any ilk are definitely not cute. Some of you need to get a life.

70 Charlotte 02.01.07 at 5:37 am

It’s a good concept for an 8 year old, but the drawing isn’t good at all nor is it cute. Sorry. When you grow up, you’ll hopefully be an expert. ^-^

71 Jane 02.01.07 at 5:44 am

My friend hates this picture. I can’t say anything about it….ok? I’m sorry…

72 Anonymous 04.01.07 at 7:26 pm

Heh, I so totally agree with Gammer. I just don’t see how you think it’s “cute”. The eyes are good, but the square-ish head is huge and lopsided. The mouth looks disgusting, the arms are skinny…

73 Theo 04.01.07 at 7:49 pm

…and it was drawn by an 8-yr-old, you moron, not Roy Lichtenstein (or even Stan Lee).

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