[ SECRET POST #3267 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3267 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Most artists that mimic seem to have a base storage folder/drawer/whatever of reference of poses and shit from the style they're copying from. It's hard to explain without examples but I'll try:

Original artist: Can draw a character in a new, never-before-seen-in-canon pose/angle/etc, because they're familiar with the style.

Mimic artist: Cannot draw a new angle or pose because they've never seen how the original artist draws that angle/pose.

It becomes really obvious, if you're adept at spotting it, which artists have the basics down at this point. There are a few mimic artists in my current fandom, and one has some obvious heavy-duty skills beneath just mimicking the art style, but the other I'm thinking of just completely falls apart and you can kind of see where they've sort of "cut n' pasted" to fill in the gaps in their knowledge.

[ketita]

Okay, but I thought this post was more talking about what you'd call "original artists". As in, people who know how to create new art, but are familiar with the style. I don't think anybody here was talking about tracers or people who just copy from official art.

Uhhh...

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're missing the point. A commercial artist who can draw in different styles is better than one who can't.

And then there are artists like Alan Davis. He has his own distinctive style, but keeps reusing the same tropes and forms. Is he lazy? Is he ripping himself off? He'd say he's found the right way to represent a given action, and just able to do it over again instead of reinventing the wheel.

Or there's Greg Land, king of the trace-monkeys. His style is distinctive and immediately recognizable, but relies way, way, way too much on traced photo reference.

Re: Uhhh...

[kamino_neko]

Those last two points are not unrelated, of course.

(It doesn't help that he keeps reusing the same (wildly inappropriate) ones.)