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⌈ Secret Post #5091 ⌋

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That is to say, what often sticks out to you when it comes to artwork, be it good or bad? (Can be related to specific fandoms or just in general.)

I'd say facial features that look unrealistic.

And then, when it comes to specifically fanart, art that says it is about a character but looks nothing like their description at all (and with no reason why the artist depicted them that way).

Good: art that tells me a story, or captures a particular emotion really well.

Bad: generalised, cutesy crap that is barely a step up from chibi art. Art where the artist obviously has a schtick and is mass producing that schtick over and over again.

Good: any art where the artist is obviously trying their best.

Bad: lazy art. Also racebends/gender swaps/other ridiculous headcanons. Will click away from that shit.

I like stuff Yume Nikki-esque in general vibe: ambient, lonely landscapes with an expressionless character navigating them.

I dislike whenever 'ThunderCats Roar' happens... and anyone who has seen the character designs implemented in that show knows exactly what I mean when I use the title as a verb.

I hate it when characters that are supposed to be adults look like teenagers. Especially when it's a non-anime fandom but drawn in an anime style. It just creeps me the fuck out.

" non-anime fandom but drawn in an anime style" yeah, I don't like this at all.

So, so agreed. I really hate the anime style for non-anime fandoms. Whenever I see anime-style Tolkien fandom art, it makes me twitch. To each their own and all. But it just looks creepy to me.

I can never decide what I find worse - realistic/RL older characters/actors drawn like teenagers or when they're drawn in this cutesy style but with signs of aging (like chibi-esque but with wrinkles). Those always look like wrinkley babies and that's also very creepy.

I guess when a depiction of a character looks like it was done by a five-year-old in a paint program...when it was actually created by someone much older. (But yes, I realize we all have to start somewhere, and most folks' art probably wouldn't look like masterpieces right away.)

Some things I really don't care for is a poorly imitated anime style, or limbs/torsos that are way out of proportion with the rest of the body. But this may depend on fandom too... some people may just be emulating the canon art style.

It depends?

For one of my favorite characters in particular, it's her boob size. She's flat as a board in canon, and it bugs me to no end when I see art of her with anything more than A-cups. I also feel the same way when they get her signature weapon wrong. =/

For some of the other characters I like though, nothing really stands out? Unless the artist drew them based on their designs from a certain part of canon they I really don't like.

If the image/character has flow, or movement. Stiff, un-alive art isn't as interesting.

Good color, interesting theme or subject, either a good, detailed background (not crazy, detailed, but something) or a good like...color-wash kind of background, to just suggest something.

Realistic as to character. Doesn't have to be photograph-perfect, but it's best if I know who I'm looking at without a caption.

Oh...bad....muddy colors, unrecognizable characters, anything that is hed-pasted-on.

Edited 2020-12-13 23:42 (UTC)

Bad/ambiguous anatomy / awkward posing - if I either can't tell where all the character's limbs are meant to be, or if I can tell that their positioning is impossible.

Intentional grotesque. By which I mean, the trend in some quarters to draw characters like they're doing a Ren and Stimpy crossover.

I dislike sloppy looking, cartoonish art where all the characters' faces are the same, or heavily stylized in some way. Not a big fan of chibis or drawing non-animated characters in exaggerated anime style.

Since we're going on opinion, I start by saying that I don't think the art is bad, and generally, I'm just happy people are enjoying themselves and making things. Whether they are starting or have a complete history behind them.

I will say I tend to just dislike certain stylistic elements-- certain styles to be honest. The whole Steven Universe/Adventure time/ you know that just very round style with a lot of pastels and pink cheeks and everyone looks all wide eyed and what not...I am not a fan. The art tends to be good, I just can't stand that style.

Yeah, CalArts house style. I hate it too.

AYRT

I didn't know it had a name!

Yeah, that style and the fan art trend (I think someone made a secret about a year ago or two) of people the pastel paper cutout (alot of warm color usage) version of this style, if it makes any sense. Sometimes people will kinda maybe slightly merge it with some anime elements, but it has the blushing face, the tips of the nose always a different hue (obv to create shadow or contrast but still) -- and it always seems like it's going for a watercolor type of feel or something but it just comes off as undefined layering instead of the laissez-faire casual pseudo watercolor it seems to attempt. Again, these pieces are good in and I'd themselves, and their creators are obviously talented, and I can't replicate it myself (at least I don't think I can at the level I'm at), but I also dislike them aesthetically so I wouldn't to.

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