[ SECRET POST #244 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #244 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 036 secrets from Secret Submission Post #035.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Friday, September 7th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
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Comments

Re: 36

[rmarques.livejournal.com]

Question by someone that has no real understanding of art:

What's wrong with the "crap" art :/ I mean, sure, it's not amazing, but I honestly don't see anything terrible wrong with it...

Re: 36

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, crap was definitely too strong a word. I shouldn't have said that. The anatomy isn't fantastic, the textures are very preset filter-like, the shading isn't very correct. I was just digging around in some zips I found on 4chan, and it was the first bad one I came across that I could be sure was japanese in origin, since most people don't realize how many english-language artist's work ends up in those zips. It's hard to tell sometimes which are which. And that certainly fuels the sort of "japanese artists are superior!" attitude that a lot of english-speaking fans have. God only knows why.

It's not awful. It's just sort of bad. And not very impressive. And there's a lot of japanese art that looks like that. Sketchy, hardly finished looking stuff that doesn't show a great understanding of anatomy, lighting, or just artistic techniques in general. Sure, there's lots of english-language stuff that's the same. But that's the point. There isn't a magical art gene that the japanese have.

Re: 36

[rmarques.livejournal.com]

Yes, I see what you mean. I remember this Japanese doujin where one character seriously creeped me out. @__@ Empty pupils is not a good way of drawing an eye.