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⌈ Secret Post #2496 ⌋

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[darkmanifest]

I really love stylistic art, too, but I think the problem is artists who start off doing nothing but stylistic stuff - usually by copying popular work - with zero foundation in realistic anatomy; they literally don't know how to do anything but cartoony style, and it has a detrimental affect on the flexibility of their work. While I have no idea what the trends are in the comics community, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of artists in it who have that problem.

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There definitely are, I even added to my comment to say as such because I do believe in having a strong foundation in realism/anatomy/figure drawing. But most trained artists have that, or at least somewhat. Trained artists go to figure drawing classes and study anatomy, they know the basics. There are definitely people who copy styles and do it well, but they tend to suffer from a lack of knowledge later on and if they have a professional career, they still end up doing that training.

My problem is more with the fact that there seems to be this trend critiquing stylized anatomy that is stylized on PURPOSE or that comics need to be realistic. Comics don't need to be realistic. Do artists need to extend themselves? Sure. I definitely think some comic artists could benefit from drawing more diversely, but diversity in drawing and realistic anatomy are not the same thing.

I also have a problem with this because a lot of the times the artists who are critiquing this are not professionals, their well intended redraws are not better then the professional's work. They have no clue that things like design and composition can be just as important as anatomy. And they also tend to lack the understanding of how the industry works.

Like sure, get on Liefield's case if you want, get on the case of the artists who only ever draw unrealistically huge breasts, but don't tell them all that realism is the answer. Because it isn't and the comics industry is never going to be 100% realism.