Art trends that piss you off

Has one of the things very common in your art been listed? (Not that it's important for you to care...)

Yes. I think I might change some things...	12.7%	[ 19 ]
Yep, but I'm going to stick to my way of doing things.	16.7%	[ 25 ]
I haven't heard any thing yet. I'm sort of surprised.	12.0%	[ 18 ]
I haven't heard any thing yet but it's not that shocking to me.	20.0%	[ 30 ]
poll whore/red, flesh colored knee with white spots on top option	38.7%	[ 58 ]
Total Votes:			[ 150 ]

[Necrisque]

For the people not satisfied with the "either anime or realism" discussion: The Big Triangle! Use it, show it to people. Any good artist should be able to move around in this thing freely. Although some might choose either visual art or written art, but I find it pretty useful.

[Salty Garbage]

Pachelle

Anime. Nuff said.

I agree, and I realize that this place is all about it, but I think anime is way over played. When you have got young kids, who start drawing anime, call themselves "artists", and don't know a thing about the fundamentals of art? I think there's something wrong there.

I have always been very picky when it comes to the manga I read. If I don't like how it looks, I won't read it. (The only manga I have bothered to buy is Kaori Yuki's.)


I also have noticed on Gaia and even dA that some people think that anything non-anime/non-comic is realism, which is wrong. You can't just throw everything else into one big category. I mean, someone who paints a portrait in an impressionist style is doing impressionist art, not realism.

As for shock art, every once in a while there comes someone who actually has the experience and the balls to back up what they do. You just have to pick out the good from the out-of-line.

[Lychee Fruit]

I don't care very much for vectors that look exactly like the photos they're created from. It's impressive that people have that skill, but if that's all they do, it makes me wonder if they're capable of doing anything creative.

[Purpliciouss]

x_haphazard_x

I really hate the art in Furuba. The artist couldn't draw anything macho if she tried, the eyes are far, far too large for the eyeballs to even fit in the character's heads, even the guys have pencil necks, and yet there are still so many fangirls! AAAUGH!

And also Yuki looks like an axe-murderer.

agreed. i think that the story's good, but i really dont like the drawings on there. -__-

[Purpliciouss]

Salty Garbage

Pachelle

Anime. Nuff said.

I agree, and I realize that this place is all about it, but I think anime is way over played. When you have got young kids, who start drawing anime, call themselves "artists", and don't know a thing about the fundamentals of art? I think there's something wrong there.

I have always been very picky when it comes to the manga I read. If I don't like how it looks, I won't read it. (The only manga I have bothered to buy is Kaori Yuki's.)


I also have noticed on Gaia and even dA that some people think that anything non-anime/non-comic is realism, which is wrong. You can't just throw everything else into one big category. I mean, someone who paints a portrait in an impressionist style is doing impressionist art, not realism.

As for shock art, every once in a while there comes someone who actually has the experience and the balls to back up what they do. You just have to pick out the good from the out-of-line.

AMEN!! i so agree with you!!

[Miss Charade]

the art trend in anime WHERE THEY MAKE THE GUYS LOOK LIKE CHICKS!

They narrow down their jaw bones to pointy tips and make them have HUGE EYES with big eylashes and make their necks all sick and skinny just as their bodies.

Thats just so annoying. NO WONDER EVERYONE THINKS THEIR GAY!

[KKMcK]

None really piss me off. There's no point getting worked up over something so stupid that you could just ignore anyways. They're not worth the effort.

When I was younger I used to have a TON of things that would get my goat, but now I could really care less. I enjoy doing what I do, and heck, if they want to enjoy what they like to do, let them. You're just sticking a thorn in their side and yours getting worked up over it.

[Catseye436]

really flashy anime gets my goat now (boyis.com). actually most of the styles I used to love bug me with the exception of the timeless faves (Ghibli, Otomo, Abe even though he's not that old). and I checked out that inflation art thing...reaally creepy.

[ShadowJadow]

Hmm I can't really say it like steams my vegetables when I see styles I'm not fond of. It's just I wouldn't choose to borrow any traits from that style. For example I don't like Inuyasha simply because it's a very simple style and it doesn't look complex at all. I preffer complex and beautiful things so I would much rather preffer work by I think her last name is Odagiri...
and even that isn't extremely complex but it's acceptable for me ^^;

However I think that Inuyasha is suited for a simple style because one it's an an action and it's such a long a story. I have noticed that usually action
anime is more simple, and emphasizes more of the battle scenes soo beauty and proportion isn't extremely important when the characters are moving at high speed's. I use to hate Inuyasha but now that I have come to understand why and with experience of drawing I have noticed that it is harder to draw something for lively than it is to draw something beautiful in my opinion depending on how much detail you add in it.

Sorry for all the misspellings I sort of wrote a lot. XD

[ShadowJadow]

Murmaider

the art trend in anime WHERE THEY MAKE THE GUYS LOOK LIKE CHICKS!

They narrow down their jaw bones to pointy tips and make them have HUGE EYES with big eylashes and make their necks all sick and skinny just as their bodies.

Thats just so annoying. NO WONDER EVERYONE THINKS THEIR GAY!

Dear, have you heard of shonen ai? Some people actually enjoy these styles however I haven't actually seen many shonen ai styles that I dislike with the exception of " our kingdom" it's not the styles fault if you just have bad taste when choosing them... You know. ^^;

[Bella Roi]

Fanart annoys me. Some, I'll admit, is nice and some I enjoy looking at but that's hardly the point. It's that every goddamned piece of fanart gets a gazillion of faves on DA, a bunch of mindless squee comments, without anyone even bothering to look at the skill and talent put behind the piece, let alone comment on it. And the fact that some silly little doodle of say, Sora and Riku from KH will get ten times as many comments as a glorious picture featuring an original character also gets under my skin.

[Juggal0tus420]

LoL Ummm drawings that suck?

[ShadowJadow]

ogum536

Salty Garbage

Pachelle

Anime. Nuff said.

I agree, and I realize that this place is all about it, but I think anime is way over played. When you have got young kids, who start drawing anime, call themselves "artists", and don't know a thing about the fundamentals of art? I think there's something wrong there.

I have always been very picky when it comes to the manga I read. If I don't like how it looks, I won't read it. (The only manga I have bothered to buy is Kaori Yuki's.)


I also have noticed on Gaia and even dA that some people think that anything non-anime/non-comic is realism, which is wrong. You can't just throw everything else into one big category. I mean, someone who paints a portrait in an impressionist style is doing impressionist art, not realism.

As for shock art, every once in a while there comes someone who actually has the experience and the balls to back up what they do. You just have to pick out the good from the out-of-line.

AMEN!! i so agree with you!!

I like both traditional and cartooning, I don't think it's your job to define what an artist is neither is it your place. It's up to the people to decide that if they can do it well enough and have as much as pottential than why would you try putting them down. Assuming that your saying this to put down anime artist. You know if like you say gaia revolves around anime, then why are you here? I think people who draw anime are usually capable of doing more than that ^^; and I am one of them. Anime strangely enough was an introduction for me in learning how to draw real people. I don't think I would have had the courage to try still lifes or anything like perspectives or even have the time to think about values if it wasn't for anime/manga. I guess I am thankful for it cause it was a start :p

[Bella Roi]

ShadowJadow

Murmaider

the art trend in anime WHERE THEY MAKE THE GUYS LOOK LIKE CHICKS!

They narrow down their jaw bones to pointy tips and make them have HUGE EYES with big eylashes and make their necks all sick and skinny just as their bodies.

Thats just so annoying. NO WONDER EVERYONE THINKS THEIR GAY!

Dear, have you heard of shonen ai? Some people actually enjoy these styles however I haven't actually seen many shonen ai styles that I dislike with the exception of " our kingdom" it's not the styles fault if you just have bad taste when choosing them... You know. ^^;

No, shounen-ai is a genre, not a style. There is no law that says the male characters in a shounen-ai story need to look like girls with peens, but there is also no law that says the male characters have to look manly, for that matter. Nevertheless, Murmaider is right in saying that style is a trend, and I agree with him/her that it's an annoying one. If I wanted to look at things that seem female, I'd go for shoujo-ai/yuri.