SJW Art and Extremes

[UnderwaterUnderworld]

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Let me die.

End it.

Believe it or not, the thing that bothers me the most here is the copy pasted face.
At least TRY to make your headcanons palatable.

 

[Horribadger]

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Let me die.

End it.

Seeing this, I thought to myself, these don't look so bad. The rainbows kinda worry me, but how bad could it be, really?

And then I scroll down...

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

That's still the funniest shit to me (her name) I'm surprised that none of her fans have called her out. Actually I'm still surprised she has fans because I feel like her art is at a constant stagnation.

I can't tell whether you're talking about Tearzah or the person who drew the character with vitiligo, because either way it works (except there have been some callouts for Tearzah for fetishizing abuse and sex work to an audience of minors).
Either way, you could show me 10 different characters designed/drawn by these people and I'd think they're all the same one because they all look so similar.

 

[Despairagus]

Undertale you say..?
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Then there is this version

Spoiler: (NWS) 4chan's corrected version

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This dug up something from deep inside the recesses of my memory. Back when I was more active on Tumblr, I used to see tons of humanized Undertale art, particularly the skeletons, and 99% of the time, they looked like they belonged in a political cartoon or the background of a Fat Albert episode. Almost always racist black caricatures.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to shove that back into the depths of my brain and forget about it again.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

It's because Tumblr's sacred goat Steven Universe does the puffy lips all the time. I guess they do it because it makes your character looks "POC".

Thing is though, both SU and Tumblr also do it to whites. So it feels less like an identifier and more "We're too lazy to do different lip designs."

 

[~*dank meme*~]

I can't tell whether you're talking about Tearzah or the person who drew the character with vitiligo, because either way it works (except there have been some callouts for Tearzah for fetishizing abuse and sex work to an audience of minors).
Either way, you could show me 10 different characters designed/drawn by these people and I'd think they're all the same one because they all look so similar.

Isn't her excuse shes a victim of abuse? Sounds like her own little safety blanket.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Splatroon

 

[Nehelenia]

Tumblr's version of JJBA is a fucking goldmine.

I'm a bit late with this one, but what the hey, I'll reply anyway.

I actually don't think the first one is all that bad--Avdol canonically Arab (presumably also Muslim, given his name?), and I can see a genderbent version wearing hijab. And s/he still looks like Avdol.

The others, though... why is half the Jonathan fan art of him as an obese Mexican instead of a bulky Englishman? For that matter, when fan artists try to "PoC"-ify Giorno... Do they just forget that he's already half Japanese, or nah, because Asian ain't Pee o' Sea enough unless they look like racist WWII propaganda?

 

[murcock dickles]

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Let me die.

End it.

i really love it when they draw gay/trans characters wearing clothes with their little pride flag on it just so you know they're gay, just in case you couldn't tell from the bitchy passive-aggressive captions they make all time like "He's gay it's canon sorry i don't make the rules UwU". Hell, I know I won't be caught leaving my house without my bisexual flag bodysuit and matching light-up sneakers.

 

[HY 140]

splatoon miiverse is a mistake

 

[The Silver Shroud]

splatoon miiverse is a mistake

It's sad because sometimes legitimately funny stuff is posted on there, which normally makes it fun to walk about the little hub area.
This stupid trend just makes me go directly to the multiplayer building. It's not funny, just incredibly eye-roll worthy.
Also, I'm pretty sure squids can't be trans. ...Then again, they normally can't transform into chimera children either.

 

[Andrea Twerkin]

Spoiler: More terrors from the OW tag

Sombra, what happened to your ... everything?


This Zarya is legitimately horrifying.

Spoiler: You've seen Trans Captain America, now get ready for...

Trans Captain Underpants. Pretty sure I'm on a watch list now.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

Isn't her excuse shes a victim of abuse? Sounds like her own little safety blanket.

Yeah... it doesn't work when all of your OCs happen to be very manipulative and/or flat out abusive in some way. It's not a healthy way of coping with your abuse, especially when you have such a wide audience.

I actually did a "character study" using Tearzah's OCs - I gathered all the ones with black hair and pale skin (fur in the case of one) - otherwise, it was fair game - and put them into an image.

Spoiler: VERY large image

Hm. For someone with a "diverse" set of characters, who gets a lot of praise for their designs, too many of them look similar to each other and it can become genuinely confusing - especially trying to figure out which of them are actually related.
Even for the ones with nonhuman features, it just... feels like they were kind of slapped on in an attempt to make them look somewhat different. If you made all of them sihlouettes, the only thing you could do to recognize these characters is check their hairstyles - and even then, a lot of them have similar hairstyles.
Keep in mind, only a portion of these characters are/were human, and not all of them are actually white.

Other than the possibly the story lore, these are all very easy to make ripoffs or clones of. That's kind of sad.

 

[HY 140]

Trans Captain Underpants. Pretty sure I'm on a watch list now.

well there goes another part of my childhood destroyed like Chernobyl

 

[Kikomi]

Yeah... it doesn't work when all of your OCs happen to be very manipulative and/or flat out abusive in some way. It's not a healthy way of coping with your abuse, especially when you have such a wide audience.

I actually did a "character study" using Tearzah's OCs - I gathered all the ones with black hair and pale skin (fur in the case of one) - otherwise, it was fair game - and put them into an image.

Spoiler: VERY large image

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Hm. For someone with a "diverse" set of characters, who gets a lot of praise for their designs, too many of them look similar to each other and it can become genuinely confusing - especially trying to figure out which of them are actually related.
Even for the ones with nonhuman features, it just... feels like they were kind of slapped on in an attempt to make them look somewhat different. If you made all of them sihlouettes, the only thing you could do to recognize these characters is check their hairstyles - and even then, a lot of them have similar hairstyles.
Keep in mind, only a portion of these characters are/were human, and not all of them are actually white.

Other than the possibly the story lore, these are all very easy to make ripoffs or clones of. That's kind of sad.

i hate her art more than i hate anything else in this thread. it's so fucking ugly and poorly done

 

[Hummingbird]

Spoiler: More terrors from the OW tag

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Sombra, what happened to your ... everything?

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This Zarya is legitimately horrifying.

Spoiler: You've seen Trans Captain America, now get ready for...

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Trans Captain Underpants. Pretty sure I'm on a watch list now.

I'm guessing Zarya and Sombra are supposed to be transmen.

 

[Ceci]

I'm guessing Zarya and Sombra are supposed to be transmen.

I thought they were just ugly

 

[The real Sinterklaas]

I thought they were just ugly

Could be both.

 

[~*dank meme*~]

Yeah... it doesn't work when all of your OCs happen to be very manipulative and/or flat out abusive in some way. It's not a healthy way of coping with your abuse, especially when you have such a wide audience.

I actually did a "character study" using Tearzah's OCs - I gathered all the ones with black hair and pale skin (fur in the case of one) - otherwise, it was fair game - and put them into an image.

Spoiler: VERY large image

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Hm. For someone with a "diverse" set of characters, who gets a lot of praise for their designs, too many of them look similar to each other and it can become genuinely confusing - especially trying to figure out which of them are actually related.
Even for the ones with nonhuman features, it just... feels like they were kind of slapped on in an attempt to make them look somewhat different. If you made all of them sihlouettes, the only thing you could do to recognize these characters is check their hairstyles - and even then, a lot of them have similar hairstyles.
Keep in mind, only a portion of these characters are/were human, and not all of them are actually white.

Other than the possibly the story lore, these are all very easy to make ripoffs or clones of. That's kind of sad.

Animu is the same

Besides that, it's not good art if everyone looks the same. The ENTIRE point of people giving others these tips is so that they DON'T end up with this problem. Her technical skill's cool but she doesn't have much more than that. at all.

 

[Captain Lhurgoyf]

Spoiler: More terrors from the OW tag

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Sombra, what happened to your ... everything?

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This Zarya is legitimately horrifying.

Spoiler: You've seen Trans Captain America, now get ready for...

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Trans Captain Underpants. Pretty sure I'm on a watch list now.

You'd think that a character whose defining trait is that he wears nothing but men's undergarments (without a binder) would be pretty noticeably cis...