SJW Art and Extremes

[Bani]

The Steven Universe artstyle has become a malignant cancer in fandoms everywhere.
It's easy to draw, easy to make ugly, and is from a shitty progressive cartoon show.
Thus, it has infected Tumblr artists everywhere and is utterly inescapable.

It's already been said, but I believe Steven Universe Lips™ are the new Tumblr Nose™. That said, I don't think the show is shitty- just overrated. Also, the art in the pilot was way better than the bastardized version of the director's style they used in the actual series.

Tumblr's doll community is a goldmine when it comes to sperging about how problematic toy lines are towards poc/lgbt, yet buy a fuck ton of dolls and "queer" them up. They seem to have a love hate relationship with Mattel's lines and take the dolls a bit personally.
The art is a mixed bag.

Spoiler: MH

Spoiler: Original

Some of those drawings- maybe a third- aren't half bad. As an artist, I actually prefer the fanart of the mouse one to the original design. Some of the monster designs can be pretty cluttered visually, so it's nice to see fanart that tidies the designs up. The cat girl and medusa fanarts are also okay.

The improvement meme one is actually kind of sad, though. Not only did their character design and anatomy get worse, but the composition is really awkward and crowded in the second one. Why is the Frankenstein girl crammed in there so awkwardly? Also, the red background is really distracting, and while the original grey wasn't a great choice either, at least it didn't draw attention away from the subjects.

Anyway, while I would never personally buy them, I think Monster High Dolls are such a cool concept, and if they had been around when I was a kid I probably would have enjoyed them. They have a lot more personality than Barbies, and they're a nod to Universal Monsters, which I think is fun. It reminds me of that one Ghoul School special of Scooby-Doo. I also like that the boy dolls are fashionable too, instead of being boring WASPs like Ken dolls were.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I can't comprehend what the hell is goin on

You're not allowed to decline a date with a post-op trans person, because the only reason you'd do so is transphobia, totally not because you dislike their personality or just don't find them attractive. Since trans people aren't anything like cis people, and being trans is their only trait.

 

[Meowthkip]

Anyway, while I would never personally buy them, I think Monster High Dolls are such a cool concept, and if they had been around when I was a kid I probably would have enjoyed them. They have a lot more personality than Barbies, and they're a nod to Universal Monsters, which I think is fun. It reminds me of that one Ghoul School special of Scooby-Doo. I also like that the boy dolls are fashionable too, instead of being boring WASPs like Ken dolls were.

Same, actually. I wasn't much of a doll person as a kid, but I loved monsters. I would have loved the hell out of those dolls. And I know some friends who are collectors. They're not that much different from the grown women that collect Barbies.

My manager at my old job was actually a big-time Barbie collector. She even took time off to go to a con just for Barbies. I remember being surprised because she was this middle-aged, straight-laced black lady who felt more like she was a school principal than my manager. And she apparently had an entire room dedicated to her Barbies. She'd mention them to me occasionally, usually when collectors dolls would be release as movie tie-ins, since I was one of the few people that had a common hobby with action figures.

But uh, yes. As far as Tumblr art goes, aside from some sloppiness in the first few, that Monster High art isn't terrible. I can get the reasoning behind making the yeti girl all buff and hairy, for example.

 

[Clorox Cowboy]

I find it funny they made Miku very black, but left the two blonde haired, blue eyed kids alone.

 

[UnderwaterUnderworld]

I find it funny they made Miku very black, but left the two blonde haired, blue eyed kids alone.

They all look like deformed muppets

 

[Bani]

I find it funny they made Miku very black, but left the two blonde haired, blue eyed kids alone.

Why are the white characters the only ones with noses?

 

[IdaRita]

New Powerpuff Girls are bad enough already with all those pedophile controversies and how bland the show is, so Cartoon Network decided to make it even worse and permanently adds to show a new Powerpuff Girl that looks like combo of Deviantart recolors and SJW trends. She is dark-skinned, has blue hair and is bigger than orginal trio. And dat hips.

(why SJW characters has always this greyish-brown skin tone? It doesn't look good, more saturate one will be better.)

 

[Baka Burst]

I honestly can't fucking stand that blog. Like, not all armor has to be functional. It can be pretty and dumb and fantastical. I swear they want all female characters to wear trash bags.

Should that blog (and similar ones like Escher girl) have its own thread? It gives plenty to point and laugh about but not everything is about Tumblr art

Unless there is already one

New Powerpuff Girls are bad enough already with all those pedophile controversies and how bland the show is, so Cartoon Network decided to make it even worse and permanently adds to show a new Powerpuff Girl that looks like combo of Deviantart recolors and SJW trends. She is dark-skinned, has blue hair and is bigger than orginal trio. And dat hips.

(why SJW characters has always this greyish-brown skin tone? It doesn't look good, more saturate one will be better.)

I was going to bring it up but I didn't know if canon examples counted. All of the PPG reboot would belong here if that was the case

 

[Hummingbird]

I honestly can't fucking stand that blog. Like, not all armor has to be functional. It can be pretty and dumb and fantastical. I swear they want all female characters to wear trash bags.

I've noticed that in the positive examples they show, the woman don't smile or look happy or excited.

(why SJW characters has always this greyish-brown skin tone? It doesn't look good, more saturate one will be better.)

I know what you mean, that color just doesn't look good and I don't see why she can't be a little girl, too.

 

[Donovan the Man]

(why SJW characters has always this greyish-brown skin tone? It doesn't look good, more saturate one will be better.)

I made a post about this once. SJW artist are just really bad about colors, so they take your typical desaturated pale peach you would use for a white person, lower the values and maybe heighten the saturation just enough to make not too gray. Most tumblr artists think saturated colors are bad and never use them.

The ones that just shit bright colors on a blank paintool sai canvas have no excuse though, but they are bad at color theory.

 

[Meowthkip]

New Powerpuff Girls are bad enough already with all those pedophile controversies and how bland the show is, so Cartoon Network decided to make it even worse and permanently adds to show a new Powerpuff Girl that looks like combo of Deviantart recolors and SJW trends. She is dark-skinned, has blue hair and is bigger than orginal trio. And dat hips.

(why SJW characters has always this greyish-brown skin tone? It doesn't look good, more saturate one will be better.)

There already was a fourth Powerpuff Girl.

Remember Bunny?

 

[LucasSomething]

Should that blog (and similar ones like Escher girl) have its own thread? It gives plenty to point and laugh about but not everything is about Tumblr art

Unless there is already one

Escher Girls isn't like BBAD at all, they might link to each other but their approach is different. Escher Girls posts are always making harmless jokes and laughing from bad art, while BBAD posts are supposed to be about impratical female armor but are mostly long sexualization rants that nobody cares.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

There already was a fourth Powerpuff Girl.

Remember Bunny?

Bunny was too good for this world.

 

[Rayemond46]

New Powerpuff Girls are bad enough already with all those pedophile controversies and how bland the show is, so Cartoon Network decided to make it even worse and permanently adds to show a new Powerpuff Girl that looks like combo of Deviantart recolors and SJW trends. She is dark-skinned, has blue hair and is bigger than orginal trio. And dat hips.

(why SJW characters has always this greyish-brown skin tone? It doesn't look good, more saturate one will be better.)

You know your show is doing pretty badly when you got to create a new shitty character to bring more viewerships....

 

[Muttnik]

God that design for the new Powerpuff girl is gaudy. I guess Bunny was too offensive to bring back. But the new design is so out of place it looks like an awful deviantart manipulation.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

God that design for the new Powerpuff girl is gaudy. I guess Bunny was too offensive to bring back. But the new design is so out of place it looks like an awful deviantart manipulation.

If you told me they hired someone off of DeviantArt to use their OC in the show I wouldn't doubt you for a minute.

 

[NG 070]

God that design for the new Powerpuff girl is gaudy. I guess Bunny was too offensive to bring back. But the new design is so out of place it looks like an awful deviantart manipulation.

Dude, the entire show looks out of place when compared to the PPG's designs.

This just screams of a last-ditch effort to remain relevant and get people to watch the show out of morbid curiosity and/or hate-watching. But then again, moves like this are a hallmark of a network trying to revive sagging ratings and increasing irrelevance.

 

[LucasSomething]

They dug themselves into a hole by making this new powerpuff girl black, not because of design but because if they ever think about getting rid of her (like Fairly oddparents did with the dog), they will be called racists lol. I think that also makes her the only named black character in the show so if she is not a mary sue, expect some triggering.

 

[HY 140]

They dug themselves into a hole by making this new powerpuff girl black, not because of design but because if they ever think about getting rid of her (like Fairly oddparents did with the dog), they will be called racists lol.

idk man tumblr has a giant hate boner for this show so i don't think they'll care. tbh they'll pry find a way to call the crew racist trump supporters or facists

 

[Clorox Cowboy]

Bunny was too offensive to bring back.

She can't come back she's fucking dead.