SJW Art and Extremes

[One Man Bland]

Why do all these Tumblr artists have this same style?

For the same reason anime was everywhere in the early 2000s on Deviant Art more or less. It evolved from an easily recognizable style that's seen on a lot of the currently airing shows so even when it's not fan-art there's a better chance of catching people's eye since it reminds them of other shows.

However a big difference is that while anime could have wonky-ass anatomy, it required a little more skill to look nice through having either nice coloring or passable line work in order to pull off and get a staying audience. The current breed of Cal Arts clones (for lack of a better term) is a lot easier to half-ass between the simple shapes for bodies, sausage limbs, and actual staff members for these shows (the Crewniverse, for one) who post their sticky note scribbles on their Tumblrs and Twitter giving them the impression that any shitty napkin drawing is portfolio-worthy.

 

[Somsnosa]

They stay in a little art circle and never experiment outside. Happens to beginners like it happens to professionals, especially in the american animation industry. It's art incest.

 

[Xerxes IX]

(IDK if this redesign was posted I wasn't paying attention)
Why do all these Tumblr artists have this same style?

Wait, that's meant to be yet another Enid redesign? You know there's something wrong with Tumblr art trends when my first guesses were a Homestuck character, most likely Dirk, or Sans Undertale.

 

[Windelsiya]

Wait, that's meant to be yet another Enid redesign? You know there's something wrong with Tumblr art trends when my first guesses were a Homestuck character, most likely Dirk, or Sans Undertale.

Your welcome. And, yes, the second pic is Sans.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Your welcome. And, yes, the second pic is Sans.

So "trans" is just short for "trans-fats" isn't it?

 

[Hummingbird]

When Tumblr just won't leave my favorite characters alone

Spoiler: Shit

Spoiler: Characters

Jeff-Earthbound
Adachi-Persona 4
Shinji-Eva
Morrigan-Darkstalkers
Nonon and Satsuki-KLK
Powerpuff Girls

That Morrigan isn't a crop btw, it's an avatar.

I'm surprised the artist got away with making Adachi super dark since SJWs only like it when the heroes get race changes (granted, Mordo was still on the side of good in the first Dr. Strange film).

 

[Donovan the Man]

Your welcome. And, yes, the second pic is Sans.

Those are some tiny hands.

 

[Crazy_DONA]

Your welcome. And, yes, the second pic is Sans.

describes "tumblr art" with a single image
or tumblr fanart.

 

[FoomiOnce]

They stay in a little art circle and never experiment outside. Happens to beginners like it happens to professionals, especially in the american animation industry. It's art incest.

Ie Cartoon Network at this moment and their refusal to let anyone outside of their little shit circle in.

Yeah, the gems are aliens who don't reproduce sexually under normal circumstances iirc so it actually makes less sense for them to have boobs/etc than for them to lack them. I always kinda assumed the gems were inspired by the Nameks in DBZ where they're all masculine looking and referred to as male but technically are sexless and reproduce asexually. Especially since Rebecca Sugar is pretty open about being a giant weeb.

If they were going to go the whole asexual/genderless ideal, why the fuck are they all voiced by women and still basically look like women, no matter how blocky, at the end of the day. At the end of the day, the gems ARE women. A nice majority of them being bland and ugly designed but they're women. Garnets giant ass, Rose's badly drawn massive tits and the clothing designs ect.

That doesn't really scream 'they don't adhere to sex/gender roles' to me but rather just making it easier for them to ship everyone for their perfect yuri story. I told someone if they wanted to create a show with perfect 'genderless' aliens they would mix things up. Get rid of ANY identifiers of the gems having gender and having MEN AND WOMEN voice them (have they have men voice them? I gave up on the shit show months ago) that way it creates the idea that the gems are humanoid and have certain things that humans could line up with they still aren't human and don't reproduce/have genders. Why not have a male looking gem fall for a male on Earth with the earthling being confused because he doesn't know how to react and due to massive difference between how things work between Earth and Gem World it shows how difficult it could be for Gems/Humans to fall in love and makes it more of a point to how special Greg and Rose's relationship was. I can't take anyone seriously when they scream the gems have no gender yet they are decked out in super feminine shit all the god damn time. What the fuck?

As it is, it IS just Planet Lesbian Rocks not Genderless Gems. They could have EASILY mixed things up and made things more interesting but like I said before, it honestly feels like they make shit up during during story-boarding and so all the rules they established in the past are often fucked over because it feels like they constantly revamp things to make it convenient for whatever story or lesson they are making.

This is why I often say SU is only 'adored' due to the idea of the rocks fucking each other because the art, character motivation, pacing, and dialogue all fucking suck. If you remove the romantic elements from this series what does it have? You can't tall it an action series because there is hardly any action and whatever fights they do have are often only seconds long. Sci-Fi? They spend most of the time talking about random things vs actually going far into the lore of gemworld with the gemworld shit taking a backseat to the forced lesson. At the end of the day, SU isn't the grand show people make claims for it. It has cliche characters, bad writing, inconsistent art and a lore that it can't even follow on it's own.

For the same reason anime was everywhere in the early 2000s on Deviant Art more or less. It evolved from an easily recognizable style that's seen on a lot of the currently airing shows so even when it's not fan-art there's a better chance of catching people's eye since it reminds them of other shows.

However a big difference is that while anime could have wonky-ass anatomy, it required a little more skill to look nice through having either nice coloring or passable line work in order to pull off and get a staying audience. The current breed of Cal Arts clones (for lack of a better term) is a lot easier to half-ass between the simple shapes for bodies, sausage limbs, and actual staff members for these shows (the Crewniverse, for one) who post their sticky note scribbles on their Tumblrs and Twitter giving them the impression that any shitty napkin drawing is portfolio-worthy.

It doesn't help that certain studios are enabling this by actually ALLOWING this shit tire work to be passable in the first place and/or only hiring people who can emulate it. How much do you want to be a majority of the people on the CN payroll now were only hired due to being able to copy/having a similar style and being friends (ie, sucking dick) and holding similar political views to those at the higher up. Reminds me of the Schmorky thing a while back and how his ex talked about how CN was just Tumblr in real life with people tripping over themselves to obey pronouns and shit and not getting anything worth a damn done.

 

[Ginigga50%]

She looks like Uncle Grandpa somewhat. Don't ask why

And more Legend of Zelda nonsense...

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Spoiler: Modern AUs are literally the shit

ZELDA Modern AU.

So I’ve never really wrote fanfictions, mainly because I’m too busy to write a whole story with proper grammar. But I like thinking about them.

Zelda, teenage daughter of a very controlling family, struggles with their gender identity. Scared to talk about this issues with their boyfriend, Ganondorf, and their father, Daphnes, they turns to their overprotective best friend Midna and their aunt Impa for help and guidance. Disguised as Sheik, Zelda meet a mysterious boy Link. AAAAND This is as far as I’ve gotten.

At first I was surprised when it looked like the person respected that Zelda and Sheik are the same person... Then I read "they" and that's where they lost me. In the description, I mean. This art is still shit

Can someone tell me why they put random hijabs on people even when it makes no sense or adds nothing?

 

[_Wice]

Can someone tell me why they put random hijabs on people even when it makes no sense or adds nothing?

Because they have no actual creative thought or inspiration to make their own original representation, and it’s easier to recolor a character. It’s like making Sonic FC’s but with less actual recoloring.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

Can someone tell me why they put random hijabs on people even when it makes no sense or adds nothing?

Because “religion of peace”

 

[One Man Bland]

So something I've been wondering: is this style of "ugly designs and poor understanding of anatomy being masked as diversity for social justice" fan-art popular even within Tumblr? There's a lot of it, sure, but the most popular fan artists and this sort of art still tends to be the ones with either the most pleasing styles or adhere closest to the source material.

So why does the former keep cropping up? Is the ugly shit just more numerous due to incompetence and a general aversion towards putting in any effort commonly found on Tumblr?

 

[weed weenus]

So something I've been wondering: is this style of "ugly designs and poor understanding of anatomy being masked as diversity for social justice" fan-art popular even within Tumblr? There's a lot of it, sure, but the most popular fan artists with sort of art still tend to be the ones with either the most pleasing styles or adhere closest to the source material.

So why does the former keep cropping up? Is the ugly shit just more numerous due to incompetence and a general aversion to effort commonly found on Tumblr?

It's definitely prominent, but from what I've seen, most popular fanartists don't racebend. It's mainly a case of Sturgeon's law; 90% of everything (in this case, fanart and fanartists) is crap.

 

[A.Shitposter]

So something I've been wondering: is this style of "ugly designs and poor understanding of anatomy being masked as diversity for social justice" fan-art popular even within Tumblr? There's a lot of it, sure, but the most popular fan artists and this sort of art still tends to be the ones with either the most pleasing styles or adhere closest to the source material.

So why does the former keep cropping up? Is the ugly shit just more numerous due to incompetence and a general aversion towards putting in any effort commonly found on Tumblr?

When you have millions of users and most of them are children or teenagers, you're going to see more shit-mediocre art then you are good. I doubt this has changed since DeviantArt was created. They are especially susceptible to the bullshit that gets fed to them on these websites because they desperately want to fit in somewhere and for whatever reason the people who perpetuate this shit are loud and manipulative even if there aren't a lot of them.

This type of fanart isn't popular overall but it's not for the general fan. It's for whoever is part of their circle of friends or who buys into this crap. The only times that these works get an assload of notes are when they're drawn well or when the fandom is infested with these leftover homestuck parasites.

 

[FoomiOnce]

Can someone tell me why they put random hijabs on people even when it makes no sense or adds nothing?

Because they think they're doing people favors and actually understand the culture/religon. Notice this however; they only care about Muslim women WHEN they wear the hijab. Any other time they don't because they use it as an identifier which is the worst possible thing you could do when it comes to 'respecting' someone. Another funny thing; before the EXPLOSION of the 'popularity' of the garment Tumblr was AGAINST it and any other form of covering. They considered it sexist and demeaning to women but when it became picked up and trendy they quickly changed their minds.

They don't get that it's just a garment and while women who wear it shouldn't be harassed for CHOOSING to wear one, they (SJWs) have made it painfully and annoyingly clear most of their outcries of protection are NOT for Muslim women but for the fucking peice of cloth they wear. Again, notice how they only care for the woman WHEN SHE WEARS IT vs respecting her whatever her choice is. They don't care about Muslim women, the religion or so on. They care about looking trendy, fashionable, and 'in the right' by following bullshit online posts rom the likes of Buzzfeed on the topic, who are misinformed but wide spread thus continuing the cycle of idiocy.

Add this into animation, comic, and arts and it's more of wank material for them. They only cared about these forms of entertainment when they can play a WHere's Waldo like search on anyone who's not the usual White/CIS/Male whatever so they're NOT paying attention to the quality of what they are consume but rather what's being dangled in front of their eyes like keys to a baby.

When you have millions of users and most of them are children or teenagers, you're going to see more shit-mediocre art then you are good. I doubt this has changed since DeviantArt was created. They are especially susceptible to the bullshit that gets fed to them on these websites because they desperately want to fit in somewhere and for whatever reason the people who perpetuate this shit are loud and manipulative even if there aren't a lot of them.

This type of fanart isn't popular overall but it's not for the general fan. It's for whoever is part of their circle of friends or who buys into this crap. The only times that these works get an assload of notes are when they're drawn well or when the fandom is infested with these leftover homestuck parasites.

There's also the idea that this art style is 'safe' and promoted as being the only way you can draw characters without it being offensive [to women]. It isn't any less 'offensive' than drawing in any other style but the people 'pioneered' the look pepper their interviews with how they wanted to 'represent all bodies' and the idea was born that only the best artist and most WOKEST fucks draw this style. It's why you see that smug air of superiority when they 'fix' other work, remove the style of the original creator and redraw it with the common rules seen in the likes of SU and so on. They have it in their heads what they're doing is for the greater good of everyone because this is the 'intelligent and diverse' style. It gets even funnier when they try to fix already shitty looking work and make it look SHITTIER thus we get the even blockier and blobbier redraws. They're just cannibalizing themselves over the idea that if they draw this way it shows their intelligence and 'respect for womyn'.

The best part about this though is that their lack of looking outward to develop their own work shows how little diversity they are promoting themselves. Diversity in art is important, as in the STYLE and look. They aren't helping POCs, women, or whatever by forcing everyone to jump into this idea that this is the only way to draw.

 

[PhoneHexOperator]

(IDK if this redesign was posted I wasn't paying attention)
Why do all these Tumblr artists have this same style?

Imagine being so goddamn lazy that you literally just draw a half-assed scribble for a neck.

 

[FoomiOnce]

Imagine being so goddamn lazy that you literally just draw a half-assed scribble for a neck.

They'll call it stylized but even the most stylized work had charm to them and stood out among whatever art they were trying to compete/tell their own stories against. Right now, there is none of that with the current trend so this is the reason why a lot of people are so sick of it. It also doesn't help that a lot of people are expecting certain groups to draw and/or like this style of art. Like the massive consensus with this SJW style of art is that women and/or minorities will like this because it's 'non-conforming' and doesn't have too many White dicks in it and sadly, in some way it is true. I see way more chicks drawing in this style as well as those who constantly play the pronoun game so it sort of completes the stereotype.

It's stereotypical art perfected for stereotypical people. What we are looking at is basically how they think and how they want the world to look and conform to and it's just sad. It's sad because at the end of the day? Even as much as I've shat on this art work in this discussion?

They can do whatever the fuck they want and I won't stop them from drawing it. That's THEIR freedom.

My peeves with it is how it's being forced on OTHERS and how uppity the attitude of some of the artists are. As I say they can draw everything THEY want, they aren't giving equal shares to OTHER artist who DON'T like or want to do this style. And as for forcing, take a look at Cartoon Network and then compare them to other animation networks not just in the US but in other countries as well. Yes, there are animation trends but you can SEE that other networks know how to actually DIVERSIFY their shows in both style and tone but CN hasn't done that since at least 2013 and in the coming year we are only going to get more of the same. For 2018, ALL OF THE SHOWS are being done by the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who have been working for the network since this trend began. There are no new non-licensed show runners/out siders coming in and all the art is the same Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Regular Show looking crap because all the creators WORKED on those shows, either as writers or just storyboarders.

THIS IS WHAT STAGNATION IN ART LOOKS LIKE.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

I get that you're venting but you're starting to leak salt, man.
If you're a drawfag and looking at these artists makes you angry I think you need to take a step back, no offence. Because humanity has been creating since civilisation began, I doubt this stagnation is the end of art, or even animation. Sure, it's been a shit decade for cartoons but if you're upset at the industry - and you want to work in it - fuck, I dunno, Japanese animation studios splinter off all the time to make new things.
A couple of pages ago, someone posted advice not to compare yourself to this shit lest you stagnate yourself because being better than the content here doesn't take much. Take that a step further, just ignore it and don't play the game. Indulge in the same freedom they have and just draw what you want because nobody's pointing a gun to your head saying "draw fat brown people or I won't hire you". And by the sounds of it, who the fuck wants to be hired by CN?

 

[bigdukie]

creativity's hard to find on tumblr probably because they always find a weird way to call it problematic...