SJW Art and Extremes

[burlap dress]

Found their portfolio. A few samples:

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Someone really needs to tell these chucklefucks that it’s really tacky to include fan art in a portfolio supposedly meant to be presented to potential employers. Especially when said fan art isn’t all that impressive to begin with.

i think it's fine to put fanart in portfolios, if it's well done and has a good composition. these obviously have none of that.

 

[TheGreatestSword]

Remember when Lanque was "confirmed" as trans because Tumblr kept bothering WhatPumpkin about it?

Wait, is that how it happened? I always thought WhatPumpkin had that planned from the beginning, but then again I rejoined the fandom after months of hiatus during the middle of the Friendsim thing. I didn't care if Lanque was trans, it gave us more troll biology lore, but I never really liked Lanque (or Cirava or Charun for that matter) because the fandom treated them like they were some sort of Gods just because they're trans/non-binary

I'm worried the Soleil twins are gonna be Non-binary because Tumblr seems to already have agreed on that because they wear makeup

 

[One Man Bland]

i think it's fine to put fanart in portfolios, if it's well done and has a good composition. these obviously have none of that.

The thing about putting fanart in a portfolio meant to be shown to prospective employers is that A) fan art is already on a shakey grey area legally speaking so it’s not a good look if that’s the majority of your portfolio to studios/employers, B) it really puts studios off to see fan art of their own shows because at best you look unoriginal and at worst you look like a kiss ass, and C) while composition and anatomy are all well and good, fan art often excludes something important that portfolio reviews look for in candidates: understanding of the fundamentals of design. They’re looking for YOUR vision and how YOU handle conveying certain personality and story elements through character design and atmosphere - with fanart someone has already done that job for you, so seeing it tells the reviewer nothing about your own design abilities.

It’d be one thing if they were reimaginings or redesigns meant to show an interpretation of an existing work in a different genre or an unconventional perspective on a work, but straightforward fan art or idiotically smug redesigns with taglines like “#fixed hire me Dreamworks/Disney/CN/DC/Marvel/etc.” are tacky as hell.

 

[madethistocomment]

Found the top image when I was trying to find inspiration for a Water Genasi character. This guy (yeah, this abomination is supposed to be a man) is the artist's oc and he's just so god damn hideous it hurts. His design is so busy that you don't know where to look when you look at him, and what the hell is going on with his skin? Are those supposed to be freckles? A rare skin disease? Who knows.

 

[One Man Bland]

Found the top image when I was trying to find inspiration for a Water Genasi character. This guy (yeah, this abomination is supposed to be a man) is the artist's oc and he's just so fucking hideous it hurts. His design is so busy that you don't know where to look when you look at him, and what the fuck's going on with his skin? Are those supposed to be freckles? A rare skin disease? Who knows.

The prosthetic could be kinda cool, though I’m confused as to why the smaller, less secure-looking rocks are being used to replace the femur. It looks like it would immediately break under the weight of a person the second they stood up - even with magic.

Also if this is supposed to be a water genasi, imagine being so insecure about your character not being immediately recognized as a “queer POC” that you gotta give them shitty desaturated brown skin rather than the blue the species is known for.

 

[Tanti-Fanti]

The thing about putting fanart in a portfolio meant to be shown to prospective employers is that A) fan art is already on a shakey grey area legally speaking so it’s not a good look if that’s the majority of your portfolio to studios/employers, B) it really puts studios off to see fan art of their own shows because at best you look unoriginal and at worst you look like a kiss ass, and C) while composition and anatomy are all well and good, fan art often excludes something important that portfolio reviews look for in candidates: understanding of the fundamentals of design. They’re looking for YOUR vision and how YOU handle conveying certain personality and story elements through character design and atmosphere - with fanart someone has already done that job for you, so seeing it tells the reviewer nothing about your own design abilities.

It’d be one thing if they were reimaginings or redesigns meant to show an interpretation of an existing work in a different genre or an unconventional perspective on a work, but straightforward fan art or idiotically smug redesigns with taglines like “#fixed hire me Dreamworks/Disney/CN/DC/Marvel/etc.” are tacky as hell.

This too. But I will also mention that fan art can get you potential work...but it takes a grand effort and it can't be something as simple as ,"lol gay". For example the dectective Pikachu movie for all the weirdness of the art style actually is based off the concept artist that did the infamous real-life Pokemon interpretations. You can totally have fanart in a portfolio. Hell, some companies look for expressions found in complex, interesting fan art.

However, it really needs to be your best work. I don't know about you but any personal "lol gay" comics shouldn't be in a portfolio unless they're well done or if they serve a point to show your skill. If not it can be legally in a weird place and jarring. You want to make sure you have a majority of original works because if a publisher finds your work later online, you don't get in trouble for something that technically isn't yours. So overall, you need to be a bit cautious.

 

[Fandom Trash]

If we are still talking about least favorite sjw art trends, then mine is when they draw the characters and say "my cute smol gay!" Or "precious softboys" or "Everyone is SOOO gay"

Like what? Its bad enough that they make redraw these characters as big, or a different race than what they or, or even change their sexualities. But these sjws also have to make these gay characters they own and try to make them look like they need protection when most of the time these characters can actually kick butt.


We already slowly starting to see this happening with steven universe and she-ra, but I cant wait for the day when more sjws create their own shows and realize just how shitty their own communnity are when their own people start attacking them for not being inclusive enough or gay enough.

The salt would be amazing.

 

[One Man Bland]

This too. But I will also mention that fan art can get you potential work...but it takes a grand effort and it can't be something as simple as ,"lol gay". For example the dectective Pikachu movie for all the weirdness of the art style actually is based off the concept artist that did the infamous real-life Pokemon interpretations. You can totally have fanart in a portfolio. Hell, some companies look for expressions found in complex, interesting fan art.

However, it really needs to be your best work. I don't know about you but any personal "lol gay" comics shouldn't be in a portfolio unless they're well done or if they serve a point to show your skill. If not it can be legally in a weird place and jarring. You want to make sure you have a majority of original works because if a publisher finds your work later online, you don't get in trouble for something that technically isn't yours. So overall, you need to be a bit cautious.

That’s kinda what I meant, the Realistic Pokémon guy isn’t just fan art but a really unconventional, bordering on grotesque, interpretation of a franchise that’s known for its cute, kid-friendly characters. It not only shows off Palmer’s technical skill, but also gives insight to his design approach and that he’d be able to work outside the box and improvise as needed.

Hell, if you didn’t know they were meant to be Pokémon, many of these would stand on their own as original fantasy designs:

But the vast majority of people who insert fan art into their portfolios or complain about how their fan art wasn’t “acknowledge” tend to only use work like this as a shield for putting straightforward fan art rather than understanding why artists like Palmer are kinda the exception.

To go back to “maddsterpiece” (btw nice alias bro, doesn’t sound self-congratulatory at all), compare Palmer’s work to this fan art in their portfolio:

They’re not only drab and lacking in technical skill, but the humanized design wasn’t even their idea. I can’t exactly see the Detective Pikachu creative team being impressed by this.

 

[Chewy Suarez]

http://mchandraws.tumblr.com/post/180294729738/she-ra-said-gay-rights
This was featured in tumblr

Spoiler: oooo

"she ra said gay rights!!!"

Very late but hoooooly fuck this literally looks like young Thor from that one animated movie in drag.

Spoiler: What I’m talking about

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

Anyway here's a Nep that I found.

this looks fine to me. i don't see how this is 'sjw-y' considering she's troll grey with green accents and isn't morbidly obese or randomly disabled.

 

[NoFeline]

this looks fine to me. i don't see how this is 'sjw-y' considering she's troll grey with green accents and isn't morbidly obese or randomly disabled.

That mouth
the hog nose and shibe brows aren't helping either.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

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That mouth
the hog nose and shibe brows aren't helping either.

there's so much bad homestuck art that the bar for me finding it good is pretty low at this point

 

[PT 522]

The prosthetic could be kinda cool, though I’m confused as to why the smaller, less secure-looking rocks are being used to replace the femur. It looks like it would immediately break under the weight of a person the second they stood up - even with magic.

Awfully bold of you to assume that these artists even know what a skeleton is, let alone what it's made up of or how it works.

 

[EA 549]

Spoiler: I dont know what to put here,enjoy.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Sjw art trend I hate (besides what people already mentioned, so I am left with the lamer one) is when a character/oc who is unmistakably male is repeatedly called a "she", "girl" etc. (and if it's not their character, then we prob have trans-but-not-trying-to-pass headcanon at hand).

 

[c-no]

Anyway here's a Nep that I found.

That's a badly formed foot righ there.

Spoiler: I dont know what to put here,enjoy.

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One eye looks like its melting, and that boob looks more like a boil or a hanging ball of skin.

 

[Weed Malk]

Gotta hate the trend with SJW artists making likable characters unpleasant through making them ooc and spouting racist garbage. Of course though, reducing a character to their race, their sexuality, and wiping them of their original personality and replacing it with a racist one is just sooo progressive...

I'm not surprised by SJW art anymore, but I still manage to be disappointed again and again.

 

[Valstrax]

Gotta hate the trend with SJW artists making likable characters unpleasant through making them ooc and spouting racist garbage. Of course though, reducing a character to their race, their sexuality, and wiping them of their original personality and replacing it with a racist one is just sooo progressive...

I'm not surprised by SJW art anymore, but I still manage to be disappointed again and again.

With the power of shitty editing in MSPaint, I make this picture genuinely funny.

 

[Brit Crust]

Good to see we're still on the topic of least favorite SJW art trends. Most of them already have been covered earlier, so I'll throw in one that hasn't been mentioned.

I hate how most SJW art tend to look rather homogeneous. It's one thing to make mediocre character redesigns for social justice brownie points, it's another thing to force far-left agenda into artwork where it doesn't belong, and another thing to be utterly incompetent with one's technical artistic skills. But the worst of all is when the artists' styles look so similar to the point it's difficult to distinguish between one's artwork from the other.

Artistic inbreeding is cancer on creativity and talent.

 

[PT 522]

To go back to “maddsterpiece” (btw nice alias bro, doesn’t sound self-congratulatory at all), compare Palmer’s work to this fan art in their portfolio:

wow that humanized design is so original and cool wow
Seriously, if "hat with cat ears and a black turtleneck. also red hair" the absolute extent of your imagination I'd advise you to save your money and drop out of art school. Gijinka/humanized designs can be made to look amazing with the right person but that takes effort, so it's out the window for what looks like a lame closet cosplayer.