SJW Art and Extremes

[RaisinNipples]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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Cause it does seem stylized in a less obnoxious manner than your average sjw art but the fan art

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[rococo]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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I actually think it's disgustingly cute but for fanart it's not my cup'a tea. It'd be cute for some dumb webcomic or stickers or something, though. Maybe t-shirts.

 

[Tanti-Fanti]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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I actually like this a lot. It's stylized, but it's not done in a way to be super progressively annoying. The artist uses an overlay layer, but it doesn't take away from picture. You can still tell what the caricature looks like and while the anatomy is a bit wonky it doesn't take away from the picture. I can understand if this isn't your cup of tea tho. It's pretty stylized as hell, but somehow it avoids all the pitfalls of shitty art.

Not to say it doesn't have issues, like the eyes or the wonky anatomy as I mention before, but for "SJW" art it's pretty borderline-decent for what people are trying to go for. I think the artist can improve from here. (That is if they don't have an ego the size of the sun).

 

[Sonya-chan]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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Well that's a heavy same face syndrome... It's a waste because she (guess she's a girl) is putting effort on the hair and the outfit, the proportions are meh, can be better, the coloring is shitty, it still this overlay thingy but other than that, this autor has potential, she just needs to get out of her confort space and at least trying a different face shape (or just a different emotion than this blob fish lips), but stop doing the same things.

 

[WoodlumHax]

Hispanic actually just refers to anyone of Spanish-speaking origin, so Hispanic people can be of any race. Latino is actually the proper term here, since that specifically refers to people of Latin American descent.

Oh that was a mess up on my part, actually. I don't know why I said "half Hispanic", I meant he's supposed to be Mexican American. Hope that clears things up a bit.

 

[Porca Puttana]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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Cause it does seem stylized in a less obnoxious manner than your average sjw art but the fan art

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It's not that bad tbh, reminds me of a western version of Jenny Kaori's work.

 

[Oupalaylay]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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Eh, personally don't like it, sexualized fashion in a chibi kinda artstyle are a no for me. But I gotta agree it doesn't completely follow the SJW art rules. It's more of a black empowerment weeb style. I'm also thinking this artist probably don't have a tablet as the lineart looks like badly scanned pen (there's some pixelated smudges) and the colors are applied in blocks, so I'd say it's pretty decent for some art with limited mediums.

 

[Sty✖]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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The lips remind me of Chop Socky Chooks lol.

 

[IceGray]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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Looks like Bratz.

 

[Kuwomi]

Cookie Run (a game about ...cookies) has an overwhelming amount of sjw fanart since the characters are pretty simple in design. You get art like this a LOT

Spoiler: The art

Spoiler: The characters

Why they look like crackheads, I'll never know.

 

[Cable 7]

Cookie Run (a game about ...cookies) has an overwhelming amount of sjw fanart since the characters are pretty simple in design. You get art like this a LOT

Spoiler: The art

Spoiler: The characters

Why they look like crackheads, I'll never know.

Should I draw them as cookies? Or as humans?
Yes.

 

[Trilby]

The amount of overly detailed features like the unnecessary lines around Jo's nose and mouth, the random lines around the dude's crotches that somehow manage to make them look dickless, the over-highlighted animu-esque eyes, the suddenly blobby hands, and the fact that they don't even look like they're even sitting on anything really push this into uncanny territory the longer you look at it.

Cartoons really shouldn't look this way. This is the antithesis of it.

There are good guides on Tumblr. The problem is that due to the tagging system it'll be harder to find them. So more than likely, what's the most popular shows up first and that's sadly what these artists use as a guide.

I'd like to believe that as an artist you are not only critical of what you make but what OTHERS make as well. When you're younger you aren't going to notice small anatomical mistakes which is why it's even more important you get a varied experience of the basics. I don't think these Tumblr artists that draw this weird art style thing even understand what makes a style. It's not just your favorite artists that you desperately try to copy. It can be that plus learning the basics.

Certainly a lot of young, inexperienced 'talent' out there acting like they know-it-all.

If I recall correctly another influence came from watercolor and marker illustrations where its not uncommon to see a figure be given a skin tone by leaving them mostly blank and then highlighting a few key details - usually shadows and extremities to prevent them looking muddied from the texture.

Stuff like that is very common in traditional painting techniques, like in watercolor sketching.

But then I think those key factors in that artistic liberty were lost on Tumblr due having gone through such a long game of Artistic Telephone the original influences are long gone, and most Tumblr artists starting off as digital and having no reference to how or why traditional techniques are done the way they are. So you get a lot of Tumblr shit like that where characters have giant splotches around their noses, eyes, shoulders, elbows, and knees that make everyone look like they have a bad case of rosacea.

I'm sure none of these guys can even hold a paintbrush, let alone try to color traditionally!

Shit, I've seen that too. I don't know why, but even with traditional art they carry the same attitude of not wanting to learn about it. I agree with the sentiment that traditional art doesn't need super fancy supplies, but at the same time it really helps if you know what you're drawing before you draw it.

I'm not saying digital art is a shortcut to amazing art. I would argue it's even harder because the translation from paper to a screen can be really awkward, but that doesn't excuse not knowing how to draw on paper.

Thank you. Having drawn on paper before, I find drawing on a tablet to be quite a different beast as it just doesn't quite have that organic feel I get from permanently leaving a mark on a physical object.

Based on the two incidents I've witnessed first hand of this attitude - once when artists were salty that the Inktober guy said they'd only be sharing works on the official Inktober account that used physical ink (from ballpoint pens to India ink) since he felt digital work didn't reflect what participants were supposed to learn from the exercise, and again when Butch Hartman made a generic "digital art is great but it's still important to learn traditional skills" positivity post that everyone got their panties in a twist over - and the two most common trains of thought I saw being against this were:

1. Praising traditional art is "gatekeeping" because you're supposedly putting a barrier of entry into art by expecting people to purchase art supplies despite good digital arguably being a greater financial investment between the computer, tablet, and/or handheld devices like ipads.
2. People who practice traditional art are backwards dinosaurs who just don't like that digital tools with features like the undo button and layers have rendered them obsolete, and traditional art therefore provides no learning value whatsoever

And this is the point where I would tell these people to get off my lawn for good!

What's often overlooked however is that traditional art doesn't just teach you skills like life drawing or color theory, it's also very important for learning about the more subconscious aspects of art like posture and hand positioning. You learn quicker with traditional art, for instance, the importance of not letting the side of your hand drag over your page and to reposition yourself or your sheet because doing otherwise smudges your work. It's also important in developing a faster drawing/painting pace while maintaining coordination because you often have a limited number of attempts to get something right before you have to start over. All of these things translate into improving your digital art because while things like transform tools and Ctrl+Z are undoubtedly useful, it's much more efficient in the long run if you hardly have to use them at all.

Thank you! This is what I learned in those pre-digital days.

Another way to look at it is imagining of traditional art was a bicycle and digital art was a motorcycle. Between the two the motorcycle is the more advanced tool and provides more powerful/efficient features that you can't necessarily get from a bicycle, but it would be crazy to hop straight on a motorcycle if you've never ridden a bicycle before since the bicycle helps you with the most basic of concepts that are still applicable to the motorcycle.

See, now that works as an analogy.

Tumblr artists are often the people who declare the bicycle to be obsolete with no useful skills to offer and then proceed to putt-putt away going 2 mph on a $2000 Wacom motorcycle because they have none of the skills to use it properly.

Really all there is to say there.

Looks like Bratz.

It definitely looks like something I'd see being marketed as a doll like that.

Should I draw them as cookies? Or as humans?
Yes.

Someone wanted it both ways.

 

[AnthroFlea180]

Not the worst out there, but

Spoiler: almost everyone got a tan

Guess the characters?

Both are Mob.

And this one actually looks quite cute so here we go:

They are all from the same artist, as weird as it sounds the thumbs on the first one remind me a bit of long nipples from giant titty hentai.

 

[Nekromantik]

Cookie Run (a game about ...cookies) has an overwhelming amount of sjw fanart since the characters are pretty simple in design. You get art like this a LOT

Spoiler: The art

Spoiler: The characters

Why they look like crackheads, I'll never know.

It's the eyes that get me. Like something you see at the end of a dark alley before you die.

 

[Meowthkip]

I’m really conflicted with this art style.

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That Powerpuff Girls fanart looks more like it's supposed to be TLC as the Powerpuff Girls.

RIP Left Eye.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

Not the worst out there, but

Spoiler: almost everyone got a tan

Guess the characters?

Both are Mob.

And this one actually looks quite cute so here we go:

They are all from the same artist, as weird as it sounds the thumbs on the first one remind me a bit of long nipples from giant titty hentai.

You're right, it's not too bad. In fact the way they draw makes me think the tumblr influence hasn't taken root yet. They should save themselves now before their art becomes truly thread-worthy.

 

[AnthroFlea180]

You're right, it's not too bad. In fact the way they draw makes me think the tumblr influence hasn't taken root yet. They should save themselves now before their art becomes truly thread-worthy.

I hope so too, this person is only 18 so there's still plenty of time for them to change their minds and hopefully it's never too late for that.
And for a comparative: here's the guy's improvement drawing and their actual deviantArt gallery vs their previous gallery with older stuff if anyone wants to take a quick look.

 

[WXY]

this makes me wanna burn the entire internet down

 

[Literally Whojak?]

Cookie Run (a game about ...cookies) has an overwhelming amount of sjw fanart since the characters are pretty simple in design. You get art like this a LOT

Spoiler: The art

Spoiler: The characters

Why they look like crackheads, I'll never know.

ohhhhh boy, as okay as the game is, it’s pretty much a gold mine for shitty art like this, i’m surprised that this only started getting brought up here. i would be practically cheating if I would try to search for humanizations in the game tag, but i’M on mobile right now so I can’t really post it.

the game’s fandom on Tumblr is also kinda infamous, almost half of the time it’s bitching about how you SHOULDN’T make certain cookies who have darker dough slightly whiter, yet they’ll make the cookies who are pretty much pale ambiguously black. other times it’s arguing about a cookies sexuality and etc.

 

[Knifeguncat]

hey remember that artist i posted like, 6 pages or so ago

well, i went digging in their blog and uh

Spoiler: Remember Homestuck?

compulsory body hair on aliens is compulsory

vitiligo on aliens too? check!

the perfect body to survive the apocalypse with. not to mention the everything wrong with the sword.

this one's separated from the rest because, well...

Spoiler: Note how anon apologized

remember kids, cis people are bad and therefore you should kill yourself for imaging a character as cis! not to mention how 'she' looks like a guy...

then there's more lego...

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this is lloyd apparently

and this is harumi, the villain from the latest season. she manipulated lloyd by pretending to be in love with him when he was in love with her, aka hurting the fandom's precious uwu bean. note how she's white (despite her vomit skintone). the squinty eyes on this also make me think of asian stereotypes, which are totally fine when used on a villain, just like white skin! /sneed

alright, one more:

Spoiler: The True Demon is SJW Artists

didn't know 15 year olds could look that old.

Spoiler: The Homestuck Pics incase quality

everyone aside from harumi has the same huge nose too.