Inactive SYRSA - Tit Milking Fetishist/Game Developer

He's 23.

He is used to criticisms, but to his credit, yeah, he doesn't force it on anyone. I am honestly jealous of how much feedback he gets. I rarely get any for my art.


If you can even properly call what he does "shading". The dude has zero concept of value, color and contrast; sloppy cel-shading doesn't impress me.

That's just the stylization he uses for Terrahypt. He'se very much capable or more advanced shading, I've seen him do it.

Edit: Of course advanced shading from my perspective might be only moderate from someone else's.
 
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That's just the stylization he uses for Terrahypt. He'se very much capable or more advanced shading, I've seen him do it.

Edit: Of course advanced shading from my perspective might be only moderate from someone else's.
Stylization indeed, he is trying to make it look like crap and thoroughly succeeded. He doesn't have a style. A style is something an artist works decades to achieve and hone.
 
A style is something an artist works decades to achieve and hone.

A very sharp exaggeration making digital painting out as something that it's not. If you learn human anatomy, and how to manipulate and characterize, not to mention draw on a near daily basis, you can have a style that people recognize. Whether they like said style or not is irreverent.

Edit: A process that can take as little as 5 years.
 
A very sharp exaggeration making digital painting out as something that it's not. If you learn human anatomy, and how to manipulate and characterize, not to mention draw on a near daily basis, you can have a style that people recognize. Whether they like said style or not is irreverent.

Edit: A process that can take as little as 5 years.
And that doesn't change the fact that "style" is a grossly overused term. Dear SYRSA's art, for example, looks derivative as all of those other western anime-esque cel-shading legend of kora wannabe kids. He sticks out more for the perverse content than the quality of the art, lets not forget that. The way he draws takes little to no effort, and even then he manages makes basic anatomy mistakes all over the place, often the same mistake. If making mistakes is his style then he has it down.

Shielding his mediocre art under the pretense that it is his "style" is dumb and holds no water when you look at his art objectively. For example: he can't draw a ribcage to save his life.
 
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And that doesn't change the fact that "style" is a grossly overused term. Dear SYRSA's art, for example, looks derivative as all of those other western anime-esque cel-shading legend of kora wannabe kids. He sticks out more for the perverse content than the quality of the art, lets not forget that. The way he draws takes little to no effort, and even then he manages makes basic anatomy mistakes all over the place, often the same mistake. If making mistakes is his style then he has it down.

Shielding his mediocre art under the pretense that it is his "style" is dumb and holds no water when you look at his art objectively.

You flip flop around on your position as much as Mitt Romney, it's not even funny. If you're going to make an argument, at least be consistent, and pay attention to what your opponent is saying before you formulate a retort, otherwise people might think you're deflecting purposefully.

An artists "Thumbprint" (Seeing as you apparently see the word 'style' as too much a beach umbrella to be used.) is an equal combination of mistakes, and achievements. It can be a mistake as simple as an overused shape when drawing a foot, or an action of purpose, such as stretching the torso to exaggerate lankiness. Either way, both are artifacts of their history as an artist, their likes, dislikes, insecurities and what not. it;s a natural human progression documented on a worthless page.

Whether you've been drawing for 5, or 50 years, they're there. People try to siphon reasoning out of a drawing, but in order to know the true reason behind why so-and-so prefers to purposefully change this-and-that, and whether or not it's a mistake or purposeful action, they'd need to first experience what the artist has experienced. In short, drawing, sculpting, painting exc. progress in a documentable way strikingly similar to a human personality.

Syrsa is very sharply against the concept of copying the work of others, and from what I've seen in his image files, which contain nearly every digital drawing he's ever done in order by date, he only started out with the bare bones of digital art, and every development and artifact that's been added since then can be seen sliding into existence as you go down the line, a sign of self progression, instead of study of other's work. In fact, in my time knowing him, the only references he's ever used are human anatomy charts (rarely), and his own hands, otherwise, nothing else.

If he's built up everything he has from the basics of digital painting, and the occasional diagram of human muscles, instead of staring at the work of other artists all day, I think it's earned the title of 'style', but whether or not you want to compartmentalize that useless nonsense into terms is up to you.
 
You flip flop around on your position as much as Mitt Romney, it's not even funny. If you're going to make an argument, at least be consistent, and pay attention to what your opponent is saying before you formulate a retort, otherwise people might think you're deflecting purposefully.

An artists "Thumbprint" (Seeing as you apparently see the word 'style' as too much a beach umbrella to be used.) is an equal combination of mistakes, and achievements. It can be a mistake as simple as an overused shape when drawing a foot, or an action of purpose, such as stretching the torso to exaggerate lankiness. Either way, both are artifacts of their history as an artist, their likes, dislikes, insecurities and what not. it;s a natural human progression documented on a worthless page.

Whether you've been drawing for 5, or 50 years, they're there. People try to siphon reasoning out of a drawing, but in order to know the true reason behind why so-and-so prefers to purposefully change this-and-that, and whether or not it's a mistake or purposeful action, they'd need to first experience what the artist has experienced. In short, drawing, sculpting, painting exc. progress in a documentable way strikingly similar to a human personality.

Syrsa is very sharply against the concept of copying the work of others, and from what I've seen in his image files, which contain nearly every digital drawing he's ever done in order by date, he only started out with the bare bones of digital art, and every development and artifact that's been added since then can be seen sliding into existence as you go down the line, a sign of self progression, instead of study of other's work. In fact, in my time knowing him, the only references he's ever used are human anatomy charts (rarely), and his own hands, otherwise, nothing else.

If he's built up everything he has from the basics of digital painting, and the occasional diagram of human muscles, instead of staring at the work of other artists all day, I think it's earned the title of 'style', but whether or not you want to compartmentalize that useless nonsense into terms is up to you.
What @John Freeman above is trying to say, in so many words, is your friend's drawings are childish, unoriginal, and only stand out because of their perverse nature. To put as blunt as a cudgel blow, they suck.
 
What @John Freeman above is trying to say, in so many words, is your friend's drawings are childish, unoriginal, and only stand out because of their perverse nature. To put as blunt as a cudgel blow, they suck.

I appreciate your clear and decisive answer, you're very good at paraphrasing.

Edit: Something that I am admittedly not very good at.
 
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I appreciate your clear and decisive answer, you're very good at paraphrasing.

Edit: Something that I am admittedly not very good at.
Well, let me be more blunt then too: I was saying nicely that I can photoshop SYRSA under the table any day of the week. No really, I can literally do just that. Any criticism or observation I may give is not blowing smoke up anyone's ass when it comes to 2D art. I actually have spent nearly a decade of my life with it, so if I say something doesn't look right, it probably doesn't look right.
 
Mook - you say you interact with him regularly (Skype etc). What is it about his art that you feel so passionately to defend? Do you have big boobs is the natural first question.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Syrsa ever claimed that his art was better than anyone else. This forum is for the collection and documentation of internet idiots, not a critique on artistic merit.
 
Mook - you say you interact with him regularly (Skype etc). What is it about his art that you feel so passionately to defend? Do you have big boobs is the natural first question.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Syrsa ever claimed that his art was better than anyone else. This forum is for the collection and documentation of internet idiots, not a critique on artistic merit.

I'm blinded by my years of being a fan, to be completely honest, and he's my friend, so I feel instinctually obligated to defend him, even if I'm wrong.

As to whether or not I have big tits, it doesn't matter how I answer. Either I'll be dubbed a liar, asked for pictures (Which I would deny, because where would those end up, especially with a so called photoshop master amongst us. Further solidifying anyone's position of calling me a liar.), or called a perverted neckbeard.

Edit: I made a spelling mistake.
 
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As to whether or not I have big tits, it doesn't matter how I answer. Either I'll be dubbed a liar, asked for pictures (Which I would deny, because where would those end up, especially with a so called photoshop master amongst us. Further solidifying anyone's position of calling me a liar.), or called a perverted neckbeard.
omg don't flatter yourself. Like we give a shit about you, it's not like you're SYRSA or anything.
 
I'm blinded by my years of being a fan, to be completely honest, and he's my friend, so I feel instinctually obligated to defend him, even if I'm wrong.

As to whether or not I have big tits, it doesn't matter how I answer. Either I'll be dubbed a liar, asked for pictures (Which I would deny, because where would those end up, especially with a so called photoshop master amongst us. Further solidifying anyone's position of calling me a liar.), or called a perverted neckbeard.

Edit: I made a spelling mistake.

The big tits question is an obvious wedge question, giving Syrsa's "predilections". You're profile says you're 21 YO. When did you become a fan? Also - his videos sound germanic. Is he German?

Also - "instinctually obligated even if he's wrong"? Do you think he's wrong? I don't. You need to commit.
 
I'm not going to say the guy's art is particularly "impressive" but for the last few minutes, I've witnessed freeman dig into it in such a hilariously autistic manner.This is like watching professional film critics tear apart an episode of the teletubbies. "Oh, the special effects were horrendous, and the dialogue sounds like it was written by a kindergardner." At least find something more significant than a lack of ribcages to hold against him.
 
The big tits question is an obvious wedge question, giving Syrsa's "predilections". You're profile says you're 21 YO. When did you become a fan? Also - his videos sound germanic. Is he German?

Also - "instinctually obligated even if he's wrong"? Do you think he's wrong? I don't. You need to commit.

I became a fan roughly 4 years ago, so I was probably 16 or 17 at the time.

He's Swedish as all fuck.

Even when I'M wrong.
 
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I'll keep that in mind, but the risk is still there, and I'm a skittish coward by nature.
Fair enough. I didn't mean to be so mean about it. Well, if you want to be in my favor, at least, you could pass on the comment about rib cages. He desperately needs to address that. They need to be bigger. Oh and tell him that quality beats out quantity.
 
Fair enough. I didn't mean to be so mean about it. Well, if you want to be in my favor, at least, you could pass on the comment about rib cages. He desperately needs to address that. They need to be bigger. Oh and tell him that quality beats out quantity.
He knows, he watches this thread like a hawk. I guess they're both a little cowardly.
 
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He knows, he watches this thread like a hawk. I guess they're both a little cowardly it seems.

He really wanted to leave the thread at the time, but when he's off stream, and we're talking during our free time, he hops back in and checks it out. I'm not being defensive when I say that he's not really a coward, he just gets fed up with things that distract him from modeling pools, among other things.

I think he can only have so many solid suggestions on his plate before he becomes intimidated by the amount of shit he has to get done. That might just be me projecting onto him though, because that happens to me.
 
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