Right, but I think people have also built up this false wall of “Anime is the only cute/good artwork.” which is sad. Then we see all the people out there who think they are going to get somewhere with thier art because they can accurately reproduce anime characters. Truth is, if you dont draw from life you’ll never get good enough to be a professional artist. No matter what they think.
IMO, anime style isn’t cuter. To me it seems more retarded, the proportions are off and almost all the females drawn are pretty much sluts.
Some people draw just for the heck of it, so it’s natural if they don’t pay much attention to some details.
And my preference goes to innocent and sweet-looking beings, any day.
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, but then I never associated you with reason.
I don’t think it’s fair to say they all look like sluts. Disproportioned, yes. However, there is a reason for the large eyes (or at least, there WAS a reason)… When I first started watching animes I remember seeing a special on how anime became popular and stuff. There was a portion that spoke of the eyes, in it they refered to the eyes as windows to the soul. This clearly made sense as you would see the good innocent people with larger eyes, this often meant that the person was of a pure soul, or heart. However, you’d have your villans whom had snake like thin eyes and expressed a certain lack of goodness or soul… Nowadays this has been mistrewn and no longer means anything. Anime is just like any other media, it used to have meanings for it’s styles, now its just over done because it looks or sounds cool. Because people buy into it so heavily though, we get shit like Yu-gi-oh, Dragon Ball Z, and a bunch of those “OMGWTFLOLBBQ Giant Mech!!!” animes.
All in all, the problems associated with anime is easily tacked on to any other “style” however, anime (for me at least) is more prominant and annoying because of the gigantic fan base and flood of pastey white fat otaku who think they can look like sailor moon.
As an art style, it has benifits. I think it is overflooding the world, and when it dies down it will fall hard. But untill then, we’ll have lots of “collect some stupid shit” to “become the best such and such” animes and the “I am only 13-16 but I must pilot this big contraption to save teh worlds!!!”. Enjoy it if you like it, I like some of it. For the most part though, I appriciate life drawings much more because they are just that, LIFE. When you can come to appriciate how much effort goes into capturing the real asthetic quailty of a hand drawn portrait then you’ll understand why the (in comparison) effortless anime style just doesnt hold up. But of course, one of you (if not all) are going to say that I’m stupid or somthing else because of my opinion on this, which is fine. I’m glad you like anime so much that reality no longer matters.
ok, go ahead and start blasting away at me now! I’m rrrrready!
Izlude, I just read your whole previous post changing all “eye” words into breasts. Unfortunately, it also seems to be not far-fetched when you read it that way. It’s what came into mind about Urk’s comment. Yes, I do agree proportions are getting out of hand.
As for snuggling pictures, most of mine are not allowed here. So there >_>;
I don’t think certain people realise that anime is extremely realistic. The proportions are fine. Not everything looks like CCS where their heads are half their bodies and their eyes are half their heads.
I’ve read dozens of anime drawing tutorials, and most of them encourage you to draw almost perfect human form. Find any anime tutorial and compare it to <a href=“http://www.mauigateway.com/~donjusko/human.htm”>this</a>. Pretty much the only difference you’ll find is that a full grown anime character is usually seven heads tall, and a full grown eurpoean human is eight, which makes sense because Japanese people are generally short.
Here, I’ll make it easy on you:
<a href=“http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial/tutorial.html”>Julie Dillon’s Tutorials</a>, one of the most renouned manga artists on the net.
I was gonna post a link to polykarbon, another great site, but it seems to be down.
The point is, Anime isn’t just badly porportioned sluts, like certain Urkanis seem to think. It’s merely simplified realism, convenient for animating. It’s high quality stuff, not mere cartoons like the simpsons. Anime/Manga artists have to know their shit.
Good, because I don’t associate myself with reason either. Only opinions. I almost never state facts whenever I’m arguing. I completely expected you to say something like this anyway, you being the japan fanboi you are.
This is really pretty…it was in this week’s favorites in the DA Photography section:
God forbid I have likes and dislikes. Yes, I’m a “fanboi” and proud of it. I don’t need your cool-permission to dictate my interests. By the way, England sucks >>;
Good for you Hades, but wouldn’t you be a fangirl. And you’re right, England does suck.
Trillian- Badass, proving yet again that real artwork is better. Thank you.
Darkness- HADES IS A GUY. Havent you figured that out?
Hades- Can I see your boobies if your a girl?
God damnit Izlude, in a diffent thread you told me she was a girl. Stop confusing me, it’s confusing. I mean annoying.
that was sarcasm… but seriously, if Hades was a girl, wouldnt she be awesome? All pissed off and angsty all the time… Never wrong… A natural born leader… wait, what the hell am I talking about…? Hades’ bitchination power would grow 10fold if he became a girl… >_< Scarry thought…
Damn computers, can’t show sarcasm unless someone says it. Grumbles for a while. And your right, from what I’ve seen, he would be scary as a girl. Shudders at mental image of mean words written as shouts in bold. And what’s worse is they’re inarguably correct. Shudders some more.
Here’s someone’s invitation to post Sailor Hades.
I decline. >.>;
Accept
OMG HADES, you are teh hottttt.
http://i.domaindlx.com/Seraphin/Sailor%20Hades.jpg
Hmm, hope the image works…
DENIED, SOLDIER!
The Real <strike>Ghostbusters</strike>Slim Shady stood up.
Oh god, my eyes! @_@ They burn!