that's v valid, but i kinda disagree it's the worst thing ever to hear for artists! well, no, i'm not gonna disagree it is for you and others who feel that way, lol, you know yourselves best, i'm not about to say that's dumb. i for sure see what you mean though, it's about feeling like you're not seen as an individual artist, kinda?
I think maybe for me personally it's also that I still have a lot to learn, and I tend to look at art I like and try to emulate it to figure out what I like about it and if I could do that (like the simplified yet expressive style of David Aja's Hawkeye run - not at all how my art looks, but it's a style I admire and would like to learn).
hmmm sorry for ranting a little there. i get 100% what you mean was my ultimate point!!
as soon as i saw Liam's art my first reaction was "that's not anime though, it's just not realism, why would they say anime". i can definitely see how that's annoying, especially grand general statements like that. Anime itself isn't even just one style!
a very good point haha!
oh yeah for sure, i explicitly mean the good faith complimentary ones. those kinda comments are just mean spirited and unnecessary - no story is original, yet most are unique, if just for the fact that it's you telling it!!