What is your character design pet peevee?

NickRowler 2016-07-04 18:00:16 UTC #84

So more or less a variation of this?

But with more pastel hair or something

VermillionWorks 2016-07-04 18:05:40 UTC #85

Quite a few people already took the words from my typing fingers.
- Girls dressing sexy when it doesn't fit their personality.
- Some generic anime hairstyles like the "Sasuke" look.
- Character designs that don't fit the era of the story at all.
- Designs with too many details; an overcomplicated design.
...but I guess having crazy designs doesn't necessarily mean it'll kill any chance of popularity. Case and point -

WHAT IN THE NAME OF FRICK IS HAPPENING WITH THIS DESIGN?!

(Seriously though, no offense to Yu-Gi-Oh fans. XD)

....also...
- No effort to give any distinctive features AT ALL. I'm talking when people not only make them all look the same face-wise because of manga style, I've seen people so stuck on a certain look that all of their men or women (I've especially seen this with male manga-style characters) have pretty much the same hairstyle too, or the variations are so slight that only the artist can notice them. Dude, at LEAST give them different hairstyles! I have no hint at who is who!

60Six 2016-07-04 18:51:24 UTC #86

What @NickRowler posted is probably the best example you can post without directly posting a specific person's work which I'd of course never do. :'D
There are just certain outfits, stylized body shapes, and accessories that a lot of people use in their designs that just scream "This character looks like this because I'm active on Tumblr."
Flower crowns are a prime example. Oh how do I hate flower crowns.

JessJackdaw 2016-07-04 19:00:59 UTC #87

@Riko Wait... Flower crowns are a thing? How did that take off? D: I guess it shows that I don't get on Tumblr much.

Jeez, reading through this thread. There are so many clichés I haven't heard of, like the pink hair and heterochromia eyes. Don't know how I've avoided it this long...

Inspector_Spinda 2016-07-04 19:10:59 UTC #88

I do this alot. It is just easy.

Inspector_Spinda 2016-07-04 19:12:49 UTC #89

Not sure I understand what this means

KSlinger 2016-07-04 20:03:14 UTC #90

@Riko Me too, I definitely know this but it's really hard to pin down.

Zanreo 2016-07-04 21:13:29 UTC #91

Anthros aren't always sexualized though? I have several anthro characters and read several anthro comics and calling any of them "sexualized/sexy" would be a long reach.
I will agree through, even as a fan of anthros, that "sexy" furry/anthro characters kinda weird me out, just... leave that off animal-characters please

As for things I hate, I guess overly-saturated SUPER BRIGHT eye-hurting color schemes but that's really more of a coloring issue?

AnnaLandin:

Overtly sexualized clothing design on women where that sexualisation is out of place. If the purpose of your comic is to portray a sexualised atmosphere in general, or plain erotic fiction, or if the woman in question is flirting with someone and/or about to have sex, then sexualized clothing is just fine. When it's a woman existing in a situation or scene where sex would not factor into her thinking at that time, it makes no sense. Women going on an adventure to fight monsters would not wear miniskirts and bikini-tops. A woman in a professional office setting would not be showing off her panties. When a female character's clothing is drawn ONLY because "hurr hurr boobs" in a setting where that would not make sense, it is blindingly obvious and silly, ESPECIALLY if all male characters get to be fully clothed. NOTE: There is a difference between characters wearing shorts skirts or cute clothes, and characters who are overtly sexualised. A girl in a sundress on a summer day = makes sense. A crusading warrior woman in a metal thong = now you're just being silly.

Yes THIS

JessJackdaw 2016-07-04 21:25:22 UTC #92

@Zanreo Oh crap, sorry I meant to say "sexy" anthros. I have absolutely no issue with normal anthropomorphized characters. I went and fixed that. I would be the biggest hypocrite in the world if I thought all of them were creepy. I draw them all the dang time. XD

Anthros are awesome. ; >

bakasama25 2016-07-04 21:56:29 UTC #93

Buruma? Oh you mean Bloomers. There are a fetish only becouse they're short shorts and skintight. I guess that's why artists keep drawing them.

jennula 2016-07-05 10:22:17 UTC #94

I dunno, many pet peeves I usually counter with "the artist is probably young, I did the exact same things when I was young" (like adding 100 shades of neon in their hair, added wings and tails and whatnot). I think it's a thing you have to go through and explore =) I probably made some really weird design choices back in the day ("he's got to have blue hair!"), but it's a part of learning =) And I'm still a sucker for tails, even though it'sprobably very impractical...but so cute!

But yeah, as @AnnaLandin mentioned, oversexualizing just because you can without any reason and out of a sexualised context is probably what pisses me off nowadays.

And of course the boob sock, which @NickRowler mentioned. Omg whyyy?

CelestialNavigator 2016-07-05 15:58:52 UTC #95

You mean this one?

CelestialNavigator 2016-07-05 16:02:50 UTC #96

@Riko wait, flowers crowns are a thing somehow? If only on Tumblr.
Again, a lot of thing are different there and not in a good way.

@joannekwan Like this?

joannekwan 2016-07-05 19:42:06 UTC #97

I've actually seen very few AT inspired styles (that wasn't AT fanart) on tumblr, maybe I'm looking at the wrong places.
I was thinking more like this

I can't believe I took the time to draw that …

JessJackdaw 2016-07-05 19:59:22 UTC #98

That... sort of looks like that one famous gamer Youtuber. Markiplier? Maybe that's where it's coming from? A bunch of fans on Tumblr making OCs based on Youtube stars?

I wouldn't doubt it actually.

alaingrey 2016-07-05 21:31:42 UTC #99

I can't stand tumblr style like this either, but I think it's so much preferable to emo style, Sonic style or Naruto style, that were so prevalent back when I was a kid following drawing trends.
I figure probably everyone will grow out of this and their bleached undercuts and in four years we'll all have something new to roll eyes over, just like no one has hedgehog-sonas anymore.

PotooGryphon 2016-07-06 00:27:52 UTC #101

Moderate note: Please do not post photos of other artists or their artwork in a mean spirited matter. We are a community that lifts each other up and have good clean fun, and not a community that brakes each other down.

indagold 2016-07-06 03:19:01 UTC #102

I'm actually designing a villain specifically on that style because it's so prevalent on there haha!
I also was going to use a flower crown in my work until it became popular on tumblr and I cut it out completely.

J.Z.Castillo 2016-07-06 03:26:53 UTC #103

I mean, I don't know, people seem to be put off so much by the "popularity" of something. I always go by "does it look good? Am I okay with it?" If that whatever thing it is happens to be popular, OH WELL, too bad. But I wouldn't know much of that since I am not very big into the online scene so I don't know what's hip with the kids at the moment.

godzilla4850 2016-07-06 07:08:23 UTC #104

The fucking TV for a head/TV hat. I see it literally everywhere and it really pisses me off for some reason, probably because it's just so common. There's nothing that makes me tab out of a webcomic faster.