What's your biggest art style pet-peeve?

[arbiterswake]

For me its artists who's characters/drawings all have the same facial features or look like the same people with different hair/eye colors or styles. Lack of character design diversity essentially. Especially when webcomics do it, I'm less inclined to read them. This is not to bash the artists by any means it's just something I've observed as something I can't really deal with when consuming artworks.

Examples:

Situations where every female character they draw looks the same to me, same characteristics, same facial features. It could honestly be the same character just dressing up with wigs and contact lenses at this point to me.

This one probably urks me the most because I genuinely did enjoy the a certain webcomic but the fact that every male character has the same freaking almost "template" design. (Same with the females.) was VERY distracting and made it hard to read at times.

What's your art style pet-peeve? Post examples!

[Tanako]

out of curiosity how do you want people to react to this post? I mean I understand being irritated by some artist not being versatile in their work but you do have a choice not to read it.

another question, if someone did this exact same thing you are doing about your work how would you feel? just honestly, tell me how you would react.

I believe that as an artist you have to strive to improv your craft and I'm pretty sure if you ask those artist if they think they are perfect they would tell you that are developing. I'm not writing this to attack you in any way, all I'm saying is that you didn't have to add someone else's artwork to prove a point. we all know those artist who have characters with the same face and etc. its just rude to post someone else's work to prove a point or talk crap about it. that's all.

[arbiterswake]

I'd see it as an outside perspective to consider when creating art. I've been an artist for years and years, and am always open to critique and understand how to handle it without viewing it as an attack.

As I said in the post above, it wasn't made to attack anyone but was made to display what artistic choices personally are a pet-peeve. People can agree or disagree with that but it still wouldn't make it an attack.

Edit: And I would go far from saying this was a "Diss Track" of a post. With each example I gave, I also explained why I felt that way.

[Tanako]

ok so with all you have said. you won't feel upset or distressed if some said the "exact", same thing about your work? even if it was an opinion, you wouldn't be at least sad?
just because you said "this is not an attack", does not make it less of one. it's like saying, "your nose is big", oh I'm just kidding. no one is saying don't have an option. you could have made that post without reference to someone else's work and we would still get the point.

[ninjashira]

I agree. There's a big difference between listing your art pet peeves, and specifically calling out particular artists for committing those pet peeves. The latter just feels a little unnecessarily mean. We should be lifting each other up as artists, not unwarrantedly calling out each other's failures.

[arbiterswake]

It seems like you were unsatisfied with the previous answer to the exact same question you just asked and are trying for a different one, or am I misconstruing something here?

Either way. If this post has offended you in any way feel free to flag or report it.

However, if there's an art style pet-peeve you have, feel free to share it as that was the purpose of this post. Thank you!

[arbiterswake]

Why are you viewing a person's perceived and opinionated pet-peeve as the artist's failures? Other's might not have the same opinion of the artist's style choices and that's perfectly fine.

[Tanako]

The fact is, you aren't even answering the question and you are getting it all wrong. the point is, you didn't have to point to anyone to make that statement.

we share the same preference in regards to pet peeves but I wouldn't go out of my way to take someone else's work to prove that point. instead of admitting you are wrong you are too busy arguing. maybe if someone made a post and spoke of how horrendous your work is maybe you'd see a the point.

[ninjashira]

Except you are specifically calling it out as a failure by picking them out as being guilty of this pet-peeve you dislike. There is a big difference between saying "I don't like it when artists' characters all look the same," and saying, "I don't like when artists' characters all look the same, like how this one particular artist does it." There are hundreds or even thousands of artists out there who are guilty of making their characters look similar, and to most people it is a pet peeve, but it seems unnecessarily mean to single out one particular artist to make them the prime example of doing this thing you hate.

It's like if you were with a group of friends and were talking about the type of person you like dating, and you said, "I would never date a person with a unibrow. Like my friend Geoff here. Look at his unibrow! I would never date a person with that. I don't dislike you, Geoff, you're a good guy. But just look at his unibrow!"

[arbiterswake]

I think you're simply blowing the post out of proportion, again I wasn't attacking any artist or their work. I used them as examples of a personal pet-peeve.

However, on your side it's become some outrageous event that now warrants someone speaking ill of other peoples work? If you want to make a post about how horrendous my art is to make yourself feel better in this situation, by all means. I know that based off your current response, it would come from a place of spite and not actual critique so it wouldn't phase me at all at this point.

[arbiterswake]

I can see your perspective there. That being said I have no issue with either artist I gave examples of and still enjoy their works despite my pet-peeve with their style choices.

They were, however, easy visual examples to explain what I meant, nothing more, nothing less. Nothing personal.

[ninjashira]

You may not have intended it as personal. But it does certainly feel personal. You can very easily list that pet peeve and everyone will know exactly what you're talking about without providing an example. This would have been a very different thread if you just wanted to talk pet peeves without calling out specific artists, or even if you said something mass-media. If you called out Madoka Magica or Sailor Moon as having sameface syndrome, it would have been very different from you calling out up-and-coming or small-time freelance artists.

[AHaplessFool]

What they've been saying is that using someone as a literal example of a pet-peeve is a bit of a personal attack.

[arbiterswake]

I see.

It wasn't intended as such. I will remove the links then.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

As you encourage us to post example, here is an artist which art style I can't stand. The style is just weird, character designs are bland with same face syndrome, and the anatomy is off.

Example

[arbiterswake]

So self deprecating.

Though I'd have to disagree. I see diversity there, especially ethnic diversity between the two male characters, especially in the noses and mouths.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I am just trolling hope this is allowed. Because if I post real examples as you encouraged, it will become troublesome and would rather talk it in private.

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To answer the question seriously it is hard for me to entirely hate or be repulsed by an art style. There are of course art style which is uglier than others in my eyes, but let us not ruffle some feather and even lowering my
near zero approvall rating.

I also do think same face syndrome is not that affected with art style; it's just either the artist preference (wanting all characters look "attractive" with preferred features, and ended up with six handsome boys that aren't meant to be sextuplets), incompetence (not knowing to integrate certain features in their style), or laziness. However, because it is important for storytelling and character recognition (plus the boredom it caused for the audience) I understand why it is a problem.

One thing my pet peeve are styles that are copied or inbred form of popular art style, which the flood of its trend cause repulsion.

For example look at popular art styles like one of popular artists' (e.g. Meyoco or SakimiChan) or franchise (JoJo's Bizzare Adventure, Steven Universe). I have no problem with any of their art style although I tend to dislike or like some more than the others. When their styles boom and become hyped, many people are copying it for various intentions (admiration, experiment, clout, or narrow visual library). The trend creates flood of similar-looking art gracing my feed, they look all the fucking same, and I grow to dislike it so much and wish that shit would stop appearing before my eyes.

I also feel a bit disdainful for people whose existence is just copying popular-artist-of-the-season's art style, or being overfixated with a certain art style that they only draw in it. While copying art style is a good form of study and useful in the industry; making a copied style your identity does not help. It breaks my heart when beginner (I am a beginner too) artist feel disappointed because they can't copy their art idol's style and feel they're inadequate.

[amortelito]

OMG your instagram! I totally get you. Sometimes I enlist some pet-peeves and look at my art and I have those issues too. But at least being self-aware is a quality to do better (?). And seriously your art is gorgeous and you make my day better whenever you post one of your boys

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About pet-peevs, I'm not super critical of art. It doesn't discourage me from enjoying. Some characteristics I dislike are clothes with lots of zippers, extremely spiked hair, and huge boobs. But many comics/animes I adore have designs like that...so I'm cool with them at the end of the day.

[Kiweevil]

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[arbiterswake]

I've noticed this just as you've described it on social media platforms as well.

BUT on the flip side it does make very unusual styles or ones not as popular pop out in my feed so I feel like they get noticed easier in the sea of look-a-like styles. That's a positive I guess.