What's your biggest art style pet-peeve?

[amortelito]

Huge books are terrifying, I mean look!! Look at that abomination!!!! No! No way.

LOL, yes!! Boobs! I used to like them a lot in my designs but lately I'm choosing smaller breasts but wide hips. The hourglass shape is no longer appealing to me for some reason.

[bubbybunnyart]

i think not liking someones specific style is fine and great actually while itd make me sad to be listed as an example id see it as "not everyone is gonna like my art" and if the critiques are true from my perspective then i have a starting point to change.

to answer the actual question lol i cant stand and overabundance of overly sexualized characters xc

[IndigoShirtProd]

God the first part of this thread was a slog to get through! @Tanako and @ninjashira, I feel your pain.

Anyway, I guess a personal pet peeve is really messy lineart. Sometimes it can work if the style is more paiterly, otherwise not so much. It either means laziness or a lack confidence. While being insecure about one's artwork is normal and something you grow past, it does leave me personally not taking the artwork seriously and overlooking it.

[TAMAnnoying]

Just gonna say it- and call out some artist (tho I guess they’re big time boys so wtf do they care) not a fan of the Calarts style, always seemed lazy to me, and a way to reduce cost of animation without any real love put into it. only one I really like is the seven univers and that one has a bad taste in my mouth after the show went down hill. Like why you gotta do my girl garnet dirty like that and make her a useless background character wtf.

[DualDragons]

Hmmm, to answer your question, I don't particulary like pillow shading in comics, or when the lineart has no distribution of lineweight. That's just my opinion though

[IndigoShirtProd]

I never really got the "Calarts style" thing. Mainly because the shows mentioned never really looked that similar. Like gravity falls and SVTFOE are kinda similar but gumball and SU don,t really look like 5he others. But those are just the shows that I've heard brought up in the argument. The only thing for me that they have thin outlines, which is a general trend in animated media right now, regardless if it lokks like the "Calarts style", very similar to how thick outlines were popular in the late 90s and early 2000s.

[arbiterswake]

Oh I forgot about pillow shading, but this is something I've generally noticed in like newer artists who are still learning, etc.

I have a friend who was a culprit of this for years up until about a year ago where she stopped doing it and really focused on light-source studies, etc, and it dramatically improved her art imo.

[bubbybunnyart]

ssssssss kinda sad but true..

[rajillustration]

not a fan of the Calarts style, always seemed lazy to me, and a way to reduce cost of animation without any real love put into it.

hmm, I feel like calling it a Calarts style is such a misnomer--people who actually go there have a multitude of different styles, and tbh when I think of Calarts, I think of Tim Burton, who is pretty famous for having gone there. I think of it more as a "Cartoon Network" or "TV Disney" style, which are styles largely made by committee, so the artists don't really have full control of how it ends up. And when you have art made by committee, you're going to rely on marketing stats, which are based on the past, and that's why they're going to repeat things that worked in the past, instead of creating something new.

[rajillustration]

For me it's not so much against artists, but the marketers who don't seem to understand when I don't necessarily want something to become crazy horny. Like I've been enjoying this mahjong browser game where I can play mahjong with randos from all over, and then just randomly--for no reason--AFTER I have recommended it to all these people, they decided to add this loading screen of two horny as hell anime chicks rolling around in some christmas present wrappings and it's like...yo I know covid got you real bad but like...this is a family board game. Can we not make Mahjong horny right now? I'm like legit embarrassed by them right now.

And for the record, the art is drawn really well. It's very polished. It's just so horny for mahjong and I don't know why they wanted the artist to do this with their time.

[arbiterswake]

I'm sorry but I laughed from your description of the situation.

That's so absurd and I'm sorry. I can only imagine like your grandma logging in and seeing that.

The concept of making a game like Mahjong "sexy" to begin with is extremely ridiculous.

[milejdyvan]

(Non artist responding)

Hmm, if i were to be reading a comic, I would most possibly not do so if all the characters looked the same. On the flip side, if I was only following their artwork, I probably wouldn't mind as much. At that point, it's moreso about the amount of creativity they put into the art instead of the faces alone. I used to have some artstyles that I wasn't too fond of, but I think I grew out of that and can find an appreciation in pretty much everyone's artwork

[darthmongoose]

Calling out specific people probably isn't a good idea, but a general thing I dislike that's common on Tapas that ties into "all the characters look like the same generically skinny person with the same face in a variety of fancy wigs and contacts" is "every panel looks like a panel I've seen in a hundred other comics."

Like the artist didn't approach drawing a certain panel fresh, like "Oh, how do I uniquely approach this specific character looming menacingly over this other character in a way that really gets across their personality" or "How does this specific character tearfully fall into the arms of her beloved?" they just kinda... make a perfect clone of how a bunch of other people have done it, like it's a stock pose; same angle, same expression, same position. It immediately pulls me out of the story because in that moment, it's not "this character looming menacingly" it's "this character doing the generic anime menacing loom pose".
I can dig a deliberate homage panel once in a while, (like in Naruto the Sakura vs Ino fight ends with a panel of a dual knock-out that's a deliberate homage to a famous panel from the boxing manga "Ashita no Joe" and it's cool), but when every panel composition is basically just a copy of another artist's panel composition it's the equivalent of writing a novel by using a bunch of cliche phrases from other popular stories and just pasting in your characters names.

[Jophiel]

if theres only thing that peeves me, it's boob pockets. I deal with nsfw stuff lately so I'm desentisized with big boobs much more than I should.

[amortelito]

That image makes me remember the new types of hoodies that have a shape to emphasize the breasts. Breast pockets can become a thing.

[irresponsiblepics]

Trigger thread.
The Musical!

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Meh it's not a useful way to spend time harping on art styles I don't like. If I don't like it, I don't analyze it, I stay away from it.

But it is useful to identify what parts of my art annoy me so that I can learn ways to improve them.

I do struggle from same-face syndrome in a lot of the humanoids I draw.

When I draw buildings, they always feel like they aren't connected to the ground, like they're floating a half inch off of it. Haven't been able to identify why I feel that way, but I do.

I am a little limited in how I can draw certain angles. But I do try to change up composition in panels, even if I'm not comfortable with it.

[Inspector_Spinda]

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.

This is why I sometimes can't read manga. Everyone looks the same and there's not even color! Fairy Tail is the worst in this way.

[Chita]

I only have a few, but they really piss me off.
1) Hyper sexualized women design (you know the tiny waist and enormous breasts with little room for imagination).
2) Same face syndrome (I'm more light on this one, as long as I can recognize the characters I'm fine with it).
3) This may sound dumb but I hate when anime eyes are seen over the hair at full opacity, specially when the colors remains the same. I just can't help it.

[thedude3445]

To me the "Calarts style" is only really evident in, like, the B-Tier and C-Tier cartoons of the same time period, just like the crappier 90s cartoons all kind of looked vaguely like Amblin shows but not as interesting. Steven Universe, Gumball, OK KO, etc. don't look that similar to each other, but when you get to stuff like.... 7Ds, the Powerpuff Girls reboot, or that one Thundercats show, they are much lower-priority projects for their studios and so the style is so much more generic.

Sadly due to nostalgia I am way more interested in generic crappy 90s cartoon art styles than generic crappy 10s cartoon art styles, so I must admit the "Calarts style" does peeve me as well, even if it does nothing wrong.