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On "ugly" and "cute" art.
15 years ago
Have you ever seen those artists who try to purposely draw things that look terrible?
"LOOK HOW HARDCORE UGLY MY ART IS. I'M BALLER AS FUCK."
It's one thing to design purposely unattractive characters. It's one thing to create purposely decayed scenery.
It's another thing to go out of your way to make something that people pull back from looking at.
Seriously, it's annoying.
And when you get the attitude of being good at making things that are ugly, you end up being bad at art in general.
If you can only draw ugly nasty things, what happens when you get a job that requires you to make things that are crisp, clean and professional looking? What happens when someone comissions you to draw something outside of that zone?
I'll tell you what happens. You turn the work away and you stay poor forever because you're too much of a stupid shit to learn to draw outside your comfort zone.
Drawing ugly shit doesn't make you seem like a badass. Infact, in my mind personally, it labels you as an extreme jackass right off the bat. You aren't cool. This doesn't make you cool. It greatly narrows your horizons.
That aside, it applies to those of you who do the opposite too. If you only draw cutesy bullshit you'll hit a wall when someone asks for something nasty.
A cutesy uguu artist can't draw nasty things. A nasty artist can't draw cutesy uguu things. If you are rigid, you are not an artist. I can't stress this enough.
I'm tired of hardcore badass metal artists. I'm tired of devil worshipping hipster trash. I'm tired of sugar coated attentionwhoring bitches.
I like it better when you're a normal dude and you draw the way an artist should.
Progressively.
Diversely.
And in a way that doesn't give me a headache to look at.
In spite of all this, you all deserve to know that chocolate hazelnut pudding is a thing that exists. It's really tasty.
Go get it. And go get a plain shortbread cookie. Eat them together.
"LOOK HOW HARDCORE UGLY MY ART IS. I'M BALLER AS FUCK."
It's one thing to design purposely unattractive characters. It's one thing to create purposely decayed scenery.
It's another thing to go out of your way to make something that people pull back from looking at.
Seriously, it's annoying.
And when you get the attitude of being good at making things that are ugly, you end up being bad at art in general.
If you can only draw ugly nasty things, what happens when you get a job that requires you to make things that are crisp, clean and professional looking? What happens when someone comissions you to draw something outside of that zone?
I'll tell you what happens. You turn the work away and you stay poor forever because you're too much of a stupid shit to learn to draw outside your comfort zone.
Drawing ugly shit doesn't make you seem like a badass. Infact, in my mind personally, it labels you as an extreme jackass right off the bat. You aren't cool. This doesn't make you cool. It greatly narrows your horizons.
That aside, it applies to those of you who do the opposite too. If you only draw cutesy bullshit you'll hit a wall when someone asks for something nasty.
A cutesy uguu artist can't draw nasty things. A nasty artist can't draw cutesy uguu things. If you are rigid, you are not an artist. I can't stress this enough.
I'm tired of hardcore badass metal artists. I'm tired of devil worshipping hipster trash. I'm tired of sugar coated attentionwhoring bitches.
I like it better when you're a normal dude and you draw the way an artist should.
Progressively.
Diversely.
And in a way that doesn't give me a headache to look at.
In spite of all this, you all deserve to know that chocolate hazelnut pudding is a thing that exists. It's really tasty.
Go get it. And go get a plain shortbread cookie. Eat them together.
so no, i'm not tired of those
That being said, you are totally correct. c:
There's nothing wrong with having unappealing characters, nor is it wrong to have an unconventionally grotesque style. As long as you can draw other things, and have the will to expand your talent, that's all fine and dandy. But the people, especially the person I'm pretty sure you're thinking of, who draw UGLY BECAUSE IT'S ORIGINAL ridicule other styles and think they are above everyone else.
I'll just say. to each their own, someone must like their work if they're getting commissioned, and I can see someone using a style like that simply to work in macabre fields.
I saw that after I posted and mentally went OOPS.
There was this guy back on SheezyArt who used to hate my guts
and his named was Gerkinman.
He was a self-proclaimed "popular-flash-artist" because he's been around for a long time and was in all the old collabs with more well known animators. (God that as back in the day.)
Nobody ever liked his art
ever.
He was always the one where you'd see his part in the flash collab and go "oh great him CAN I SKIP THIS?"
Now he tries to act all professional even though he and a couple little teens are the only people who like his art. He was literally so desperate for attention (he even admitted it to me before after some mental prodding I did) that he went out of his way to "troll" me and a couple other friends who were substantially more popular than him.
Gerkinman is an advocate of ONLY UGLY ART BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE DOES IT IT'S SO ORIGINAL
no
everything you did looked horrible
and wasn't interesting at all
and you had the most bland sense of humour to boot
Y'KNOW WHO'S AN AWESOME UGLY ARTIST?
http://facerot.deviantart.com/
THIS PERSON
i have the exact same problem with cutesy stuff.
one person draws cute anime furries here on FA, fourty quadrillion other people do the exact same thing to piggybank off the popularity.
ugly artists copy eachother the exact same way.
these kids never stop to think 'it's time to try something new and exciting.'
always 'CUTE OR BUST' or 'UGLY OR DIE'.
they back themselves into a corner and become dead weight to the art community.
there are some legit artists in both of these fields i have nothing against, however!
Like I said to Zooni, as long as you can flesh out and draw other things, that's fine! A real artist is someone who expands their knowledge and techniques, and welcomes experimentation, not stubbornly clings to one thing because THAT'S WHAT MAKES ME SPECIAL MANNNN
The desperate fight for PURE ORIGINALITY is absolutely fucking fruitless. Just come as you are naturally. Don't force a facade no one gives a shit about.
I always think of the same person
lol oops
Soooo I'm guessing this is an attitude problem. Why do people draw themselves into those narrow and stuffy boxes...
and in a lot of HARKORE cases, you can really tell when they're trying too hard. ahahah~