That guy sucks!

I can see the bear on the shoulder is oversized as well.

I also wonder how to get that incredible paper-like texture.

Daddypig. :> Oinkies!

A pig with human feet?.......

+1

+1?

As in seconded. I thought the same. If I can be totally honest, IMO (and this won't go down well, but I'm being honest), the artist previously known and respected as Kuma just keeps getting lazier and lazier. I'm no artist, but I know basic anatomy and in this and the other commission from today, it's frankly way off. (and not for the first time) - As I say, I can't draw, so can't and won't comment too much, but kinda glad my commission email got ignored when it did months back, because if I'd paid for anything produced post-2011, I'd be most unhappy.

Sad times.

What is "way off" exactly? Taking into consideration it's a stylized cartoonish drawing and not intended as a real-world, fully accurate study in porcine anatomy, your comment is meaningless. If we're going for anatomical correctness, all of Kuma's paws are "too big", especially hind paws, and the limbs are generally stubbier than would be "anatomically correct" but last I checked, these are toony drawings, and this one was drawn for someone else, who seems quite happy with it.

So if you've got pointers for Kuma, I know he'd be interested in hearing them, but your post comes off as more than a little butt-hurt and vindictive, with little constructive content. </Troll Feeding>

Full Disclosure: I'm unfairly biased.

-LB

Hardly vindictive, and were I in a position to make constructive criticism I would readily do so, but as I've already stated pretty clearly, I'm not out to do anything but express my concern for a very talented artist who's seemingly lost his verve and creativity (just look at the last 18 months of uploads to see my point).

Okay, so maybe Shisa is happy with his boar having oversize feet seeing the rest of his art. I'm not on about it being cartoony, you'd have to be a retard to not appreciate his style, don't get me wrong I'm a massive fan of Kuma's work. Last piece? Umm, legs that don't attach properly to the body, for example. As I've already explained, I'm no troll, I don't draw, it's just well... after 2011 all I see of Kuma's work is the same old tired recycled stuff, and you can tell in the lack of detail and style in the pictures how bored he seems to have gotten drawing the same stuff for people all of the time - I mean half of the TF's now aren't *really* even TFs.

I know I'm in the minority, and I know there's so much "OHMYGOD Kuma has new art, I MUST say it's amazing" out there that I don't expect anything other than to be shot down in flames, but it's my opinion and I'm entitled to it.

(I'm not biased. Nor am I against the guy, or his art. Far from it, I just look back at clever pieces like the Pet Ownership series, and then compare that to what he does now. Maybe he's happy doing what he's doing - it's not for me to say).

The thing here is that Kuma is now doing a lot of this for production work. He's still capable of doing the stuff he did in 2008-2010 or whatnot, but he doesn't have 4-5 days to spend on doing art like that. If someone's willing to pay him $500 for a piece like his Persona 3 drawing, then sure, he'll do it. But realize that he's been much more productive in the past few months, and is putting out more artwork than he has in a good long while.

FWIW, this drawing in particular was one he rescued from his old computer setup, and is not new. His newer stuff, given the time it takes, is much improved, in particular with the color saturation and lack of red/brown tendency he used to have.

Bottom Line - If you want more of the older stuff, pay for it. If you don't feel it is, then don't. There's only one person he really has to please when doing commissions - the person who paid for it. I'm sure if you paid for one, he'd make sure it was done to your satisfaction.

And that's all PapaBear has to say.

-LB

He's a big pig, You can be a big pig too! Oy!

lol cute ?