(DISCLAIMER: DON'T LISTEN TO ANYTHING ANNOTH SAYS OR TAKE HER SERIOUSLY. IT IS PAST HER BEDTIME AND SHE IS SO TIRED THAT IT'S LIKE SHE'S HIGH ON POT AND DRUNK AT THE SAME TIME OR SOMETHING. INFACT, YOU CAN JUST SKIP THIS ENTIRE POST. IT'S THAT CRAZY. :[)
QuoteAhahaha! I should scan some of my old humans. THEY ARE SCAREH!!! I used to hate drawing humans. And...oiii. Yeah, I'll scan some so everyone can point and laugh at my weird human girls with big boobs and tiny waists and...and... *sobs* They really are horrible. And it's funny, because at the same time that I was drawing sucky people (which I only did for school projects) I was doing realistic animals! Oh! And I also must take pictures of some old animal paintings I did...some of which are unfinished. ^__^ I suddenly feel inspired. o__o I must say, though, I never was as good with animals as you, Annoth. YOU are bloody awesome. I one day wanna draw realistic animals as good as you--in my own style, of course! ^_~ And aww! Thank you! I happen to be my worst critic. >_>
MINE ARE SCARREH TOO, AND STILL ARE ARE, JUST LESS. A few years ago, they were seriously just vaguely human-shaped blobs of ectoplasm or something. That's it. That's not even an exaggeration. I'm completely serious. IT WAS HILARIOUS. YES, YOU MUST SCAN THEM. IT WILL BE FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. Harhar, yeah, it's entirely possible to draw animals great and yet suck at people. They're almost like two completely different categories, even though they AREN'T. And NO I AM NOT BLOODY AWESOME WHY DOES EVERYBODY KEEP TELLING ME I AM. :[ Wait, I've never even showed anybody on the 'net drawings of animals by me! The last one I drew was like, several months ago, and it was just this horrible sucky little bambi deer! wtf?*
*...Okay, I admit it. I know what you mean. Sorry, I have a tendency to do that. XD
QuoteAnd you're right about the style thing! Because, well...the "anime style" isn't really one style. Neither is "realism". They are basically umbrella terms meaning that everything beneath that umbrella term will share something, stylistically, in common with one another. For instance, with realism, the thing they share in common is that it's fairly realistic in some way. However, each person that does it creates their own style eventually because no one really draws realism the same way. That's how it is with anime, too. Everyone eventually creates their own anime style because no one draws that the same way. You eventually make it your own and, thus, create your own style, though you might be influenced along the way by other artists. ^_^
Yeah, I KNOW! And I kept trying to put something in my post about it but it DIDN'T WORK! >_< No wait. NO WAIT. Actually, anything that isn't realism... has to be copying somebody else's style and changing it to make it a little different over time, and that really just rubs me in the wrong way. Because when you think about it, Disney art is based off of reality. Anime is based off of reality. Comic book art is based off of reality. Everything except whatever Pollock does ultimately has roots in reality. If they weren't, anybody drawn in those styles wouldn't have eyes, or arms, or body parts, or shading or ANYTHING. They were formed by somebody taking reality and mutating it drastically, which is a dramatization of how anybody drawing realism obtains their own style over time. So reality is the only true umbrella term. Anime and such are branches from reality that branch off slightly about one billion million times and look like umbrellas. Wow, do I sound like a hippy who think's she's deep and philosophic but is instead about as shallow as a puddle that doesn't even have water in it or what?
([after recharging of the batteries] Uhh... nevermind, I think. I just realized that I'm saying, like, almost the exact same thing that you did, plus a bunch of irrelevant stuff. God I'm dumb. *dum*)
QuoteThat all depends on the artist, really. Some are more simplistic, some not. I mean like stuff like this, for instance. XD
Um... wow. I honestly don't know what to think about that. I mean, just... WHAT? CHILDREN. ARMS....PLASTIC.... BECAUSE OF... DOLPHIN... WOMAN. TEENAGE GIRLS... LISTENING TO JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE... UNICORNS... MONKEYS...er. Sorry, I couldn't form anything going into my head into a sentence so I had to do that. Anyways, I really don't know what to say to that. I guess you could call it detailed, especially for the category, but... COME ON I HAVE MORE PROMINENT ANATOMY THAN THAT AND I'M A SKINNY COMPUTER NERD FROM HELL WHO NEVER GETS ANY EXERCISE, EVER. SHE'S A WARRIOR CHICK OR SOMETHING, ISN'T SHE? SHE SHOULD HAVE TIGER VELOCIRAPTOR ELK STREISAND MUSCLES AND BONES ALL OVER THE PLACE. WHEELCHAIRS. >_O
(^---Don't worry, other anime artists. I meant that there should be at least a little bit of anatomy for that level of detail and complexity. I won't attack you, lmao.)
I scare myself sometimes.
