/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

"squee" "glomp" and "teh cookiez 0f d00m!!! xD" I will take over "okay sweetie" "problematic" and "toxic" any day

>>4389415
0/10

>>4389415
Because NORMALFAGS TOOK OVER

It's all complete shit.

Only the normie instathot art is genuinely bad though

>>4389415
Everyone nowadays is more focused of having their own style and be especial rather than making something appealing, plus the "its my style don't critique me!!1!1!" Bullshit.

>>4389439
>t. lib arts student
here's a pity (You)

You know in 10 years when the popular art style has changed again everyone is going to be saying how much they miss Tumblr art styles

This thread is 98% better than happyboynumber1 youtube video.

>>4389462
This.
I miss old y2k fanart based on nostalgia, but good riddance in terms of cultural influence. Also, many artists from the y2k era either became better artists or worked on the “cal arts” style, which is a variation of flat eastern art, like figures from chibi anime or Japanese logos, that are hurt by the lack of volume. If more “calarts” style artists studied perspective, proportion, and volume, they would be killers. On the other hand, a lot of artist from both eras stagnated and will never improve

>>4389415
They are both garbage, but I guess I'll also have to agree that I have a little bit(And let me make this clear, it's a very very little amount) of nostalgia for those styles

>>4389684
This fucker loves old internet artstyle but is too pussy to admit it

It still kinda exists, its jut that you’re not hanging out with young /beg/ tweens on the internet anymore. Plus the anime art style changed so style is being replaced.

The anime-derivative emo girls in the top half are the same idea as the Steven Universe-derivative emo girls in the bottom half.

>>4389712
nah I get what anon means, there's some soul in there but its also still trash

>>4389462
Nah, nobody remembers the shit nu hip hop cholo style of the late 90's. Some fads are born todo be despised, almost like they're artificial and not backed by a genuine subculture or zeitgeist.

>>4389415
The top was made by outcasts finding each other through the internet and celebrating their similarities while the bottom is being made by self-proclaimed victims playing the opression olympics against each other.

>>4389972
This. Also the top looks like the people genuinly liked drawing and made it for its own sake rather than likes and follows.

I just hate all the Steven Universe inspired trash + all the shitty forced diversity, specially fat women being portrayed as "attractive" or "cute" when we all know they aren't

Apparently young teens are making new pics like this under the animecore name. Kind of weird to see a "style" a lot of us did cause no one had any idea how to use digital become an aesthetic.

Back in the DA days people were trying to fit in the community.
Nowadays you have to be the leader of the community or else you're worthless, so you try to be as unique as possible while at the same time looking generic enough that people will follow you.

Don't forget to join my discord links in the description uwu

>>4389462
>>4389570
>muh rose tinted glasses reddit analogy
This logic is fucking stupid. You’re invalidating the objective appeal an entire art movement based on the fact that it’s old, which is ironically what you’re claiming anyone who hates the art style on the bottom does.
>many artists from the y2k era either became better artists or worked on the “cal arts” style
Smells like bullshit. Name literally one.

>>4389415
Shit changes. Personally I'm excited to see what styles come next

Women took over the online space and immediately started changing rules
More Chinese artists, resultantly less creativity
Anime character designs became complete shit during the 10s so people who want to imitate anime imitate either that or poorly try to recreate normalfag retro anime (sailor moon, Ranma, etc.)

We need a late 90s/00s revival

>>4389415
I just realized pics at the top would typically go into "improvement" memes, and the ones on the bottom typically stay the same

>>4390327
this

>>4389415
Both look equally faggy

>>4389415
Ok boomer.

>>4389415
though I think the 00s bad art style is better than the shitty cartoon style (can't stand the mouths the most- the giant dots on the corners drives me up the wall), I wouldn't say the former is better than the latter. Both are piles of shit, even if one is less stinkier they're both shit imo

>>4389415
soul
soulless

>>4389415
time to bring thick ankles back.

>>4390327
This is some low effort bait, mate. But I’ll bite. The old art was made by a lot of women too, guys almost never draw big cutesy eyes like that; and the chinese have the oriental anime style - the one in the bottom panel is clearly a western style.
But I agree with your next two points.

>>4389415
desu I kind of like the art at the bottom more with a few exceptions being the sakura and angel on the far right at the top and not digging some of the attempts at more realistic art on the bottom and the undertale pic.

>>4390327
I can guarantee you that almost all the art on the top was done by girls and that none of the art on the bottom was done by Chinese people.

I heavily prefer the cell-shaded look and closer to realism style of the 90s/00s era of anime (also not a huge fan of moe blobs) but that's just a preference. I can understand that there's still a lot of good anime artist that came after like Yoh Yoshinari and MIA even if it's not my thing. Art always comes in movements but there's always going to be people who are talented.

>>4389415
A lot of the people that actually draw in that tranny tumblr style actually used to draw in that "how to draw manga" style though

>>4389971
I dont remember hiphop cholo art., examples?

>>4389415
I miss the times when you had people like Craig M posting sketches and overpaints on forums among the regular citizens. But that was roughly two decades ago

I do actually really love that edgy but fun DDR avatar style of 2000-2003. It was a moment in time that's for sure.

It's been back so just be patient, the tide will turn into something that is not pastel "be overly-aggressive on twitter but passive aggressive irl uwu"- it's already happening with fashion. Maybe trance will become big again too.

>>4390862
I assume anon means shit like this

>>4390908
Cholo chibi art is cursed, I remember where I lived in small town mexican california this style was super popular- usually as bumper stickers and stuff. Even though I was a little girl and liked gaudy shit like Lisa Frank I knew that shit was bad. I will say I liked those "Lil Homies" toys though, they were charming and weird and give me a cozy early 2000s nostalgic feel.

>>4389716
That you know of

>>4389415
I wasn't ready for this feel

>>4389716
You must be a zoomer or relatively new to the world of online art because even /beg/ teir zoomers don’t draw like the top pictures their styles still look Tumblr as hell.

Pic related

>>4390862

>>4391061
https://youtu.be/ORE2kqA1HD8

>>4391121
You're looking in the wrong places if that's all you can find from /beg/ zoomers. Just look up most recent [popular anime] on DA and you'll get tons of attempts at anime art by kids

>>4389415
Endling was a real gem from that era. He's one of the few artists that still lives up to my nostalgia everytime I come to recheck his work.
He kind of fell of the map in terms of relevancy but he still has a decent and steady audience.

>>4391455
Another example.
"Tumblr style" hasn't taken over everything. You just aren't in touch with young weebs

>>4390166
*cough*

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>>4391479

>>4389415
hello fellow boomers, anybody here use to hang out at Pendako's Cafe?

>>4391467
>>4391455
These are amateur weebshit but they still radiate Normie Tumblr energy

>>4391462
there was a stretch of time in 2010s when I thought Endling was dead. Glad to see that he's slowly getting back in soc media, he has a very distictive east/west art style that I like.

>>4391471
Too bad they went the soulless sakimichan clone route.

Peak 2000 was this cute ass sticker set, had all of them on a 3 disc cd/radio/tape player with cheap speaker towers that would light up that sweet aquamarine color. I wanted to be the lavender one with the bob. This thread brought it all back to me.

I need this vibe to take over guys, am really tired of seeing muted pastels and sad, flat potato faces. Or the other extreme of hyper rendered sex dolls in anime cosplay. Posting this in hopes of inspiring some underage lurkers/zoomers.

>>4392223
God I love this aesthetic so much

I think the average skill level now is higher than before but I will say I miss how common it was for an artist to get popular through original artwork and designs. It’s like fanart is obligatory now.

>>4389415
ALL of these are just as terrible as the traced shit on instagram

>>4391471
>>4391479
>>4391481
what are you trying to prove lol

>>4390908
>>4391061

These are off-putting on an instinctual level.

>>4391462

I met Endling in person once and asked him about his technique, and when he told me he just drew with cheap plastic mechanical pencils on printer paper I felt... insufficient.

>>4393554
That's honestly inspiring.

Also, things will never go back to the way they were when you were twelve. Pining for things to be otherwise will only make you depressed and impotent.

I blame trannies

>>4389415
Old internet shit wasn’t any better, it just had different trends. You’re looking through a filter of nostalgia thinking it was better. It’s like comparing fashion between generations and thinking it was better 20/whatever years ago but back then they thought the same thing about past generations too.

This moment in time isn’t special or different or worse from previous moments, you’re just being biased towards the past because it feels safe and comfy.

>>4394772
>just being biased towards the past because it feels safe and comfy.
this. you're all just sad bitter adults nowadays.

>>4394772
I disagree, but only because I hate this trendy and obnoxious lgbtq+ shit, as if it makes an actual personality.

>>4392223
sorry but slightly desaturated palettes are god tier, not their fault twitter/tumblr sucks at using them correctly

>>4389415
why does that heart shaped mouth piss me off so much

>>4394786
that what bias is

>>4394845
>>4389415
also both these internet art styles look absolutely atrocious, jesus christ

>>4394852
Get rid of the pride flags and I don't see the issue. I don't mind the art style, it's the constant need to pander and flaunting that does.

>>4394860
Been meaning to buy this artist's artbook, her work is so good

>>4395012
its apparently all stuff thats on her pixiv if you just want to look at the pictures and dont want a physical copy

>>4390166
>Smells like bullshit.
Well it ain’t a diamond, that’s for sure

>>4391462
wtf no theres a black person in that! sjw art much...

>>4389415
Third from the left on the very top row is the only good drawing in this entire picture.
Everything else is shit.

>>4389415
I have the urge to say something very misogynist after look at this image but I’ll try my hardest to keep it to myself.

>>4389415
Nice to know Parororo is going places with his OC.

>>4394772
Some trends and fads are just shit, and calarts faghag art is one such trend.
For every hippie, punk, goth, wave or grunge people try to bring back. There's a chav, beatnik, cholo or numetal to forget.

This garbage came out on 2006, the Bauhaus/Calarts/Tumblr style has been here longer than you think.

>>4389415
most of the top has to be eastern isn't it

>>4394772
>>4394785
imagine being this retarded lol

>>4397620

I thought /ic/ was kidding about the zoomer-thing but wow, this place really has changed demographics. The answer is no. All the 90's style anime was huge back in the early to mid-2000's. Look up Megatokyo. or Animerica, Usagi Kojimbo. Adam Warren. All of that stuff ought to have a stub in wikipedia somewhere.

>>4397173
See, this stylization looks intentional. A lot of what characterizes CalArts derivatives (including Tumblr) is a lack of fundamentals (and the need for cut-corners in the current animation industry) guiding their decision-making. John K. made a good writeup on it, bless his turgid soul.

>>4390003
ok /pol/

>>4391628
what?

>>4389415
I think furries had to have ruined it. I was huge into sparkledog shit and this culture was almost a 50/50 split between anime girls and "anime" dogs, cats, and wolves. Furries were around but there was a huge backlash against them--when they became more mainstream, people stopped wanting to draw cute OC dogs, and so like half the community was shamed out of it as they grew up.

SHUT THE FUCK UP!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

Coronavirus will kill aprox 2M people, mostly boomers and millennials. So we might have a great decade ahead after all.

cardcaptors is kino

>>4398844
fuck you millenials did nothing wrong, kill yourself, zoomer

>>4398877
Millenials are shit by the simple fact of being the majority.

>art of people who found freedom through the internet vs art of people who want to destroy the free internet

>>4397127
literally just tsuyu from hero macademia

>>4394772
>whatever years ago but back then they thought the same thing about past generations too.
And They Were Right

>>4389462
no one on here likes tumblrs art style

>>4398351
>Look up Megatokyo. or Animerica, Usagi Kojimbo. Adam Warren.
none of them look total anime and animerica is just some zine showcasing actual anime shit this doesn't answer my question about the pics in op.

>>4398955
His OC predated MHA though.

It will not last forever and it is not everything. Keep going anon.

>>4389415
I’ve just seen some vintage “internet art styles” like that on /i/

>>4389444
>Everyone nowadays is more focused of having their own style and be especial rather than making something appealing, plus the "its my style don't critique me!!1!1!" Bullshit.
You can't say that then complain about "calart" styles running rampant at the same time, your argument makes no sense

>>4390366
>can't stand the mouths the most- the giant dots on the corners drives me up the wall
explain

>>4398955
>girl has long black hair and big eyes
>Literally tsuyu
okay mha fag

>>4398356
He's right.

>>4389462
Bet it will be 2D merc.wippers when 3D and/or VR art will become professional standard.

>>4401101
Calarts styles are only done with animation in mind which means simpler and less detailed designs are used so it doesn't leave too much room for soul. Also calarts graduates have mostly the same hallmarks with their art styles so I wouldn't blame someone for assuming they are all the same

>>4405004
> it doesn't leave too much room for soul
Then explain the wide variety of cartoonstyles in the mid 2000s.

I too miss colored pencil CCS tracings

>>4398913
this x1000
everything changed for the worse when subcultures that normies didn't know about or even despised then became mainstream and commercialized. when you combine that with the death of anonymity on social media you get the current hellscape we have to deal with

>>4398356
>Speaking your mind and applying common sense to stuff labels you as "/pol/"
This meme has to die. Dilate

>>4391628
You're right. Especially the second one

>>4389415
>I miss the old internet
FTFY
I do too. The art, the websites, the general non–consumerism of it, the non–centralization. It was just better in every single way.

>>4390086
Fuck DA I miss the old elfwood days. Back when shitty amateur art really had soul.

SOUL

>>4405332
Oh man, elfwood. Also for me it was neopets, an old classic anime episode after school, 90s songs on the radio, and doodling scenes from the harry potter books. I feel the nostalgia.

>>4405013
Those were being inbetweened by japs, not inferior koreans so they could afford some soul.

>>4405314
Ads ruined the internet like they ruined papers, radio, cinema and tv.

>my old favorite artist from over a decade ago was chased off of DeviantArt by an obsessive stalker with a scuba diving fetish

You can't even make this shit up, I'm still so fucking mad

>>4401104
posted this in some "art styles you hate" threads a year ago, but its something like this. its bad and tryhard as those old weeb girls who drew those crude Cloud and Sephiroth homo porn on yaoi gallery.

>>4406852
W-what did the scuba autist do?
I'm already cringing in expectation.

>>4406919
Scuba autist pretty much wouldn't leave her alone and constantly talked about his scuba obsession and was always commissioning her for scuba art. I guess she got so fed up that the money wasn't worth it anymore. Apparently there are some other details about the situation that are being kept private.

If you want maximum cringe, the guy made a blog about it. Who knows how much of it is true though, apparently he's been lying about it.

https://www.deviantart.com/the-sakura-samurai/journal/The-Truth-705675300

>>4406852
>>4406919
>>4406924
kek. What is up with autists and scuba diving?

>>4406852
oh god is this who i am thinking

>>4406852
>a scuba diving fetish
Is it that same fucker that keeps drawing these weird furshit scubadivers with the same template only difference is the colors? I think there's an actual picture of this sick puppy in scuba gear showing off his fully erect package.

>>4406924
>https://www.deviantart.com/the-sakura-samurai/journal/The-Truth-705675300
LMFAO Deviantart, never change, please.

>>4408148
Can we get a TL;DR version was sort of hoping that maybe someone got caught sending dickpics to each other or something what's all this fuss about?

>>4408167
Person F, the artist, became friends with M, the scuba diving fetishist, while they worked on his Cardcaptor Sakura - Sakura and Friends at the Aquarium Part 2 project.

But she apparently had to give up commissions from other people to work on that project. I don't know about the money since he doesn't say anything and the next thing happens.

Things went south and they started fighting each other a lot apparently, there was a third person somewhere at that point that M hated for who knows why, the third guy was friends of F, will call him MM.

M, as he states, doesn't want MM and F friendship to end because of himself so he steps away willingly. What a good guy.

Apparently he made a promise to never talk about this but here we are.

>>4389570
>“cal arts” style
What is Cal Arts style?

>>4408146
No, it's not. From what I an tell this guy doesn't draw his own art at all, only commissions others and uploads the results to his page.

>>4391462
Endling’s back?
Where is he?