Changing my Art Syle for GENERAL AUDIENCES.

 One Thing has been pretty persistent in western media. 

 WHY IS THE CONCEPT ART ALWAYS SO BEAUTIFUL. 

So many times I see concept art for movies and shows from huge companies and see the real vision directly from the artist. One very close to my heart being the concept art for at the time. sponge boy. so much personality and color and so lively. not saying spongebobs ending art style is bland in any meaning but to see the roots of the show spread so far it's a real shame to see what it could have been. 

 Its very clear when you see Disney movies 

Given that Disney will never tap back into their traditional animation roots. I don't think any of their movies could reach the standards set by the concept artists. There's a couple designs for Elsa but all of them show her personality far better than her end design. someone isolated and even shunned by her own peers it is shown way better in her earlier designs. I know she's not the "real" villain but goddamn that would be cool to see her like that.

 Why Should I give a shit??? 

Sheesh just another artist mad at the lack of artistic integrity. just as Disney counts another BILLION in profits from frozen merch. Y'know what? why should I be mad? Disney laid out the keys to success right here!. why pick things like detailed and nuanced art direction? genuine emotion? pffftt I think it's time some things change around here.

 I got my work cut out for me 

*Talent Manager Voice* Geez what even is this rendering style? Crosshatching? This aint the 70s and you aren't robby Crumb. Go ahead and clean up your act too. look at those lines! is this still a first draft?

 

She looks a bit too scary too. you might get some demon accusations with those teeth so lets just not with that. Can we lower that skirt too? seeing a bit too much there. that nose... you are still drawing noses on female characters? pfft that's so 2006 of you.

 Alright Let Me Level With You 

Alright Let's start from the first critique. Crosshatching can seem a bit garish especially from an artist like me that does not do realism. so I'll switch to Cell shading which is very welcoming to the cartoon like style. Like my talent manager said Robert crumb is kinda outta style and other comic book like artists.

 

My line work can also be kinda aggressive and sloppy at times. people don't like that. I reckon a brush pen ought to work better for me. this delivers a far cleaner line. also with line variability.

 

My drawing subjects certainly have to change. I often pick rather erotic or offensive subjects. considering my 3 last drawings were. Zach hill of death grips, A parody of a nazi symbol and a woman with uhhhhhh.... out of fashion glasses. I really have to clean up my subjects.

 Eh draw like one of those Leh boobahs? Idk My Daughta
loves them 

 I ended up more in the alt space to be honest. still a super super general style. I took inspiration from the sudden uptick in small trinkets. either sonny angels or of course labubus. With these being so collectable and sort of a dime a dozen people prefer for it to be super experimental.

 

Alt is very main stream now and there's tons of people cashing in right now. and shockingly sanrio is a huge name in the alt scene. so cause of that I made the character a small lil animal creature. Who hates animals?? This is just a super super base model of how a metal kid would dress. so scene kids slamcore kids and metal core auto zone managers love it.

 

At some point at this project I even thought about putting the original drawing through Ai Since I know Ai would make it insanely boring. but having grok dump another barrel of oil directly on a baby polar bear to make a shit tinged bot-washed drawing would just suck.

 

 Does having "basic" taste really make you a boring person?  

I know it seems that I absolutely hate commercial artist and those who entertain and partake in that. and alot of Alt people certainly hate more mainstream acts and things like Sleeptoken and... pretty much anything from hottopic. but like... These things are still supporting artists. I really can't hate when Hottopic hosts products from very creative brands like Guild Of Calamity and Snouleaf.

It does remind me of one of my favorite artists schlong johnson on instagram having some of his professional work being with disney junior shows... and so it loops back around. Should I really hate disney for making such boiler plate garbage.... they really do have to make a return to support these extremely creative and dedicated artists.

I know fellow artists would certainly love to see huge studios support weird and underground artist. or maybe the complete opposite when your fav music act finally catches their big break out and suddenly they are not cool anymore. Just support what you love. I know it's hard when your face to face with a super kitch hottopic tee. Stay Creative. Keep Creating. 

  

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