Man screw those people. I was just like you when I did a lot of anime drawing and people always talking about how it's not the ideal style they like to see. Well if they don't like it then why don't they draw their own damn stuff and lets see how close they come to making quality work.

Don't let that get you down man, just do what you do and let people continue on with their shitty careers, because to me it's all jealousy when people see that we can draw and they can't, so they have to bring the artist down by saying retarded stuff. Just look at them and laugh next time and realize what you got going for ya.

PEACE

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Haha thank you for taking the time to read through and answer xD.


I've already strayed from the path of riteousness!!(totally not the correct spelling)
I'm close to graduating with a graphic design degree ( which incidentally I do like quite a bit) , just my heart cannot give up illustration >:

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No prob man. My heart can't give it up either. I learn new things every time I do stuff and I love it even more, so I know where you are coming from man. Your art is awesome and I wouldn't want to see such talent go to waste. Like I said, people who are not particularly art orientated, don't have any say at all to what we do, so just ignore those types of people and listen to the ones that are doing what we do. At least we get constructive criticism.

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Based on the illustration work I've seen you do on Surrender, I can say with 100% conviction that you are most definitely filled with "awesome" and "win". And yeah, while the style DOES have an anime flair to it, there is absolutely NOTHING traditional about it. It's not like anything *I* have ever seen before, that's for DAMN sure.

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Oh I could write a novel about this.

Lets start with its not about style its about technical ability.

Now if you're looking for illustration WORK then yes, there is a huge element of style there. Because its capitalism and an editor wants to see something they thing is right for their publication. But that's a fact of life. As an animator I have to be able to COPY someone elses style to get work, because rarely am I the one designing the characters. But when I illustrate I draw however I design, knowing that if you hire me for that you're hiring me based on that work and my style.

Anime is like any 'stylization' that gets popular, people start to hate it because everyone starts doing it en mass and poorly. Take a look at american comics, you can see a few people whose style become the 'opular' way to draw comics. So really its about find your OWN style, influenced by what the f*ck ever you like. And if that means the style looks more like japanese anime then say, warner brothers cartoons, well then okay. But you have to accept that its a style that has certain connotations and a limited professional application (as with all styles).

Professors often push students away from stylization early on because stylization is a terrible way to think if you want to learn to draw. You have to learn to draw what IS there before you can decide how you want to simplify and stylize it. If you never learn that, you're simply repeating a short hand with no basis for the decisions. Not everyone will produce photo real figure drawings before they draw cartoons, but that's not really the point of the practice. The more you study reality the more your illustrations, anime or otherwise, will reflect that observation and ring true with people. Of course some professors have unfair biases, but those professors are just twits.

And anime is hardly a single 'style' you can find as many anime artists as you can cartoonists and comic artists and editorials illustrators and childrens book illustrators. But its got certain specific methods of shorthand, that people have come to recognize as anime. Thats something that can't really be gotten away from if you like those elements. But for the most part, artists and art directors can tell the difference between an artist who just "draws like that manga-ka they like" or who draws their own work in their own 'anime' style.

I have no closing statement. I'm tired That's all I can think of. The end.

Hehehe *hugs teh fy*

It isn't entirely just the style that I can't bring myself to be categorized as. I think rather it's just being PUT in a category that bothers me some. Though I will admit I am not the kind of person who could work well in multiple areas (jack of all trades and the king of nothing? )

I was bred to feel ashamed of wanting to be anime type illustrator, because there's too much bad crap out there... but isn't it the poor path of all artists that don't get any recognition until they're published and famous ? Haha.

AS A SIDE NOTE. I believe your art has evolved beautifully. Your animation work is quite lovely, but I have to admire your illustration stuff so much more. What life you breathe into it even if it's a still image XD... Plus I love orange and your color palette, so extra points!

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Haha, it's always nice to receive complements. I truly appreciate the support people give. I still think it is my broken (needy) self that wants approval from the people who probably won't ever give it XD

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Most definitely. I think your coloring work is fabulous by the way! Keep at it!

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Thanks. I still need to improve though. I know what I need to work on, but it's hard sometimes

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