#Gosh seriously though where is Maiponpon?

[childofaura]

How about Maiponpon? <3

Oh I adore Maiponpon's Corrin artwork!

Maiponpon's artwork is solid in general, though. Their color work is vivid and very defined, and their anatomy is still great even while maintaining motion. They're SUPER talented at giving a sense of dynamic and motion even in their neutral portrait artwork.

Like Dream Corrin:

So nice and floaty, it really is a beautiful design.

Also a cool thing to note about their color skill is Sothis:

Aside from how awesome it is that Maiponpon even drew her sitting on her throne, look at the coloring on her attack portrait:

It's still dark and dramatic, like Sothis still being in the mind of Byleth. But that's not the case in her Christmas portrait:

Isn't that such a neat attention to detail?

And their posework is so great, I love Corrin's attack pose, he looks like he's dancing gracefully, and the flow of his outfit really lends that motion:

Also I think it's unfair that they got rid of Maiponpon as M!Corrin's artist but they decided to keep Sencha for F!Corrin. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Argon's Corrin and I love Hanamura Mai's Ninja Corrin. But a part of me has a weird conspiracy theory that they're fine with Sencha making F!Corrin lewd and horny whereas the moment Maiponpon gave us true equality:

Suddenly they're no longer M!Corrin's artist. Either get rid of Sencha too or keep Sencha AND Maiponpon, IS. Actually, just get rid of Sencha for F!Corrin please.

Anyways, criticisms? I'd say that maybe the only criticism I can think of is that they haven't really had a wide variety of characters to draw. They've been shown to draw both male (Corrin) and female (Lucina, Sothis) characters, but that's about it. So it's hard to see if they really have a grasp on drawing other types of characters too (rugged, mature, or old). But at least with the three they've drawn, they can draw men (with muscles), women, and children.

Maiponpon's a 9.99999/10 and so help me, if IS doesn't hire them again to draw another character I WILL cry.