#do not argue w me about ramos lacking technical skill (in the past) i put an 'or' in there for a reason | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

softgrungeprophet · 1 year ago

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gotta say, i'm def way more willing to—not overlook but tolerate—some (keyword: some) blatant cheesecake or Sex Appeal™ in comics when the artist has a certain level of technical skill and/or strong compositions (ie Bachalo or Ramos) vs like... artists who sacrifice page composition and readability solely to draw cheesecake and thus actively sabotage their own sequential work (Sandoval...) especially the ones without the technical skill (... like the porn tracers who can't keep character appearance even sort of consistent...)

#do not argue w me about ramos lacking technical skill (in the past) i put an 'or' in there for a reason #also disagree but it's subjective #similar applies to sameface-y art... much more leeway for ie Aja (tho i think this is also a matter of graphical pop art styling)#compared to one of a dozen nearly identical semi-realistic over-rendered black lipstick artists #i think it's also fair to say that i'm way more forgiving of unusual or wonky art than some people #but i think there's also a huge problem in fandom and pro circles alike that treats any form of stylization as 'bad art'#which annoys the hell out of me esp when it's shit isolated and taken out of context from composition and color #(semi)realism isn't actually Superior To All Other Art and some people could really stand to learn that #everyone has preferences but there's a difference between having preferences and being like #''i've decided this art is garbage because of a tiny portion of a single panel that isn't even drawn incorrectly''#which i've seen? more times than you would think? ppl will be like 'this hand sucks' or 'what a terribly drawn baby!'#and then it's like. literally nothing. there's nothing wrong. it's a hand or it's a baby and it looks completely normal?#like? huh?? are you seeing something i'm not? wow anyway i got off topic down here #sexy ladies are way overdone and way objectified in comics but it's much less annoying when the art and writing is actually decent lol #but when i see fucked up art with boring compositions dead expressions AND excessive objectification? I'm out #nadia rambles #nadia reads comics #apropos of nothing I was just thinking about it

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