I'm sick and tired of artists, who say they don't draw "pretty" characters, because they're against perfectionism. Pretty characters are characters, who are thin and maybe have curves or in another way look pretty or beautiful. For some reason, a lot of artists are against this "perfectionism" because they mean it represents your opinion. They don't want to draw "pretty" characters because that will mean you're into perfectionism and to do that is just stupid and superficial.
What the fucking hell is wrong with those persons?
When did it become official that whatever you're drawing represents your opinion? I feel like I'm going to puke when those kind of persons begins to speak out loud, it's like they made a new rule between artists. They think what you're drawing represents what you like, dislike etc. but it doesn't. If the artist says that this represents his/her opinion then you can begin to discuss but you don't critize other artists because they draw "pretty" characters.
Just because artists draw pretty characters it doesn't mean they think the world is going to be filled with perfect people without any fails. Once I was directly attacked by a person, who called me a perfectionist because my characters where drawn like I draw them. What the hell went wrong? I support those people who in some way are different no matter if it's about their look, sexuality etc. And just because I draw "pretty" characters, people think they have the right to critize me for that.
I don't get it. I simply just don't. It's like when other people think an artist is homofobic because one or most of the artist's characters are straight. Peoples art and characters don't necessarily express their opinion about the world.
I get sick of seeing all this talking about you shouldn't draw "pretty" characters because it represents the worlds modern ideal (thin, skinny persons) and perfectionism. God damn, it doesn't! If it does, the artist usually says it, but else, no! Don't you get it? Artists and their work is not an ideal for other people, is it that hard to understand? If they say they want to be ideals, then that's fine but it's like when parents blame celebrities because their children want to look skinny if their idol is skinny. Celebrities didn't ask for being a role model, okay? Neither do artists, so stop with your "it's not a good example for children when your characters look like that".
Nobody is going to decide what artists must draw. And they're not going to decide that everything artists draw, is automatically a way to show their opinion.
Artists can create whatever the hell they want and no one is going to change that.
Sorry for mistakes and stuff, I'm not that good with English yet
Perfectionism? I've never heard of this before. I don't really like artists that only draw pretty characters because the characters tend to be boring (unless they all have distinctive personalities), and I like a little variety If you create a world with only pretty characters, then it's not perfectionism, it's more like unrealism to me (I see different people every day...) But I don't go around critisizing people for it, though. I agree that if the character is pretty it doesn't mean anything. There are pretty people in the world and they can be drawn, too
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I Draw Well Enough.
I Am Against Perfection Though.
What is with people drawing nice characters and saying its perfectionism.
A Very Nice Stamp Indeed, Though!
Keep Up The Good Work!
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