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Stop drawing in anime style. Come up with your own art style instead of rehashing ever other anime artist's styles. I can never see any difference between the face shapes, eyes, hair styles, brush sizes, stroke lengths, shading, coloring, ect. It's just a lazy way of drawing and requires no effort or innovation. The emotions of the faces are always the same, to the point of where there are anime emotion generators. And no, chibi isn't different. Bring something new and interesting to the table.

Stop drawing in anime style. Come up with your own art style instead of rehashing ever other anime artist's styles. I can never see any difference between the face shapes, eyes, hair styles, brush sizes, stroke lengths, shading, coloring, ect. It's just a lazy way of drawing and requires no effort or innovation. The emotions of the faces are always the same, to the point of where there are anime emotion generators. And no, chibi isn't different. Bring something new and interesting to the table.
No, it is not a "lazy way of drawing", getting something to look right in "anime" style takes a seriously large amount of effort.
And, if you can't tell the difference between different styles, compare Fist of the North Star to Death Note, and those to Lucky Star. Those are pretty diverse, wouldn't you think? Sure, this style is been used a lot, but that doesn't mean it isn't good.


did you watch dead leaves

anyway explain to me a style of drawing people that hasn't been already done tompbboy
you can replace what you were talking about with anything
realistic people, cartoony people, hell if you're crazy cubism people
« Last Edit: March 23, 2013, 10:13:42 AM by Flamecannon »

I draw anime because it's fun :D

I draw anime because it's fun :D

NO KEEP KANON OUT OF THIS!


I think that the Anime Drawing style is just a bridge to different styles. Everyone has to start somewhere.

Randumb:

Multiply. Aka artist's best friend.

I change the colors for shade most of the time, unless I want to add shade on an older finished drawing, then I multiply the hell out of it :D

I do that for main body parts like coats and skin, but for hair or smaller things I use mult.

Oh and casted shadows.

I don't think I've used multiply in a while
Most of the time I just use a normal layer on top of the base colors and below the lineart if I actually bothered to line and color a drawing.
Which isn't often.

I think that the Anime Drawing style is just a bridge to different styles. Everyone has to start somewhere.
Darn, looks like I took the long way around!

anime drawing is fine. personally i'm pretty lousy at it.

Stop drawing in anime style. Come up with your own art style instead of rehashing ever other anime artist's styles. I can never see any difference between the face shapes, eyes, hair styles, brush sizes, stroke lengths, shading, coloring, ect. It's just a lazy way of drawing and requires no effort or innovation. The emotions of the faces are always the same, to the point of where there are anime emotion generators. And no, chibi isn't different. Bring something new and interesting to the table.
hi let me tell you something
developing your own art style? that takes time
"anime" (however general that term is as "anime" encompasses a huge amount of different art styles) is a pretty decent starting area and most people will eventually form their own style
most of the people who want to do art aren't immediately capable of drawing incredibly realistically and that's fine, that's to be expected, and if you don't like it then you can just ignore their art.

also, "anime" does take effort to do. it's not something that you can do instantly and have it look good. i've watched "speedpaints" (by that i mean even when sped up the video was well over 7 minutes in length) of anime artists drawing large pieces that, in the end, looked really loving impressive.

in short, while an anime-esque style is common in younger artists, it's to be expected and they will likely develop their own style after a while.

throwing another opinion in here, i think xkill's art looks amazing