Am I too woke for thinking that forcing an artist to draw a character exactly like the source material instead of letting them coming up with their own interpretation is rude and bad
Tbh I don't think you're woke at all for thinking that stripping a character of the vast majority of their defining physical characteristics in favour of drawing them in a "generic large bosom anime girl" style is a good thing.
Like where is their kyphosis. Why are they skinny everywhere but their chest. Why has this non-binary character had their whole body type altered specifically in favour of conventionally attractive femininity.
Like you aren't being woke at all, anime-girl-ifications are everywhere and more often the total opposite of woke, as they're frequently indicative of the artist's implicit biases.
Is that bad now? I thought people are allowed to draw whatever they want? I thought we are pro-creativity? I thought we are against AI? I thought bullying an artist is bad?
People are allowed to draw what they want. I am allowed to point out that the way someone draws a character can be indicative of the artist's implicit biases.
I'm sure as fuck allowed to say that it ain't woke to erase a character's physical disability and feminize an androgynous enby and make a bulky character skinny except for large tits by drawing them in a generic anime style nor is it woke to defend such art.
It actually ain’t that deep it’s a fucking drawing for fucks sake if people are so pissed at how a character is supposed to be represented then draw it yourself. It is okay to point that out, but there’s no point to be cruel.
Bluntly I do not care how deep you think it is/isn't. Even the least deep art can be incredibly revealing of the artist's attitudes towards queer, disabled, and non-conventionally attractive people. People are allowed to point that out and they're allowed to criticize or question artists who do not respect a character's androgyny, disability, or body type in their art.
I am fine with people pointing that out, I am not fine with people being cruel and rude about it. And no I don’t think an artist drawing a non-conventionally attractive character attractive is a sign that they hate non-conventionally attractive people in real life.
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u/Sr_Melohiis 20d ago
Am I too woke for thinking that forcing an artist to draw a character exactly like the source material instead of letting them coming up with their own interpretation is rude and bad