@tropotropotropo We talked it out tho- I think basically western teachers arenโt well versed enough in eastern styles to differentiate them as easily. Kind of like the cross race effect, so I think their brains just physically donโt understand anime art the same way people exposed to anime do
@tropotropotropo In art school I was considering dropping out when my teacher implied it was cultural appropriation to draw anime and told me to be more original in front of the class ๐ญ it wasnโt even a technical art studies classโ I heard a similar sentiment from other students too
@Duwi_EXE @vareesza Oh my gosh Iโm shaking wth ๐ญ Everyone truly did an AMAZING job djsbdjsbdkshdjโ thank you so much for hosting the contest and for being an awesome streamer ๐ฅนโค๏ธ
THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN SELECTED! ๐
Congratulations to:
@RakugakiRebel on 1st
@/gezelvt.bsky.social on 2nd &
@vareesza on 3rd
Thank you all again for your participation! And thank you again to my amazing judges for taking time out of their day to carefully look over each piece~
@admrift @makio_jroses@lanjiujiu You can still see some artistic choices being made in the card art though (probably due to direction) Ho-Ohโs green neckline being higher up, its head and tail feathers more prominent, more angular claws- choices to make sure Ho-Oh is portrayed consistently from other refs
@admrift @makio_jroses@lanjiujiu Not sure how valid my take is but reusing assets is just a part of meeting deadlines and we have no clue what the artist was given as directionโ with the artist assuming that this was Pokรฉmon property, I find it understandable why such choices were made still very unfortunate tho