/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1551494

>Why do you care?

Not who you are replying to, but the point is that people are looking up to bad/mediocre artists and they learn their bad traits while believing they are getting better when in reality they are doing everything wrong. This is precisely why places like deviantart are so horrible because you have endless new artists copying mediocre "popular" artists creating this feedback loop of terrible works. I mean, people actually looked up to people like Snapesnogger and copied that "style", holy christ.

Its lowering the bar and encouraging flawed methods. As a result, we have been saturated with this endless sea of highschool-level crap. The most common behavior being this right here:
>>1551627 where people are just starting with copying.

I mean, these people don't give a shit about learning the foundations, they just want to copy a single style, dive right into photoshop and start polishing that turd. Long time back I had a conversation with a life drawing instructor who said they were just shocked at the amount of students in the last decade who are so resistant to learning the basics. Its only getting worse thanks to the hugbox-like nature of a lot of internet communities who say that criticism&critique is "trolling" or "haters".

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