/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3582129
This aptly shows how much of a hack RJ is.
Except for the mastorbatory detail, the painting looks oddly bent and flat, or bulging at the viewer in a strange way. It's because he has no sense for a general lighting situation. He just zooms in autistically to add as much ridiculous detail als possible.

Just look at the curly, underwater-ish, fatty hair on the creature. He has taken a horse body and copied a traditional chinese drawing design onto the head. The pink hair is his typical, in-your-face barbie effect that makes weeaboos go "wow!" at the first impression. There is no wind in the hair, it just grows out of the head in an unnatural manner.

The feet of the creature make no sense if you want to look at the path they are following down. Ultimately, the entire scene is a copy-paste result. The carriage is copied from an existing design, the horse as well, and we'll be talking about the pale bitch seperately in a bit. Now look at the ground. There is something very off, neither the wheels, nor the individual horse feet are on a consistent perspective level, they seem to somehow float somewhere in front or behind the ground. That's the typical, lazy flaw in a Ruan Jia piece. It's meant to impress, not to make sense. His paintings are like these shock bubble gums: They taste good in the first few seconds, but then you just want to spit it out.

The lewd, thin zombie bitch in this one is my favorite. She is lit up from below, as if she was sitting above a white ground and wall that reflects the sunlight indirectly. Except, she isn't. Not even the narrow, short step she is sitting on can justify this photo studio look. She is submerged in an unnatural glow. Now, nothing has to be "natural" in a fantasy scene, but this is just an ignorant mix of light situations - a mistake that any good artist would actively try to avoid. Not with posterboy Jia.