/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6726446
Shexyo has got to be THE most soulless hack I have ever witnessed. I went scrolling through his work at some point and I could physically feel the light and life being drained from my body. How could anybody fap to this? How could anybody PAY for this? It's not like consoomies in the coom art space don't have any exposure to artists and artwork that's betyer than this robotic bugman husk by actual lightyears, and it's not like they're starved for content like a nich fetishist would be. I simply don't understand how someone who makes such aggressively bland, mediocre, flavorless slop in a space that's already brimming with competitors could be in any way successful. Even Sakimichan who mainly just phones it in anymore has some modicum of style and soul in her work, no matter how small, and she was kind of a pioneer in her field so to speak so it makes sense she still has a following. But Shexyo? THIS cipher, this nothing, this living void of a person? How? It absolutely defies comprehension.

>>6703574
I actually don't get the purpose of this one.
With how simplistic the style is, you'd think the guy could have just busted out a sketch in a few minutes instead of going through the rigmarole of posing, lighting, and taking pictures of all this stuff then pasting it all together only to not even use half of it. I mean, look at it. Superman's musculature is extremely simplified, the hand/arm poses are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, the drapery is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT- seriously, he basically just ended up doing two of the most potentially difficult subjects in the composition completely by imagination anyways. The only thing that makes any sense whatsoever is using a car model as reference, everything else is either redundant (seriously, what comic artist worth their salt couldn't construct a simplified figure from memory???), or completely pointless because he didn't even follow the reference anyways.
>inb4 no roolz only toolz le client doesn't care if you photobash so long as the end result is good yadda yadda yadda
This guy legitimately put MORE EFFORT into being "lazy" than he would have if he had just slapped a sketch down and did it by hand and from imagination, except for the car probably. It's not like this guy was going for realism or needed a lot of detail, like that one guy who painted movie posters on commission using stills he cut from the movie for example. This shit is actually just retarded.

>>6695784
even a failed artist is better than being some loser video game player or something.

>>6647425
I'm posting on this shithole instead!
heh, I actually had planned to draw this morning. But somehow I forgot and ended up on this site. There is a lesson there.