/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2993943
well it's pretty obvious why someone would attempt things like that: they want to draw anime, but they also want to render (i.e. take their drawing further/apply knowledge of form)
artists that developed their skills attempting to represent reality but also have an interest in anime will usually attempt to fuse the appealing anime style with a higher sense of realism: of course it's a desirable idea, cute waifus but MORE real!
but, of course, you can't create true 'anime girls' without a very strong abstraction from reality. and like you said, the uncanny valley is difficult to avoid while rendering such highly stylized forms.

i think any artist that is raised on the '/ic/ mindset' (large focus on fundamentals, less of a focus on appeal/stylization) has to kind of re-learn how to draw things purely based on appeal, and that includes going through a phase where they're attempting to use their 'skills' on stylized things, resulting in spooky uncanny valley and largely unappealing drawings. creating and understanding appealing stylization is of course a whole separate skill that has to be trained and developed, and it's usually underestimated by /ic/.