/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4121337
I engage you on the same that you engage me. Since you're making an actual point now, I'll respond in kind.

I love Taiyo Matusmoto (that looks like fan art though? not sure whose, tkmiz's?). Ping Pong is one of my favorite anime. Lately I've been admiring the work of Robert Valley, who pushes perspective and proportions in extreme ways that might belie the skill that goes into the drawings. If you couldn't sense his grasp of fundamentals from that, his less stylized life drawings prove it.

I have great respect for cartoonists and stylists who create a totally original look, especially when they can make apparent amateurishness look good like Matsumoto. But I don't see very strong fundamentals in tkmiz's work. Just using your example, look at how off the perspective of the background near the top left/papers is for no real reason, to no purposeful effect. Is there any reason the papers aren't aligned? Could there be any reason the hands are (always) only barely indicated and rather malformed, except that tkmiz can't draw hands?

The thing this board often doesn't get is that, yes, you can make something look good without great fundamentals. I said tkmiz's fundamentals were lowish, not bad not great. I think that's a fair assessment based on their actual published body of work and not what I imagine they can do "if they really tried." tkmiz is a good cartoonist with good ideas and a good sense of composition and lowish fundamentals. That works for some artists.