Back in the 80′s, the “My Little Pony” franchise was aimed specifically at girls, both in toy lines and animated adventures. Flash forward to this space year 2012… And MLP is still deliberately marketed and designed with pre-teen girls in mind. Yet somehow, for reasons unknown, fat neckbeards have taken to the show like they do to Naruto and Final Fantasy.

In the face of well-deserved ridicule and mockery by the rest of the Internet at large, more and more sheltered young men are proclaiming themselves to be “Bronies,” admitting their love for the recent animated series spawned by the MLP franchise. I’m pretty sure the whole fad started off with goons ironically quoting it and putting down 5 dollars for pony avatars on the Something Awful forums, but I’ve heard people tell me it started off un-ironically on 4chan’s /co/. The fact of the matter is, it doesn’t really matter how or where it started: What’s important to note (for the purpose of this article) is that once Bronies made it to deviantART, we were all doomed to deal with some of the worst art to hit the web in a long time.

I am not, what you might call, a “fan” of Silent Hill. In fact, it is my firm belief that Silent Hill is one of the most insulting video game series ever made. I’ve played trough nearly all of the games, and found them to be nothing but pretentious messes of broken and unplayable mechanics, terrible design choices, empty and meaningless “symbolism”, and vain attempts to be “stylistic” or “edgy”. Hell, the Silent Hill movie is probably the most tolerable thing to ever come out of the whole franchise.

I never could understand how a series, this far up it’s own ass, could possibly gain the insane amount of fame, success and critical acclaim that it has, but somehow Silent Hill managed it. It has attracted masses of pretentious idiots to buy into it’s pseudo-intellectual bullshit, because they’re all desperate to feel smart and intellectual about their precious fucking video games, which is why they all flock to Silent Hill and then go around proclaiming how “Video Games are art because Silent Hill exists”.

So, today, we will be taking a look at DevinatART’s selection of Silent Hill fan art. Just like the series they are based on, pretty much every piece of Silent Hill fan art, that I could find, is terrible. All of it depicting either the author’s favorite female character or their favorite pairing, with some “cool effects” thrown on top like making it black-and-white, or adding white marks and scratches to the edges to make it “stylistic”. Or, hell, sometimes they don’t even put in effort to do that much. I’ve picked out some of my personal favorites, which we will take a look at now, together.

This article was originally intended to be released near the beginning of December, but I got lazy. My bad.

As we are in the midst of December right now, I decided to try something a little different. Let’s call this, the first ever DCQC Christmas Special.

Now is a time, when the world is getting into the Christmas spirit. It is a festive time – a time of giving, to be with the ones you love, to eat, drink and be happy together. Even though it may be cold and snowing outside, you can cuddle together, with your loved ones, around a fire and open presents for each other. You take a sip of hot chocolate and for a moment, for just one moment in the whole year, it seems that all is well in the world.

I imagine that for talented artists, feelings and emotions like this can inspire some amazing works of art. So, since I am feeling all warm and fuzzy inside myself, I have decided to look at some of DeviantART’s more festive offerings, as a treat for you. So, I did a quick search for “Christmas” and looked at the more recent uploads. Consider this my christmas present to all of you. : )

What is it about Sonic The Hedgehog’s art style that attracts so many furries to base their own shitty fursonas on it?

I guess it’s probably because most of them grew up with the series, imagining they were personal close friends with Sonic, and dreaming of chilling with him and going on all sorts of wacky adventures. This is because most Sonic fans are autistic, lonely, lifeless failures of human beings who can’t make any real friends due to being ugly as sin. With all that in mind, let’s take a look at the subject of todays article, ~SonicLover1991.

DISCLAIMER: This article was (indirectly) requested by SonicLover1991 herself. As you can see, she is fond of “requesting critique” on her drawings. So, instead of posting one on dA itself, consider this article my critique. Glad I could help!

Today’s article is brought to you by forum poster “manboobs”, and was originally posted in this thread.

deviantART: Should they really put “art” in the name? Last time I checked, there is hardly any art on dA. Most real artists despise the site, favoring other sites and services to distribute their real art. Why would they put their works up on dA, knowing full well they’re just going to be buried underneath shitty anime fan art? But I’m sure DCQC has made this point a hundred times already, in a hundred different ways.

Today, I’m here to showcase some of the worst not-art I’ve seen on dA. And let me tell you; it’s a lovely bunch of dump. Allow me to introduce you to the gallery of nest123454321. The weird thing is actually how I found him: My friend left a critique for one of his submissions. In fact, quite a few people have given him critiques, which is quite odd, seeing as no amount of constructive criticism is capable of fixing his shit.

First, I need to get something out of my hair: This kid has 225 watchers. I’m not fucking kidding. This kid is also confirmed to have paid money for pageveiws. PAGEVEIWS, FOR FUCKS SAKE. He is seriously that pathetic. And when he isn’t spending money on himself, he is paying for other users premium memberships, which is tantamount to paying people to pretend to be your friends. What nest123454321 really needs, more than the attention he gets from his attention whoring, is to stop wasting his mother’s hard earned cash on stupid intangible Internet bullshit. Put that money towards something useful! Maybe something like… Uhm… Oh! Maybe a fucking life. What’s that, you say? You can’t buy lives? Well then, I guess he’s fucked!