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So You Can’t Draw, But You Can Recolour
Modern recolourists have gained momentum with the advent of dA and YouTube. These recolourists are typically found altering Sonic’s visage for their own fantasy anime hedgehog character. It’s also quite common for these recolourists to use Shadow – SEGA’s original recolour of Sonic – or any one of the many other characters from the Sonic series, for their own totally original Sonic spin-off roster. (FUN FACT: There are more Sonic recolours to be found on the Internet than there are words in the combined written works of Leo Tolstoy.) It isn’t so unreasonable to claim that recolours have sparked the beginning of the end for present and future art standards. I know I’ve said this in a previous article, but look at the recent submissions on deviantART; that stuff is simply pitiful. It doesn’t get any better in the popular submissions filter, either. MisunderstoodToday’s article was suggested by deviantART user midnight-oyl. If you are interested in suggesting an article, please consult this page.
Assuming you’re not a complete idiot, you’d have realised the preamble to this article is meant to describe today’s DCQC subject: MangaSarah (otherwise known as Sarah Brooks). It should come as no surprise when I tell you that everything in MangaSarah’s gallery is complete and utter shit. Not a single picture is salvageable. I could say that selecting the images for this article took no effort at all, but I’d be lying – everything is terrible, therefore literally everything in her gallery was a candidate for being covered. It’s bad enough that she considers herself an artist, too. Artist gets tossed around more than the word troll on the Internet these days. But I digress, the issue at hand is not simply what Sarah fancies herself as (although it certainly is an issue), but more so what she has produced to be of such distaste to the Internet art community. Anyway, without further ado, please enjoy the generic manga-inspired works of art Sarah has graciously provided to the Internet and all of its lonely circle-jerking inhabitants. Learning When to QuitIt’s not at all difficult to find terrible art on art-dedicated websites, especially when the website in question happens to be deviantART: just browse through the recent submissions, for fuck’s sake! You can refresh that page all day and not once come across a page that’s filled – top to bottom – with decent to exceptional art. This isn’t some revelation I’m presenting to you here, it happens to be a well-known fact that dA is a cesspool of terrible art. To put it simply: deviantART is not a place where good art goes to die, but more so a place where the concept of art as a whole goes to die. dA’s habitual nature of allowing bad art along with the accompanying bad artists to thrive is seen clearly in the deviantART community’s forceful assimilation of turning all members into the back-patting-let’s-be-friends-disregard-all-criticisms-be-nice pillars of goodness and all-that’s-rightness. In fact, deviantART should hardly be considered an artistic community, rather more of a social networking site used solely for the acquisition of e-pals; drawing shitty pictures is simply used for conversational purposes. The front page of deviantART – which displays the newest submissions – encourages such terrible artists to join dA merely because they observe shitty Sonic the Hedgehog recolours and decide to “give drawing a shot”. The drug of every artist constantly being congratulated on every piece of bad art they shit out runs deep in the blood of the dA community. Narcissistic Personality Disorder(Alternatively Known as: How PrincessShaakTi wants to Have Sex with Herself)
But you take it one step further: you fantasize about a specific character, and that specific character you fantasize about is supposedly in love with itself (or something resembling itself), and that character that you fantasize about that fantasizes about the other character which happens to be a carbon copy of itself is your fantasy you. Hopefully I didn’t just describe you, faithful reader. If you’re confused, that’s perfect! You should be. Today we’re going to travel deep into the psyche of PrincessShaakTi, whose rather sad existence revolves around having hot dream sex with UnknownSoulCollector is a Pedophile
Now, before I reveal his angsty retorts, I’ll need to reiterate my point of him being a terrible artist and an even worse human being. Hopefully you have a strong stomach for this kind of stuff. If not, I can’t really blame you. There’s nothing wrong with being intolerant toward pedophiles who like to draw (perhaps even watch or commit real life acts of) little boys having their guts turned inside-out. |
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A recolourist is someone who pretends to be an artist by taking someone else’s picture and giving it some “Paint Bucket Tool” love. They rename the original character’s name to something of their liking, brand the image as their own, and submit it for the entire Internet to see. This is an especially popular fad on deviantART. Funnily enough, dA actually has a 
Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. Those of us who aren’t completely detached from society will have – or at least find – something worthwhile to do during this commercial holiday: perhaps partaking in a romantic dinner with a loved one; maybe a movie – or possibly something much more intimate. Of course, some would rather surround themselves with friends and enjoy the company and conversation that would ensue. That’s all swell and good, but we’re on the Internet: a place where escapism is cherished among those whose only friends exist on a screen. These cretins have merely their favourite fan fictions to indulge in every day of their miserable lives. Further down the path of complete lonesomeness are those who are so isolated that they have no more than their role-playing pals to confide in. Such individuals are burdens on society; thankfully, they’ll never have the opportunity to reproduce (God willing).


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