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xyxtlin β Fatter isn't always better
Published: 2006-07-04 20:03:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 34726; Favourites: 56; Downloads: 1925
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I get a little tired of people implying (or just outright saying) that anything fatter I draw is always better (no matter how much work I put into something I've just drawn that just happens to look "slimmer" pay no attention to higher quality line art folks!).
I was feeling a bit more irked about it last night than usual, I decided to make a statement with this little "tutorial"
Yes, I could just draw super fat things, yes I could do drawings in 5 minutes flat... why wouldn't I? because I care about quality.
Admittedly I'm just an amature artist, and I don't have nearly as much talent as most people here on DA, but at least I care about some of the art I do.
Bring out the flame throwers
Post Production note: "Looks" was a typo, and I'm too lazy to go back and fix it
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I think you make part of your point very well, but there is equally no question that even an immobile fat girl can also be drawn very well, and even as something of a beauty. I, too, am no fan of the 'lump of lard'-type of method, although, in fact, you DID do it pretty well.
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meh I am past this now. I still don't like drawing super large girls though XD
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Holy crap, that girl in the pic is probably Chiyo from Azumanga Daioh, I swear!
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random too easy to draw anime face attached? *check*
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's it.
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might lose your arms in that...
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just to make a note, pretty sure this cute little blob has 3 feet.
..... just sayin.
im a bit worried.
excessive fat causes extra limbs? uh oh.
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Read between the lines for the joke?
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Yeah I know what you mean. realism
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style substance
Some kind of balance like that.
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Meh I was just in the mood to post something like that at the time.
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Do what exactly? lol
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Heh, the picture explains it for me right?
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While ones like that can be a bit a nuisance, as long as it isn't in excess, it can make more interesting characters.
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Everyone's free to their own opinion
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I'm not acting like or implying that that i think people are not entitled to their opinion.
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Well, I know I am totally late commenting here, but what the heck. This whole thing has always been my issue. Western 'large' art is very concentrated on inhumanly large figures. I have yet to figure out what the deal is with it. Things usually are on a continuum and weight is one of them. Everyone has (or at least should) have an ideal... give or take. But it seems that many people (whether it be skinny or large) simply have a drop off point- a lowest without going under, or a highest without going over. This whole idea is utterly flawed and shows a lack of depth in appreciation for the female form.
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Honestly, I prefer to go for more realistic women. Stuff like this is obviously pure fantasy.
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Man... I must have been tired. I don't know what my point was... er, anyway. I agree, these fantasies are not a good way to go. Props to having cahones to take a stance that could (probably did) alienate some of your watchers.
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She wants a hug!
(Hope you don't mind)
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Holy shit that's scary!
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Sweet dang you've gotten a lot of comments on this one, guess I'll add mine to the pile. It doesn't sound like you intended this to be a critique against other artists who will go unnamed, but that's how I read it when I first came upon this piece a while ago, and I was glad somebody noticed that it takes some talent to make this kind of art work right. Thanks for having standards :thumbs up:
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lol
Thanks for responding man. I ought to do more joke works. I get a bit of grief for it sometimes, but they're fun to do.
I've seen your art around for quite a while, and I've always thought your style was interesting
~xyxtlin
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...hope my art isnt in your 'rant/blobgirl thing art' bin..still I feel the same way....blobs scare me ~just saw the movie 'The blob'~
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lol, don't worry I'm sure your art is fine
This was all supposed to be in good humor anyway. I'm not really that spiteful.
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oh..right...er..hehe i knew that...~uber blush~
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A-men!! I so glad someone finally spoke up against blob girls. That crap ainβt cute man! Thank you, Jesus!!
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Im with you all dah way wit dat
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hehe. the more, the merrier
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Lol. This was a fun tutorial. (sarcasm) XD
I won't fav it because I'm assuming you wouldn't want that. But it was fun none-the-less.
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I agree that it's annoying and ridiculous that there seems to be so many people who just draw a lumpy circle and put faces on it and call it art. I really do hate it. It lacks talent and creativity, which you've shown with your little parody here pretty well.
But I also said that I liked some of your previous works because the girls were bigger than your newer stuff, so I feel a bit bad or hypocritical for that.
I did say (I think) that of course your newer art is more realistic and better from an artistic viewpoint over the stuff from, like, 2005. It's just that some of your older stuff has it's own simple charm that I enjoy.
I just naturally enjoy expansion and the bigger girls more than the more realistically proportioned ones, but of course the amorphous blobby stuff is WAY in the extreme for me. And it's insulting, I'm sure for you and your fans.
Or maybe not for you since your art looks like a fucking Rembrandt by comparison to some of the crap some people pump out.
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Hmm interesting comments.
I tend not to take this too seriously. People draw what they like, occasionally I get annoyed when people keep wanting to drive me towards what they want, but its really my decision anyway.
I'll just keep drawing what I want to and let people think what they want
~xyxtlin
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