Hi, I’m East/Becky! I’m an art education major in college with a passion for art making. I make all kinds of art—digital, ink painting, assemblage, embroidery, and I’m more or less addicted to making animatics on youtube. I’m a multifandom artist with dreams of someday telling my own stories that inspire others. It’s nice to meet you :3
Nice to meet you, Becky! She has shared some art for us below.
Check out more of Becky's art over at their Tumblr, @the-east-art!
Alright I know next to nothing about this show, but... I- I just... How does this happen.
Do other characters make fun of this poor dog's mouth like they made fun of Crocker's neck-ear in The Fairly Oddparents? Like why is it placed there. Who signed off on this.
I get that it's a Butch Hartman staple to place characters' mouths on the sides of their faces, but on a character with this face shape, it just looks super odd and uncanny. The mouth looks tacked on rather than connected to the face in any way that makes anatomical sense. In these screenshots, it looks like someone just placed a red leaf sticker under her eye and she actually has no mouth (but she must scream).
I think part of what happened here is that someone told the designer that this character needed to look feminine, and tiny mouths are feminine. Screw anatomical consistency; this is a girl dog that the male lead develops a crush on because girl. What more information could you possibly need? (I actually haven't seen this episode and Becky may or may not have personality traits outside of being the token chick, but I haven't found much more info other than her occupation).
Here's how it would look if her mouth were more believably centered on the face:
Or perhaps bigger if they wanted to fill up that empty space:
Or somewhere in between-?
Like there are so many better options than what they went with.
I can't completely blame the designer as I'm sure they were just trying to work within the absurd requests handed to them. No, I blame whoever was supervising them. The person who insisted on this mouth placement, the person who approved it, the person who was somehow convinced that this looked okay.
Not sure what else to say about it, other than I'm stunned that this aired on national TV. This show was on Nickelodeon. Incredible. But on the plus side, if you're ever feeling bad about your character design skills, this image will probably make you feel a million times better.
Let's go to the hospital! Hey, wait! Are you all right, Becky-san?! Do you feel nauseous?! I'm fine! I'm fine, really! Just put me down! You mustn't underestimate acute alcohol poisoning! No, really! It's not! But I'm not sure exactly what kind of doctor should see you! You should probably go to the emergency room!
Make a room for our lovable new member of the show, our half-inkling half human creature, Becky! Don't startle her too much, she's very shy without Laurie around.
But you'll definitely love her cooking, because she's like a master chef in kitchen! And she will cook for you anything!