#SERIOUSLY THEIR DESIGNS SUCK

[reel-fear]

Wow, so umm... This looks bad, not only is it inaccurate due to using the wrong ink demon design [unless this is confirmation BATIM Ink Demon has been outright retconned... Which would make me pissed enough to make a new post just about THAT] but from an art standpoint this is just... Confusing and poorly done.

I wouldn't care if this was fanart, of course you should support young, indie artists... But for a Graphic Novel making sure your cover doesn't look like something Butch Hartman shat out in an afternoon is kind of important. Remember they're going to be asking us to give money to them to read this. The artist likely won't see any of that money and neither do the authors most of the time, not to mention this art screams of the artist being underpaid and overworked.

Like they Had to get something on someone's desk and their boss said 'good enough'. A concept Joey Drew Studios is very familiar with considering the allegations of poor working environments that Kindly Beast. Not to mention Mike Mood admitting in a Reddit AMA that they did in fact rush projects like Showdown Bandit. [Which they sold at full price]

He also says they can in fact say no or yes to designs involving their IP. Either Mike or Meatly had to say yes to this cover, according to his own damn words.

And do you really think this company in particular would care enough about its fanbase to not sell them garbage? They have done exactly that on several occasions. It's not like they care particularly about art either, considering their previous use of AI Art. There was no apology or even posts addressing it... Instead, they just rushed out an archives update to their game to get people to stop talking about it... Even forgetting an entire character in it. Again

This company is [or at least SHOULD BE] on thin ice when it comes to being suspected of misleading their fans or rushing out crappy products to them.

So with all that context in mind, I'm gonna talk about why this cover sucks ass.

The light sources are all over the place? Why does it look like someone put maces or knight armor on his shoulders but it's just flesh?? It looks both gross and weird [not in a good way either]

To explain more I'm going on a rant below but sadly this seems to have been confirmed to not just be a rough pass but the final cover and man... I am not excited about this graphic novel just at all. This felt like it really drained any possibility of it turning out good for me and I already had expectations low.

Okay first point, the light sources?? And there is no consistency here with the shadows or lighting, it looks like there's a hundred light sources all at once but none of them are even consistent!

the arrows here represent all the different light sources I can make out and yet the the shadow clearly implies there's only one. I understand wanting to use highlights to give the character a more clear shape but then just give him one or two lights behind him or in front of him? No matter how u follow the light sources, the highlights make no sense and the shadows make even less sense.

Why are the shoulders like that? Like on the legs it's a little understandable, at least those are clearly very heavily affected by perspective, for me I think they are so exaggerated it makes it look like one of the legs is either huge or one is small but that's maybe subjective.

However, the shoulders are unjustifiable, what happened there, what did they do??

I could pick on so much more honestly, how the color choices of piss yellow with no other colors being used, and the harsh pitch black being used for every part of his body is weird. How it looks straight out of Butch Hartman's recent crappy art. But to put bluntly bad start! Also what the HELL is going on with this background??

Seems once again the Bendy team is fine with sending out stuff thinking it's "Good Enough" for Bendy fans and honestly the people trying to tell me to "Be Grateful" for this are just proving that no matter how many times you betray your audience some of em will defend you!

Which is sad tbh. If anything we should be putting MORE pressure on the Bendy team to do better. Cause we deserve better than this, honestly we do. There are amazing artists in the bendy community who could do so much better for a cover. They've employed their fan artists before... Wouldn't it be great to do that for such a lore important book? The book that gives us the identity of one of the main characters in BATIM? The character you spend the entirety of Chapter 4 fighting to save? Not to mention will give several major characters their human designs?

But I guess this is... Good enough...

#ramblez #batim #batdr #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #sorry I've been on a positivity streak with bendy I know but I have to be honest and being honest I think this sucks lol #Im sure plenty of people Disagree and while I would argue this is more objective than subjective people will ignore me if they want to #maybe Im just a hater idk #but I do know one thing I sure do hate this and Im pretty sure Ill hate this novel and its designs #but maybe I wont ya never know #anyways if they do retcon batim ink demon I will make a post abt how much I dislike batdrs ink demon design #and why I think all the people saying its better than the og seriously arent understanding #what made batims ink demon good or character design in general tbh #to put bluntly just bc something is popular opinion DOES NOT make it right or a good idea design wise #not everyone is qualified to be a character designer and thats just good advice in general tbh #anyways yeah thats it sorry im being mean today </3 #I simply think corporations shouldnt be able to rush out crappy products to their fans and get paid for it but ig thats a hot take now #but esp with how bad that updated employee handbook was too and it still had stolen renders from fans in it... #yeah I dont think theyve learned a damn thing

[beltsourcookie]

thankful that street urchin is a whole butch because too many people were prepared to 'simp for the hot biker guy' and then got upset that shes not their next hot fictional cis boyfriend

but it's still honestly upsetting that people drop their hype for street urchin the moment that they learn about her pronouns

#cookie run kingdom #street urchin cookie #raspberry cookie has to literally be the only 'butch' that this fandom can handle #YALL GOTTA STOP DOING THIS TO COOKIES #THE MOMENT THAT AN ANDROGYNOUS COOKIE DROPS EVERYONE ASSIGNS HE/HIM AND GET UPSET WHEN THE COOKIE IS BUTCH #IT HAPPENED TO ALOE COOKIE ALREADY #okay but seriously it's a real issue in this fandom where people only like the hyperfeminine cookies and hate nonfeminine girlies #it really fucking sucks #the lack of love for cookies that dont look like a pretty girl or beautiful woman #it feels like the only 'butch' people can handle is raspberry cookie and users were convinced that lord oyster was going to be a sapphic #yes. it was true that people wanted lord oyster to be a sapphic love interest for black pearl because they assumed he was like raspberry #aka 'knightly elegant woman' design #meanwhile everyone slapped cis male gender onto aloe cookie and then street urchin.... does this fandom hate stone butches or something ???? #ok to reblog but dont try to make a fight out of it #looks like we need to make a meme

[professional-termite]

alr so i tried to turn the hm 2023 hhg designs into modern human dudes bc i need them for my mall cop au but OMG I CANT TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY WHO DECIDED THEY WOULD LOOK LIKE THAT!!! apologies if these designs are garbage, i tried 😭😭😭

(i do not consider these guys the same characters as the ones from the rides, the comics, or the 2003 movies btw, theyre too different in shape/facial language to be the same guys, end of discussion)

anyways yeahh uh in my au these sillies live together in the same apartment complex as bruce, ben, constance, the mariner, and some other haunts that im gonna turn into human designs later. they play d&d with kent sometimes and their car keeps breaking down (hence the whole hitchhiking thing)

-phineas probably does business or finance or something that makes him need to travel a lot (he still lives w ezra and gus because living alone in your mid 50s/60s is lonely, and honestly good for him)

-this ezra looks like a fashion guy or smthn, idk he fancy ill figure it out later. he doesnt look like spamton in this movie and it makes me sad

-gus is their roommate who has been to prison multiple times and cant hold down a job. they keep him around because they love him and he "mysteriously conjures" free tickets to local plays a lot

(i will give phineas and ezra their hats + phineas his coat back i promise but i needed a ref of their hair/casual attire, so no hats/coats just yet)

heres the ref i used btw (i brightened it in app im too lazy to export it tho)

#CHARACTER DESIGN IS HARD NO OFFENSE BUT DID YOU EVEN TRY GUYS??? #I WAS BEING SILLY ON PURPOSE BUT THOSE DESIGNS WER MADE TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY #THEY WENT THROUGH MULTIPLE LAYERS OF REDESIGN AND FIXES AND ADJUSTMENTS #AND THATS WHAT THEY COME UP WITH??? REALLY???? #ik they were probably just trying to be original with their designs cuz hm has such an art based fandom but cmon they need to at least be #recogniseable as the hhg #my baby boy ezra looks like someone sucked his soul out through his ear with a bendy straw #gus is a damn demon straight from hell #and dont even get me STARTED on phineas #why does he look like that??? #i get that you were going for semi realistic cartoonish proportions #but ffs why does he look like a poorly edited copypasta image #phineas on the ride gives off kooky and silly and mischievous vibes #this guy is gonna steal my shoes and my feet and my ankles and my shins and leave me bleeding on rhe side of the road!!!! #ok sorry for the rant #uh tl:dr hhg 2023 designs bad disney got too silly #haunted mansion 2023 #disney haunted mansion #haunted mansion #haunted mansion movie #hitchhiking ghosts #the hitchhiking ghosts #phineas the traveler #ezra the skeleton #gus the prisoner #mall cop au #haunted mansion au

[huanted-dennys]

I Love all the live action continuities equally

knightverse, rotb… *looks at smudged writing on hand* and… gayverse?

#jk i don’t hate it #i just think it sucks #it’s a joke i promise #but seriously #it’s not my fav #and im so glad we’re not making anymore movies in that plot line #was great for like the first three movies #the rest are unwatchable #also bay turned starscream into a Dorito and no amount of cool shockwave designs can make up for that #transformers #tf #maccadam #rotb #knightverse #bayverse

[vanana-r0tat3]

HEY GIRLIES MY ART IMPROVEMENT IS FUCKING BONKERS???? I WENT AND DREW MY OLD HENRY DESIGN AND??? THE NEW ONE??? I DREW THIS??? WHAT !!

i only just realized i gave him such a blank stare here though 💀 dont worry about it he has autism

#i did change the colors a little bit #bc the old ones sucked #batim #batdr #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #batim henry #henry stein #my art #seriously wtf man #batim designs

[epicflyingtaco17]

Audrey from the new Bendy game. I was not a big fan of the first one, but I was pleasantly surprised by the sequel! 

#bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #video games #indie horror game #It was basically a mix of Bioshock and dishonored. #Which made me very happy. #the combat sucked tho. #Very interesting plot! #Haven't finished the multiple endings yet #ill do that later #id give it a solid 7/10 #would be 8/10 if the combat wasn't so clunky. #Seriously it was the most unsatisfying combat ever #pretty good game tho #for fans of Bioshock especially #audrey drew #I quite liked Audrey's design ngl #1000000 times better than the first one tho. #my art #it has been an eternity since I last posted #life has sucked hard #sorry

[sonknuxadow]

to be honest i think classic sonic as a separate guy sucks and it should have just been a one time thing in generations that they never tried again. sorry classic sonic enjoyers .

#and thats not to say that i think all of the more recent classic sonic media is bad. sonic mania is good. sonic superstars is okay. #and the comics and animations are cute #but is it really worth it . i think the concept of classic sonic being from an alternate dimension #and certain characters being considered ''classic only'' characters kinda sucks. i dont like it. #and recently they seem to have dropped that idea and switched to ''yeah this is totally the same timeline as everything else'' #which i dont like either. i dont like them going back and inserting more stuff into the area of the timeline #that we already passed over 20 years ago just to appeal to people who wont touch anything with modern sonic in it #its like theres no winning . maybe they should just stop with the classic sonic . leave him alone #if they think they have to keep making classic sonic stuff or theyll die though why does it have to be canon #why cant it just be a silly fun side thing that they dont take super seriously #also theres nothing stopping them from making 2d games that still use the modern designs like the advance trilogy or sonic rush #i think making games like that more often would be a better compromise than whatever theyre doing with classic sonic

[hypaalicious]

My Twisted Wonderland Guest Room layout:

I got, like… two more things to make it complete for me, which is replacing the sofa with the Heartslaybul one (I am missing one (1) large gem and this game REFUSES to drop it for me, it’s been weeks 😤) and replacing the rug under the sofa with the Diasomnia one. Thank god we got the event bonus for Book 6 dropping because my thaumarks was in the TRENCHES making all this damn furniture 😭

But I want Jamil to think of Ramshackle as his new home so I work to keep my man happy! 😂

Things that rock about the Guest Room addition:

You can watch the students interact with furniture and then randomly fight each other

Building your room theme around certain characters’ dorms and/or style preferences causes them to say different stuff each time they visit

Raising your card’s level above whatever cap it is through Friendship levels

HGTV enthusiasts love playing designer (it’s me, I’m the HGTV enthusiast)

Gives you something else to work towards in between events other than mindless lesson grinding

The Crafter’s Gauntlet is a fun way to flesh out your roster since they force you to use certain characters for the battles

Easy General Mission accomplishments through the making of furniture and accumulation of Room Tokens = more gems for pulls

Things that suck about the Guest Room addition:

Placing furniture is very clunky and awkward; you can’t rotate things how you’d like all the time, there’s unavoidable dead space, and some shit just looks off-center no matter what you do

Material drop rates SUCK ASS. So, just like the stingy lesson drops

They absolutely need to label, with words, what gems drop on certain days because the color difference between Scarabia & Heartslaybul / Pomefiore & Octainville is too subtle

If you place too many of the same type of furniture down your comfort level drops, so you have to mix it up even if it’s not aesthetically pleasing to do so

Being forced to craft furniture you will never use just to raise your room rank. Materials are too scarce and thaumarks are too precious for all dat

It’s ambiguous as hell trying to figure out what actually increases the rate in which your Friendship level goes up. I only ever get “Good” with each invite no matter what I do

Overall tho, pretty fun! I want to see what other folks do with their guest rooms, so if you got a layout you’re proud of, show it to me! 😄

#the only way I get to design a house is in a game cause I’m too poor for one irl! #twst kinda… sucks at everything except main storyline/localization and this Guest Room feature LOL #I was seriously slowing down until Book 6 breathed life back into me cause I can’t get enough of these students interactions #can’t believe I’ll have to wait almost a full year I guess until book 7 tho 😩 #I know JP waited even longer but idc LOL I’m greedy and I want it all NAO #twisted wonderland

[nitrozem]

I shoulda gone to school for meteorology 🫠

#nonsims #but nooooo i went for graphic design and then i dropped out cause turns out doing art for a job fucking sucks lol #dont mind me im just regretting my life choice lmao #im fine tho seriously #that why i dont do commissions #i wanna draw what i want #i’d only open up commissions in the event that I REALLY need money

[ndntighnari]

This is definitely just a petty pet peeve, I know, and I don't mean this in a condescending way when I say it, but as someone who has been a professional character designer and illustrator -- as in I've been paid for it and hired by people to design characters and do illustrations as a freelancer -- for the better part of the last... 7 years, given a rough estimate, it really frustrates me hearing 16 and 17 year olds claim that they've been character designers or illustrators for 10 years.

Like, I'm genuinely glad they see their designing as experience!! Because it is!! But when I'm talking from a professional POV, using knowledge I've learned on the job, with techniques and the like that I've trained and honed in a professional paid for sense, and I suddenly get a "yeah I mean I've got 10 years experience" from a 17 year old its like... Please take me seriously, kid. I've been making character designs since I was 6, that does not mean I have 16 years experience as a character designer. There's a difference between professional experience and having fun making characters as a kid, and unfortunately the latter does not get you credibility in the professional field. I wish it did, but there is in fact a vast difference between the two.

This also goes for when I hear people who are hobbyist go "you don't need to learn the basics of art! You don't need to study anatomy or lighting or x y z fundamental!" because on some level I do agree! You can get into art without studying those things. However do not bitch and whine when your art doesn't look how you wanted it to when you refuse to learn colour theory. You need to know the rules before you can break them, is a rule of thumb I have with art.

This is largely just a vent post about people not taking me or my advice even remotely seriously with art btw. I'm often asked for advice on art and then told im wrong or that they know better despite being younger and/or less professionally experienced. It's just really frustrating, because I try to give positive feedback, as well as constructive criticism, but whenever I ask people for art advice, I'll typically get incredibly subjective opinions on what they find looks better. And it's like I am asking for what techniques here work vs don't not if you think the character would look better with fangs or cat ears.

#im frustrated #im not taken even remotely seriously among artists because a running issue in art circlea #at least in intermediate and beginner ones #is that everyone is so hellbent on being The One Thats Right #and im guilty of it too! i can admit! #but i also have actual fucking professional experience #and have seriously studied this stuff for YEARS because its my job and has been #so hearing people just tear shit apart on purely subjective things like they like orange better #despite orange changing the entire mood and vibe of a piece #really fucking sucks #because its all oneupmanship all the way down #and again i know i do the same! i dont know how to advise on some stuff #bc i dont know how to explain How to learn colour theory other than fucking study it #i cant teach it in bite sized bits and give you the whole picture in tiktok snippet sized comments #but i try and give objective praise #such as why a character design works according to general industry rules and general art rules #i.e the silhouette or the lighting being accurate or the design being interesting but not cluttered #also everyone saying g*nshin designs are cluttered? perhaps a touch however uhhh #your standard fantasy designs arent any better ♡ #nor are your fave magical girls or whatever #cluttered designs have their places! and g*nshin isnt even that bad with it imo #you want cluttered look at fire emblem #this is said hella affectionately too btw i love fe #anyways idk i just wish other artists would take me seriously #..... its frustrating too because its ALWAYS white artists who talk down to me

[camellcat]

the girl with the fairytale name!!!!

full canvas ≽^˶•ﻌ•˵^≼

#my girlfriend!!!!! #you'll have to excuse to fact I don't have the eleventh doctor on here as I haven't designed him yet #half of this was drawn with a trackpad give a me a little slack if the lines are inconsistent dnjnjdnj #I'll tweak her face a bit as I'm still trying out a new style (+she is way too complicated to draw casually) but I'm very happy with her #the light around her eyes is supposed to look like tear tracks btw. bc her life sucks. and it's a miracle she's not completely miserable HA #also rory... he's very bland but I seriously just imagine him as a scraggly little blonde thing #(SORRY HE'S NOT BLONDE?? I really actually thought he was. he's blonde to me) #amy pond #rory williams #doctor who #doctor who fanart #doctor mew #my art: oil paint pawsteps 🐾

[clingojam]

anybody who genuinely enjoys Aerial Garden Zone in SRB2 should be drug out into the street and shot

#seriously tho that stage sucks ASS #i could list a million reasons why AGZ is the pinnacle of trash level design but im tired so i won't bother #srb2 #sonic the hedgehog #rant #sonic fangame

[megiddo-ichi]

How yo mash these three characters into a model design, asking for a friend.

#Ichiposting #Seriously I suck at character design

[littleshysheep-at-da]

I don’t really care for Harems or Genderbends, but can understand those are appealing sometimes/to some people. But I really hate most Elitism and Extremism.

Updating this with the Biggest Example I have: Retro Elitism

The “back in my day” or “this used to be good” because like good stuff is still being made!!! Some of my favorite things are waaay more recent! Look it’s not the old stuff isn’t quality some of my favorite things are also retro!!! But it’s not that “good stuff isn’t being made anymore” it’s just waaay more stuff is being made so there’s more varying quality were I feel like older thing we either only had the resources to make/get less so everything tended to be over a certain quality!!! But it’s good there’s more availability for everyone to try and make stuff now even if not all of it turn out great!!!

If you’re wondering why I’m saying “stuff” and not specifying anything… it’s because it applies to waaaaaay too many things okay?

#trash meme #just opinions #like unless your exaggerating for a joke #it’s fine to like smth better just don’t be holier than thou about it #like seriously #just chill #live and let live #but y’all have no idea how much of a bearing on identity gender has #gen/derbend designs also kinda usually suck in my opinion #negativity warning

[naggingatlas]

you dont think its possible to feel like youre having a heart attack from a deltarune animation set to living fucking tombstone wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong

#^ read wrong the way wayne says years inside the ring years inside the ring in the sweepstakes #the hyperlink one. its the hyperlink one the other one sucks gallons of ass in comparison im so sorry to the creator im typing w my nerve #endings #like i saw it and was like oh cute its that song i liked a couple years ago yea it fits him ^u^ cool outro BUT #THEY DIDNT INCLUDE THE PART THAT JUST. COMPLETELY RIPS YOU TO SHREDS DUDE LIKE IM SWEATING THINKING ABOUT #IF I FALL I THINK ILL FLY. TOUCH ME. MIDAS. MAKE ME PART OF YOUR DESIGN. NONE TO. GUIDE US. I FEEL FEAR FOR THE VERY LAST TIME *AND* #ITS THE FUCKING SNEO BATTLE. LIKE THATS ONE OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL PIECES OF DELTARUNE FANART THATRE POSSIBLE TO CONCEIVE. #AND THE SOUND DESIGN AND INTERPRETATION OF SNEO'S ATTACKS INTO A MORE PHYSICAL PALPABLE SETTING ITS total schizo mode activation #i saw it when i woke up today (4hoursago) and having gotten to the sneo fight just before bed yesterday it made my whole body tense up and #i just had to go try beat him again. and i did w sound off listening to ordinary life. and i added 3 more stages to my average score #did not fucking beat him obv both the secret bosses are insanely difficult for a mediocre bullethell player but. #really boosted my confidence. i gave jevil off to danny for him to beat. i want to beat spam myself. i need to #honestly dont get people who dislike spam unless theyre only familiar w like. the fanon interpretation or whatever its absolute garbage #a lot of the time but in game. hes just the funniest most peculiar fucking character as everyone in deltarune is. yea hes overhyped but #for a reason baby. hes well written in the parts that we dont see and well executed in the parts we encounter. everything surrounding him #is just so beautifully purposefully out of place and uneasy and psychotic its beautiful. how the fuck can u say he's boring. how. #i adore toby's decision to make this chapter's secret boss much more prominent than jevil i hope they get some interaction as effed up #roomies of kris's pocket lint. not in a shippy way tho thatd be hilarious but just. oh ure kinda like me huh. mb we could be friends #and then they turn into a cartoon fight cloud and u randomly hear their screams when checkin the inventory #but seriously making them at least amicable towards each other would carry a lot of meaning & strengthen the #'if freedom is being completely cut off from society and more importantly your friends for the rest of ur life is it really worth it #for just a glimpse of heaven of ultimate knowledge or maybe peace' narrative of jevil and spam #honestly i think the fact that u probably have to seek out the secret bosses to get the best true ending and that theyre so so #much harder than anything else in their chapters and that theyre all connected to gaster and it makes me think #they carry much of the burden of deltarune's subtext's meaning i mean the subtext carries onto the text onto the main gang's #realtionships uhmmmmmm idk i have to work ill prolly. make a post about this when im finished w everything. and a comic about the sbs.

[pj-was-here]

Me: *being fully aware of mihoyo being blatantly rascits to all the characters in sumeru and knowing full well that Dori is a lazy af Arabian night inspired characters that was made for the sole reason of profit* well I'm not surprised but I'm still sad and disappointed

Also me after the Sumeru archon quest and reading Dori's leaked character stories: ok I'll cut you some slack Hoyoverse but still you could have done better and gave them some melanin at least

#genshin impact #dori #i like her character and sassiness #that and I have a soft spot for pink haired characters with sass #still wish they could have done better with her design #seriously mihoyo sucked the melanin out of them and made them glow like light bulbs #i swear when i have to draw ANY of the sumeru characters im gonna give them back they're melanin #especially collei's and Nahida's melanin they deserve it