#look out girlies I'm in my classical art era

[feliciadraws]

Lunarian Warrior Holding Tengu Helmet 🌙

Look, the moment I saw this painting, my simp brain's first thought was "man I have to recreate this but with Waka", and so...I did! After all, LOOK AT HIM. HE'S A WORK OF ART. WHOOF.

Painting inspo under the cut:

Germanic Warrior Looking At A Roman Helmet by Osmar Schindler

#look out girlies I'm in my classical art era #ugh this man #THIS MAN #he is FINE ART #like really he is a work of art #my muse #my roman empire #he deserves the 'recreation of famous classical paintings' treatment #like the fact that there isn't more Waka art like this is borderline criminal #CRIMINAL #*screeches* #anyways on to the tags- #okami #okami waka #waka #okami fanart #my artwork #should I tag this as classical art? #I guess #classical art

[jesncin]

Do you think DC should do more with animation? (Personally I think theatrical animated movies would be amazing, plus animation is less restrictive than live action so more freedom, but y'know that's kind of a pipe dream ashkshsk)

Yes absolutely! I think animation is perfect for superheroes over live-action any day.

My feelings about the current wave of animation for DC specifically is that they feel overly self referential and are in serious need of fresh new perspectives. We have MAWS, which only pulls from anime as shallow aesthetic and tries to "modernize" Superman lore by superficially adding "more diversity", while hyper-focusing on surface level Superman discourse. We're about to have Caped Crusader which from the early look of it we can see is pulling from a classic era of comics but with no personal touches or interpretation that feels fresh or inspired. Harley is Asian now, but why? I doubt there's going to be a narrative reason for it, and she's just going to be superficially "more diverse". The art style feels like xeroxed Bruce Timm. It's been feeling empty. And the Harley Quinn show is just there. Adult jokes, gross, provocative, flat art style.

Which is a shame because animation has evolved in such fascinating ways and right now I'm just not seeing that reflected in DC animated properties. I hate to say "back in my day" but shows like BTAS, The Batman, Teen Titans, GLTAS- all had unique art styles, takes, and voices. Teen Titans didn't just pull from anime artistically, but narratively as well. The Batman has such a bold art style! BTAS and the DCAU were groundbreaking. GLTAS expanded on that. But now all DC animation does is reference their material- a glorified citation. I think the only show that felt fresh and had a genuine desire to create new fans was DCSHG. MLP dynamic x DC girlies is such a wild pitch but I love it! I'm glad out of the DC Nation Shorts, it got expanded. I honestly wish a lot of the DC Nation Shorts got that treatment!

#askjesncin #if it were up to me- get the Fionna and Cake crew to pitch a Supergirl animated show #get the OTGW crew to do a Constantine show. Etc etc anime is cool and all but I miss american animation having it's own style and identity #why do no DC shows look like the TMNT show!! Where's the dynamic SFX and style #I haven't watched all the latest movie animated DC stuff like the Christmas Batman movie but I should! Just been on a series kick