An Open Message to Fan-Artists

[Nekomata]

What the heck! That is the weirdest criticism I have seen so far. I guess they wanna look at comics that are just sugimori images pasted in every frame. XD

I wouldn't even call that criticism. Just stupid BS post. xD

What a dumb***.

Agreed.

That legitimately made me laugh. xD I've had a flareon character for years who also has a downward hanging tuft and I prefer it like that! Also, what the heck makes that person think that EVERY SINGLE FLAREON would have the SAME HAIRDO. XD Like, come on. Every dog you see is different! Dogs of the same breed look different, and cows, and chickens, and cats, and bears! It's natural for there to be differences between individuals. That person actually sounds like they're taking the crap out of other idiots who say the same thing because of how ridiculous their comment sounds, hahaha.

I love when people draw characters differently. WHY should every charmander, eevee, hydreigon or quagsire look the same? It doesn't make any logical sense. xD And fur slumping over the face, you know, conforming to GRAVITY, is a little more likely than it going in the complete opposite direction and being able to hold itself like that. xD So even the thing they chose to pick at was ridiculous.

I'm glad you didn't let it affect you, Neko! 8D I agree--draw how you want to draw. It's nobody's business to tell you otherwise!

Seriously- does this person REALLY expect -every- Flareon to look the same? Where's the fun in that? Would make it impossible to tell Naya apart from every other Flareon out there. It's important in comics to be able to easily distinguish important characters apart.

And my main reasoning for Naya's hairdo is cause it fit best with my style back then. I wasn't fond of how she looked with the official hair design when I was first drawing her- it didn't git her personality as well either.

And no worries- these comments don't get to me. They're more eye-roll stupid than anything. Not the first time I've gotten comments like this (the last time I went on hiatus to sprite someone. I'm petty.) I'm surprised it took this long for someone to complain about the sillyfloof though.

Oh man, that person would have a field day with my comic. XD

People like that are ridiculous. There isn't just one 'right' way to draw something. Just do things the way you want to!

People are idiots. It's more fun to vary the designs anyway. Like hell I'm going to design my characters the way others want me to.

If we can't alter them then how are we supposed to express ourselves? Just saying. That'd be like saying we have to draw all humans like Oprah and can't deviate for our OCs.

Obviously we all need to draw our OCs as Oprah.

Seriously though- how the hell do you tell Pokemon characters apart if they must all look like the official designs?

Amen to that. Haters gonna hate.

I think making alterations from the norm makes characters unique and gives them more personality. Otherwise, they're just cookie-cutter characters that might as well be like the nameless and faceless Stormtroopers.

Also, this guy just sounds like a pest. Tell him to just "deal with it" and don't pay any attention to him after that.

I'm not going to respond to him on SJ. Not worth it. He posted through a guest post too- coward! xD

I did, however, make sure the designs for the random/nameless characters in the latest PRS page were heavily varied from official designs just out of spite. I was going to make them more generic since their role in the story is mostly as flashback characters, but why not. I fear I might be attached to some of them now though. Whoops.