Stop HATING on Popular Art Styles! (Popularity vs Creativity) || SPEEDPAINT + COMMENTARY

Artists featured in thumbnail are @purikuraaa @loish and @samdoesarts !!

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[BreDrawz]

frrrr. i wish people could just be respectful when a style isn’t for them. boost the styles you DO like then, and press not interested/scroll for the ones you don’t. it’s perfectly fine to dislike a style, but it is *not* okay to hate and harass people for them.

[YourWaywardDestiny]

The whole segment about anime having a wealth of individualistic style choices that the creators consciously decided on has every middle school art teacher quaking in their boots.

[Cupid_thekitty]

When I see a style I don't like, I'm just "oh the character is cool, but this isn't for me" and go look at different art, it's that easy to move on ya know

[phaIIicaIIyimpaired]

The Venn diagram of people who hate on popular styles and those who bully artists with more unique but less conventionally attractive styles is an almost perfect circle.

[Mr.StarktheShark]

The world would be so much better and more positive if everyone just followed the concept of "if you don't like something, don't interact with it".

[TRTCHZ]

Videos like this further reassure my decision not to get a Tiktok. I see so many artists promoting Tiktok as a way to grow your audience, but I see a new video pop up on my feed almost every day discussing some new art community controversy/drama that originated there. From what I've seen, people are way too comfortable leaving hate comments there because they think they're being funny. If that's what it takes to expand my reach, I think I'm comfortable keeping to the little corner of the internet I've carved out for myself.

[glaceRaven]

The thing that's especially ridiculous about expecting people to have "original", "inventive" and "unique" artstyles is that if you think about it, there is *no such thing* as a "wholly original art style", because all art ultimately draws from shapes and forms found in the real world. _Everything_ artistic is built on both what came before and the artist's environment (both physical and mental/emotional), whether it be art, music, storytelling, cinematography, etc., so pure originality is a myth.
I wholeheartedly agree that artists (of all kinds, not just visual!) should do what they enjoy rather than conforming to the arbitrary and imaginary standards of a bunch of random people. Otherwise they'll be discouraged and fall out of love with the medium they enjoyed creating in.

[spectrumbots]

When people say they want original art styles, a majority don't realize everything is derivative and inspired by something. Case in point: many of Disney's older films are based on fairy tales. Another example is Jean Pierre Polnareff's design being the influence for Benimaru Nikaido's design.

[abberancestar]

Idk how grounded in reality my opinion is but I feel like people who hates on artstyles just because they're popular are jealous because it isn't THEIR artstyle that is popular.

[thecitybeyond-resn]

Exactly! I’ve always compared art style to handwriting. Just because your handwriting looks similar to someone else doesn’t mean you’re writing the same words.

[TheFanartFREAK]

I'll see so many people hate on SamDoesArts' style or styles similar to it, but I'm going to be honest, every time I go check his profile again I'm just amazed, I love his art so much, I love anime art, manhwa art, jelly art, realism art, cartoon art.
I wish people would prioritize supporting people's art styles whether they are popular or not, what matters most is drawing in the style you personally find joy in! Styles are always changing, too, I get influenced so much by whatever I'm currently obsessed with like BSD and Persona lmbo, just let people draw whatever style!

[kowaipinku]

my thing is that i just uninstalled tiktok so whenever i see art i like i just like it and move on instead of looking through comments and see their "criticism" social media is actually so bad for artists and ESPECIALLY beginner artists, because instead of actually helping the beginner they will either give fake compliments or just straight up bully the beginner and just make them quit. so yea uninstalling any social media and actually improving myself is what helped me through since there's toxicity everywhere on social media nowadays :p

[xieow_]

See, this is why I wish people appreciated art like artists appreciate eachother - a lot of non-artists feel the need to criticize art styles when they don't know how hard it is to build a style, let alone learn the techniques to get there. Just complete and utter disrespect to the artists that try their hardest with each piece they put out. 😞

[Vivihorsesegames]

Yessss like, I don’t really enjoy Sam does art’s style, like, ik there’s nothing wrong with it I just don’t feel ok with the proportions but I’ve never went to Sam does art’s page and said “omg I dislike your style” idk why people feel the need to tell artists that, this just makes them sad and helps nothing

[NightPhoenixPress]

Ironically, the Cal-arts style wasn’t even a thing. It’s just a lot of those artists were students at Cal-Arts. Love this video.

[elisaelisaross]

Few things reassure me like a Celestia's video beginning with the mention of Squarespace

[vivianameganviviana]

Honest to god, hand on heart. I am convinced the hate of anime styles is racial at this point. I mean the amount of times I've seen people call it the "incest" style is insane. Like what does taht even mean because the definition I got makes no sense???

Like the definition I was given is that it basically refers to "all anime shares aspects of itself so much that it "causes inbreeding" within the medium" but then its like???? All art All styles and mediums of art literally feed into each other and self-reference within their medium all the time (hence the proverb "good artists borrow, great artists steal), so why is the popular style typically associated with Japan the only style being labelled as "incestuous"?

I literally never see anyone call any other style that specific word so it looks, sounds and smells like a little motivation of the racially inclined variety, and to me if it looks, sounds or smells like a rat then i am calling it a rat.

[kalebgonzales]

I paint yachts and ocean/ port sceneries. the storm is calmer here. No one give a second thought for boats.

[Jouselio]

The real question is who in the right mind would hate Loish’s art style (probably some people) but still! I honestly do not understand some people.

[solarichan]

People when they see a unique artstyle: 😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬

People when they see a common artstyle: 🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡