Posted on: 03/12/21 07:31PM
awwwtist said:
Jerl said:
It's a non-Japanese copyright. Artwork by a non-Japanese artist based on a non-Japanese copyright must be extremely high quality and not have many western elements to its artwork at all. That art style's faces vaguely look like they were based on Japanese art, but there are a lot of western elements in the artwork for the bodies that kills that.
But the artist is Japanese they just don't live in Japan.
And even then the pics are high quality as well so it still doesn't really make sense that they were removed.
Also there were a lot of "western elements"? what is that even supposed to mean? I haven't seen any western art similar to it I've only seen eastern ones
Living in Japan for most of their life is what makes an artist a Japanese artist. It is not based on race or nationality.
Everything on their Pixiv is in English, which leads me to believe that they aren't a Japanese artist who happened to move out of Japan - on a primarily Japanese site, I'd expect them to still use Japanese, even if they're also using English. Their bio, all of the post titles, the descriptions, everything I can find on their Twitter, it's all in English. This is our litmus test for determining whether to consider an artist to be Japanese when it's unclear.
You may not have seen western art that you could identify as similar to this, but after 10 years of moderating here, I've seen enough artwork by non-Japanese artists trying to emulate Japanese artists that I can see where the western influence comes through in their art style. Western artists tend to put detail into different things in an image than western artists. The classic example is western artists focusing on the mouth to show emotion and Japanese artists focusing on the eyes, but there are many more features than that with similar differences in focus.