Randomly browsing e621, I suddenly remembered an ancient old picture that I had lost that was on my very first PC almost two decades ago.
Knowing that it was a really old picture. (Old pikachu picture. Believe it was a bit on the hyper-ish). I picked the character and went Alllll the way back to the very last page and worked my way up.
The pictures I saw during my journey! Imagine a time where everyone wasn't doing this whole Thicc crap or trying to be anatomically correct with private bits or complaining that there's human bits on insert fictional character here.
People drew what they wanted, a lot of them tried to stay 'on model' and had fun with it. A world before things like Twitter, Facebook, Patreon
Compare it with modern day. Today it seems many people are out there drawing just for money and/or fame. Trying to follow the latest trend of the year and paywall the fuck out of it.
You have people who demand proper anatomy, question and/or complain if artists decide they don't like the real parts and even scream you're not a real furry without the proper bits.
There's also the twitter crowd (as I call them), who are currently demanding that you call certain characters or gender what they want you to call it. Even if it's YOUR character.
Also if you draw certain things or kinks (like cub for example), there's the whole canceling thing.
Just looking back at the old arts, I do kinda wonder how did we end up in the path that we're on.
But, at the end of the day, this is just my opinion. (Some people may say 'Wrong Opinion', which makes no sense if they looked up the definition of the word). And me showing my age.
I do suggest you guys give it a try though. Pick some character you like seeing art of and check out the very last page, work yourself up. You'd see how some artist improved over the years....and see how some went into "I'm doing this for cash" mode (ie: it gets stale and doesn't have the passion). Bit of a trip.
That's all.
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26 Sep 2020 07:30 CEST
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