A friend of mine wanted to know how much, when it comes to Vgcats lewds, does being 'on-model' matter to you?
This friend of mine was looking at my art, and while they thought it was the greatest pieces of media they'd ever seen of all time anywhere ever, they asked me why I didn't draw the characters with proportions and style closer to the comic versions.
I told my friend, who is very much the one who asked this question and we hang out all the time, that "well, it's kinda sexier with a bit of diversion from the 'on-model', you can also exaggerate, accentuate, and manipulate a bit easier."
"Plus," I said to my real friend. "You have changes in what is 'on-model' over the course of the series, so a person would have to go through each comic and roughly mark when the models changed to be distinctly different. And if you're doing that you should label them for posterity and ease of file-ment."
I continued speaking to this friend of mine who went to a different school, "But a person doing that would have to be a bit weird and have to have demonstrable signs of those changes. And lets be honest anyone doing that for an old, highly subjective, occasionally edgy, somewhat controversial, early 2000s webcomic about some cartoon cats with a majority focus on the pink one--well that person would have to be tweaked out on Adderall to hyper focus on such a ridiculous thing! And so, what is 'on-model' is basically a choice between say five-ish 'models', and at that point you might as well just do what fits your own art and vision best."
My living existing friend then said "Well, but isn't there some appeal in seeing those characters in the most similar way to what they originally fell in love with?"
"Love is a bit strong dont you think?"
"Liked. Had affection for. Attracted to. Enjoyed. whatever! You know what I mean." My friend said while they rolled their eyes. their uh blue eyes. Yeah they totally have eyes. And they're blue!
"I mean I guess there's appeal there sure. but you'd HAVE to make some artistic liberties....plus their heads are real big, like it's 1/3 of their height...Looks good with clothes and context, but naked?! now that might look weird and unsexy! Which is the whole point. Drawing leeewds, remember?!"
"But people might like that and you don't have to do that all the time!"
"I'm not doing anything!" I said to my friend. (Did i mention they thought I was incredible, and real sexy? Just like they're real alive)
"Hypothetically! if you did!"
"Im not!"
"IIIIF!~!!"
"IF I DID...sure I'd do it why not? Well besides people not liking it. If people don't like the art I do that means they don't like ME and I really need constant affirmation..."
"Yeah..."
"Yeah..."
TL;DR
So hey, now that I've told you a tale, I present the question again:
Subjectively, how important, or fun, or appealing, or desired, are 'on-model'(nearly) vgc lewds? Where you could point to any canonical appearance and say "that's hawt draw that! >o<" .... With some..."artistic liberties" taken to 'clean it up a bit' ...
Should that be a thing-thing, or just an occasional, or common, or rare, or never thing?
(also applies to other characters from other series.)
I want to know how much the community desires--leaving style aside for now--accurate as I can manage pics with on-model things like body proportions or character designs (such as from specific pages).
Is the novelty of doing mostly accurate on-model pics worth the time to invest in?
My friend wants to be clear that their question has no additional motive, or anything like that. Nope. Nothing is actually going to happen. They want to insist. Not at all.
I mean we cant say never, but that's a negative, Control.
If something was going to happen there would be an announcement. And this isn't an announcement. just a question.
-dpc
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