Veromaye said:Not because someone in the past did X good things it means in the present it should be okay to let pass X bad things.
Nobody said that. What are you on about? Unless you're suggesting I'm implicating Takeuchi did good designs in the past so it's fine he's being repetitive. In which case, I'll tell you out-right that Takeuchi is doing GOOD stuff right now with stuff like Lakshmibai's 2nd ascension design. Besides, stuff like Valkyrie isn't all that old either.
The point of being a good artist is not "Ohh I have a status so it's ok if I do the same shit 10 more times"
There's multiple elements to what makes a good artist. When it comes to original characters, the point is being able to have a good design sense and being capable of drawing well to accompany that. Neither of which Takeuchi is lacking in. Repetitiveness of poses in what's effectively just sprite art for a visual novel-like game is hardly all that important.
Is being able to do new stuffs without having to recycle your first two OCS
Non-sense. That'd mean a wide range of godawful artists are ''good'' just because they can draw different poses and expressions.
poses
You are right. He is lazy with poses and I shan't argue otherwise. However, you are absolutely not right that he is a bad artist because of this single element.
expressions
As mentioned previously, his art just suffers from sameface syndrome. It has nothing to do with laziness, he's just comfortable with drawing a single face-type and doesn't really know how to draw differently. Expressions looking the same is a result of that + FGO requiring the same set of expressions for most characters. For an example, they all require a blush face and since Takeuchi's faces all effectively look the same, his expressions will end up looking the same.
Sameface syndrome is also a valid criticism, but once again, it's an extreme exaggeration to state he's a bad artist when he CONSISTENTLY pulls through on much more important aspects of what makes a great artist such as his design sense, art-style and colouring. And not like his face type looks unpleasant either.
BG. BG styles..
What are you on about? These look nothing alike. Jeanne's background is some boring, lazy sky-themed background, but Okita's and Lakshmibai's background styles couldn't be further apart. Okita's is a Japanese Shrine background that changes per season; Lakshmibai's is a desert palace under a sunset. Nothing about the setting or appearance is similar in either of them.
But as a fan, for me, Takeuchi has been downgrading his work to the point of recycling EVERYTHING for new works.
Just his poses. He's always suffered from the sameface syndrome, this is nothing new. The appeal of Takeuchi's art is and has always been his design sense, style and colouring. And he's much improved since the days when he drew poor, basic designs with poor colouring. Perhaps in terms of face design, he used to be better during Melty Blood days; but he's certainly massively improved as an artist in terms of colouring and design since then.
Like, this guy Takahashi Keitaro did William Tell, and I wouldn't even recognize it because he has upgraded his art so much is ACTUALLY forgivable
William Tell is also an incredibly bland looking Servant with no real sense of creativity put into him. A rather generic middle-aged man in military attire suited for camouflage. Not that it's bad, but it's so forgettable that the character can incite no other reaction than the standard ''meh'' which isn't exactly a good thing in a game that somewhat hinges on the appeal of character design drawing in the viewer.
It's also absolutely not forgivable that he drew Nightingale as crappily as he did.
If you want to accept this and call it forgivable or whoever you want to defend it, that's up to you.
Yes? I'm not sure why you constantly feel the need to bring up things like ''it's up to you'', ''that's just your opinion'', etc. I've said this before when we had an argument, but that's a given. There's no eye for art that's actually objective and I don't remember any attempts at stating otherwise. |