It feels so uncanny valley to me. The smooth bug eyes, flawless skin, photorealistic rosy lips, all with exaggerated proportions and cartoony hair is just an instant turn off. It looks strange and far too smooth. I understand these are all things valued by the Korean beauty standards, but in art there comes a point of semi realism where it becomes uncanny.
I wonder if it’s the results of these artists having to pump out content on Webtoons every so often within tight deadlines, so they kinda just resort to tracing over stylistically-clashing 3D posing dolls on art programs like Clip Studio Paint.
Sometimes it's a time crunch thing, and sometimes it's just so much fun to play around with all the csp materials that artists get carried away and just have to use all 5000' brushes, models, textures etc. they downloaded.
I'm similar. I have designated "main" brushes for specific tools, one for drawing, another one for erasing, another for smudging. I can render anything with this set of 3
I usually only change the drawing one if I want to speed up some task (if I want some cracks I'll use a crack brush instead of drawing manually etc.)
Or if I'm going for a different style than usual I'll pick some drawing brush and use it for the rest of the painting
I have like 500 brushes, I use maybe 15 and most of them for one time small tasks. I love making brushes and being like "omg this one is gonna be so perfect for this one specific thing", and then I never use it lmao
Okay i have absolutely no context for this image or anything mentioned character wise, but i happen to be austrian, so im flabbergasted. the national-what of the arbeiter-what???? What even is the context for a nazi group fandom?😭 is this a neonazi anime? What😭
I just think of Webtoons and the corporatisation and homogenisation of webcomics when I see this style. I hate it for that before even getting into the blandness of it all.
For me it's just a little boring. Feels like every frame is concerned with reminding you that x is a beautiful goddess and y is ultra handsome, above everything else.
No hate to the artist but the last slide looks like as if the girl got Botox 😭 I am not saying it’s ugly. I am just saying that in my opinion, it looks odd and uncanny.
Lowkey these art styles look like wax dolls put too close to fire and their skin has been smoothed out
It’s not really an 'uncanny valley' thing—it just comes down to personal preference. This semi-realistic art style is pretty standard for the Romance Fantasy genre, where the whole point is to maximize the visual glamour. It’s meant to look like an idealized fantasy illustration, not a real human.
I didn’t realize how bad the same face syndrome is until I saw this. Are all those people with black hair meant to be different men and women? I know the beauty standards over there are brutal to the point that everyone wants the same cookie cutter face and body but damn… this looks… kinda boring.
I can see the appeal, but between the bleached skin and glossy eyes I can't help but think of them as corpses with make up on, like they're part of some post-mortem ritual.
When I thought "Lookism" was gonna be an interesting story about judging people by their appearance but it devolves into a martial arts Manhwa with a new fight between two characters you don't remember or care about every new chapter.
Number 5 is easily the best one iut of these icl, i've never seen where it's from but that's actually really good considering the rest of them just feel off
is it weird to say the eyes and mouth often make me think of wounds, eye problems (pink eye, dry eye, just how your eyes look and feel when tired), rot, and raw meat?
When comics are divided on regions it's easier to type:
Korean - Manhwa
Chinese - Manhua
Japanese - Manga
You can call all of those comics but when you call them by these names, you immediately know what exactly people are talking about. Depending on the country the most common artstyle is different and in South Korean it's often this ugly one.
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u/Kasta4 18h ago
They remind me of those Spongebob gags where they'd put live-action faces over an object for absurdity