Comments | neurotic_rat: The 'artist' in me is not amused... *joins the Bleach copy bandwagon*

neurotic_rat

The 'artist' in me is not amused... joins the Bleach copy bandwagon

Feb 27, 2010 22:14

So... I'm very slow to catch on, but after hearing it from one of my friends on Facebook, then actually SEEING the evidence, via here: http://community.livejournal.com/bleachness/446299.html

...I want to say something about all this, as an 'artist' myself.

( Crazy Artist is crazy (not really) )

art rant, omg, manga

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mrcab August 27 2010, 00:08:00 UTC

Actually saw your posts here months ago and though I'd give myself some time to think about it bcz I was completely speechless...

So anyways... Yeah... still completely speechless...

If I had to say anything about the art itself: I don't know who did the coloring, but whoever it was doesn't understand the art-form they are ripping off.

The DeviantArt lift really made me laugh, though.

This whole thing just amazes me. It's something you'd expect to see in high school, or junior college, art class. We actually did a self-published comic in college and there was a real strive to come up with original work. Heck most of the people in out "club" joked a lot about other students, who practically directly copied other work.

And Speaking of school. I got ripped-on a lot for mimicking mangakas, but at least I was trying to develop my own stile. There were several other students who copied their work right out of some western superhero comic [Jim Lee's style was really popular at the time] Most people would look at it and think I was " ( ... )

neurotic_rat August 28 2010, 01:59:03 UTC

It's funny that there is this apparent war between fans of American Comics and fans of manga, and how it seems like either side wouldn't read know of this (I mean, it was categorized as an 'American comic')... And someone happened to see these bizarre coincidences, resulting in the explosion we see here (months ago ( ... )