Double Standards in Style

Submitted by Neil Cohn on March 11, 2008 - 02:09

I had an interesting realization the other day about the way people judge the quality of realistic versus cartoony drawing styles. It seems to me that the more someone tries to maintain a realistic style, the more harshly criticized they will be when they don't "fully achieve" it. Cartoony styles get no critique like this.

As I've done before, perhaps Rob Liefeld will be a good example. Liefeld

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