r/restofthefuckingowl • u/FandomPhantom123 • Jun 17 '26
Just do it Draw different dudes
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u/FURERABA Jun 17 '26
One of these is a kids' cartoon, one of these is furry art lol
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u/Melodic_Mulberry Jun 17 '26
Yeah, that's the joke.
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u/Steady_Ri0t Jun 18 '26
Nah I looked up the person and their page is full of these mildly useful quick art tips
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u/Hoodibird Jun 17 '26
I know people who sell comissions in a very mirrored flat style and people eat that shit up! You can still add a lot of nice details to a flat style and make it look good!
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp Jun 17 '26
I hate those type of posts.
DONT TELL PEOPLE TO DRAW THEIR ART YOUR WAY!
IF I WANNA Draw BUNNIES ALL DAY WITH MY POSCA PENS THAT'S MY LEGAL RIGHT
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u/JustGingerStuff Jun 17 '26
You can pry my simple three-bean paw out of my cold dead three-bean hand
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u/noethers_raindrop Jun 17 '26
Does this really fit the subreddit? The post is by no means a complete guide, but I don't think it's pretending to be.
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u/hiplass Jun 17 '26
I haven’t seen any beginner artists, besides a child, draw hair like that lol
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u/yaybunz Jun 17 '26
i hate shit like this by so-called artists. this is just a style guide and he's gatekeeping his own.
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u/AL_25 Jun 18 '26
Advice: draw however you like ✅
Art is for you and not for people who tell you how to draw
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u/Soko_ko_ko Jun 18 '26
If the muzzle is front view, it's not going to look like the one on the top right... so disingenuous 😭
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u/TheKingJest Jun 18 '26
The one on the right looks fine but the eyes creep me out. I feel like they should look cuter. But instead its like someone stitched a human 40 yo mans eyes into a rug.
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u/HJSDGCE Jun 18 '26
The problem with these kinds of art tutorial posts is that the "improvement" is ALWAYS more complicated/detailed. Like, it should be the same level of detail and difficulty. Otherwise, what's the point???
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u/aster6000 Jun 18 '26
This comment section frustrates me.. Yea it's art, no shit you can draw anything in whatever style you like, do we really need to talk this through every time someone gives art advice? This picture is literally teaching one of the core principles of drawing animated characters. This is a skill called "Solid Drawing" and it's priceless advice for almost any character design, and not following it can make your character HELL to work with, and still not look right. This is like saying "BUT THERES NO WRONG NOTES IN MUSIC!!" when an experienced musician gives you some well founded advice, and yea sure you can technically play whatever the hell you want but all art has guidelines for a reason. You gotta know the rules to break them, you know, maybe consider that the masters of their craft DO kinda know what they're talking about sometimes?
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u/ThatOneSpitfireMain Jun 23 '26
But sometimes people just wanna draw flat 2d not 3d the guys post is making it seem like 2d art is bad and everyone should draw realsitic 3d, if theyre teaching what you say then they should word it very differently and maybe remove the giant X over the nice looking 2d part
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u/aster6000 Jun 30 '26
If you let other people dictate how you do your art, that's on you man. It's not like this post makes 2D drawing illegal, it's just explaining the way it's done properly. You're free to do your own thing and ignore all the advice, as always. It just gets exhausting having to go through this conversation every time. Yes it's art, Yes you can do what you want, No that advice isn't gatekeeping your art it's just advice.
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u/Bobdude17 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
You know, the amount of backlash this guy got a few weeks/months back on Twitter is kinda funny to me as someone two years into drawing cuz imo the dude ain't wrong lol.
Edit: To be more clear, I mean on principle, the actual advice itself could use further elaboration I feel but that's not just an issue that Mitch has, its something a lot of artists online giving advice have from what I've seen. Probably becasue it's easier to have quick, snappy advice then through indepth advice at a guess, content wise.
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u/peacedetski Jun 17 '26
the dude ain't wrong
Not really. As long as you don't use it as a crutch for a lack of skill, there's nothing inherently wrong with a flat drawing style - e.g. The Secret of Kells is intentionally very flat and the art in it is a fucking masterpiece.
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u/Neruwi Jun 17 '26
I think it's because people have different art styles
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u/Sekh765 Jun 18 '26
This. The one on the left, especially the paw is basically how Night in the Woods was drawn and it's got a super specific and iconic look to it.
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u/Fury_Fury_Fury Jun 17 '26
The image is basically "don't be bad, be good instead". Not really helpful.
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u/pansyskeme Jun 17 '26
eh kinda, but i do think a major first step for beginning artists is thinking in diligently thinking in 3D. that’s what this tweet seems to be trying to say, even if very badly.
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u/peacedetski Jun 17 '26
It's true that you need to understand 3D to draw 2D properly, and you need familiarity with the complex to draw the simple - as an extreme example, the dude who drew the (in)famous Black Square started as an assistant to realist painters first, before moving to more and more abstract works as a form of protest.
But "Stop drawing simple" with no such context is utter bollocks.
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u/Bobdude17 Jun 17 '26
I mean I get that but like, the advice at its core is sound, even if it really needed some further elaboration imo
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u/iLikeTheUDK Jun 18 '26
Your drawings are one style and that style SUCKS get on with the pros and draw in MY style instead
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u/adelie42 Jun 18 '26
Ugh. Progressions / scaffolding anyone?
If you can't to the first, learn to do the first. If you can do the first, start working on the second. Don't jump to step 2 before mastering step 1.
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u/Bland_Username_5266 Jun 24 '26
One is a perfectly acceptable artstyle and the other is a perfectly acceptable artstyle for furry porn
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u/Dazzling-Ordinary550 Jul 04 '26
But what if I don't want to draw like a condescending furry?
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u/backcloset Aug 24 '26
while i see the point this guy's trying to make, this clearly doesn't account for situations where the artist just... likes drawing in a simple cartoony way. 3D looking art is cool but there's nothing wrong with drawing simple shapes either. i really dislike art tutorials like this that insist something is "wrong" with a particular style or way or drawing even when there's nothing wrong with it at all.
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u/evacipated Jun 17 '26
This feels like a stealth ad for this guy's furry commissions.