Where do you draw the line for character fanart that deviates so far from the source material it essentially becomes...

Where do you draw the line for character fanart that deviates so far from the source material it essentially becomes the artists OC?

Depends on how autistic you are

I understand deviating from the source material to make it more palpable, like giving the character more human proportions, but if it looks so far removed from the actual character and you have to be told who the drawing is of, then that's gone too far.

It stops being the character I liked to a just another OC character I fap to, which makes me lose interest faster.

Of we talk about Big Dad's version of Gaz then I think it's fine but I'd like to see other version of older Gaz

How so?

When all that you can recognize are the hair and eye color. EG bodystyle and harstyle have changed drastically, they're dressed in ways that the character would never be, they are acting in ways the character never would, etc.

Honestly I don't give a shit if it's good or nice looking or cute art. If I want on-model I can just watch the show. Good on-model is good too, though.

What if the character is canonically a horrible, or just a bad character overall, and the artist makes fanart of them that basically makes their OOC version better than the actual character?

If it's not recognizable as that character without the artist explicitly saying so, I'd still consider it an OC.

When I have to be told that it's the character.
Pic related.

I can buy early Bigdad Gaz because of characters like Marci McFist. The shortstack one just doesn't work at all though.

>chickaroth is unchanged

Missing adams apple!

>you have to be told who the drawing is of, then that's gone too far.

Funny enough, Bigdad has gotten a few "She kinda looks like Gaz from Invader Zim"

>tumblr: "down with cis"
>thinks being anti cis is different from being anti trans
why is the so called safespace for gender equality explicitly not that?

When you really think about it...Isn't ANY character that exists is the content creator's oc?

You realize that no site can be conclusively summed up as one thing, right?

Imagine trying to describe Sup Forums as a whole so unilaterally. You might get broad strokes, but you are going to be leaving out or misrepresenting whole boards in the process.

Here's a good example.

Nice wolf girl but there's no way in hell you can convince me this is Winnie from Ghoul School, either in looks or personality.

Hell, most of the art of the rest of them are recognizable design-wise, but act like completely different characters, so I guess I'll count them as well.

what do you mean "draw the line"? Its fan-art. Fans interpret work, make art inspired by it, and you get what you get

if its off model , I also dislike most of the aged up art cause it goes into a uncanny valley to me

>what do you mean "draw the line"
Where do you stop calling a character "x" when they no longer look or behave like said character.
see

Pretty much this actually. If you can look past the differences and see it for the fanfiction it is and find it enjoyable then that's all that matters. Otherwise, you either don't like it because of how it's drawn or written or you hate it because it deviates from the story and that is true autism.

Their only character from the movie is the fact that they won't stop making spooky puns. From what I've seen of most Ghoul School fanart, that's still the same at least.

>Its autism if the person dislikes it.

Pretty broad strokes your painting with buddy.

>aged up lolis be extreme deviations
Sad but inevitable

Well they're aged up, so some character changes have to happen I suppose

>that reading comprehension

There's a reason the word "or" exists, autistic user.

When they radically change their appearance because "I like X better if I did this', like that attentionwhore drawfag that draws mandy as a fat chick

He thinks "or" is a tool that you use to row a boat.

If I like how it looks or not. That's pretty much it. Gaz, for example, wasn't attractive at all in the way she was drawn in the show. Meanwhile, Bigdad's version appeals to me because tits and ass while also still looking enough like the original that I can easily recognize her.

>give a character huge tits, tattoos and skimpy clothes

So, pretty much anything by Shadman.

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Why do artists give that Invader Zim girl huge tits damn near every time I see her? Did she have official huge knockers in a "10 years later" episode or something?

No, it's pretty much everybody following Bigdad's lead.

Well technically there is no canon adult Gaz so this guy has barely crossed that red line.

Websites witg strong moderation or cultural cliques that internalize have a lower diversity of ideas, making it far easier to summarize them up with a few core ideas.

Sup Forums has so many unique boards and decent levels of crossboarding making it difficult to sum up Sup Forums.

Tumblr has a lot of a freedom but it's actual community (I.E not the art dumps or porn sharing sections) is very much a hugbox that clings to a few ideas making it really damn easy to sum them up in a single image.

Kek no.

Any character Vasquez wants to be likeable, or even just attractive, is going to be drawn rail-thin.

Makes me wonder what he thinks about this THICC Gaz trend.

>blackaroth

I hate that people treat Bigdad like he invented the concept of "thick, big tittied Gaz". Because of that, all I see is fanart of his version instead of artists coming up with their own designs.

because those artists want their dick succ'd with replies and people watching them

easy

>implying that's even a bad thing

Whoa now. I'm not saying I hate Gaz with big tits. I just think Bigdad's version is oversaturated and want some variety.

Looks like Bleedman Mandy discovered immortality.

I legitmtely want this now

Holy shit that actually looks pretty fuckin' sweet.

>Bigdad's version is oversaturated
>implying my dick doesn't need a constant IV drip of new bigdad content

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Well to be fair, it's not like the idea itself lends itself to variety all that much. It's just a grown up Gaz with a voluptuous body, there's not much else to it unless ou want her completely unrecognizable.

Black Sephiroth is so much better then it has any fucking right to be.

Oh damn. I can't tell if that makes the joke better or worse.

I Feel Sick was his best comic. Also, Anne Gwish was not likable.

This actually works quite well.

If you wanted a Gaz thread, you could've just asked.

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Bigdad Gaz gets me off, so I don't care

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I knew instantly who it was before even reading your post

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>tumblr character isn't drawn in steven universe style

Nah, Cloud looks like shit.

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Eh, I disagree, but he is one of the weaker designs. The rest are pretty solid.

what the fuck white washing a black character.

Might as well go all the way with it.

What if I hate it because it's been so twisted it barely has anything to do with the original, but the "artist" has a shitload of autistic followers that tout it as canon?

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>but the "artist" has a shitload of autistic followers that tout it as canon?

When the fuck does that ever happen?

Shut the fuck up

This was made by a black artist on tumblr. He actually got responses saying that he "draws black characters too much", so he drew this in response.

Probably Homestuck.

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But user-kun, I can sum up Sup Forums unilaterally.
It's a bunch of faggots being autistic about their interests.

Oh, I have such sights to show you.

>swole Adam Jensen

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Is there some kind of contest on tumblr for making the most off model and hideous fanart

Whoa, did you just bodyshame, you shitlord?

Someone else post pictures of what these characters ACTUALLY look like.

Beautiful

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Let me guess.
These were all made by normal white kids trying to make themselves look tolerant.

Apparently Rose Lalonde

Tumblr, like Deviantart, is a mixed bag when it comes to content. You either get amazing works of art/good eye candy, or you get cringeworthy garbage that makes you want to gouge your eyes out. That just comes with the territory of an art-based forum, really.

No idea. All I know is that Tumblr eats it up.

HOW

>But user, they're meant to be a blank slate :^)

This is what this character looks like in the comic, for the record.

I miss old Hussie, who would mercilessly ridicule people with idiotic headcanons.

An excellent question.

>AU
>Characters are in College
>Humanized

But this one is canon and the author's money source.

soundCloud rapper

Those two don't work as well as Cloud of Darkness and Blackaroth

Remember the artist who does hideous trans Captain America, and even the majority of Tumblr hates them?

Shitdads Gaz would be a fine example.

This person also got accepted into Calarts with a shitty portfolio

when the artist starts drawing the character frequently and with plot/dialog.
Arguably anything beyond pin-up and simple action poses is going to start making them a different character, the only exception being if it's art of a scene directly from their respective IP.
As soon as you give a character dialog or behavior that you created for them it's your own spin on said character.
Cheesecake and art of a character with more attractive features is a grey area, it's more wishful thinking than an OC variant.

>tomato nose
Yep, it's tumblr alright.

Is that Fone Bone in a powemdered wig?