What is your honest opinion on Tumblr artists?

What is your honest opinion on Tumblr artists?

Some are good, some are shit.
Most are overrated.

It's just a platform. It's also already past its prime.

Some of them are good, the vast majority are shit.

What is going wrong with Tumblr anyway?

It's losing it's 2011 era presence and prestige.

There's no real consistent Tumblr artist it's just a website where artists can get more exposure because nonartists use it.

they upload their artwork on tumblr

It got taken by hypocrite cry babies who scream about human rights then go around bullying others into killing themselves.

Most of them draw all their stuff really flat. I'm not an artist so I'm not sure how to say this properly but everything looks like they first made a rough draft of all the basic shapes they're later going to use with paper cutouts. Then they use the collage they made as a reference to draw the rest of the image. Everything looks soooooooo god damn flat. I remember this one promotional image for the latest Dragon Age and a professional colorist tried to salvage some tumblr artist's poor drawing and it looks sooooo horribly wrong.

Also most artists can't tag their art for shit. Why can't people use deviantart. Also the image size limits on tumblr are frustrating as hell.

theres like hundreds with loads of different styles and specialties like every other site you can host art on

oh thats easy, user. homestuck ended and verizon bought yahoo who bought tumblr and immediately started tanking the site

It's the turtle tortoise deal
All "tumblr artists" use tumblr
Not all people who post art on tumblr are "tumblr artists"
as long as we're all on the same page that the style that denotes a "tumblr artist" is one that features large noses/lips, lumpy or deformed figures, excessive blush, fascination with body hair, melanin, and vitiligo, and/or is generally ugly/bad on purpose

They're cancer, OP.

so? if tumblr dies they will all move to twitter

and twitter honestly is the bigger shithole already

It's a better medium for getting your art out there than DevientArt and everything following that model, that's for sure.

The only tumblr users I pay attention to who don't make weird deviant porn are professional artists whose careers started before tumblr even existed. Can't say I have enough experience with this whole red-nosed blocky bodied trans-nigger fan artist thing which plagues today's generation.

So what? What does this have to do with what I said?

Social media attract the worst kind of people and needs to die.

Tumblr artists likes Deviantart artists. Some are good and some are shit.

Apart from the human rights thing this sounds like Sup Forums.

What said
Pic related is a good example of what a "Tumblr artist" is. I dislike them immensely

Yahoo has the anti-Midas touch

Is this the trans-Captain America artist who's become the new tumblr art posterchild?

>twitter honestly is the bigger shithole already
this but most people here won't realize it until years after twitter gets shut down or some shit

Look like the Tumblr age has ended.

I wonder who will take the teenage wannabe artist hub site throne now.

People who use Tumblr also use Sup Forums, twitter, FB...etc. So, it's not suprise that they all the same.

Twitter already.

Twitter, although the way filenames and getting original resolutions work is retarded. Instagram is already pretty up there but needing the app to upload is probably a wall.

I honestly really like tumblr as a platform. Shame it's dying. Won't even complain about the community because Twitter is no different.

Its a platform not a community. Unless you are making a distinction between 'Tumblr artists' and 'artists who happen to post their work on Tumblr' you are going to have to be more specific

I hate this so much but I also find it fascinating.

A lot of butthurt tumblrinas in this thread. If you guys hate Sup Forums so much, why bother visiting let alone post in here?

I know I represent the Silent Majority when I say that IDK.

I fucking hate the interface. I just want to turn off all the irrelevant cringe shit in the homepage so I don't have to see that stupid crap every time I want to post something.

How did the "Tumblr artstyle" originate?

Did someone just decide to emphasize unappealing features, and it stuck?

I think its a combination of having poor grades in community college art class with a deep need for recognition which turns into trying to develop their "style" and be unique. It reminds me of the anime style of the 90s and early 2000s but its not quite the same thing

Adventure Time and Steven Universe are big contributors.

I see a lot of teenage ""artists"" talking about tumblr like "ugh wow I can't believe I've posted there so problematic yikes" even though they all moved to twitter and spread their toxic views there, why the fuck do people not realize that

Seems like some kind of rebellion against beauty norms for the sake of it

Back in 2011 it was heavily inspired by Adventure Time.
Then between Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, not wanting to be anime while still liking it, and the remainings of sparkle culture from DA and the body positivity movement, the cliche cartoonishness of current american shows + the mentality of "ugly=beautiful", it just happened.

>Did someone just decide to emphasize unappealing features, and it stuck?
No they just sent death threats to everyone who drew light skinny and beautiful people

Yes.

Never had an opinion on tumblr until now.

pic is opinion.

Here's the shit I don't get
the shit that REALLY grinds at me about all of this
WHY on earth would they project so many changes onto an existing copyrighted character to the point that it's not even the character anymore
instead of just making their own characters that they can make a special snowflake to their heart's content
and THEN have the gall to complain there are no characters that have these qualities

What happened to Deviantart anyway?

>WHY on earth would they project so many changes onto an existing copyrighted character to the point that it's not even the character anymore
So that they can still tag it as "Steve Rogers" or "Captain America" to make sure that his fans have to suffer

I like the porn side of Tumblr but not the antifa side.

What happened to the teenage girl artists of DA anyway?

did they become boring adult women now?

Well, one of them went onto becoming a literal millionaire

its stance on art theft, premium subscription features which other websites had for free, refusing to assist artists who got their designs nicked by hot topic, and nicking their own logo from somewhere else ended up with a good chunk of the good artists going to artstation and a bigger chunk of the social artists going to tumblr (where their art was even less safe).

which one is that

Nothing has taken it's place yet though. IG sucks because it's pretty much mobile only, Twitter has always been terrible.
I host my own website but post all my stuff on tumblr. Plus some fandoms there actually aren't too bad. The svtfoe fanbase there has remained relatively non-cancerous except when a small minority of them accused a dude of being a pedophile. Those people got iced out of the community pretty much though.
A lot if is really shit though, see Voltron, Steven Universe, AT.

Sakimichan

Cannon?

Yes

This here.
Its just a plattform.
Like real world, there are some
Good, bad or the ugly.

A hellscape of special snowflakes seeking validation in their 'original' ideas yet all follow the same pattern of soft lines, weird looking noses and pastel colors as if it was some sort in house style that they must all conform to. They also seem to despise popular culture yet cling to it like its the golden teat but keep transforming it into something it is not in some sort of self-righteous effort instead of creating new things to further their convictions.

A horrible product of its time that will become obsolete in the near future.

They need to start tagging their shit and stop having "unique" blogs where music automatically comes on, the pages have infinite scroll, and the backgrounds are covered with their mediocre glittery pixel art.

DeviantArt's become the breeding ground for America's Next Top Lovecraftian Fetish Abomination

The wrong art gets the most retweets

Original stuff doesn't get big.

Like, ever. There's a fluke every now and then, but it's consistently always gonna be fan art.

has she done anything besides fanart?

Surprisingly good summation.

Kricfalusi'd call that too cartoonish.

It's heinous - why did those hips get so huge? What's wrong with that chest?

Why does he have the stomach of a ballerina and the biceps of a roided-up body builder?

Why is that midriff so tiny that it looks like some giant Asian lady could snap him in half and suck out his organs like he's some kind of exotic insect snack?

Why is it so goddamn ugly?

I wouldn't know. I'm mostly exposed to some of the bad ones, but there are also some really good artists I follow, so there's really no telling how many talented artists are hidden underneath the general shittiness.

Depends on your circle of followers and what they're trying to do, and what they're doing.
I like Zamii.

i only go there for porn soo

If the art is actually good then it's fine, tumblr has drawn to it a lot of People who actually are competent artists

But if they're the type of unimaginative hack who makes shit like the picture I posted I wouldn't mind if someone rounded them all up and sent them to death camps

This right here

everyone hates the management by the staff, constantly shitty changes and buggy as fuck mobile app, rampant infighting within some fandom communities, actual honest to god serial killer fetishization by a few.

desu i only use it to talk to some friends and see art

Forgot the Shoplifters who say they're taking down Capitalists.

The ones I follow are great.

reminder that when this image was first making the rounds someone was bitching because they though it was calling them out over a character of theirs, proving it right

>shoplifters
on one hand i get it, stores really do overcharge for shit, usually its just small baubles and jewelry tho. if they really want to make a change they'd research actual scandals businesses were involved in, stealing $5 buttons from hot topic only hurts the low employees since they get penalized for having shit stolen.

i used to steal shit too, so i know they're almost certainly only doing it for the thrill, not the need. if you want some shitty funko pop figure but cant justify spending on it ,either buy it or shut up

Swear most of them spend more time gagging for attention and giving their opinions on random e-drama than doing art tbqh.

Hell, Price-Match if it's that important too you. I used to steal, but only the food from the my school cafeteria.
>They all thought I was making gains in weight lifting
>Turns out I was just stuffing the extra stuff into my jacket's sleeves
Still, you wouldn't believe how rampantly Left the Tumblr-base is.
DOWN WITH CAPITALISM, DOWN WITH X 'n' Y!
Without Capitalism, I wouldn't have my new job.
Most of them are. Haven't you ever been in the #queer tag?

>WHY on earth would they project so many changes onto an existing copyrighted character to the point that it's not even the character anymore

It's what they were taught as being normal by capeshit companies. I don't know why you take issues with it to begin with.

The real original "tumblr artist" look from way back when was things that looked like Atlantis and Treasure Planet.

I can't believe there actually came a day where that would be preferable.

>this has over 1000 notes
>your art blog only scrapes 20 on a good week
How does this make you feel user?

>Stretch marks

Fascinating.