yes let us all celebrate women’s sports. I don’t have an interest in men’s sports either
–unless racing randomized versions of old final fantasies counts as a sport, and it probably shouldn’t.–
and find men’s sports’ media saturation obscene even without any proximity to people who do watch them, so they ought to be held in equal esteem to womens’, sure. However I don’t think giving the Cracker Jack kid a drag makeover is going to accomplish anything except alienate old people who learn about this via the fox news outrage vine or a surrogate and I have never seen a young person eating this stuff nor heard one mention it outside the context of the Take me out Ballgame song, and definitely not recently.
you know what else isn’t helping women
if you can’t make “women” character without putting big lips and ludicrous eyelashes on them then you aren’t flipping any quos regardless of what kind of shoes you put on them. In fact obsessing over their shoes is even quoier. To the brand’s credit, I finally saw its actual announcement and it DOESN’T MENTION the dingdang shoes.
foremost Tucker “couldn’t REALLY be worse than Sean Hannity, right?” Carlson, akkka the world’s second worst use of a bowtie, who LOOKED at the 1 minute video in which the characters don’t even appear until after a 45 second long corporate hokewave, and NOTICED the shoe changes and made a fuss over it, and then arguably more legitimate journalists fussed over that fuss.
and this garbage, I only found today when trying to find proof of the previous thing I linked to, which, again, was primarily evident through terrible “news” articles being written about it. But in this case there is no defense to be made of the source ditzinformation; everything about it is stupid. “We didn’t think anyone would notice” is a profoundly disingenuous statement; it was ALL meant to be noticed, just with better balance. and apart from the disingenuity of the statement that the “spokescandies” were taking a “pause,” it isn’t even true, because it was put out in January and I still see these awful things all over the place. Well gosh they weren’t even paused within the context of that picture of text.
I am an enthusiast of discounted holiday candy; generally that is the only time m&ms cost little enough relative to other bad American candy that I will consider buying them, and I came into possession of this one this very month, and there’s smugsa verde right on the bag. It must be noted though that the creature appears to lack feet entirely on this occasion.
And as tacky as the feminizing is, the red one is still the worst character because it is still the default character and it still has no character. It might have been on the bag of “m&ms eggs” I also bought and that tasted almost exactly the same as the hershey brand “eggs” and neither was as good as the cadbury eggs that weren’t available because people actually bought those before they went on sale.
I am so hyper aware of this because *I* like to draw garbage like this too. Little enough that it didn’t need to be mentioned back when I first started griping about how lazy it is from a design perspective but it became a bigger problem. Generally problems do not get smaller around here; even the smaller monitor with a dope on it in this entry’s second picture is in fact my PRIMARY monitor.
this picture actually immediately preceded this one of the world’s worst use of a bowtie three years ago. I never show these sorts of “characters” here or in my major personal projects because i KNOW the designs are stereotyped tacky trash. And consequently people assume all my neutrally-defined characters are he him male and that I must want to look at phalluses and characters which have phalluses and those are the only things they want me to draw. Because most people are idiots. And you already knew that. And so did I. Why are we here? All this could be avoided if I simply learned to stop needing to eat and thus no longer needed to visit grocery stores. I tried but I only got about 3 videos into the tutorial series.
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Vanya message board sez:
Now that you’ve mentioned it
From what Ive seen you do put shoes/sneakers on most of your “girl” characters
I’m not certain why that is however I find them very cute
Frimpinheap sez:
that is good, I suppose!
Who can know why a mild aesthetic trait metastasizes into an incessantly recurring theme? Curiously it didn’t seem to be a hard inescapable “rule” until 2012. Did the people I interacted with on art websites fetishizing bare animal feet, including on lope and nemitz, subconsciously turn me against that? Not necessarily, but it is nice to have something to blame in the absence of a way to turn into something more socially accepted or functional.
Vanya message board sez:
Oh
As the fool that I am I expected you to have a very intentional and perhaps thought provoking and maybe even quirky reason
That’s fine they fit regardless
Hey, perhaps that is the reason
Because sneakers intuitively look incredibly good on pantsless girl characters
What a usual sentence to write
Frimpinheap sez:
Those “characters” are antithetical to work that I have reasons for or amidst, which is part of why I exclude them from that. But maybe that has been part of my failing and becoming a person with fractured personalities, unable to complete projects and endlessly fearing judgement, since few people notice the things I worry about.
Vanya message board sez:
I find all of my favorite art is filled with the personality of its creators
In a way when we create art we store part of ourselves in it
I feel when people look at what artists create I think in a way they are looking for something human to communicate with
I cant really comment on your process of making art, since I have pretty much no idea on how you go about it or how you decide to draw something in a certain way
But in my opinion the best stuff has the most “natural” personality in it
What I mean is the more sincere art is the better
Sorry if my ramblings make no sense
Frimpinheap sez:
it makes sense that you can tell when I have minimal interest in a piece! Plenty of other people cannot. or maybe just that means I can’t finish a most pieces until I force myself to find interest in some part of it.
The bow tie fool sez:
Feet, you say? I have fine feet!
The bow tie fool sez:
(I also have a splendid bow tie.)
Frimpinheap sez:
I have nothing to say about your dumb feet or your ridiculous bow tie! If I did I would have put forth the minimal effort necessary to include a picture of you apart from the one already on the bucket to properly inspire my wrath!