Jun 12, 2023
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some oc art (both designed by kiwi-rot) 💜💚
Personally I think Whisperwillow's/Kiwi-rot's designs are gorgeous but they've 100% become afflicted by the cs and popufur mindset. Mod, would you be wiling to do a breakdown on their design style?
hell yeah let's gooo
So immediately we have a theme of light pastels with low contrast, black and white with small color pops (usually red) and webcore. We also have bodies that are largely triangular, with a small torso and wide set lower legs. This is pretty common in popfurs but I will say that diversifying the bodies you draw will vastly improve your work. Same with hairstyles and texture. Introducing curls and more unique styles beyond default long and short would really help this artist's work shine.
fine design overall, not the most unique but the anatomy is stylized nicely and the design is balanced well with the yellow star accents leading to the face and the smaller accessories clustering around the face as well.
As a personal note I would have dropped the chevron on the leg just because the clouds are enough detail already and you risk leading the eye astray with weird patterns that don't contribute to the theme.
I understand the aim of cyberpunk aesthetics is to be very colorful and eye-catching, but the markings are placed rather thoughtlessly and it feels cluttered. dropping either the leg chevrons or the stomach and thigh markings would help greatly with this issue. The arcade carpet pattern on the arms is cute, but it feels weird to have a design in a style as simple as this one have so many colors. I think that keeping to one rainbow pallette rather than having two of each color in varying intensities would really do you a favor.
This one is really nice tbh! It reads to me as early game concepting and the balance of the large curved horns, small frame, and the veil leading into the tail creates a really pleasing visual track to follow. The colors are cohesive and the yellow leading into the main color pop, the red, is really lovely and minimizes clutter while keeping the design impactful.
If there's one big thing I would criticize, it's the sizing and placement of the fur texturing. I talked about big medium small principles in another crit post, but essentially, all the tail fur spikes are about the same length and size, same with the hair chunks. It leads to a more static design and I think this artist could really be a great designer if they pushed harder for stronger and more conscious use of design principles.
Overall I like the designer and I'll be using some of what I found in their style in my own. I hope they keep drawing and improving in the direction that benefits them best without the stagnation that tends to come with adoptables.
some more oc art wooooooooー☆
Zephyrus, Icarus, Abaddon
(adding into other anons ask) kiwi-rot designs used to actually be good. i loved the horror designs she used to make now it's just the same pastel pink shit and its disgusting. the pink lovey dovey f-mboy shit is getting so boring but people love it so much. why? its not even that good lmao
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clout i guess, people do like seeing the same shit again and again and emo pink twinks are currently in
(chams) kiwi-rot makes the worst redesigns i s2g and they always try to find loopholes to make chams look NOTHING like their original design. they don't even keep the cham, they use it to artificially inflate the worth bc name brand designer and get multiples. asking the mods unpolitely to keep making actual decent rules to stop shits like kiwi-rot and co from turning chams into design nightmares.
they can't do that because then all the pop designers will be unable to make any adopts anymore lmfao im not even joking either. that and tons of people are exactly like kiwi-rot where they get a design and redesign it, and then immediately try to trade it for more just because they 'redesigned' it 'better' you're not slick you're not smooth you're just a loser
692872330102308864 - Im another CS owner that Kiwi got ahold of shortly after the spike in HoodJinx came. I was told they talked shit about my species, but deleted it after people called them Shallow. Currently i dont even look at that species as the joy i had from it died hard, and Kiwi is the reason WHY i stopped being into TB's. 1/2 - X
X - 2/2 But its also because TB's have implemented a new verification shit. They do a huge background check and if they find a scrap of drama and tell you to buzz off, yet Kiwi has an entire case file of drama from just the first few months of their Hoodjinx species.
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teabeetles sure has no fucking place to talk considering their tryhard attempts to be chimereons but worse and hoodjinx is a middling cs with little traction
The way kiwirots draws legs nowadays makes me wanna fucking throw up its all so grotesque.. i used to like their former more colorful adopts but immediately unfollowed when they posted fucking "femboy" adopts and i see theyve only gotten worse pandering to gross aesthetics
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just pandering without any soul or thought. the same shit over and over a million times
In the same situation as kiwi-rot, feeling like my art has stagnated while in cs and the adopt scene. Sucks because it’s a good source of income. Might just get a real job so I can improve
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definitely better to take some time just trying to draw other things just for yourself, don't let your entire output revolve around making adopts to sell