Surface-Level vs Studying a Style
It's easy to mimic what everyone sees at a surface level. It's far more rewarding to dig deep and understand how a piece of media uses its style to build characters. This is something I've been thinking about for a while and wanted to render. Of course being in reference to the phenomena of a brand's social media having someone "drawn in the style of the powerpuff girls" but said someone is just drawn like a Powerpuff girl. It's a problem similar to the infamous "same face syndrome." Sure, if you wanna draw a powerpuff draw a powerpuff, but would pikachu look exactly like a powerpuff girl if they were in the show? No of course not!
Half the fun of the characters in the Powerpuff Girls is how diversely drawn they are. How visually fun they are to see on the screen and how they contrast to the very unique look of the girls. Drawing someone as a puff over and over again often goes against that idea of the girls being these round characters in a sharp and pointy world and often why fans are often tired of seeing it. People respect those willing to understand a media's use of style moreso than copying what the greater public can identify.
