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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5864610" data-attributes="member: 54877">Not that I'm in any way an artist, but I think what I like is fantastical art that is informed by realism.&nbsp; I don't mind things that are fantastical--even unlikely, but I do mind the pieces that leave you with the nagging doubt that the artist has no clue whatsoever about X, but drew it anyway.&nbsp; &nbsp;If someone drew, say, a human arm shaped more like the foreleg of a cat, with claws on the hand, and it looks like some combination of a cat and person, you might say, &quot;cool, it's a good drawing of how a cat person arm and hand would look, even if no such thing exists.&quot;&nbsp; If you see the same thing in a context where it is clear that &quot;cat person&quot; is the intent of the whole piece, but you suspect that the artist has paid little attention to the arms and hands of either people or cats, probably not so cool--or if it is cool, probably a happy accident unlikely to be repeated.&nbsp; A lot of fantasy drawing of armor strikes me as drawn by someone not paying attention to armor and the person wearing it.&nbsp;There are probably more technical artistic terms to convey what I mean here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5864610, member: 54877"] Not that I'm in any way an artist, but I think what I like is fantastical art that is [B]informed[/B] by realism. I don't mind things that are fantastical--even unlikely, but I do mind the pieces that leave you with the nagging doubt that the artist has no clue whatsoever about X, but drew it anyway. If someone drew, say, a human arm shaped more like the foreleg of a cat, with claws on the hand, and it looks like some combination of a cat and person, you might say, "cool, it's a good drawing of how a cat person arm and hand would look, even if no such thing exists." If you see the same thing in a context where it is clear that "cat person" is the intent of the whole piece, but you suspect that the artist has paid little attention to the arms and hands of either people or cats, probably not so cool--or if it is cool, probably a happy accident unlikely to be repeated. A lot of fantasy drawing of armor strikes me as drawn by someone not paying attention to armor and the person wearing it. There are probably more technical artistic terms to convey what I mean here. :D [/QUOTE]

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