Amazingly petty flag over an artist's style of drawing faces.

I'd say, one of these days a newbie flagger would stumble to imaichi_moenai_ko and started bashing the original post.

Do not complain about flag reasons in the comments. Be patient and remain civil. The post will be approved if the reason is unjustified.

That aside - there's a lot to like about this artist, but unfortunately, the faces and proportions they draw skirt the uncanny valley line quite a bit. This isn't the first time the site's had an adverse reaction to one of their works (see post #2523601).

feline_lump said:

That aside - there's a lot to like about this artist, but unfortunately, the faces and proportions they draw skirt the uncanny valley line quite a bit. This isn't the first time the site's had an adverse reaction to one of their works (see post #2523601).

Right, and when you choose to have that as your style, you have to get it perfect. These faces look awfully flat and stretchy given the details displayed in their skin complexion, and Yukari's Marisa's mouth looks downright terrifying. You can get away with imperfect perspective in simpler styles, but not if you go all-out on the pursuit of any aspect of realism. Because of the Uncanny Valley, once you go down that path, you have to go the entire distance or not at all. Much of this artist's older work does not suffer from this, since they don't attempt realism in any way with that anatomical style. The coloring is simpler and fits those pictures. This, as an attempt of hyper-realistic skin details and nothing else, falls completely flat as a result.

You can't go halfway with realism. -1