Why...

SilverTiger June 19, 2019 3:10 am

Why, in these types of manga, do the horses look like a child drew them?! Honestly, it is not that hard to get reference material for horses. The top half was fine for a cartoon-like horse, but those legs...my word...those ugly ass legs. *shudders*

Responses
    angel1 July 10, 2019 4:34 am

    cant say i blame them horses are hard af to draw

    SilverTiger July 12, 2019 11:24 pm
    cant say i blame them horses are hard af to draw angel1

    There are such things as reference drawings, ya know. I use them all the time if I don't know how to draw certain animals or objects. It's not that hard to take a few extra minutes to study other ways of drawing horses, rather than slap elongated hippos' legs onto a thing the artist claims to be a horse. :/

    塩辛 October 15, 2020 3:14 am
    There are such things as reference drawings, ya know. I use them all the time if I don't know how to draw certain animals or objects. It's not that hard to take a few extra minutes to study other ways of drawin... SilverTiger

    Dude chill, as an artist I understand that horses are fucking hell to draw. Don’t bash the art. References are relatively easy to get, but it’d be annoying to have to get one for easy and every panel. Plus they don’t even look that bad

    Jack Pyroy1000 April 1, 2025 9:04 pm

    Hey, guys!! I found the animal lover!! Okay, jokes aside, I did not notice that. So, why are so focused on a minor detail that has no major relevance? Are you into art?
    Also, Manga artists may draw insignificant things with less detail and accuracy to save time. Yes, they have deadlines.

    CuddleQuill April 1, 2025 11:54 pm
    Hey, guys!! I found the animal lover!! Okay, jokes aside, I did not notice that. So, why are so focused on a minor detail that has no major relevance? Are you into art? Also, Manga artists may draw insignific... Jack Pyroy1000

    Yes, I am into art. I tend to draw very realistically, but I don’t expect everyone to draw like I do as I enjoy many types of art and I can appreciate all sorts of styles. In fact, I’m amazed by people who can draw cartoonish and cutesy styles since my brain doesn’t work that way.

    To be clear, I don’t comment on every single manhua, manhwa, or manga when I see drawings that aren’t to my taste because I do understand deadlines and I know how much effort is put into these stories.

    HOWEVER, there are times when the background animals or animals that are featured in certain panels that are so bad that it’s shocking the publisher allowed them to be seen by the public. I understand the artist is trying to depict some scene or wants to express a story in a certain way (and thus doesn’t pay a lot of attention to certain things), but I feel they shouldn’t even bother adding that particular animal if they can’t spend five minutes (or less) copying the legs of a real horse from a picture off of Google to get the general shape down.