sabertoothwalrus:

juliajm15:

sssoto:

You need to stop telling artists that whatever character they’ve drawn reminds you of another character. Even if you mean it as a compliment, it’s not; it’s dismissing the effort that artist put into drawing a character that they love.

yes people, just remember that overall no artist in any field really appreciates comparisons like that…

I’ve reblogged this before but this time I wanted to add:

this goes double for people’s ocs.

More often than not, if an artist’s original character resembles an unrelated existing one, they know and already feel self-conscious about it. Whenever I get a comment like this on my ocs, I always feel uncreative and cheap like all I did was subconsciously copy another character, even if I know I put a lot of effort in creating it.