Okay, you know how artists (almost everyone I know at least) are usually shy to put fanart, nsfw and homo-stuff in their portfolios? I think I don’t even need to tell you, it’s like a rule: YOU SLOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOUR YAOI and nude boys, and porn, and basicly everything you drew for yourself or friends or fun, and portfolios should be all about SERIOUS ART and stuff.
Well, THIS GUY, grown up man btw and a great artist as anyone can see, has a lot of nsfw art and fanart in his portfolio. Most of the nsfw are nude pretty girls in different poses, also girlXgirl pics. Hell, he has a bestiality fanart of Alice in Wonderland here! Think again - bestiality and gay art in a portfolio!
It made me wonder, if this kind of thing is okay, why nude dudes and slashy fanarts in a portfolio are bad? Do we restrict ourselves subconsciously or is it simply some kind of double standarts?
He wrote a long post about it once, i belive you can find it on his VK page. It’s not about that one thing is bad and another is not, it’s about being ashamed that your potential customer might find this unappropriated and won’t buy from you because of it. Well, he simply says “fuck it i do what i want”, and instead of hiding his works that he clearly enjoys from every person who may or may not become his customer, he leaves it for everybody to see and searches for normal people who aren’t dumb enough to shame an artist for things they draw on their free time. And that part in which you should put different types of work into your portfolio so your potential customers could see that you can draw more than ont thing.
On the other hand, from my own experience - people usually take female nudity more easily, than male. Like it’s a normal thing to like for men and woooo hot babes everywhere, while women liking slash is still viewed as a “fetish” thing, aka hide it and don’t tell anyone about it, it’s dirty, sick and unprofessional.
Huh, I just discovered this guy’s site today so idk anything, but thanks for pointing it out. And yeah, those are the two things that came to my mind when I looked at his portfolio. First was “Wow, this guy sure isn’t shy about his art”. And hey, it’s really cool! I wish I had this kind of confidence in my art at some point. And it’s his right and choice to do that, too.
But my second thought was “…yeah, but still, he draws porn and femslash and nude girls. Even though it may seem inapropriate for a portfolio it’s still popular stuff that won’t be hated as much as art with gay boys and pin-up'ish nude guys.” So… yeahhhh, I guess it’s cool to be this confident, but you need to be a hell of a good artist to pull out something like that with gay art and fanart that don’t have nude chiks in it.
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