I think there's more artistic merit and work put in to this compared to this, in my personal opinion.

But yeah, it's definitely not something you need to have a chip on your shoulder over.

otaku_emmy said:
this compared to this

…

I’m speechless by that statement… I highly disagree.

Like, my point is, the pixel art is way easier to make than that other picture. I think pixel art is cute, but if we accept pixel art, then in 🎼my opinioooooon🎼, kazenokaze should be accepted

But that’s just my response to what you said, not me tryna be like “I wAnT cHaNgE” cuz that ain’t gonna happen :p

But yeah, it's definitely not something you need to have a chip on your shoulder over.

I was just being silly :p. U know me I’m not someone to take seriously lol. Primal Agony just gets a little triggered. U know thisssssss

Watch what you say unpleasant human person, Lecturing and triggered are two different things, By the way if you're not someone to be taken seriously, How come you care so much about a mediocre artist being added hmmm? you keep nagging about it so much that you can't hide how much you care about that artist being added, And oh yes i know you use You are not meant to seriously Or you are just joking as an excuse to get away, I would've choosen to ignore this but you have been getting on my nerves for the past weeks so it had to be said.

mattiasc02 said:
Like, my point is, the pixel art is way easier to make than that other picture.

That's pure conjecture.

I'd have to agree with Emmy for the most part.

Kazenokaze's work is fine only until you start seeing a lot of it or until you see characters you're familiar with. I'd say "original" works would be fine. Or maybe rare characters that just happen to look similar.

Take a look at any of these for which you're familiar with the characters:

eromanga-sensei:
Post #253476

mahou_shoujo_lyrical_nanoha:
Post #243191
Post #243695

highschool_dxd:
Post #247012

zero_no_tsukaima:
Post #242313 (Especially this one! If you know these characters and you still think the art anywhere near acceptable, I'd be amazed...)

fate/kaleid_liner_prisma_illya:
Post #227588

lucky_star:
Post #229280

kono_subarashii_sekai_ni_shukufuku_wo!:
Post #233459

Zolxys said:
zero_no_tsukaima:
Post #242313 (Especially this one! If you know these characters and you still think the art anywhere near acceptable, I'd be amazed...)

Ok fine. Coolio. I'm very familiar with the characters so... yeah I do agree with you on that part.

No more Kazenokaze it is 😎

otaku_emmy said:
That's pure conjecture.

However, it issss educated conjecture, since I edit things in GIMP all the time. Pixels are easy to draw, this I know.

But it doesn't matter. Honestly I think pixel art is cute anyways, so it belongs here.

Calling an entire style of art "cute" is a bit dismissive, but sure.

mattiasc02 said:
However, it issss educated conjecture, since I edit things in GIMP all the time. Pixels are easy to draw, this I know.

There's a difference between being an artist, being able to make a really great piece in the medium, and just doing whatever you mentioned. You're not an artist.

Kazenokaze has been drawing the same face and body for literal years now. If anything they've got it down to a process that they barely even have to think about at this point. There's no variation, no soul, no panache, no personality to the characters being drawn.

P.S.

mattiasc02 said:
Ok fine. Coolio. I'm very familiar with the characters so...

Have you actually seen the anime he mentioned? We're not talking about recognizing them based on fanart, but rather knowing their personalities and having a real fondness for them.

Of course you're gonna be fine with the art or even love it if you have low standards and no real connection to what's being drawn.

otaku_emmy said:
Calling an entire style of art "cute" is a bit dismissive, but sure.

There's a difference between being an artist, being able to make a really great piece in the medium, and just doing whatever you mentioned. You're not an artist.

No no no no! I mean it forreal it's sooo cutee

And I'm not an artist. I'm just saying that because I know how it feels like to redraw cartain bits to detext or extend someone's hair a little bit, so in my mind it's like to do pixel art must be that times ten (which TRUST me, I am NOT saying it's easy. If it's hard enough for me to detext, I can already understand how much it can take to draw the pixel art you showed)

And yeah now I take back when I said it was easy... I don't think before I speak.

Howeverrrr, before you say I ain't an artist and a kisumi 2.0... :3

emmy said loooong time ago:
AND I think your drawing was really good. You have talent.

:3 :3 :3 :3 :3 cuz i am :3 :3 :3

P.S. Have you actually seen the anime he mentioned?

Yes... it was like, literally the first anime I've ever seen back in 2014 when I was obsessed with nigthcore and still a lurker on konachan lol. (believe or not I actually rewatched zero no tsukaima again yesterday) I would've never made this If I never liked it/watched it loool

I love saito hiraga too. He's so stand uppy for himself <3 <3 (but i can't speak for him other than season 1 since that's all I've seen, but it seeeems to me that he has turned into a pervert in the future :/)

We're not talking about recognizing them based on fanart, but rather knowing their personalities and having a real fondness for them.

Of course you're gonna be fine with the art or even love it if you have low standards and no real connection to what's being drawn.

Kazenokaze has been drawing the same face and body for literal years now. If anything they've got it down to a process that they barely even have to think about at this point. There's no variation, no soul, no panache, no personality to the characters being drawn.

I never said I loved that kazenokaze image of zero no tsukaima, i couldn't really care about it. But yes I totally know what you're trying to say, and in looking at the zero no tsukaima picture, I feel it even more. It was pretty... soulless in that sense

In regards to some of kazeno's other pics that I don't LOVE, but I do like, are stuff like post #197399, post #214772, post #230696 and post #237129 because they look kawaii or whatever but it IS true that in those posts i've never seen the animes, but just like the drawing of those characters.

Btw guys, what does blocking mean in the context of the image?

Same ^^ I'm curious never heard of it before

How is this? Tried cleaning it (this is the original)

kyxor said:
Btw guys, what does blocking mean in the context of the image?

Not every term people use is universal. But most likely that would be referring to one of the following depending on the image:

• Macroblocking artifacts in video compression.
• High image compression over an area of slightly varying color resulting in squares of noticeably different color.
• Reduced color depth over a gradient resulting in a noticeable jump from one color to the next.

mattiasc02 said:
How is this? Tried cleaning it (this is the original)

Ngl i see no real difference between them.

mattiasc02 said:
How is this? Tried cleaning it (this is the original)

Far far better than the original, but doesn't really look acceptable.

Sometimes you just have to honor the artist's decision to ruin the image quality. And therefore choose not to bother with it... When the quality is that bad, you practically have to redraw it by hand to fix it.

*Edit

PrimalAgony said:
Ngl i see no real difference between them.

I can't imagine why you don't see a difference unless:
A) You opened the same link twice to compare them.
or
B) You're not displaying the images at actual size.

Take a look at the top left of the original for example. There is a very clear example of the "blocking" we were just talking about (The second and third types). And of course it's full of standard JPEG artifacts as well.

Yeah to call it "blocking" is a very vague term that is why I asked. Yume likes to delete things saying "blocking" so.

I think that's another of Mattias' issues when it comes to quality. He sometimes cleans or filters things to death, or makes muddy waifus.

It's like Zolxys said, sometimes you just gotta let a nice image go. I've had to make that sacrifice plenty of times. :p

I have actually opened both the link he said he 'fixed' and compared it to the original and i didn't notice any difference Zolxys.

The difference is obvious.

mattiasc02 said:
How is this? Tried cleaning it (this is the original)

Having finally been able to sit down and check both on my preferred image viewing screen, I can indeed say they're clearly different, but both unfit for upload on Konachan. Even the cleaned version is still obviously flawed.

Yeah thought so. I was just wanting that verification (it's so hard for poor little me to trust myself)

Thank you guys!

Does this look too much like demographics? So much underrated artist that literally nobody knows about him. Feels really rewarding to find them.

It's certainly not something I find appealing.

I don't like the face at all. And the clothes look unnaturally situated.

See his other works, I am thinking of the general style, cause it's kinda realistic in some parts, and in other looks like fantasy. Since they are original works, its kinda hard to assume any backing behind the images.
I was wondering since this sort of fantasy may lie outside of anime world.
Though often if I have doubts I am usually correct.

Some are fine. Many are not. The ones that I noticed looked fine were all portrait AR though.

I have no idea but whenever my uploads are detected as upscaled I google search the image to see if I perhaps I find an original resolution from e-hentai or whatever.

otaku_emmy said:
Nah, I never replace letterbox.

Why not?

Zolxys said:
Why not?

Cuz it would mean prioritizing my "artistic vision" over that of the artist. I suppose I've always viewed them as two different images as well.

I think Yume and I are the only one who occasionally remove letterboxing from images, and I'll usually only do it to my own uploads.

Sometimes really thick letterbox ruins an image for me though. Like the Atri post.

I don't think letterboxing has anything to do with "artistic vision" unless some content overflows into the letterboxing.

And remember, this is a wallpaper site. When you use an image as wallpaper, bars will automatically be added to fill the empty space if the image doesn't fit perfectly. However, if an image has a lower AR than the desktop resolution, bars will be added to the sides to fill the empty space. So if the image has letterboxing, this results in borders on all sides of the image.

There is absolutely no case where simple letterboxing in an image improves how it looks when used as wallpaper.

Zolxys said:
There is absolutely no case where simple letterboxing in an image improves how it looks when used as wallpaper.

That's a good point. I never thought about it like that. Cuz some images do look pretty cool with a black letterbox. It can be very cinematic. Especially for dark, scenic images.

I'll keep that in mind though. Like I said, I'm never aiming to...snipe someone else's post. I only ever make these changes when I personally feel something will look nicer.

Yeah. I think mine should be replaced afterall is something's gonna be replaced. I uploaded the boarder one cuz (well, the artist added it)

But also, this makes me think: should we all aim to just not have boarders period tho? I mean, at this point it might as well be a thing. Honestly, from now on, I willll crop borders, especially if that's gonna be the case