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.
There’s something called “social dysphoria,” which basically means “being distressed by being seen/treated as/labeled as the gender you were assigned at birth.”
It’s literally a type of dysphoria doctors will accept if you want to medically transition, so nobody can say it isn’t valid.
there’s also cognitive dysphoria, which is basically ‘being [assigned gender] just doesnt feel right’
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