>>3968596>Shitting on RJ out of left field Oof. Gotta address this before anything else. The amount of effort he puts into his designs is astronomical. If you're big brained enough, you can see all the allusions to very real, specific animals with scale patterns, shapes and color designs. Any artist that puts that much thought and effort into their work on a design level should be elevated well past Ilya
That aside, I think you (and many other people in this thread) are missing a lot of things. First off, breaking anatomy to show action has been a staple of stylistic art since, well, forever. And since LoL has a stylistic code that involves this, it comes as no surprise that they play fast and loose in this regard. LoL art always focuses portraying subjects with dynamism and fluidity(
>>3968488 hits this sentiment right on the nose) I guess you could call following a specific style chart "selling out" but then you immediately discredit every artist working in the market that has to work within stylistic bounds. And I would say that is both foolish and a great disservice to all of those people working hard to produce this art
>>3968492portrays my point on this well, actually. while the head and shoulder are adjusted to properly fix some of the anatomical issues, that's not what riot would prioritize. From a composition and thematic standpoint, the more integral things are;
having her head more up into the top 3rd
and, the negative space surrounding her face that would be gone if he edit had the scope in-front of her eye (like it would be). This would damage the readability immensely, especially when it comes down to in-game where it only shows the portrait.
the entire thread has a feeling of animosity. This wont get any of you anywhere. Now that I've dipped my hand into the crab bucket, lets see how many of you latch on
