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please stop redrawing your older pieces

maybe i'm just biased but brother they were perfect the way they were, it wasn't broken and it didn't need fixing

like that's why we're so pissed about your work now because it lacks the structure and character it had back then

the glow is nice ig but like the anatomy is so much worse which is really a bummer for this piece in particular because it was originally the framework for the composition in the original and that's completely missing in the draw (like this is a perfect example of how rachel's 'intentionally broken' anatomy ykwim? like it wasn't perfect anatomy but it was way more STRIKING and served the composition a lot more, like in Hades' shoulders and Persephone's legs and hair)

persephone's flowers are gone , hades' laurel crown is gone

it's too dark and it feels like the vignette effect was used purely to cover up mistakes / anatomical issues and not because it was actually necessary

i'm sorry for picking on rachel's newer posts but every time she redraws one of these old pieces it feels like such a disrespect to the original work, like these are pieces i STUDY FROM and still thoroughly enjoy from the original series, so seeing them redrawn like this is painful

and the worst part is most people (i.e. casual viewers) probably don't even realize this is a redraw to begin with, because she posted it on its own as a promotion for vol 10 and a lot of casual consumers of LO aren't aware of the older art pieces that existed way back in the day

i can understand wanting to redraw older pieces (i do it all the time, it's a great exercise!) but this is one of the few times where the artistic development has gone so backwards that the redrawn pieces feel like the work of someone making a DTIYS redraw that doesn't capture the spirit of the original vs. an actual redraw of the original work by the original creator herself

like if this WERE a DTIYS piece from someone else that would be FINE but it's NOT and that's what's so baffling and upsetting about it

i've said this many times before and i'll say it again, it's giving rcdart and i'm sobbing, this is a hate crime towards me specifically (/j)