This is awesome! Too much CatrAdora doesn't make Adora buff at all. She's perfect here.
ObsessiveFingerLicker
Jul 12, 2025 1:27PM
^And when she's buff, she's way too buff. Here she's represented in a more accurate way (I don't wanna sound like those "fixing your art" people, I just don't know how else to say it). But what really caught my eye was Catra, she looks so pretty in here.
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FluffyCow
Jul 12, 2025 1:31PM
^Personally I don't mind when she's "way too buff", but this is nice.
ObsessiveFingerLicker
Jul 12, 2025 1:43PM
^Me too, or when she's not buff at all like @Tamahime said. I just don't know what other word to use instead of "accurate".
FluffyCow
Jul 12, 2025 1:46PM
^Maybe "realistic"?
Also yeah for me it's something where I don't mind realism in art, but I also don't mind exaggeration, as there's no limits on what you can do with art.
ObsessiveFingerLicker
Jul 12, 2025 2:55PM
^"realistic" makes more sense, but it's exactly what those guys talk about. Maybe "less stylized" avoids the assimilation... It's pretty easy to get misunderstood online.
Any_ILL
Jul 14, 2025 8:26AM
Without criticising anyone's vision because this is purely about my preference, I like when characters feel like a more credible version of their original design, Adora is fairly scrawny for how much she must work out and how physical her character is. But I still like her to look like the design I feel in love with in the show.
So that's why I prefer "buff but not too buff" designs for her like in this drawing, not because I don't like drawing of extremely buff women (I absolutely do love those as well xD), but because it helps me relate the fan art to the original design. I have a similar opinion on a character like Yamato from One Piece who I like to be depicted buffer than in the manga, but not like a bodybuilder either because he feels too far away from the original version.
Once again, this is personal preference, it's not like I think artists shouldn't draw them how they want of course!
FluffyCow
Jul 14, 2025 1:49PM
@ObsessiveFingerLicker Yeah finding the right wording is tricky, and it's easy to be misunderstood in real life as well. Really with any kind of communication and how everyone has different perspectives and understandings, along with influences that impact those factors and so forth.
FluffyCow Jul 11, 2025 9:07PM
Lovely
Tamahime Jul 12, 2025 12:32AM
This is awesome! Too much CatrAdora doesn't make Adora buff at all. She's perfect here.
ObsessiveFingerLicker Jul 12, 2025 1:27PM
^And when she's buff, she's way too buff. Here she's represented in a more accurate way (I don't wanna sound like those "fixing your art" people, I just don't know how else to say it). But what really caught my eye was Catra, she looks so pretty in here.
last edited at Jul 12, 2025 1:28PM
FluffyCow Jul 12, 2025 1:31PM
^Personally I don't mind when she's "way too buff", but this is nice.
ObsessiveFingerLicker Jul 12, 2025 1:43PM
^Me too, or when she's not buff at all like @Tamahime said. I just don't know what other word to use instead of "accurate".
FluffyCow Jul 12, 2025 1:46PM
^Maybe "realistic"?
Also yeah for me it's something where I don't mind realism in art, but I also don't mind exaggeration, as there's no limits on what you can do with art.
ObsessiveFingerLicker Jul 12, 2025 2:55PM
^"realistic" makes more sense, but it's exactly what those guys talk about. Maybe "less stylized" avoids the assimilation... It's pretty easy to get misunderstood online.
Any_ILL Jul 14, 2025 8:26AM
Without criticising anyone's vision because this is purely about my preference, I like when characters feel like a more credible version of their original design, Adora is fairly scrawny for how much she must work out and how physical her character is. But I still like her to look like the design I feel in love with in the show.
So that's why I prefer "buff but not too buff" designs for her like in this drawing, not because I don't like drawing of extremely buff women (I absolutely do love those as well xD), but because it helps me relate the fan art to the original design. I have a similar opinion on a character like Yamato from One Piece who I like to be depicted buffer than in the manga, but not like a bodybuilder either because he feels too far away from the original version.
Once again, this is personal preference, it's not like I think artists shouldn't draw them how they want of course!
FluffyCow Jul 14, 2025 1:49PM
@ObsessiveFingerLicker Yeah finding the right wording is tricky, and it's easy to be misunderstood in real life as well. Really with any kind of communication and how everyone has different perspectives and understandings, along with influences that impact those factors and so forth.
@Any_ILL Fair enough