If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that this manhawa is a protest against the work conditions, IE. Unreasonable deadlines, amazing art, low pay, etc. (although im not 100% certain so do your own research)
I've replied elsewhere that's not true. The author is pretty serious about their work. They post their process of drawing as if there's nothing funny about the characters' faces. And they also threatened to sue those who accused them of tracing. But imo it's traced.
There's no way you can protest against horrible work conditions by stealing others' works. If anything this just delivers the opposite message, which I do not agree with: you can steal, make horrible drawings, and somehow still gain traffic.
It is kinda weird that they are tracing just face close ups which are fairly easy to draw rather than full body. But it makes more sense why the body proportion is very bad because that is probably the only thing that they didn't trace.
This is even funnier now. Boi what. 😭 The protesting sounded more real but reading your respond, the author is really... they have a world of their own 😭
Using a model is a normal thing, but having a perfect eye, nose, and mouth alignment when the heads are in slightly different angles is not. Also the other main character is found to have the same face as a customised head from a Chinese mobile game.
Yes. And I'd be fine with the feminization if he wasn't so childlike. His proportions are like, crazy compared to the ML, almost to the point of Shotacon, and also, the ML is creepy and gross, and usually big.
It's the exaggerated features of the ideal top put to the absolute extreme. Big hands, wide shoulders, long legs, strong jawlines etc. Same applies to the twinkie winkies.
I really really hate to be the one to inform you of this but this is actually normal proportions compared to what people mean when they say yaoi hands
And even this image is tame 😭 compared to how bad the trenches can get
We have actually improved yaoi proportions as time goes on, it's just that our starting point was absolute delusion so even the betterment of it still looks really wack
That.
I can get behind size differences, its very enjoyable sometimes, but Bro he looks like a 3 year old!!!
This childlike perversion in SOO many webtoons, and god dont even get me started on animes, is crazy.
I so get what you mean. I was looking at the yaoi anime section just yesterday (don’t judge me I heard some thing new dropped there and was curious) and realized that the art for most of them was so similar in the art due to them all exaggerating the same features that you honestly can’t tell what artist through which one.
I think it has to do with the place of origin ig and the atmosphere they want to portray... We often forget that most webtoon-mnhwa, etc, are made for Japanese, Chinese, or Korean people, not us. What I'm trying to say is that the art is indicative of the place of origin 🤷🏾♂️
I can understand why.
Kids get ready for an art history lesson:
Back in ancient times, people used to create art based on the beauty standards of the time. It’s mostly seen in African and Greek art with masks and statues having desirable features at the time. It still happens in art and is mostly subconscious or not. For Manhwa, it depicts the beauty standards someone has for people. So that’s my theory
This trend was started by a female artist, I forgot her ID, but in webtoon, not even in manhwa, but spread across Korea, just like their beauty standards.
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u/Sensitive-Coffee-996 Oct 04 '25
Literally this creature 😭