Quite a bit scrawnier/thinner than regular Chun Li, isn’t it?
I’m genuinely confused why you’d comment that. Art of fictional charachter by different artists looks different.
Chun Li is a character from a popular fighting arcade game series originating in the 1980s and still sees installments to this day.
This is Chun Li in SF5:
This is Chun Li in SF2:
Admittedly, the waist is quite thin in SF2 as well, but the legs and by extension the posterior thickness could be said to be her trademark and character defining characteristics. Honestly, the girl in the image in the post looks like somebody who only works out once a week.
I’m aware.
This version of her is a cyborg. She probably doesn’t work out at all. Her “trademark” (as if anyone outside capcom needs to care) has been translated into her legs most obviously being enhanced by technology.
I’m still not understanding why you felt the need to comment. Did the fanartist do something wrong?
I mean, yeah, kind of. I didn’t downvote it or anything, but if I had to rate it on a star system then 1 / 10.
Imagine drawing a character with their defining features stripped away, completely unnecessarily and not as part of a “what if” of sorts, and expecting fans to react positively. Imagine cyberpunk Sumo E. Honda weighs like 140 lbs because the future cured weightloss or some shit.
Chun Li does not skip leg day. That’s not Chun Li.
I like it. Am I doing something bad by enjoying it?
You’re not doing anything bad by disliking it either, unless you’re actually trying to tell me I’m wrong for enjoying something.
Imagine drawing a character with their defining features stripped away, completely unnecessarily and not as part of a “what if” of sorts, and expecting fans to react positively. Imagine cyberpunk Sumo E. Honda weighs like 140 lbs because the future cured weightloss or some shit. Chun Li does not skip leg day. That’s not Chun Li.
I have absolutely no problem with artists doing whatever they enjoy. Why do you?
Does this rendition damage the original in some way? Because it doesn’t. If you take offence here, that 100% a you problem. This does not have to impact your enjoyment of the “real” thing, at all. You are merely letting it.
There is no such thing as a charachter trait too intrinsic to change.
You do this every time, dude. The pure irony of you trying to make people feel bad over basic commentary, while asking if they think it’s bad to enjoy it, you just drive down engagement with the art.
Hang on.
I shouldn’t show my distaste for your kind of comment because you (and others) might stop making them?
How is that ironic?
Making you go away, is the intended result.
I feel strongly about this. If this is the kind of engagement I drive down, good.
If it’s not for you… Just dont?
Fanartists arent capcom teammembers trying to maintain consistency across depictions by different people. Fanart would be boring as hell if everyone just copied the original.
Some artists don’t like drawing muscle. Some don’t like drawning men. Some enjoy swapping the genders of charachters. Some enjoy turning them into furries. Some enjoy making the feet bare, or hide the hands because they’re too difficult.
Fanartists avoid weaknesses and lean into strengths in ways official content cannot.
Who cares whether it’s right?
What?
Huuuuuuuh?
Fine. Don’t elaborate.
