Thread:LondonSpear/@comment-11163511-20171217071122/@comment-10233964-20171231161234

I have to intervene, please forgive me. I know you are striving for a perfekt Monster High Style...I can relate, I do, too. But...trust me, everything is better than using edited dollmaker/dress-ups (or even worse, bad base edits). Besides your art is actually far from bad, it's really good! The first "sketch" of Canine was the piece that piqued my interest in the character to beginn with (and I am very certain this applies to everybody else who commented on Canines Page!) Now she just looks like a carbon copy of Clawdeen...everything that made her so unique is gone.

Let me be absolutely honest with you here...If that dress-up edit had been the very first thing I had seen...I wouldn't even have bothered to read her page and comment below at all. Because I would've assumed another bad, carbon copy, nothing out of the odinary character page. Because people who usually create their OCs like this, with Dress ups or badly drawn on bases, tend to not think too much about personality or backstory either. Yes I do believe good characters don't necessary need good art. But honestly...no art at all is better than "cheap" art! And yes I know editing can be quite the task too, but you honestly dont need it! You are absolutely capable of creating good art all by yourself!

Please do not get me wrong. I do not want you to feel bad about it. Quite the contrary. I want to encourage you to refrain from edits and rely more on your talent and skill. Because it is absolutely apparent that you have talent and skill! You should work with it, build on it become even better than you already are! You won't become better by editing other peoples stuff though. I really really LOVE your art style - as I said it was the main reason why I investigated this character in the first place. Give your characters personality and uniqueness and draw them yourself! Don't sell yourself, your art and characters short by your wish to be as close to the official art as possible! Please embrace your own style more!