Then it's his own fault why he gets smacked, if he can't look at the opposite sex in the face when talking to them, then he really needs to stay away from women
I know this kid is socially inept and clearly focuses more on fetishizing Iljina than actually paying much attention to her, but still. For an ARTIST to not notice that his primary artistic muse has an obviously different hairstyle from normal is just stupidly outside of suspension of belief.