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The world doesn't revolve around you lil bro. Sit your goofy ass down 🙏
Haro's work shows his obvious love of nudes, as that's where all the effort went. The rest suffers horribly. The "classroom" in the piece isn't apparent, and I honestly thought he just forgot to blend or erase the perspective lines. Not gonna lie, I actually laughed when I saw it. I also have to criticize how he seems to default towards torsos and hasn't graduated to full-body drawings. As a result, it feels objectifying by removing emotion or identity from the matter. It doesn't matter how well he can draw a nude, if it feels empty and it's placed in an empty setting.
Kazari doesn't fair much better. While he has a far more all-around consistant and technically impressive work, there's a sterility here. He's properly framed by the nudes around him, with enough dynamism in both the implication of movement and their overlap with the mid-ground. Simultaneously, he misses the theme by cutting the classroom out of the picture, and elevates himself as the subject.
In the end, they're mirrors of each other: Haro wants to make art, but he refuses to learn. Kazari wants to learn all the techniques, but he only makes drawings, not ART.
It's honestly BS. Because Art is an interpretation that doesn't survive the test of time. No one can agree on what the "classics" really mean because it's partly a context of the time it was created, and then when viewed, those times change and so does the interpretation.
To me this is simply a story of someone who has a habit - literally a fetish for nudes without context, and does what he wants. He's clearly not a hero with clay feet, so he's a peg to get whacked at. Whether that whacking molds him or destroys him seems to be the question, but for now, it's all about destroying individuality for the sake of art nouveau (the villain's work).
Oh and in case you think I'm just pissed about it (yeah I am) I did read more than a few raws ahead,
The witch calls the villain's work essentially trite - it's technically superior, but it has no soul. It has no meaning. Our hard-headed MC on the other hand? She doesn't outright praise him, but says essentially what I wrote above - "You cant help but draw what you want to draw. Thank you for this, I'm looking forward to more." Oh, and the annoying gal whose Dad didn't want her to be an artist? She came in second.
So there you go. It's nice to be able to have read between the lines and actually be validated by the Raws. Let's move on.
But there is a big connection between the villain's hot sister and a major character. That's all. It will become self-evident in the next few chapters. But more importantly, does he get to see her nude? Heh. All I can say is the villain gets his comeuppance but not in the way you think.
Part of the problem is his tunnel vision and seeming unseriousness.It’s not that he’s a beginner. It’s just that he didn’t understand the instructions and just drew whatever comes into his mind.
Possibly a lot of failed artists who felt like shit hit both the fan and too close to homeI guess always having a nude as the centerpiece of his works (and usually the torso, but not always, ex: the baseball glove one) finally came to bite him in some way. Haro's works usually were the best when he had a subject and themes handed to him from the occasion he used as inspiration for what he was painting/drawing at the time, here he had none of that (and having to come up with those on the spot, on your own, with time pressure, is much more difficult), and this should be a good learning experience for him, as it'll make him realise the skills he's lacking, and how he might've either misinterpreted Amami-sensei's (gramps-sensei) words, or how limited his perspective has been up until now, even if it was developing little by little. In his work it feels like he tried to say so much, in a grandiose way, that he wasn't able to communicate anything at all, feels like almost everything he tried to portray ended up still staying inside his own head (it honestly can happen with anyone).
I was a bit surprised with the attitude here on the comments as well, people weren't being this agressive on previous chapters