The text ruins it.

The bad artist skills also ruin it.

The nosebleed and positioning of the pencil makes it look like she's cramming it up her nose.

AgentSugar69 said:
The bad artist skills also ruin it.

I would be delighted to see you do better.

coachz said:
I would be delighted to see you do better.

I wouldn't. Danbooru isn't deviantart.

coachz said:
I would be delighted to see you do better.

This is the sort of lame excuse employed by mediocre artists, who'd rather blame the viewer than work on improving themselves.

"Can't draw better than me? THEN YOU CAN'T CRITICISE MY ART! HAH, I WIN!"

Though to be fair, the art is really not bad. There are plenty of worse pics on Danbooru. It just really annoys me that the artist felt compelled to point out the obvious joke with a stupid line of text plus arrow. Did he think we wouldn't get it otherwise? How patronizing. This is the art equivalent of "Haha! I made a joke! A joke! Get it? GET IT?!" If you need to point out the joke, you didn't tell it right.

It shouldn't be too hard to photoshop the text away if it really bothers you.

silly me..i think it is a pretty work..

ziiv said:
It shouldn't be too hard to photoshop the text away if it really bothers you.

I feel like being a saint today so there you go post #306810

Nice art, redundant text is redundant, meh.

ironic that in the version without the text, there is immediately someone who doesn't understand the joke.

exsanguis said:
ironic that in the version without the text, there is immediately someone who doesn't understand the joke.

That was very obviously a joke.

AgentSugar69 said:
The bad artist skills also ruin it.

I think that the art is very good.

To be fair, in the series, there are also "Reality" and "What Hiyori is seeing" tags whenever Hiyori, Minami and Yutaka are around. Maybe the author was just making reference to that.

does anyone think people would be bitching about the text near as much if it were in Japanese?

Yamato-san said:
does anyone think people would be bitching about the text near as much if it were in Japanese?

No, because they wouldn't understand it. Maybe in Japan they bitch about it.

Even if it's been translated?

rutter said:
No, because they wouldn't understand it. Maybe in Japan they bitch about it.

well, I was pointing more towards that fact that western art (or at least westerners attempting to imitate anime) tends to get hated. I can't say I'm too fond of it either (especially westerners who think big eyes are its only defining trait), but in a rare instance that it's actually good, dammit, I'll say that it's good, and that's precisely what this is.