Whoops, totally forgot about this
>>21442892This actually brings me to a topic I was wondering about and I wanted to bring up but I hadn't yet. Obviously when we vote in a design in a confirmation survey, the understanding is that the artwork is official, and that new art is fine, but it can't actually change any of the design, or else it'd have to be a minor change.
I remember back when we had new art made regularity, there were debates all the time as to if X art was just a change in pose/style, or if the actual design/anatomy was changed. I don't think it's possible to draw a line/define what would be considered a design change vs style, other then flat out saying that everything depicted in the art, but not how it is depicted, is official.
Obviously, since both pieces of leukoon art are in the same pose & have nearly the same style, anything that's different that's not the shading or line thickness is a design change.
But what about, say, jaguile? My understanding is this is the art we voted in. Our current sprites have entirely different anatomy, and all subsequent art, including the one currently on the wiki, looks quite different as well. To be blunt, the art we voted in just isn't that good. I assume that there was some sort of understanding that it would be improved later on, but the style/quality of the art here isn't the problem, the proportions/anatomy is.
We've surveyed design stuff before on pokemon that were already locked from minor channges because either people were interpreting what it showed differently, some parts of the design were obscured, but in newer art they weren't so they needed to be decided on (Ocerumi for both of those), or when there were parts of the design we were pretty sure was an error (Cahokisect's toes). Would a similar thing be acceptable for jaguile? There's another design that has a situation more akin to Ocerumi/Cahokisect but I'm not gonna bring that up yet.
