>>54662855This board will gaslight you into thinking this isn't a real phenomenon but it absolutely is, especially if you're involved in some artist communities
If you've studied enough human anatomy and developed an artstyle, you'll know when someone overexaggerates specific features like smooth and soft skin tones with weirdly reflective highlighting that looks like it's covered in oil vs the realistic blotchy and often dry tones a real body gives off
I think most normies can see the issue more clearly in the "normal vs furry" art styles where like picrel is very much trying to stay on-model for a typically furry mon compared to some other art clearly emphasizing the musculature/fat pads or over-softening the fur of a species like Pikachu where it's very infrequent that it's given tufts of fur in official media
There are tells to what a person prioritizes in their work and you aren't crazy for it
