The author draws female characters very small as well but they look almost normal (keyword almost cause it's def not quite). I know they like small ukes but it's as if they're incapable of drawing smaller males so they take the tits off their chicks making them look even more like kids. The author definitely has an artstyle problem they need to work through because none of their characters look particularly pleasing to the eyes. Sometimes they look fine, but their more masculine characters look weird. Even the ML looks awkwardly soft in some pages that the author couldn't hide, even when they tried to overcome it by fucking with the face length and jawline.
The uke and other feminine characters (even across their other stories) look fine for the most part they also stay pretty consistent. Though I'm starting to think the author might have some other underlying...issues. I have my own problems with art being that every character I draw is definitely female coded. But you can tell when I'm drawing a child v. adult. I just really like drawing the female form so I'm better at it. Since I draw way less men in general my default is female with more masculine features so I have to work really hard to make them less feminine.
What I'm getting at, is the fact this author is suspiciously good at drawing "small" characters compared to the inverse. I say suspicious because one could kinda argue their females almost look like adults. But female characters have bigger eyes, smaller frames, and the only real difference in animes that separate short females from children are the boobs. So it's not as noticeable if they looked child like. Applying what i know about learning to draw i think this author might mostly draw children. Obviously I'm not going to claim this is fact but this author definitely has habits you get from drawing the same thing over and over again.
There are ways to make short, petite, male characters not look like children. Even when the concept is a pretty twink. It's a fine line to straddle but it isn't super hard. So the fact author has made a few different stories now and hasn't learned how yet is making me doubly suspicious.
The author draws female characters very small as well but they look almost normal (keyword almost cause it's def not quite). I know they like small ukes but it's as if they're incapable of drawing smaller males so they take the tits off their chicks making them look even more like kids. The author definitely has an artstyle problem they need to work through because none of their characters look particularly pleasing to the eyes. Sometimes they look fine, but their more masculine characters look weird. Even the ML looks awkwardly soft in some pages that the author couldn't hide, even when they tried to overcome it by fucking with the face length and jawline.
The uke and other feminine characters (even across their other stories) look fine for the most part they also stay pretty consistent. Though I'm starting to think the author might have some other underlying...issues. I have my own problems with art being that every character I draw is definitely female coded. But you can tell when I'm drawing a child v. adult. I just really like drawing the female form so I'm better at it. Since I draw way less men in general my default is female with more masculine features so I have to work really hard to make them less feminine.
What I'm getting at, is the fact this author is suspiciously good at drawing "small" characters compared to the inverse. I say suspicious because one could kinda argue their females almost look like adults. But female characters have bigger eyes, smaller frames, and the only real difference in animes that separate short females from children are the boobs. So it's not as noticeable if they looked child like. Applying what i know about learning to draw i think this author might mostly draw children. Obviously I'm not going to claim this is fact but this author definitely has habits you get from drawing the same thing over and over again.
There are ways to make short, petite, male characters not look like children. Even when the concept is a pretty twink. It's a fine line to straddle but it isn't super hard. So the fact author has made a few different stories now and hasn't learned how yet is making me doubly suspicious.