ITT: manga artists whose art got worse over time

ITT: manga artists whose art got worse over time

Which one is supposed to be worse.

name one that didn't

Doesn't look that much worse.
Looks like his style underwent some streamlining/simplification under the pressures of drawing a weekly manga.

Only difference is no shading in the eye? Art itself looks the same

What do I win

that's what they said about Oda, and we all know how stupid One Piece looks now

This tickles me greatly.

Kengan

Komi San is the worst i've seen so far

oda is more of a byproduct of age and wanting to cram as much shit into chapters as to actually finish one piece before dying of old age
also because he insists on doing all characters by himself

It's weird how most manga artists get worse at drawing instead of improving

ahem

This is what losing the assistants carrying you (and your motivation to actually draw well) does to a man.

Shiro

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I don't read One Piece and Oda and the Blue Lock author are two completely different people.

Even his current art would have been better if he stopped drawing those ugly wrinkles on clothing, everyone looks like they're made of dried up skin. How a single bad habit can ruin an artist.

Jokes aside, what is Fujimoto aiming for as his style evolves (or degrades)?
And has anyone noticed that his newer style has some similarities to some variants of 90s style anime drawings? Some specific points of similarity are the "bluntness" of the linework and how the clothing is detailed with masses of semi-abstract, flat and maze-like shapes with sharp corners to represent folds.
Seriously, it's right in line with certain trends from the height of the 90s (and early 2000s) although it could just be me.

araki

Usogui
Blame!

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You have to actually study and seriously think about how to draw in order to improve, raw mileage alone doesn't do anything. On top of that mangaka are stressed out, and given that drawing requires a lot of concentration and mental stamina, it's no wonder quality begins to drop after a certain point.

They just getting burned out from nonstop work

Tower dungeon looks kind of shit

lmao
LMAO
LMAOOOO

No it doesn't.

When was the last time you looked at the character art in the first chapter of Blame!, anon?

Not that Anon, and I have not yet read tower dungeon, but this is really the best you could came up with?
These panels prove nothing.

dumb retard, kys

Hayashida. Her early art had issues but they are mostly gone now.

blue lock

You really start noticing it after U-20 match. Proportions get wacky and people start looking same. For example Rin, Isagi and glasses guy basically look like same person in the latest match, except for some key differences.

It's not getting worse at drawing, it's getting burnt out and exhausted. Give them enough time and the absolute majority of these mangaka will produce great art

This isn't true. Most mangaka improve during their first few years of publishing. Artist development usually works like this:

high effort, low skill -> high effort, high skill -> mid-to-low effort, high skill

During their amateur phase, artists are highly motivated but lack experience. Their style tends to be clunky and uneven, but that has its own charm ("sovl"). Over time as they work on their manga every day, their skills grow. Their style becomes more consistent as they figure out what works for them and lean into certain habits. With increased skill, stuff that they used to struggle with as an amateur becomes easy, and unless they are extreme autists, this eventually leads to complacence and stagnation. They rely on shortcuts and simplify their art, sometimes to a destructive extent.
As to why mangaka let themselves stagnate, anons have already mentioned age and overwork as factors, but I think some mangaka start to feel that they've already reached the level they wanted to. They spend years or decades chasing their dream, and once they get there, now what? It takes a really crazy person to keep aiming higher, and those who do pay the toll with their bodies.

i'd say the kimetsu no yaiba one
felt like it actually got better over time

Kimetsu early art was so rough that it would be hard not to get better.

Araki started rough, became great and then just kept getting worse

The artstyle itself looks largely the same, there's just less detail and that might just be a consequence of the weekly schedule.

Most improve or roughly stay the same, it's just people are obviously going to make a bigger deal about the ones that decline, so they stand out more.

Tower Dungeon's character art is definitely better than Sidonia's, but it has a flatness to it which I think happened due to nihei going digital?

All Jojo sereis from part 5 and beyond just look like shit, its a shame part 7 looks so bad since the story and characters are good in that one. 6, 8, and 9 are shit and don't matter though.

Mizukami started out really rough

Right looks better. Left came out cross-eyed.

Ichis art is pretty good too

There's a lot of artists who start out amateurish, then git gud as they draw more, and then start to degrade as they start cutting corners.