This is so pretty!! 💙

This looks great!

And I hopefully shouldn't have to explain why that line of thinking is wrong and regressive...

I got better when I started practicing the fundamentals. It's so disingenuous to say that A) all anime styles are derivative and uncreative and B) that they should be avoided lest they "taint" someone's style. These people talk as if the way westerners draw is somehow better than the east.