chapotraphouse

the only one of these characters seeming anything-slighly-less than totally rail-thin body type by proportion to height being South Africa definitely has some things going on tbh (and weirdly only in the torso down, the character's neck is still rail thin). and even aside from that they're still all pretty uniformly hyper-conventionally-beautified in the ways that has been being criticized in online art as uninspired if not problematic, for over a decade. There was a whole thing of that same goddamn face style and structure in every "young pretty female" portrait that was all anyone was drawing online for the longest time. I forget if it had a name.

and having pretty young women personified as nations in of itself has a whole lot of really messy history with nationalism and patriarchy's relationship that it as a whole makes me uneasy. That said this is a profoundly unimportant thing, some random twitter sometimes-porn-sometimes-not-porn artist; I'm almost mad I spent the time and effort to type this.