Artist alias request thread

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MarqFJA87 said:

BUR #51964 has been rejected.

create alias bachumaro_xo -> hz_(666v)

@Arcana55 unilaterally split off the posts associated with those specific accounts, under the mistaken impression that it's a different artist.

I found no definitive evidence that they are the same person, and a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence that they are not.

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#1: Lack of interlinks

The artist URLs can be cleanly separated into two groups. Within each group URLs only link to or have a name in common with other URLs in that group. I could find no connection at all between URLs of different groups (i.e. they are disjoint). One group consists of all bachumaro urls, the other group everything else.

#2: Skeb

Each has a different skeb account. Why would an established skeb artist, with an asking amount of JPY 30,000, 86 completed commissions and a 100% completion rate, throw out that cred and start another skeb account to ask for JPY 26,000?

#3: Why?

The most common reasons for artists to have different accounts I've found to be:

  • Isolating NSFW material from SFW. Often there is a noticeable historical trend, where upcoming artists will do NSFW to pay the bills, then when finding success they try to distance themselves from the smut for the sake of respectability.
  • Separating genres. This is often a big deal for artists who draw both hetero and yaoi or yuri.
  • Separating OC material from fanart. Sometimes even for fanart of a particular franchise or character ship.

None of these reasons seem to be applicable here. Both mostly draw in the Sensitive to Questionable range. Genre doesn't really apply. And speaking of OC's...

#4: Each has their own portfolio of original characters.
#5: Style differences

Last because this is always very subjective.

for reference:
Hz_(666V)
post #10363296, post #9796061, post #8564301, post #8308302

Bachumaro
post #10373184, post #10259055, post #10091975, post #10017981

When Hz paints a blush, often/usually he simply adds diffuse color, without using linear hatching. When he does use hatching, the hatched areas tend to be small, located centrally, close to the nose, and are only a fraction of the full width of the eye. When Bachumaro paints a blush, he almost always uses hatching and the hatching is as wide as the eye, and might reach past its outside corner.

Hz's eyelashes are simple wedges on a very thick, dark eyeline. Bachumaro often/usually has eyelashes which have color drawn from the eye itself, and are drawn on top of the black eyeline.