Canon-Style Fan Art

Canon-Style Fan Art is, as the name suggests, fan art for South Park that is specifically imitating the construction paper art style used in canonical South Park episodes, without employing the individual style of the creator. The intention is to create images as close to the show as possible.
Such fan art was not particularly popular in the late 2000s or early 2010s, but became exponentially more popular after the release of South Park: The Stick of Truth and the release of many of its art and construction paper assets in Photoshop-friendly formats allowed more artists to create depictions accurate to the show, and it has since become a significant force in the fan art side of the fandom.
==History==
The very first well-known South Park fan artist to popularize this style was KineticSquirrel, he used older versions of the old Flash program to do his animations and occasionally his drawings, however, he’s not active anymore.
Many fan artists and animators such as LWBiverse, ModestNeko and most recently Artsy-the-Creator (previously known as BlackGiro) got either inspired by him or each other.
A few artists who used the style and were heavily influential and would otherwise warrant inclusion here have been connected to inappropriate behavior in real life, therefore we will not link their pages or use their names.
==Tools/Programs==
Most fan artists who draw in this style tend to use expensive Adobe software such as Photoshop and Animate CC(Flash Cs6 early on), they often use the former to replicate the South Park art style in construction paper format and they also use the latter to create animated rigs as well, many of those artists also borrow some assets from SP-Studio, created by Janina Himmen and from the South Park: Stick of Truth files, which can be easily opened by extracting them and importing to Adobe Animate CC.
Many fans who use this style create 'templates' or 'bases' that other fans can customize by altering the background, adding hair and clothing detail and such, to create their own images without having to start from scratch.
== Criticism ==
Many fan artists who use this style have been criticized, as the canon-style art tends to focus primarily on fourth graders, for whether or not they are depicting these characters in appropriate situations, and some have been accused of using this style of art to draw "kiddie porn" and to deliberately sexualize the characters. Some artists who use this style do not depict sexual or inappropriate situations, however, and are nonetheless accused of having sexual motivations.
It has also been suggested artists who use this style are not real artists as their work is derivative and imitating the show's initial style, and therefore lacking in meaningful skill.
==External Links==
*deviantART Group for the Canon art style
*deviantART Group for "South Park" style art
Category:Fan Art