>>73747I enjoy seeing an artist's style change when it's easy to tell that they're improving, whether it's improvements to anatomy, shading, color choices, the way they do lines, etc. Fkey is a great example there. That's an artist I've been seeing over the years with remarkable leveling up of highlights and detail.
If it's a change in content, then I suppose it can't be helped. I've seen artists focus on one topic for a number of years and then abandon it for another. Appreciators of their work can voice their desire to see more of the older stuff, but it's the artist's choice in the end.
I'd seen a comment somewhere on another imageboard where a particular artist received so many requests for guro by one person that the rest of his audience got upset and the artist broke it off into a whole separate account for that type of content.
Further regarding content, while
>>73755 makes a good point with commissions
>If I commission a piece, it should look as close as possible to what I want.With some guardrails, I'd venture to say. The client issued the prompt to a specific artist. They wanted to see their vision realized in that artist's style. As long as there's money to accommodate, revisions on composition, pose, or colors should be expected of course since those are standard fare (except for Skeb where you get what you get with no take-backs). However, if the client wants a style for which the artist isn't suited, then that's not a nice thing to do. The client should choose a better-suited artist and the artist is free to reject any commission.
Somewhat similar but slightly different to what's mentioned in
>>73754>The artist should always do what they want to do rather than what their audience wants.and
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