Japanese cosplay fans have been striving to select the cosplay pictures they think should be regarded as the finest of art, and casting an eye over their selection seems to more than validate the notion that cosplay can be as artistic as illustration or photography…
Dead or Alive Ero-SFM Doubly Dirty
Flying Witch “Cute But Boring…”
Phantasy Star Online 2 Phantastic: “What About the West!?”
Shounen Maid “A Fujoshi Delight”
Terra Formars Live Action Web Drama Announced
Dragon Quest Heroes II Quite Monstrous
KumaMiko Lovingly Innocent
Aqua Onahole Parody Hopefully Moist
A-Size Classmate Profusely Petite
One Day With Maria Raunchy & Romantic
The Reject Demon: Toko Chapter 0 Raises Its Voice
Hai-Furi in Troubled Waters
Star Fox Zero “Pandering To Kids!”
Kiznaiver Shares Its Pain
Love Live’s Koi ni Naritai Aquarium PV “Will Sell Thousands!”
Skimpy Kataigou Figure
Ellen Baker’s Illustrator: “Keep It Clean!”
Bullet Girls 2 Goes At It From All Angles
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization A Real Grind
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Immensely Gruesome
Goddess of 2ch “Another Bathing Beauty!”
Tantalizing Hestia Cosplay Busts Out
Kashiwazaki Sena Cosplay Pure & Innocent
Minami Kotori Casino Girl Cosplay Takes No Chances
Shimakaze Cosplay by Ema Sakura
Harley Quinn Cosplay by Miyuko Colorfully Crazy
Sonico Ero-Cosplay by Yuka Hoshikage Super Sexy
Kasugano Sora Bunny Girl Cosplay Absolutely Admirable
Goddess of 2ch: “Barely Legal Beauty!”
Highly Yuri Tenryuu & Tatsuta Cosplay by Garo & Usagi
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sorry but pic 009 is just softcore porn,lol
(and possibly the 1st pic too)
softcore art.
Porn can be art too.
Yeah but in this case it's just porn.
The creator(s) of Kamasutra are writing down a list of curses to put on you...
and art can be porn too.
Art is art, porn is no art. Explain: Did you "turn on" when watching a classic painting or Venus statue ? If you do, then it's your confusion.
I fap to classical nudes
In the vast selection of all things nude...(and i mean mostly 2d tho... 3d is way too real)
there... I find peace, enough for all mankind
The porn of 2000 years ago is the classical art of today.
Wait another 2000 years and our porn will be considered art as well.
Art is in the eye of the beholder. If one person believes its art, it is art.
Yah it is o3o
It is deh depiction of the 'not so often shown' parts of the human body and 'acts including the said parts' that nobody else is man enough to illustrate :3
The first pic is porn, Hegre Archives I think, and the cosplay part is photoshop, I have seen it before.
what is it cosplaying?
calm down, if you shit on a stick you can call that art. Art can be pretty much anything you want, it's very vague.
I'm sorry but this can't be art, is not the act but the intention why you do it, and copying the way some anime characters look can't be called art. Shiting on a stick can be art if it has some meaning and is made with the right persons and in the correct places to be in the art scene.
So by your standard, acting a play by shakespeare wouldn't be artistic from the point of view of the actors, because they're just dressing up and spewing memorized lines?
I think you've been licking too many artsticks.
and coppying to an exact drawing of lets say a person or animal is art? yes and not just like cosplay you're coppying what already exsist. That was only usefull when you didn't have a camera, art should be about being creative and expression. Considering the bullshit art world that exsist's today where 80% of the actually artist's are not counted for becase a dam door is so called 'art' i'm pretty sure cosplay is a better art form then most of the so called modern art pieces today that are considered at a very high standard. If only classic art was counted then no, cosplay wouldn't be an art, but since there are so many high standard shit pieces of art today yet cosplay is of much higher value as an art form.
Marcel Duchamp's Dada "art" has no meaning, yet peeps consider it a great piece. Art doesn't need meaning. Art could be a spontaneous, "hey, I wanna draw/paint/sculpt/cosplay a certain something just for the lol of it."
This gallery could be implying the harmonious unison of photography and professional costuming. I'm pretty sure these stuff can evoke emotions. That's pretty much what art is anyways, am I right?
And thus, anon 0100 had been served
I wouldn't even call picture 1 cosplaying. The ears and tail are completely photoshopped in.
Yeah, but the outcome is awesome
Photoshop art, fo sho. Some of these are so heavily Photoshopped that they aren't technically pictures of 3d peoples anymore, tbh.
This is just good cosplay. I don't know if I'd called it all art, although what "is" or "is not" is completely subjective to the one observing it.
If the Academy awards Oscars every year for 'best costume design', I think it's a sign. Almost everybody can agree that great costume/clothing design is high art.
Since when do Oscar awards and art have anything in to do with each other?
Art is all about recognition of some sort, of whether the viewer can perceive artistic importance. Some validation could be a sign of their appreciation as an artform.
That Vash needs a ridiculously goofy smile.
And Pretty Cure as high art!
Cosplay is art, it is not any functionally different than any other live display of acting. The clothing is just a given with acting/modeling.
It can't be art, be the only reason that the cosplayer has no integrity of his work.
010 is fake.
I would love to see more of this cosplay from pic 001 :)
Sorry no, not art.
I would be inclined 2 agree
Half of them should be thrown away for having distracting backgrounds. There's at least two in there that aren't cosplay.
yeap not art. all just look pretty and alike
So many gorgeous cosplayers!
are some pics just not ridicilously much photoshopped?
#34
a quick glance made me think it was Rowan Atkinson and his Mr. Bean car :/
Jessie and James LOL
On a slightly more serious side (or funnier side), their cosplay page is filled with niche characters all done in meticulous detail. They're like the Russian Tomia!:
http://ryoko-demon.deviantart.com/
http://malro-doll.deviantart.com/
yes, they're russian.
Wow just wow the attention to detail is superb and both of them are really cute and in some cosplays just down right gorgeous.
in Russia, you not cosplaying anime, but anime cosplaying you! 0_o
In russia if you have russian natonality you're deported...
A Russian should cosplay the russian loli from Rizelmine. Or Ilyasviel.
Meticulous detail is precisely what cosplay needs these days.
Too much crappy costumes being made for the reason that "it's only for fun". Personally, I don't give a crap if it's for fun or not - You do something, you do something well. Or not do it at all. There is no try.
I recently came across a few relatively realistic portrayals of Phoenix Wright that I thought was profoundly loltastic.
I have to say the one with Cloud is pretty damn good.
Also the 2 pictures below Kuroneko and above Zelda, who are they suppose to be?
Below Kuroneko is Nodoka and Sawako from K-ON.
"It is through art and art alone people discovers the beauty of life."
-Oscar Wilde
"To be true and fine and moist and sticky and lovely, one has to believe that he or she is true and fine and moist and sticky and lovely."
-Stephen Fry in how to be gorgeous
I see they are doing a fine job.