Personally, I care more about quality than originality when it comes to pin-ups, photomanips or artwork. If it's a celebrity I like, and the manip is sexy, then I'll gladly take more of the same. Not the exact same, obviously, but similar is fine by me.
Along those lines, I'd rather see a series of drawings by Ranzab that are basically the same TF over and over than some crudely drawn TFs that are different from anything that's come before. Or well drawn TFs that don't appeal to me because they don't include any of the things I like to see in a TF drawing. I can respect the latter, but they might as well not depict a transformation as far as I'm concerned. There's art, and there's process. I want a minimum level of quality, but beyond that, it doesn't need to be anything special.
Not that artists should just draw/manip the same things the same way over and over. Of course they should experiment and branch out. It's just... I know what I like, and I don't know that I'll like something new and different. Maybe, maybe not. I like a good mix of old familiar and new surprises.
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