History Main / DependingontheArtist

* The extent of JonahHex's scarring varies greatly between artists. He's always got the mouth-string, bug-eye and perma-sneer, but some artists draw him with only those, most artists add some burn scars (TheMovie seems to be going this route) and some artists take it UpToEleven and turn him into DarthWiki/{{Two-Face}} in a cowboy hat.

** Similarly, you're lucky if DarthWiki/{{Two-Face}}'s skin color and hair on his damaged side are consistent throughout a single arc.

** The most egregious version I've seen is TheRiddler, oddly enough. He started in a wacky green body-suit, until the actor playing him in the old [[{{Series/Batman}} Adam West series]] decided he hated it and made his own costume, which came to be the standard depiction: a nice suit with a bowler hat and a question-mark on the tie. That's more-or-less his {{DCAU}} depiction to this day, although he often looks a lot like Art Carney. But back in the comics, compare the Riddler in "TheLongHalloween"--a lanky old guy in a loose suit--to the {{Joker}} miniseries by the guy who did "100 Bullets": the Riddler looks like a young, club-footed pimp with Elton John glasses.

** And let's not leave [[JonathanCrane Scarecrow]] out of this mess. Dare to compare the versions where his head/mask is just as thin as the rest of him with the versions where his head/mask is oddly bulbous and probably the roundest part of his body. And then there's the debate about whether or not his mask is even supposed to have any eye and/or mouth-holes... and the oddly popular "noose necktie".

** Parodied in the Spumco-made shorts, where he changed appearance between ''shots''.
*** That might not be a parody, as JohnKricfalusi seems to think that staying on-model is only for wimps and communists.

* The, eh, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin black mask]] of the Batman villain BlackMask either looks like a narmy fat slob or a rather more respectable skull. But everything varies; are his eyes fully visible, or just white spaces in the mask; is it permanently set, or can it make a surprisingly varied number of expressions?

* The, eh [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin black mask]] of the Batman villain, Black Mask, either looks like a narmy fat slob or a rather more respectable skull. But everything varies; are his eyes fully visible, or just white spaces in the mask; is it permanently set, or can it make a surprisingly varied number of expressions?

* In the DCU series ''[[FiftyTwo 52]]'', while the series has numerous artists, every issue had pencil layouts done by one artist, Keith Giffen, in order to keep this trope to a minimum. There were still a few occasional slip-ups, but these might have been deliberate since the most noticeable ones were verging on the edge of fanservice, the clearest example being Renee Montoya and Kate Kane. They were well-endowed, but realistic when they first spoke to one another (They were still ''gorgeous'', of course, but it was manageable), but when they met in the park in the next issue they were both, quite literally, [[MostCommonSuperpower bulging out of their tops]]. (The commentaries usually passed it off as exactly this trope, and not a deliberate attempt to titillate readers, which does fit the rest of the series).

* As the picture at the top of the screen shows, the ''StreetFighter'' series has undergone a ''lot'' of artists over the course of the last twenty-plus years. The one in the lower-right is a bonus - it's from ''Capcom vs. SNK'', and was drawn by the artists from ''TheKingOfFighters''.

* The Brazilian ''MegaMan'' comic ([[http://themechanicalmaniacs.com/articles/MMBrazil.php yes, really]]) suffered from this trope especially hard, as it had a different artist for each issue... and sometimes had multiple artists within ''one issue.'' Characters could be drawn SuperDeformed in one issue, and with human proportions in another. Of course, this was the least of the comic's [[ScheduleSlip prob]][[AdaptationDecay lems]].

* AmericanDad - is Stan muscular, a bit tubby but still somewhat buff, or obese?

* [[{{Series/X-Men}} X-Men]] fans will remember the [[http://marvel.toonzone.net/xmen/revamp/ different character appearances]] in the final episodes.

[[caption-width-right:301:Same character, we swear]]

* TheMarvelousMisadventuresofFlapjack loves this trope. Every storyboard artist has their own style, and it shows.

* The FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes cartoon artist(s) seem to have given Johnny a chin you could put a eye out with.
* Gorgonzola from ''Chowder'' is possibly an example of this. Most of the time he's only drawn slightly chubby, not much.. but sometimes he is drawn almost as large as Chowder but on quite a few other occasions he's drawn really thin. (sometimes resulting in him looking like a baby with a unusually large head) Not to mention the disappearance and reappearance of his monobrow. The other characters are subject to this kind of thing (not necessarily weight, though)
* Froggo from ''Histeria'' also falls into the whole "sometimes fat, sometimes thin" thing.

** Most of the other characters have had very noticeably design alterations to some degree. Falco's beak constantly changes shape between games and comics, the entire shape of Peppy's and Slippy's head has changed significantly, Pepper lost his CoolShades and got black eye patches instead, and Fox's eye color shifted from blue to green. Wolf's eyes are usually violet, but they were grey in ''Command'', then violet again in ''Brawl''.

** Katt is another extreme version of this, becoming an artistic OtherDarren in ''Command''.

** Katt is another extreme version of this, becoming an artistic TheOtherDarren in ''Command''.

** Marrow, also of the X-Men, has had wild variations in skin color, from extremely pale to olive complexioned to slight purple tint. Her hair has seen similar difficulties; Pink? Red? Light brown? Purple?
* Wonder Woman's costume's Stripperificness depends on who's drawing her today, particularly her shorts. This doesn't only apply to formal costume changes -- it also happens in comics supposedly taking place at about the same time.

** JonathanCrane can vary between a quite attractive, slender man to a hideous, scrawny recluse. His age also seems to shift between 30s to easily 50s.

* This is especially jarring in ''She-Hulk'' where Southpaw's supertech gauntlet is incredibly large (with any given finger being wider than her head) with one artist and looks like a relatively normal glove with another.

** The biggest variable in modern depictions is his musculature which fluctuates from a lean runners build up to Olympic bodybuilder. Really, most male heroes go through some of this.

* Deadpool has been drawn with various skin colors-- gray, brown, red, flesh-- and with various skin textures-- looking like gravel, like a burn victim, like a fairly normal person covered in tumors, like he's been sculpted out of pudding-- and his ugliness is majorly played up on his date with Big Bertha for the sake of a gag. Somewhat justified in that the nature of his healing factor means that his form is liable to change from time to time.

* Barbara Gordon has an infinite variety of Glasses between appearances in different books.

** This sudden shift was parodied in ''Supreme'' by Original Dax, the first incarnation of Lex Luthor CaptainErsatz Darius Dax to be revised and sent to the Daxia. He remarks with bewilderment that as more Daxes showed up, he notices all of them have hair and no beard, unlike him; he theorizes that some kind of higher power just decided it was better that way.

* In the Star Wars comic crossover series Vector, main character Celeste Morne went from looking like [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Celeste_Morne.jpg This]] in the first issue of the series, to looking like [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zayne-flash.jpg this]] in the final issue.
* The extent of Jonah Hex's scarring varies greatly between artists. He's always got the mouth-string, bug-eye and perma-sneer, but some artists draw him with only those, most artists add some burn scars (TheMovie seems to be going this route) and some artists take it UpToEleven and turn him into [[{{Batman}} Two-Face]] in a cowboy hat.
* This trope is quite evident when flipping through ''Archie'' comics, with the characters changing appearance almost from short to short.

** Similarly, you're lucky if Two-Face's skin color and hair on his damaged side are consistent throughout a single arc.
** The most egregious version I've seen is TheRiddler, oddly enough. He started in a wacky green body-suit, until the actor playing him in the old [[{{Series/Batman}} Adam West series]] decided he hated it and made his own costume, which came to be the standard depiction: a nice suit with a bowler hat and a question-mark on the tie. That's more-or-less his {{DCAU}} depiction to this day, although he often looks a lot like Art Carney. But back in the comics, compare the Riddler in "TheLongHalloween"--a lanky old guy in a loose suit--to the Joker miniseries by the guy who did "100 Bullets": the Riddler looks like a young, club-footed pimp with Elton John glasses.
** And let's not leave Scarecrow out of this mess. Dare to compare the versions where his head/mask is just as thin as the rest of him with the versions where his head/mask is oddly bulbous and probably the roundest part of his body. And then there's the debate about whether or not his mask is even supposed to have any eye and/or mouth-holes... and the oddly popular "noose necktie".

* In the DCU series "52", while the series has numerous artists, every issue had pencil layouts done by one artist, Keith Giffen, in order to keep this trope to a minimum. There were still a few occasional slip-ups, but these might have been deliberate since the most noticeable ones were verging on the edge of fanservice, the clearest example being Renee Montoya and Kate Kane. They were well-endowed, but realistic when they first spoke to one another (They were still ''gorgeous'', of course, but it was manageable), but when they met in the park in the next issue they were both, quite literally, [[MostCommonSuperpower bulging out of their tops]]. (The commentaries usually passed it off as exactly this trope, and not a deliberate attempt to titillate readers, which does fit the rest of the series).

* Power Girl shares She-Hulk's "varying musculature" issues; Alex Ross drew her as fairly muscular (but still curvy) in KingdomCome, and it seems that's been either downplayed or exaggerated ([[InfiniteCrisis I'm looking at YOU, Jimenez!]]) by most every artist since then. Her [[MostCommonSuperpower famous boobs]] also vary a bit; she's always at least a DD, but some artists go bigger. This can be applied to most any superheroine, though.
** PG in the white and gold outfit early 1990's was slim, athletic and of average height, sometimes. Recall Wally Wood originally drew her short (about 5'), zaftig and narrow-waisted.

* [[GreenLantern Sinestro's skin;]] Purple? Reddish? Magenta? Pink? DOTA. And to a lesser extent, whether or not his ears are pointed.

** Although fellow Korogarian ([[spoiler:and Sinestro's daughter]]) Soranik Natu ''usually'' stays a pretty steady shade of pinkish-purple. This is probably because she (a) hasn't been around nearly as long and (b) only really appears in the Green Lantern books.

* Vixen from the JusticeLeague has an odd one in how her powers are presented; she has the ability to take on the abilities of any animal, but DOTA, there may or may not be an aura looking like said animal around her when she does it.

**Holly Granger/Hawk II: A shorter woman with an average-sized chest or a practical Amazon with BoobsOfSteel? Was her hair super short, shoulder-length, or was it down past her waist? Her hair color was another variable: Originally Geoff Johns and Mike Mc Kone considered her as a blonde, but changed their minds and had her with pinkish-red hair in her debut (though the colorist forgot to recolor her hair in one panel, leaving her as a blonde). Johns' official profile for her in a ''Secret Files'' issue then stated that she had brown hair, yet his draft for the first ''One Year Later'' Teen Titans issue described her as a redhead. In her sporadic appearances during her tenure as Hawk, colorists seemed to shift between all three of those colors for her hair, sometimes even in the same event (''World War III'').

* ''Astonishing [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} X-Men]]'' member Hisako Ichiki (AKA: Armor) has the ability to generate Psionic Body Armor, the shape of which differs from artist to artist. Where John Cassaday would draw it as shaped like Samurai armor, other artists range between that and ginormous bubble suits, and this isn't even going into the color of it.