I just stared at the Renamon card in disbelief for a few minutes.... I mean just how badly could they have screwed this up, what kind of bizarre thought process could have possibly led to the decision to shade most of the body like some weird polished plastic?

Was the artist just completely ignorant of how hairs reflect light? Did they miss the memo that Renamon is not some kind of slick skinned amphibian or slime type design that would actually glisten like that? It doesn't seem that way... after all the part just under the knee is obviously splitting up into hair tufts at the end yet just a few centimeters up... a weird shiny plastic surface. And they didn't apply that effect to the tail or the hair covering the chest which makes the whole thing even more ridiculous since of course it shows that if their wanted they know how to shade it properly. So just what was the intention here? A Renamon who just got splattered in some sort of oil?

I mean I think we got some artwork with a weird shinier style before but while that looked idiotic as well it was at least consistent in its idiocy.

Imagine artwork that gives MetalEtemon's body the texture of brittle stone or an old carpet or something or a Gottsumon looking as if it had fur everywhere... Really makes me wonder how something like this made it onto a final card design (if this is is actually final, but it probably is).