I'm not a game artist, but I would say for personal stuff "Who gives a crap?". Do what makes you happy. Some will like it some will not. I've looked at you sketchbook and posts. Your forms are no more funky than other highly stylized paintings and models on this forum.
if you execute it well, it doesn't really matter what the subject is or how vague it is. i see lot of artists being extremely lazy with the execution and either calling it "stylized" or "sketch". the design may have lot of potential but if not executed well it looks like a pile of shit that anyone could put together in 5…
No, that's simplifying it too much. If you posted studies of faces and muscles and then people saw a better understanding of anatomy and weight later on in you're work, that would definitely get people off of your back. I think a good example of rediculous design + grounded art knowledge is Ferg...…
I think the way you're looking at your situation as a whole is fundamentally wrong. This isn't going to be a quick fix. This reminds me of when I first started to draw. I had friends tell me my anatomy was bad. My characters faces looked wrong and in my youth and stupidity, do you know what my answer was? "Well it's anime"…