As this journal entry is about artistic appeal, the opinions presented will naturally be subjective. Who knows if I'll even agree with what I say here two years from now? Don't take what I say as absolute, but rather as a collection of guidelines you may find useful for analyzing art you like when incorporating elements of that art in your own. This entry also contains images that may not show up in their entirety when viewed on the side of my dA frontpage. To see them properly, view the journal entry by itself here or right click on the images and open them in a new window.
Three journal entries ago, I said "I do