Could the Voynich Author Be a "Ramanujan-style" Anomaly?

[eggyk]

A lot of the illustrations in the VMS are simply dumb. The animals in Q13 next to the mermaid are totally anatomically wrong. Basic things like proportions, body types of animals are comparable to drawings made by absolute art-less amateur peasants, if not worse.

In fact, I'd even go as far as to say the VMS "artist" hasn't the slightest clue what a lobster even is. The same goes for other animals. What kind of person has never seen dogs, horses and lobsters?

Half of all of the artists in the 12th-15th century would fit in that category then, to be honest. The illustrations in the VMS are reasonably consistent actually, and of "ok" quality with proportions. They are nowhere near the worst out there. 

The cancer depictions are completely fine, other than where they drew the hind legs. They're not even in the bottom half of what I would consider a bad lobster example. Look at these!

           

And there are also examples of there being hind legs where they were drawn in the VMS: 
               

As for the rest of the animals, compared to some more professional drawings yes they are worse in quality. But they are not the worst out there by any stretch of the imagination. I think the average ability to draw anatomically correct animals in tiny, miniature sized drawings is being overstated. 

In fact, the size is often completely forgotten in these cases. The voynich illustrations are genuinely tiny, and they get compared to examples 5x bigger in size! Of course they will be lower quality if not done by a talented professional.