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UNDERSTANDING YOUR STYLE - 2by ~whitetrashpalace

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Part two of my Understanding Your Style: Symbols, Design Pattern, and Anti-Pattern guide/essay-thing.

If you're seeing this first because it came up stacked first in your messages, please, go read part one first! It might be a bit confusing otherwise!

If you like what you see here, please, share it with your friends. I literally put over a week's worth of work into writing, formatting, and illustrating this. If you like it, please support it! This message is extremely important to me, and I've been thinking about making a guide on it for a long time.

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~4040404 1 day ago

oh my god this is beautiful and i wish i had seen it when i was forcing myself to stop being a huge weeb

~CicadaNoise May 18, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Very helpful! I like to hope I was never quite as bad as your examples, but I've been gradually moving further and further away from the stereotypical anime style myself over the years, and I'd be up shit creek stylistically if I didn't have an interest in real anatomy. This guide conveys a lot of what I've observed in my own art, and other people's art, but never quite had the terminology to articulate. (Lazy self-taught artist is lazy and doesn't take classes or buy art books like he should, sigh.)

Anyway, gonna proceed to spread the link to this all over my Tumblr. Thanks!

~MyTerritory May 13, 2012 New member

wow i should've just called it 'pattern'
what
this is nice

~MyTerritory May 13, 2012 New member

the first point of entry thing looks like a flag. danish one to be exact LOL

*MugenGinga May 3, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Aaaah thank you! Thank you thank you! As a huge fan of anime stylizations, finding someone that respects that most artists start mimicking a mimicry and not shaming them for it and saying all stylizations are good and oh man thank you!

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~ebonydepths Apr 26, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow I dont know what I was doing wrong. Maybe I should think about what im drawing from now on...

~mitsui-senpai Apr 20, 2012 Student General Artist

Nice infographic!

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~Nekorin-Gatacat Apr 13, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Oh this is funny... I did start drawing in anime, but I got the "draw from life" advice really quickly, so when I look for reference it's almost always real life.

And now... I know why I can never seem to fit those giant eyes in!

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~ZiaRenete13x Mar 17, 2012

Thank you for writing this. I'm in the middle of transition myself, and it really sucks because I can see the mistakes and they're making my NOT want to draw at all. Along with the long nose problem (which I've recently fixed in the last couple of months) I notice I tend to draw very wide faces where the jaw lines up with the wide anime cheekbones, but the eyes are still simplified "western" style. Reading this has made me want to work more on my stuff, instead of giving up in frustration!

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~Lu-no Mar 10, 2012

this will literally save my whole life.
i never really realized the thing about "horse faces" lol
maybe it's because everyone is just so used to seeing it that they don't know it's actually wrong..

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