Well that was fun

[banteringbird]

Alright inks, I now have you comfortably under my belt. Unfortunately, like all other traditional medium, you are terribly time consuming and inefficient compared to that of digital medium. If it wasn't clear to me before--why commercial artists under tight deadlines use digital medium, it is now

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[rainbowparty]

You don't go on Gaia Online much, do you?

...Maybe you should keep it that way so your head don't go all s'plody.

[banteringbird]

GaiaOnline is the bane of my existence, safe to say B(

[quilsnap]

I luffs Gaia 8D

[nightmareart]

Technically, anime is the Japaneese word for animation. But yes, big eyes =/= Japaneese. (I don't know why "big eyes" is what it's known for, anyway. I've seen more exagerated eyes on Loony Toons and such than manga and anime usually have.)

[nightmareart]

Drawing attention... That makes sense. Also, the characters tend to be more normally proportioned than American cartoon characters with massive eyes.

[banteringbird]

this is not entirely true, actually :]
when you consider http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2388/digicharat.jpg and http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alicepic/disney-movie/alice-24.jpg which one has the more realistic proportions ;]

It's a common misconception.

[banteringbird]

You mentioned exactly what I forgot to say--and that is that most serious artists--will look at this work I've posted and say, "Nah man, that's not anime"--while the general public, and more novice/naive artists will clump it and go "looks anime to me!"

But the thing is, why does a style need a name, anyways--especially when you think of how all encompassing and terribly misleading the term 'anime' can be?
It baffles me somewhat :9

[minimalismo]

tl;dr ilu

[pheonee]

Passionately agreed (I am utterly sick and tired of people telling me that I "draw very nice anime"--apart from the fact I live in Australia, I'm CHINESE, not Japanese), though if a person primarily draws art that is obviously very heavily influenced by animanga, I tend to call it "animesque"; it's less mouthy than "heavily influenced by eastern comics and cartoons".

I agree that styles can't really be named, though; the lines are insanely blurry. I've seen mangaka who draw their humans almost photorealistic (it's a fairly old-school technique--Crying Freeman, for example, has some extremely realistic art) and Western artists who stylise their bodies almost precisely the same way Japanese artists do, so what then?

And then there are people who insist on calling shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender "anime"...despite the fact that it's produced almost entirely in America with some animating done in Korea...and the fact it hardly even looks animesque... .___.