Anime Stereotypes...

There's one thing I have noticed when looking up "tutorials" that give tips to drawing anime. They all seem to deal with the stereotypical anime look. Big eyes, long hair and female. It seems like people have a hard time wrapping their mind around the fact that not all anime is the same. Especially when you are talking about artwork coming from different artists. Some artists draw their characters to be more stereotypically "anime" than others. Also, the big eye look actually is a feminine look and you may notice the more masculine a character is the smaller the eyes are or vice versa. Big eyes are typically for feminine or child like looks. Just take a look at the men in Ghost in The Shell for example. None of them have big eyes and a lot of male characters in that series have bigger noses than most people usually think of when they think of anime. A lot of the background characters in that movie probably wouldn't even look like anime to people expecting stereotypical features if seen on their own. Even the females eyes in that series aren't like saucers. I thought of this when I was looking at a video on youtube of a person attempting to draw a male anime face and people critisized it for the eyes not being "big enough" or the nose being too big. Some anime artists even draw their females very different than what you'd typically think and things like the eyes can be different sizes depending on the situation. I think Anime falls prey easily to stereotypes. Point is.. there's not just one way to draw anime.

Anime Stereotypes...

There's one thing I have noticed when looking up "tutorials" that give tips to drawing anime. They all seem to deal with the stereotypical anime look. Big eyes, long hair and female. It seems like people have a hard time wrapping their mind around the fact that not all anime is the same. Especially when you are talking about artwork coming from different artists. Some artists draw their characters to be more stereotypically "anime" than others. Also, the big eye look actually is a feminine look and you may notice the more masculine a character is the smaller the eyes are or vice versa. Big eyes are typically for feminine or child like looks. Just take a look at the men in Ghost in The Shell for example. None of them have big eyes and a lot of male characters in that series have bigger noses than most people usually think of when they think of anime. A lot of the background characters in that movie probably wouldn't even look like anime to people expecting stereotypical features if seen on their own. Even the females eyes in that series aren't like saucers. I thought of this when I was looking at a video on youtube of a person attempting to draw a male anime face and people critisized it for the eyes not being "big enough" or the nose being too big. Some anime artists even draw their females very different than what you'd typically think and things like the eyes can be different sizes depending on the situation. I think Anime falls prey easily to stereotypes. Point is.. there's not just one way to draw anime.

Anime Stereotypes...

There's one thing I have noticed when looking up "tutorials" that give tips to drawing anime. They all seem to deal with the stereotypical anime look. Big eyes, long hair and female. It seems like people have a hard time wrapping their mind around the fact that not all anime is the same. Especially when you are talking about artwork coming from different artists. Some artists draw their characters to be more stereotypically "anime" than others. Also, the big eye look actually is a feminine look and you may notice the more masculine a character is the smaller the eyes are or vice versa. Big eyes are typically for feminine or child like looks. Just take a look at the men in Ghost in The Shell for example. None of them have big eyes and a lot of male characters in that series have bigger noses than most people usually think of when they think of anime. A lot of the background characters in that movie probably wouldn't even look like anime to people expecting stereotypical features if seen on their own. Even the females eyes in that series aren't like saucers. I thought of this when I was looking at a video on youtube of a person attempting to draw a male anime face and people critisized it for the eyes not being "big enough" or the nose being too big. Some anime artists even draw their females very different than what you'd typically think and things like the eyes can be different sizes depending on the situation. I think Anime falls prey easily to stereotypes. Point is.. there's not just one way to draw anime.