Hey guys! Obviously no hate to the anime community, its fans, or its artists. Just needed to vent a bit about how some people call our art anime when it's not :)) Much love! And again, draw whatever you want, I'm not the anime art police, and I'm not the anime hate mob. Just a stylized artist with other stylized artists who needed to vent 💕
You know it’s not and that’s the important detail. Most non animators will be misinformed. Much like communities in plumbing would probably be annoyed that I don’t know the difference between pipes and tools outside of a plunger lol.
You know what’s even worse? When people ask what the thing your drawing is from and they get increasingly more confused when you try to explain it’s your own characters :| Can’t count how many times I’ve had to do that, like I created these, I did. No one else did, just me, why is that hard so believe? :C
I usually say: “it’s uh…one of my characters.. “ Because if I said OC they’d be like: “what’s that mean?” Then I have to go through a whole teaching on what that means then it’d switch to: “hey what’s your character’s story and stuff?” And me, the one who doesn’t like sharing my ocs to non-art friends, would be trying to find a way to get out of it by saying “I don’t have the whole story yet so-“
as soon as i saw this video's title i HAD to click because when i was in middle school every time someone saw my art (which was and still is very stylised, even more so now) they asked if it was anime art and didn't understand why it infuriated me so much
Like how does it even remotely sound like a compliment to people. It's like telling someone they dress like Adam Sandler. It's not a compliment, it's just like huh!?
I mean I could seee that with my older art (2020-early 2023) cuz I was going for an anime artstyle But whenever I show my newer art with a completely different artstyle and people call it anime... yeah..
I had my old art teacher watch me draw in my western cartoon inspired style and then ask me what my favorite anime was haha. It was actually kind of sweet to me that he was trying to relate but it confused me a lot, this video put that feeling into words finally. Also I like how you draw characters with little floating features, they are so fun but so underrated nowadays!
Thank you haha! funny about the floating features. For my AP portfolio I drew a character with one eye because I couldn't fit the other eye in the face. My Teacher asked where the other eye was, and told me I should draw it, so it ended up just floating off the face, and I've been doing it ever since 😭 But yeah the anime thing is such a common occurrence that no one kinda talks about omg
Some people just really have no interaction with art outside of anime and it's kinda sad. As much as I like anime, I'd be absolutely devastated if it was all I ever saw people making. We need variety, or else I'm going to start tearing things apart like a tiger deprived of enrichment.
Interesting to see that you only got a few hundred subscribers, it only needs one video for your channel to blow up, your voice and your visuals are really nice. Keep it up 💪
I was horrible at drawing and someone asked if it was anime. I don't know how i feel about that. I have noticed that art is either cartoon, photorealistic or anime to people.
SOME KID WAS WATCHING ME DRAW AND ASKED ME IF I LIKED ANIME A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGOOOOO😭😭😭😭 MY STYLE HAS NEVER LOOKED THE SAME!!!! Kids are unintentionally mean😔
Tbh your art style is distinctly you, I haven’t seen art like yours because it’s unique. Like comparing my art with my brothers is dumb, we do separate distinct styles. I kinda hate when I do a more realistic look and people call it anime, feels like they think I’m copying and that I don’t have my own style Edit: also I just love your style it’s very pretty and fun :D
I personally don’t really watch anime at all. But when I told that to someone they got confused and were like “but then why do you draw it???” Like I don’t? My art definitely airs way more towards a Western style so it’s rather confusing.
*doodles semi-realistic/stylised girl* *my deskmate looking over at my notebook* - "X IS DRAWING ANIME GIRLS." Me who doesn't even watch anime: - "w h a t"
When people say my art looks like anime, idk how to respond because it kiiinda does, but it's also a lot different because i use really thick lineart, more simple hands and legs, and honestly the most anime looking thing about it is the eyes i guess. But idk lol I'm just somewhere in-between cartoon and anime
@@mrpickles-hb6zx it is but it generally has different style choices and also story structure compared to Western animation and people are generally refering to a specific style thats very popular in anime but is very rare in Western cartoons
I hate when ppl tell you you draw in an anime style and refuse to accept it’s not, telling you what YOUR art style is. I don’t show off my art much anymore but when I did ppl legit did this.
This is the dark timeline where people are so used to ugly adult Swim cartoons being socially okay (because "mature" shows are okay for adults to watch and so valid) that they have twisted themselves into thinking that non-japanese cartoobs are realistic/gross looking and any sort of stylization, even something mild like yours, is anime because its actually visually appealing. The typical modern person has completely forgot the history of animation, even modern history, and somehow has never seen an actual cartoon in their life. Or maybe they only consider anime valid cause it has sexual harrassment, aka adult show, aka okay for smart adults to watch without being treated like children, aka infantilized. This is tragic.
Would love to see a cartoon one day without the art style you mentioned, that touches on adult themes without coming off as childish or gross. It could be an executive meddling thing or a marketing thing, but adult animation shouldn't be afraid to look good omg. Don't make me open this can of worms lol
The basic definition of anime is animation made by Japanese artists. However due to other artists having similar artstyles to anime even though they aren't from the Japanese country, lines are a bit blurred. It is like the basic definition of manga. Being Japanese comics with dialogue and pictures and panels. We don't call Korean comics from webtoon manga, we call it manhwa which is korean comics similar to manga with a more semi realism feel. So just say anime is Japanese animation.
I mean anime is short for animation (cartoon). But I do agree if people want to call something a cartoon or anime or whatever makes them comfortable. I really love your takes, your art style does look very cool. I'd also agree with the adult jokes in anime, a huge portion of it didn't make me laugh from all the women or even girls being shown in such a way made me drop a lot of anime, that's why I'm more picky with what I watch nowadays.
2:14 - 2:21 I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SAY i've always felt like i was the only person on earth who DIDN'T start out drawing anime 💔 i feel alone. for context in started drawing really egregious-looking dinosaurs when i was in kindergarten, and then up until like 2021 i pretty much only drew furries. i think what got me to draw humans is just a story concept i had that i didn't feel would make as much sense if i just made the characters more furries. once i needed to draw something in the generic anime artstyle for a silly joke drawing and i straight up HAD TO GET A WIKIHOW ARTICLE to figure out how to do it
same here 😭 I still heavily avoid drawing people (faces really, I have everything else down) because I just suckkkkkkk and I know the only way to improve is to actually draw them but I still avoid it lol
I'm used to complaining about how a lot of cartoons seem to be afraid to give their characters irises, even though that is one of the most expressive things to me and can say a lot about a character (favourite examples being MLP g4 and Camp Camp). The Owl House and the Vivziepop works kinda do this, but it feels like it couldve been even BETTER with both of those. Ive had my art style be called anime-inspired because my characters have eyes with highlights, but the way i draw them is very much not anime-esque. If anything you could say i was inspired by Vivzie but only for the eyelashes, but i was on that shit since before i even knew about her. I also never liked anime growing up so it didnt influence my art style. Also it was so ironic to me when men had that Cal-Arts style craze and kept being like "watch anime instead!" Because all anime has looked basically the same to me while i can easily pick apart the differences between warly 2010s toons. Guess its the autistic visual processing in me. But if seeing the differences between Gumball and Steven Universe isnt normal, then can i even be a critic? Am i just insane?
If the Calarts style has a million fans, then I am one of them. If the Calarts style has ten fans, then I am one of them. If the Calarts style has only one fan then that is me. If the Calarts style has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. The funny part about that dumb calarts style goofiness a couple years back is that it was doctored to make it look like the same exact drawing. I like eye iris, I draw them rarely though, but I like the dot too^^ but yeah not every artstyle with highlights is anime!
They just wanna enjoy art, no one is OBLIGATED to "learn" the difference between styles if they don't want to, and they're free to say the similarities
@@mrpickles-hb6zx never said you had to learn the difference I said if you don’t know the difference and make stupid commentary your comment is complete nonsense
"Toxic anime fans can go play in traffic" 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Also, i know im probably not doing anything regarding the anime nudity thing, but you just got to find the right anime! Like Frieren! Anyways, enjoyed the vid!
After years of similar exchanges while at high school, and in the workplace, I just found that everyone just immediately labels your art to whatever they're most familiar with, regardless of what you draw or even how you draw it. Personally, I prefer my drawings to be pseudo realistic cartoons in terms of anatomical proportions with backgrounds that vary from fantasy architecture and environments, or medieval/colonial scenes. Or I'd actually just draw realistic anatomy and clothing, but regardless, everyone just labels it as "anime" or "manga".
Yeah thats so true! Whatever they're familiar with, that's what they'd call it. And if they have no frame of reference other than anime, everything is just anime
Thank you so much! And I can see how the Steven Universe thing can be upsetting. I wouldn't mind it since SU is one of my influences, but if it isn't yours it's like yikes!
I mean this with respect but anime isn't easy my art is anime but with a little bit of other art styles so I started with anime and it isn't easy btw I love this vid keep going 😁
I immediately clicked on this because UGH i get this all the time and I consider my style to be a slightly more stylized semi-realistic style. I am a very casual anime fan and tbh it makes me a little annoyed when my style is compared to anime because I personally don’t think it looks like it at all. I don’t even draw sparkly large eyes, I draw the black dot eyes😢 at this point I feel like it’s unavoidable no matter what lol.
5:16 EXACTLY!! i dont want to attract those anime fans that are lolicons… (and not just anime fans, anyone who is a lolicon) the fact they try to normalize it is so disgusting..
This is why I don't call anyone's art styles "anime" or "manga" unless they self-label it as such. I call a lot of my art "manga" and "manga-inspired" because I draw a lot of inspiration from mangakas (I wouldn't call it "anime" unless it was animated; people saying "anime art style" to describe a still image is actually quite a pet peeve of mine), and I think that artists like myself have basically bled that inspiration into the online art community to the point where it's hard to distinguish one art style as "anime" or not. But it's a big argument because no one can really agree on a single "manga or anime" art style. Like just off the top of my head; Astroboy, Kill la Kill, Beastars, Hunter x Hunter, The Girl from the Other Side, Chainsawman and Nichijou (My Ordinary Life) are all really drastically different styles of anime and manga (some are simpler, some are more detailed, some are softer, some are rougher) yet it's agreed they are all anime and manga. Yet no one can agree that ATLA is anime because "it's made in the West" and "it has the cartoon feel" yet "it has the art style", or even if the 90's Moomin cartoon is "technically" an anime because it was partially produced in Japan (If you want my opinion; I actually don't really care, I think of all of them as cartoons. I think that treating anime differently from other cartoons is mostly a cultural thing. And if you *really* want to get technical about it, Disney is the forerunner of both Western animation and Japanese anime, just looking from a historical perspective. That's why I use the labels "manga" and "anime" mostly as a cultural homage) Anyway, as a digital artist who is an avid manga reader and casual anime fan, I'm glad you're saying that stylized =/= "anime art style" because I also get really annoyed about the discussion online. For different reasons, but with similar points.
I’ve had a hard time figuring out my style, but I think I have an ok style for now. Now I HOPE people don’t call it anime or else I’m gonna be asking myself: huh? it doesn’t look like anime? Because my eyes are black ovals and I don’t draw noses or mouths- I feel like people associate cartoon-y styles with anime in general, no matter the change. I’ve also been trying to make a sort of “animation” style that involves mouths or a little more expressive eyes so I can use that in comics or animations and add a little more expression.
Yeah it seems avoidable, there's no real solution tbh and it's sad 🥲 but hey that's why I made the video, and it's reassuring knowing I'm not alone with this
I've always been leaning into an anime artstyle, mainly bacause that what's most people that I saw online would draw like, and I really wanted to be as good as them; even though I didn't watch any anime at all. I just tought that was what 'good art' looked like. Now? Yes, I do make anime fanart but I wouldn't consider myself a fan: I've only watched like... Two... Actually more than that, but all of the other ones are from the same franchise... And I also don't really enjoy the weird jokes they make, I just wait for the occasional moments where they are funny. But one time, someone saw me drawing a really messy tree, super sketchy, and asked: "That looks cool! Do you also draw anime?!?" Uh, no, I mean yes, I mean, how do you know?!? You haven't even seen my normal art, why would assume that I do based off a random tree?? It didn't even look like a tree that you would actually see in an anime's background, so where did that idea even come from?
That's so true! I totally forgot how everyone had an anime inspired art style, and I was 100% influenced by that. But haha I've never heard of an anime tree!
To be honest, my art is VERY far away from anime imo, I mean the one thing I definitely held onto from my earlier years was the big, expressive eyes. But overall that’s about it, and the reason I don’t want my art to be seen as “anime” is because the style doesn’t really appeal to me anymore 😭 I just kinda stopped liking it after my huge fixation on one particular anime back in 2022 Not to mention my style is HEAVILY inspired by a lot of mid 2010’s western cartoons (Steven universe mainly) and evolved from there, so it’d also really shock me if it ever got compared to anime
Omg I feel like we've had the same arc where I started off as anime and then gravitated towards cartoons I enjoyed including steven universe! But yeah I don't want my art to be seen as anime either and I don't know how else to beat the allegations without going full looney tunes lmao
It sucks to see people put off an entire genre over a few or "many, many, many" bad seeds. There are some great anime out there that care about telling a good story and do a great job of it, I'm sure you would love them if you could find them in the sea of slop.
@@Rosemadi.artist start with Spirited Away it's a movie that I wouldn't even call an Anime even though it is. I mean if you like animated media its going to be pretty hard to never watch a anime its becoming pretty mainstream. If lots of people say the same show is good, its probably good. Just stay away from iseki or however you spell it
omg yes, finally someone said it I hate whenever people figure out I draw and imediately ask if it's anime when they figure it's not hyper realistic, specially upsetting when other artists my age ask the same thing after seeing my drawings. like girl, I know you're drawing stuff to be a tattoo artist, but couldn't you at least figure out another artist wouldn't appreciate you asking if their art (which you're clearly seeing isn't) is anime?
Yeah. I started heavily with a anime style as a teenager myself at 14. Then gradually as the years passed I learned more about anatomy and drawing varying body types and well. Also I grew a love of drawing my hair with a more detailed texture to it. More identifiable locks. (My profile picture doesn't count I tried more realistic proportions in it and well it needs more shading to look good) Anyways, the only thing somewhat anime about my art style is the eyes I guess? Although proportionally they're usually smaller than those of most anime characters unless I'm going for a sort of cutesy small child look. I like drawing defined noses myself and more defined lips on some characters. I draw the eyes with a highlight and irises but I don't complicate it too much. I want to be able to give my characters the ability to emote with their pupils after all. I tried the black dots look and it looked disturbing with some of my characters. Too dead inside. So yeah I get the feeling.
Haha the black dot eyes don't work for everyone. I know you can also color the eyes to be blue dots or hazel dots but I've never done it. But yeah I agree that my eye shapes are also the most anime thing about my art, especially since I draw open lines instead of shapes
The comments i get are "FURRY!" when im drawing a cat, fox, etc. THEIR ANIMALS NOT FURRIES- (I dont have an issue with furries, im subbed to a few and im friends with some) I legit have to explain their animals, and their like "fur = furry" and ill say "are you referring to people who dress up as animals? And have fursonas?" And they'll confidently say "yes"
I didn't even think of this one, but I've seen this happen to artists many times! I think cause a handful don't draw animals that much, and then when you do, that's when the furry allegations kick in
Ironic, indeed : Stylized Art isn't indeed Anime BUT Anime is an Art Style. It has genres and tropes which are specific to it but you can't call anything resembling it an Anime. Avatar is the best example in my opinion : it uses some animesque tropes but you can clearly see it's a western cartoon, first and all. So, yes, as a long time consumer of Japan best media, I concur : your style AIN'T anime.
Thank you haha! Also another little neat thing about avatar is just the composition and how the frames are storyboarded. That alone makes it seem more western.
To me the difference is the lines anime has more to give depth and stylized has less or almost none imo, but I have no clue what my pfp’s art style is tho 😢
This has always bugged me, I get not everyone is into art/anime/cartoons or whatever, but there seems to be a grey area in animation where you are 50/50 gonna be seen as anime or not. I'm talking the League of Legends type of art, RWBY, Avatar (the last airbender, not the blue furries), and I supposed Stephen Universe type stuff (I'm old, so I'm not exactly familiar with that era of cartoons). I think it would help if this style of art had a proper recognized name. While I like 'stylized art' it doesn't exactly sound specific to whatever this style is, so if we could all collectively choose a term, it could blossom into it's own genre. Perhaps a prerequisite list of shows that define it would be good as well, cuz I'm starting to doubt my Stephen Universe comparison.
LMAO once i was playing stardew valley in front of my mom and she saw my avatar and asked "is this an anime game?" MAMA NOOO it's NOOTTT WHYY i love you to death, but god are you so wrong. i guess it's because anything that doesn't immediately and obviously fall under realistic/abstract, and is depicting humans w/ big eyes... people just call it Anime.
i purposely avoided watching anime for 3 years so whenever someone would say my art looked like anime ( it didn’t in the slightest and still doesn’t ) i would be able to say i never watched anime, despite the fact i absolutely love animation and do it myself
i think that calling something anime isn't inherently wrong since anime just means animation, so long as its a moving picture it is anime with cartoons just being a specific style of anime/animation and like in America there could be a widely varied amount of art styles. for example id say there are actual anime and manga with a SOMEWHAT similar artsyle to yours at specific points like classic Akira Toriymama or Panty and Stocking or even at some points mob psycho 100. the problem isn't calling it anime its the fact that people always have something specific in mind when referencing anime, most commonly Shonen, the likes of DBZ or Naruto or some newer ones like Chainsaw Man or JJK, which focus more on realism and action vs cartoons which are defined as being more expressive and comedic an example of which being the CalArts style. at which point its the equivalent of someone comparing the likes of family guy to something like invincible and vice versa as they are both animation they still are very different for specific reasons and its insulting when someone doesnt see that.
I get what you're saying, there's not just one anime style. That's true but that dude literally picked an anime specifically that looked nothing like my style 😭 anyways comparing any artists work to anything is a dodgy subject. Thanks for your comment!
>_> Apparently I'm in the rare few that is more between Realism and Anime. but because I was influenced by art styles that are more "Fine art" ish and Manga than actual anime. The Salior Moon Manga pulls back details in some areas so they could do *more* details in others. Same with most of Clamp's works in the Manga. XXXHolic, the Manga, has a very drasticly different style compared to Clamp but it has that push and pull. But the biggest influence that I've noticed was Amano Yoshitaka. The Same artist that did Amon Saga, Vampire Hunter D cover art, and Final Fantasy's logos and concept art. Once I learned how to do anatomy (which wasn't in high school because the art teacher would not teach me. It was outside classes and even college that *wasn't* a dedicated Art school but still had the Fine Arts Degrees but also allowed me to learn Art History. I have huge issues actually with how the dedicated art schools handle art because I have seen too many people give up art because they went to one of those schools.) I went hog wild with pushing into those details and fluid motions. I don't care if people call it anime because those anime artists had to learn the fundementals as well. As well as cartoonists and any animators. Style is based on your influences over the years, your mistakes, and your understanding of the concept of design and the canvas (both digitally and physically in this case). Your style changes constantly because you're constantly learning and understanding new things about what you can do with your art. There will be times you'll like the new thing better. It's why Picasso can go from Realism, to Cubism, to his Rose Period and then to his Blue Period and all of that having *VASTLY* different looks. Dali couldn't draw horses, but he leaned into that lack of knowlage to develop into his style even more so of the Narrative Surrealism. (though he could draw people. it's why his drawing of people looked correct when he draws them without abstracting them when you look at his sketches of horses however..... You'll realize that he always struggled with horses even though he tried to get a better understanding with studies) And it's harder to do *actual* simplfication than it is to lean into details because it's how we see the world. When you understand how simplfication actually works to make something appealing, that's the harder part. Knowing to put that simplfication vs where to put in that detail you want, and keep it feel lively and not flat and cardboard. (I also never cared about the use of nudity in anime because if you look at a lot of paintings.... they're in the nude unabashingly for "no apparent reason" other than they could do it or it was accepted in the art world. So why would anime be any different? There's 4 different sculptures by different artists of David and all of them in the nude. Though one does lean to the erotic but that's neither here nor there.)
I've heard that too, but a little different: that it's hard for a realism artist to do simplification, but easier vice versa. Nudity in art I agree is very common, but I also believe that context matters. Thanks for your comment!
Avatar The Last Airbender is American anime. Anime is big features on the face. Exaggerated eyes and mouth to push the emotional impact. Also anime is made on 3’s. The anime community isn’t a monolith. I’m sure there’s probably some anime you’d enjoy but it seems you have projected a stigma on anime. I love animation no matter anime or everything else including stop motion and 3d. Nudity isn’t strictly in anime. Art is subjective and the puritanical nature of people fears of nudity you’d be surprised because most art with nudity is not p*rn. Black dot eyes are what One Punch Man has a very anime anime. Try not judging art so strictly you are creating a box for you to stay stuck and never grow in. Feel free to challenge yourself and don’t see a whole art community as “bad” because you are harshly judging them. Especially now when we fighting for our voices to be heard against ai. Acting like we are better than anime artists will divide our fight for our jobs to stay relevant. Just hoping that you understand where I am coming from because you seem nice and I think every artist should have at least a basic respect for what we do between us no matter if you 3d artist or anime we need to stick together.
Definitely not trying to start some arbitrary art war for sure. I just wanted to talk about a subject most stylized artists go through when trying to find their art style and the different reasons why someone may not want to have their art called anime. Thanks for your comment!
@@Rosemadi.artist no problem! I understand. I encourage you to take inspiration from where you can. Ghibli has some of the most beautiful scenes of water and fire and other elements. The craft is incredible. What’s your goals? I recently graduated and am trying to build an art network and hope I wasn’t coming off crazy. I love animation.
I recently watched a ghibli movie and what I got out of it was the use of extreme wide shots, which I never considered drawing, but now started to after Watching that movie. Also I'm a production assistant, don't want to be a career artist or anything but I love animation so that's what influenced that choice haha. But yeah we can talk about it more through either email or discord!
What makes an anime different from a cartoon using the same artstyle (teen titans for example) Animes are usually Japanese shows based on Japanese comics called Mangas (I know yall arent stupid im doing this to explain) Thats what makes them different from shows like Avatar that may use the same artstyle
i avoided watching anime for 3 years so when people told me it looked like anime i’d be able to say that i don’t watch it if anyone ever compares it. but i did end up getting into it but my art style still isn’t anime. it’s just my art style
Hey guys! Obviously no hate to the anime community, its fans, or its artists. Just needed to vent a bit about how some people call our art anime when it's not :))
Much love! And again, draw whatever you want, I'm not the anime art police, and I'm not the anime hate mob. Just a stylized artist with other stylized artists who needed to vent 💕
You know it’s not and that’s the important detail. Most non animators will be misinformed. Much like communities in plumbing would probably be annoyed that I don’t know the difference between pipes and tools outside of a plunger lol.
I remember once my teacher looked at a drawing I was making and said “YoU OnLy DrAw AnImE 🙄”.
...I was drawing Steven Universe characters.
Steven Universe is my second favorite anime after Cory in the House 😭
Some boy in my class asked me my favorite anime and I was like “oh I don’t really watch anime?” And he was like “but then why do you draw anime?”
Well it could be SU characters but in anime style
"Yes!! She loves drawing anime!!"
HUH??
Literally what my dad says, word for word!! 😭
You know what’s even worse? When people ask what the thing your drawing is from and they get increasingly more confused when you try to explain it’s your own characters :|
Can’t count how many times I’ve had to do that, like I created these, I did. No one else did, just me, why is that hard so believe? :C
IKRR! My classmates ALWAYSS say "Who is that?" And whenever I say "It's my character", they say "What show?" I SAID ITS MY CHARACTER 😭
What?? That's happening to you guys, I wish someone can ask me that so I can give them a 30 minute info dump on my OC haha
I usually say: “it’s uh…one of my characters.. “
Because if I said OC they’d be like: “what’s that mean?” Then I have to go through a whole teaching on what that means then it’d switch to: “hey what’s your character’s story and stuff?” And me, the one who doesn’t like sharing my ocs to non-art friends, would be trying to find a way to get out of it by saying “I don’t have the whole story yet so-“
Happened to me more than once lol, even my parents at one point. But when I tell people they usually get it quickly!
as soon as i saw this video's title i HAD to click because when i was in middle school every time someone saw my art (which was and still is very stylised, even more so now) they asked if it was anime art and didn't understand why it infuriated me so much
It's so annoying, I remember every person who has said it to me. Like if it's some traumatic event.
Whenever some says my art looks anime it’s just ☹️
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Like how does it even remotely sound like a compliment to people. It's like telling someone they dress like Adam Sandler. It's not a compliment, it's just like huh!?
It IS a complement, why are you so weird
I mean I could seee that with my older art (2020-early 2023) cuz I was going for an anime artstyle
But whenever I show my newer art with a completely different artstyle and people call it anime...
yeah..
@@Rosemadi.artisti mean anime isnt bad. Id take that as a compliment
I had my old art teacher watch me draw in my western cartoon inspired style and then ask me what my favorite anime was haha. It was actually kind of sweet to me that he was trying to relate but it confused me a lot, this video put that feeling into words finally. Also I like how you draw characters with little floating features, they are so fun but so underrated nowadays!
Thank you haha! funny about the floating features. For my AP portfolio I drew a character with one eye because I couldn't fit the other eye in the face. My Teacher asked where the other eye was, and told me I should draw it, so it ended up just floating off the face, and I've been doing it ever since 😭
But yeah the anime thing is such a common occurrence that no one kinda talks about omg
I think we should just Not compare art styles at all, actually.
Some people just really have no interaction with art outside of anime and it's kinda sad.
As much as I like anime, I'd be absolutely devastated if it was all I ever saw people making. We need variety, or else I'm going to start tearing things apart like a tiger deprived of enrichment.
ok I’ll learn a new art style after spending 7 years learning mine and I’m not even down yet /j
Interesting to see that you only got a few hundred subscribers, it only needs one video for your channel to blow up, your voice and your visuals are really nice. Keep it up 💪
Aweee that's so kind of you! And I'm having fun making these videos too! TYSM! 💕💕
I was horrible at drawing and someone asked if it was anime. I don't know how i feel about that.
I have noticed that art is either cartoon, photorealistic or anime to people.
Right? And I feel like because there's a lack of vocabulary for this third space we're all in! But geez I rather be called cartoon than anime 😬
SOME KID WAS WATCHING ME DRAW AND ASKED ME IF I LIKED ANIME A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGOOOOO😭😭😭😭 MY STYLE HAS NEVER LOOKED THE SAME!!!! Kids are unintentionally mean😔
"Kids say the darndest things" type beat 😭
@@Rosemadi.artist “Darndest” that is a hilarious word, but you’re not wrong.
Tbh your art style is distinctly you, I haven’t seen art like yours because it’s unique. Like comparing my art with my brothers is dumb, we do separate distinct styles. I kinda hate when I do a more realistic look and people call it anime, feels like they think I’m copying and that I don’t have my own style
Edit: also I just love your style it’s very pretty and fun :D
That's the biggest reason for me too! I want to feel original omg, also thank you so much! 😭💕
I personally don’t really watch anime at all. But when I told that to someone they got confused and were like “but then why do you draw it???” Like I don’t? My art definitely airs way more towards a Western style so it’s rather confusing.
Literally! I steal way more from western animation if anything
*doodles semi-realistic/stylised girl*
*my deskmate looking over at my notebook*
- "X IS DRAWING ANIME GIRLS."
Me who doesn't even watch anime:
- "w h a t"
So relatable like how haha 😭
When people say my art looks like anime, idk how to respond because it kiiinda does, but it's also a lot different because i use really thick lineart, more simple hands and legs, and honestly the most anime looking thing about it is the eyes i guess. But idk lol I'm just somewhere in-between cartoon and anime
yep that fun in between space, but if you have anime eyes, that's already enough for some people to give the label 😭
@@Rosemadi.artist definitely- I wish there was a name for a style that's not really anime or cartoon lol
Anime is cartoon
@@mrpickles-hb6zx it is but it generally has different style choices and also story structure compared to Western animation and people are generally refering to a specific style thats very popular in anime but is very rare in Western cartoons
Anime isn't a style, genre, medium, or animation type.
I hate when ppl tell you you draw in an anime style and refuse to accept it’s not, telling you what YOUR art style is. I don’t show off my art much anymore but when I did ppl legit did this.
When you said that some people think it looks like anime art, I was confused. Your art style looks more like Total Drama than anime to me.
TD has always been an influence!
For me it was the opposite. My friend said that my art style isn't anime when I've been going for an anime art style :,)
There's an extra level of maliciousness by your friend, especially if you told them it was anime 😬
@@Rosemadi.artist I know :,) The worst part is that they didn't draw when they told me that 💀
This is the dark timeline where people are so used to ugly adult Swim cartoons being socially okay (because "mature" shows are okay for adults to watch and so valid) that they have twisted themselves into thinking that non-japanese cartoobs are realistic/gross looking and any sort of stylization, even something mild like yours, is anime because its actually visually appealing. The typical modern person has completely forgot the history of animation, even modern history, and somehow has never seen an actual cartoon in their life. Or maybe they only consider anime valid cause it has sexual harrassment, aka adult show, aka okay for smart adults to watch without being treated like children, aka infantilized. This is tragic.
Would love to see a cartoon one day without the art style you mentioned, that touches on adult themes without coming off as childish or gross. It could be an executive meddling thing or a marketing thing, but adult animation shouldn't be afraid to look good omg. Don't make me open this can of worms lol
The basic definition of anime is animation made by Japanese artists. However due to other artists having similar artstyles to anime even though they aren't from the Japanese country, lines are a bit blurred. It is like the basic definition of manga. Being Japanese comics with dialogue and pictures and panels. We don't call Korean comics from webtoon manga, we call it manhwa which is korean comics similar to manga with a more semi realism feel. So just say anime is Japanese animation.
‘Woah your art is so cool it reminds me of this (inserts anime)!!’
Thanks but I don’t know that anime
"What? You're telling me you don't watch My Mom's Second Cousin is a Squid???"
I mean anime is short for animation (cartoon). But I do agree if people want to call something a cartoon or anime or whatever makes them comfortable. I really love your takes, your art style does look very cool. I'd also agree with the adult jokes in anime, a huge portion of it didn't make me laugh from all the women or even girls being shown in such a way made me drop a lot of anime, that's why I'm more picky with what I watch nowadays.
Just a quick correction but well anime is short for animation BUT it’s referring to JAPANESE cartoons which is a specific style
@@id3it Yes, thank you for the correction!
@@KoalaOwlPaws no problemo!! Glad I could help :)
Same, nothing wrong with anime, its style, or its watchers, but I'm not 100% comfortable with it 😭I guess the fight scenes are decent though
@@Rosemadi.artist Yea the fight scenes are pretty cool and eye-catching!
2:14 - 2:21 I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SAY i've always felt like i was the only person on earth who DIDN'T start out drawing anime 💔 i feel alone.
for context in started drawing really egregious-looking dinosaurs when i was in kindergarten, and then up until like 2021 i pretty much only drew furries. i think what got me to draw humans is just a story concept i had that i didn't feel would make as much sense if i just made the characters more furries.
once i needed to draw something in the generic anime artstyle for a silly joke drawing and i straight up HAD TO GET A WIKIHOW ARTICLE to figure out how to do it
damn I want this origin story haha, what kind of dinosaur I need to know!
same here 😭 I still heavily avoid drawing people (faces really, I have everything else down) because I just suckkkkkkk and I know the only way to improve is to actually draw them but I still avoid it lol
@@Rosemadi.artist i was a dinosaur obsessed kid so i drew a lot of different dinosaurs.
I'm used to complaining about how a lot of cartoons seem to be afraid to give their characters irises, even though that is one of the most expressive things to me and can say a lot about a character (favourite examples being MLP g4 and Camp Camp). The Owl House and the Vivziepop works kinda do this, but it feels like it couldve been even BETTER with both of those.
Ive had my art style be called anime-inspired because my characters have eyes with highlights, but the way i draw them is very much not anime-esque. If anything you could say i was inspired by Vivzie but only for the eyelashes, but i was on that shit since before i even knew about her. I also never liked anime growing up so it didnt influence my art style.
Also it was so ironic to me when men had that Cal-Arts style craze and kept being like "watch anime instead!" Because all anime has looked basically the same to me while i can easily pick apart the differences between warly 2010s toons. Guess its the autistic visual processing in me. But if seeing the differences between Gumball and Steven Universe isnt normal, then can i even be a critic? Am i just insane?
If the Calarts style has a million fans, then I am one of them. If the Calarts style has ten fans, then I am one of them. If the Calarts style has only one fan then that is me. If the Calarts style has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth.
The funny part about that dumb calarts style goofiness a couple years back is that it was doctored to make it look like the same exact drawing. I like eye iris, I draw them rarely though, but I like the dot too^^ but yeah not every artstyle with highlights is anime!
It just shows they don’t have a trained enough eye to be making commentary on art if they can’t tell the difference between styles.
I've even had a figure drawing TA in college say it once, while another classmate defended me! It's insane really 😭
They just wanna enjoy art, no one is OBLIGATED to "learn" the difference between styles if they don't want to, and they're free to say the similarities
@@mrpickles-hb6zx never said you had to learn the difference I said if you don’t know the difference and make stupid commentary your comment is complete nonsense
My mom: You’re drawing mangas!
Me: *IT’S CARTOON*
We can't catch a break 😭😭
"Toxic anime fans can go play in traffic"
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Also, i know im probably not doing anything regarding the anime nudity thing, but you just got to find the right anime! Like Frieren! Anyways, enjoyed the vid!
I just read that Frieren stays away from the tropes I'm not a fan of so maybe I will watch haha thanks for the recommendation!
After years of similar exchanges while at high school, and in the workplace, I just found that everyone just immediately labels your art to whatever they're most familiar with, regardless of what you draw or even how you draw it. Personally, I prefer my drawings to be pseudo realistic cartoons in terms of anatomical proportions with backgrounds that vary from fantasy architecture and environments, or medieval/colonial scenes. Or I'd actually just draw realistic anatomy and clothing, but regardless, everyone just labels it as "anime" or "manga".
Yeah thats so true! Whatever they're familiar with, that's what they'd call it. And if they have no frame of reference other than anime, everything is just anime
This is the first video i've watched, and i'm so impressed by your skills, you did so many drawings in so many different styles, it's amazing!
Thank you so much! And I can see how the Steven Universe thing can be upsetting. I wouldn't mind it since SU is one of my influences, but if it isn't yours it's like yikes!
I mean this with respect but anime isn't easy my art is anime but with a little bit of other art styles so I started with anime and it isn't easy btw I love this vid keep going 😁
Valid, valid lol Thank you!
I immediately clicked on this because UGH i get this all the time and I consider my style to be a slightly more stylized semi-realistic style. I am a very casual anime fan and tbh it makes me a little annoyed when my style is compared to anime because I personally don’t think it looks like it at all. I don’t even draw sparkly large eyes, I draw the black dot eyes😢 at this point I feel like it’s unavoidable no matter what lol.
It's so strange tbh, but it's such a common occurrence between artists and we try our best, but yet the comparison still finds a way 🥲
5:16 EXACTLY!! i dont want to attract those anime fans that are lolicons… (and not just anime fans, anyone who is a lolicon) the fact they try to normalize it is so disgusting..
This is why I don't call anyone's art styles "anime" or "manga" unless they self-label it as such. I call a lot of my art "manga" and "manga-inspired" because I draw a lot of inspiration from mangakas (I wouldn't call it "anime" unless it was animated; people saying "anime art style" to describe a still image is actually quite a pet peeve of mine), and I think that artists like myself have basically bled that inspiration into the online art community to the point where it's hard to distinguish one art style as "anime" or not. But it's a big argument because no one can really agree on a single "manga or anime" art style.
Like just off the top of my head; Astroboy, Kill la Kill, Beastars, Hunter x Hunter, The Girl from the Other Side, Chainsawman and Nichijou (My Ordinary Life) are all really drastically different styles of anime and manga (some are simpler, some are more detailed, some are softer, some are rougher) yet it's agreed they are all anime and manga. Yet no one can agree that ATLA is anime because "it's made in the West" and "it has the cartoon feel" yet "it has the art style", or even if the 90's Moomin cartoon is "technically" an anime because it was partially produced in Japan (If you want my opinion; I actually don't really care, I think of all of them as cartoons. I think that treating anime differently from other cartoons is mostly a cultural thing. And if you *really* want to get technical about it, Disney is the forerunner of both Western animation and Japanese anime, just looking from a historical perspective. That's why I use the labels "manga" and "anime" mostly as a cultural homage)
Anyway, as a digital artist who is an avid manga reader and casual anime fan, I'm glad you're saying that stylized =/= "anime art style" because I also get really annoyed about the discussion online. For different reasons, but with similar points.
Yeah the discussion is so much more nuisanced and complicated, more so than this video can talk about in this time frame. Thanks for your comment!
I’ve had a hard time figuring out my style, but I think I have an ok style for now. Now I HOPE people don’t call it anime or else I’m gonna be asking myself: huh? it doesn’t look like anime?
Because my eyes are black ovals and I don’t draw noses or mouths- I feel like people associate cartoon-y styles with anime in general, no matter the change. I’ve also been trying to make a sort of “animation” style that involves mouths or a little more expressive eyes so I can use that in comics or animations and add a little more expression.
Yeah it seems avoidable, there's no real solution tbh and it's sad 🥲 but hey that's why I made the video, and it's reassuring knowing I'm not alone with this
I've always been leaning into an anime artstyle, mainly bacause that what's most people that I saw online would draw like, and I really wanted to be as good as them; even though I didn't watch any anime at all. I just tought that was what 'good art' looked like.
Now? Yes, I do make anime fanart but I wouldn't consider myself a fan: I've only watched like... Two... Actually more than that, but all of the other ones are from the same franchise...
And I also don't really enjoy the weird jokes they make, I just wait for the occasional moments where they are funny.
But one time, someone saw me drawing a really messy tree, super sketchy, and asked: "That looks cool! Do you also draw anime?!?"
Uh, no, I mean yes, I mean, how do you know?!? You haven't even seen my normal art, why would assume that I do based off a random tree??
It didn't even look like a tree that you would actually see in an anime's background, so where did that idea even come from?
That's so true! I totally forgot how everyone had an anime inspired art style, and I was 100% influenced by that. But haha I've never heard of an anime tree!
loosing it at 9:39!!!!
I really like your videos :)
haha I'm glad you found it funny 😂
To be honest, my art is VERY far away from anime imo, I mean the one thing I definitely held onto from my earlier years was the big, expressive eyes. But overall that’s about it, and the reason I don’t want my art to be seen as “anime” is because the style doesn’t really appeal to me anymore 😭 I just kinda stopped liking it after my huge fixation on one particular anime back in 2022
Not to mention my style is HEAVILY inspired by a lot of mid 2010’s western cartoons (Steven universe mainly) and evolved from there, so it’d also really shock me if it ever got compared to anime
Omg I feel like we've had the same arc where I started off as anime and then gravitated towards cartoons I enjoyed including steven universe! But yeah I don't want my art to be seen as anime either and I don't know how else to beat the allegations without going full looney tunes lmao
It sucks to see people put off an entire genre over a few or "many, many, many" bad seeds. There are some great anime out there that care about telling a good story and do a great job of it, I'm sure you would love them if you could find them in the sea of slop.
I wouldn't mind some recommendations, I guess I just I haven't found the one
@@Rosemadi.artist start with Spirited Away it's a movie that I wouldn't even call an Anime even though it is. I mean if you like animated media its going to be pretty hard to never watch a anime its becoming pretty mainstream. If lots of people say the same show is good, its probably good. Just stay away from iseki or however you spell it
omg yes, finally someone said it
I hate whenever people figure out I draw and imediately ask if it's anime when they figure it's not hyper realistic, specially upsetting when other artists my age ask the same thing after seeing my drawings.
like girl, I know you're drawing stuff to be a tattoo artist, but couldn't you at least figure out another artist wouldn't appreciate you asking if their art (which you're clearly seeing isn't) is anime?
I really think some folks have to be "art style blind" or something cause it's such a wild comparison people make 🥲
Yeah. I started heavily with a anime style as a teenager myself at 14.
Then gradually as the years passed I learned more about anatomy and drawing varying body types and well. Also I grew a love of drawing my hair with a more detailed texture to it. More identifiable locks.
(My profile picture doesn't count I tried more realistic proportions in it and well it needs more shading to look good)
Anyways, the only thing somewhat anime about my art style is the eyes I guess? Although proportionally they're usually smaller than those of most anime characters unless I'm going for a sort of cutesy small child look. I like drawing defined noses myself and more defined lips on some characters. I draw the eyes with a highlight and irises but I don't complicate it too much. I want to be able to give my characters the ability to emote with their pupils after all. I tried the black dots look and it looked disturbing with some of my characters. Too dead inside.
So yeah I get the feeling.
Haha the black dot eyes don't work for everyone. I know you can also color the eyes to be blue dots or hazel dots but I've never done it. But yeah I agree that my eye shapes are also the most anime thing about my art, especially since I draw open lines instead of shapes
The comments i get are "FURRY!" when im drawing a cat, fox, etc. THEIR ANIMALS NOT FURRIES- (I dont have an issue with furries, im subbed to a few and im friends with some) I legit have to explain their animals, and their like "fur = furry" and ill say "are you referring to people who dress up as animals? And have fursonas?" And they'll confidently say "yes"
I didn't even think of this one, but I've seen this happen to artists many times! I think cause a handful don't draw animals that much, and then when you do, that's when the furry allegations kick in
Ironic, indeed : Stylized Art isn't indeed Anime BUT Anime is an Art Style.
It has genres and tropes which are specific to it but you can't call anything resembling it an Anime.
Avatar is the best example in my opinion : it uses some animesque tropes but you can clearly see it's a western cartoon, first and all.
So, yes, as a long time consumer of Japan best media, I concur : your style AIN'T anime.
Thank you haha! Also another little neat thing about avatar is just the composition and how the frames are storyboarded. That alone makes it seem more western.
@@Rosemadi.artist Precisely !!
it's definitely a similar generalization to how some people think animation is only for kids, when they don't even know much about it.
True, some "kids" shows are more adult than adult shows sometimes
To me the difference is the lines anime has more to give depth and stylized has less or almost none imo, but I have no clue what my pfp’s art style is tho 😢
Your art style is you!
@@Rosemadi.artist A True Unique Art Moment
This has always bugged me, I get not everyone is into art/anime/cartoons or whatever, but there seems to be a grey area in animation where you are 50/50 gonna be seen as anime or not. I'm talking the League of Legends type of art, RWBY, Avatar (the last airbender, not the blue furries), and I supposed Stephen Universe type stuff (I'm old, so I'm not exactly familiar with that era of cartoons). I think it would help if this style of art had a proper recognized name. While I like 'stylized art' it doesn't exactly sound specific to whatever this style is, so if we could all collectively choose a term, it could blossom into it's own genre.
Perhaps a prerequisite list of shows that define it would be good as well, cuz I'm starting to doubt my Stephen Universe comparison.
Yeah I couldn't find a term to really use! All I know that it's western, mixed with eastern in this hodgepodge style that no one has a name for!
LMAO once i was playing stardew valley in front of my mom and she saw my avatar and asked "is this an anime game?"
MAMA NOOO it's NOOTTT WHYY i love you to death, but god are you so wrong.
i guess it's because anything that doesn't immediately and obviously fall under realistic/abstract, and is depicting humans w/ big eyes... people just call it Anime.
Omg that's so true, and I feel like stardew valley is so far from anime too 🥲🥲 not even pixel art is safe
@@Rosemadi.artist
nothings safe from it anymore!! lmao
awesome vid as usual
Haha tysm!!
i purposely avoided watching anime for 3 years so whenever someone would say my art looked like anime ( it didn’t in the slightest and still doesn’t ) i would be able to say i never watched anime, despite the fact i absolutely love animation and do it myself
HELP I COMMENTED THIS TWICE DUDE RUclips WAS BREKAING!!!!!!!!
This Happens To Me Way To Much lol
There's no escape just pain 😭
ngl dont even know what anime means anymore
Your likes are at 69 and I ruined it because I love the video
awe thank you pffffffft haha 💕
I'm lowkey glad to be not born in the west, Anime art is pretty much the norm and can even vary in many different ways
That's true!
i think that calling something anime isn't inherently wrong since anime just means animation, so long as its a moving picture it is anime with cartoons just being a specific style of anime/animation and like in America there could be a widely varied amount of art styles. for example id say there are actual anime and manga with a SOMEWHAT similar artsyle to yours at specific points like classic Akira Toriymama or Panty and Stocking or even at some points mob psycho 100. the problem isn't calling it anime its the fact that people always have something specific in mind when referencing anime, most commonly Shonen, the likes of DBZ or Naruto or some newer ones like Chainsaw Man or JJK, which focus more on realism and action vs cartoons which are defined as being more expressive and comedic an example of which being the CalArts style. at which point its the equivalent of someone comparing the likes of family guy to something like invincible and vice versa as they are both animation they still are very different for specific reasons and its insulting when someone doesnt see that.
I get what you're saying, there's not just one anime style. That's true but that dude literally picked an anime specifically that looked nothing like my style 😭 anyways comparing any artists work to anything is a dodgy subject. Thanks for your comment!
>_> Apparently I'm in the rare few that is more between Realism and Anime. but because I was influenced by art styles that are more "Fine art" ish and Manga than actual anime. The Salior Moon Manga pulls back details in some areas so they could do *more* details in others. Same with most of Clamp's works in the Manga. XXXHolic, the Manga, has a very drasticly different style compared to Clamp but it has that push and pull. But the biggest influence that I've noticed was Amano Yoshitaka. The Same artist that did Amon Saga, Vampire Hunter D cover art, and Final Fantasy's logos and concept art.
Once I learned how to do anatomy (which wasn't in high school because the art teacher would not teach me. It was outside classes and even college that *wasn't* a dedicated Art school but still had the Fine Arts Degrees but also allowed me to learn Art History. I have huge issues actually with how the dedicated art schools handle art because I have seen too many people give up art because they went to one of those schools.) I went hog wild with pushing into those details and fluid motions. I don't care if people call it anime because those anime artists had to learn the fundementals as well. As well as cartoonists and any animators.
Style is based on your influences over the years, your mistakes, and your understanding of the concept of design and the canvas (both digitally and physically in this case). Your style changes constantly because you're constantly learning and understanding new things about what you can do with your art. There will be times you'll like the new thing better. It's why Picasso can go from Realism, to Cubism, to his Rose Period and then to his Blue Period and all of that having *VASTLY* different looks. Dali couldn't draw horses, but he leaned into that lack of knowlage to develop into his style even more so of the Narrative Surrealism. (though he could draw people. it's why his drawing of people looked correct when he draws them without abstracting them when you look at his sketches of horses however..... You'll realize that he always struggled with horses even though he tried to get a better understanding with studies) And it's harder to do *actual* simplfication than it is to lean into details because it's how we see the world. When you understand how simplfication actually works to make something appealing, that's the harder part. Knowing to put that simplfication vs where to put in that detail you want, and keep it feel lively and not flat and cardboard. (I also never cared about the use of nudity in anime because if you look at a lot of paintings.... they're in the nude unabashingly for "no apparent reason" other than they could do it or it was accepted in the art world. So why would anime be any different? There's 4 different sculptures by different artists of David and all of them in the nude. Though one does lean to the erotic but that's neither here nor there.)
I've heard that too, but a little different: that it's hard for a realism artist to do simplification, but easier vice versa. Nudity in art I agree is very common, but I also believe that context matters. Thanks for your comment!
Avatar The Last Airbender is American anime. Anime is big features on the face. Exaggerated eyes and mouth to push the emotional impact. Also anime is made on 3’s. The anime community isn’t a monolith. I’m sure there’s probably some anime you’d enjoy but it seems you have projected a stigma on anime. I love animation no matter anime or everything else including stop motion and 3d.
Nudity isn’t strictly in anime. Art is subjective and the puritanical nature of people fears of nudity you’d be surprised because most art with nudity is not p*rn.
Black dot eyes are what One Punch Man has a very anime anime.
Try not judging art so strictly you are creating a box for you to stay stuck and never grow in. Feel free to challenge yourself and don’t see a whole art community as “bad” because you are harshly judging them. Especially now when we fighting for our voices to be heard against ai. Acting like we are better than anime artists will divide our fight for our jobs to stay relevant. Just hoping that you understand where I am coming from because you seem nice and I think every artist should have at least a basic respect for what we do between us no matter if you 3d artist or anime we need to stick together.
Definitely not trying to start some arbitrary art war for sure. I just wanted to talk about a subject most stylized artists go through when trying to find their art style and the different reasons why someone may not want to have their art called anime. Thanks for your comment!
@@Rosemadi.artist no problem! I understand. I encourage you to take inspiration from where you can. Ghibli has some of the most beautiful scenes of water and fire and other elements. The craft is incredible. What’s your goals? I recently graduated and am trying to build an art network and hope I wasn’t coming off crazy. I love animation.
I recently watched a ghibli movie and what I got out of it was the use of extreme wide shots, which I never considered drawing, but now started to after Watching that movie. Also I'm a production assistant, don't want to be a career artist or anything but I love animation so that's what influenced that choice haha. But yeah we can talk about it more through either email or discord!
@@Rosemadi.artist yeah that would be cool. I love animation as well!
What makes an anime different from a cartoon using the same artstyle (teen titans for example) Animes are usually Japanese shows based on Japanese comics called Mangas (I know yall arent stupid im doing this to explain) Thats what makes them different from shows like Avatar that may use the same artstyle
Yep and the interesting thing too is when you look at ATLA's earlier art and recent comics, it takes on a different look than the 2005 show
i avoided watching anime for 3 years so when people told me it looked like anime i’d be able to say that i don’t watch it if anyone ever compares it. but i did end up getting into it but my art style still isn’t anime. it’s just my art style
That's definitely one way to avoid it! Omg I wish I had known to do that