Both anime and realism for me.. not a mix or anything.

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I just started to draw realism/anime style. @_@

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There's no such thing as anime/realism! ._.; It's all just cartoons.

But as for me, I love many many things. :3

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lol this was so long ago but I just now saw this..

Cartoon is actually its own genre. Realism is more realistic with shading and precision, and anime is more stylized and .. well, anime. Cartoon is like, the american spinoff of anime.

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Oh, and what I mean by anime and realism is like, more of a stylized realism.. Realistic art with a touch of anime classifications to it.

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Yeah um, no.

First of all linguistically speaking you can see that Americans had cartoons first. Anime is the raped Japanese form of the word "animation" >_>

And again, there really isn't a "realism" to anime. Like, if you found any linework of any cartoon, regardless of country of origin, if someone was bored enough they could color it "realistically" in relation to light and color.

There are plenty of cartoons that are super realistic in the US and Japan. There are also of plenty superdeformed as hell cartoons in both countries - and any other country, for that matter. But as long as they're all animated, whether 2D, 3D, or even 4D, they're cartoons.

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Realism in the sense that it's just a hugely deformed version of realistic drawing.
If you look at a cute anime face, it's basically very large eyes and a very small nose and mouth of a realistic person's face(to put it simply)

Either way, it's a style you have to learn to accept ESPECIALLY in this age, where half of the stuff on the front page is all anime/manga. (I apologize, when I speak of anime I usually mean 'manga' style as opposed to the animated cartoon.) It's really quite a bother how biased people are against ani--manga, I mean. In an advanced art class at my school, people are incredibly against drawing manga styles, and yet there are people drawing abstract, expressionism, and people drawing straight from photos. Either way, each style has its ups and downs and you shouldn't look at it simply as a quick drawing with deformed features, because there's a lot of aspects behind manga that most people look past.

"Art" in itself is the form of expression through drawing and painting. Nowhere in that definition does it state that someone should draw a face well. Maybe to be popular amongst fans, you should learn aspects of aestheticism, but as long as you're expressing yourself and enjoying what you do, art is anything you want it to be.
You may not do this, but a TON of people raped the term 'art' and morphed into meaning "drawing realistically well," especially in that art class I mentioned earlier.

I understand if someone specifically doesn't like the manga style, just as I don't usually enjoy abstract or other forms of art, but people really should avoid demeaning its title as a FORM of art, and give people the freedom to draw or paint whatever they choose.

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I'm not against it. I'm just saying there's nothing about it that should make it separate from the cartoons of other countries. [Lol, my gallery should show you I have a very Japanese-influenced style.]

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I don't remember ever saying that it was separate from other cartoons. Although now that I think about it, they SHOULD be separate. Every cartoon should be, no matter hte origin, because every cartoon has its own separate style.

And I don't think you're against it. I'm just saying, in general.

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