2012-11-22, 01:41 PM
Well, I always tend to think of exalting certain parts by using a certain size on a drawing. Your style tends to value the legs (and those are pretty damn awesome if you ask me) by making them much longer than usual, so the first thing you tend to stare (or at least in my case) are the legs; it makes me think of Sailor Moon, that has this same proportion style.
The image above is a pretty nice example; these legs are long and "off the correct proportion", but there's a reason for it (that doesn't need to be that complicated or justified, it's simply a form of expressing your style), there are many cases like that: the beautiful and colorful bright eyes from some drawings, they change the proportion and colors for it to stand out from the rest of the background; big heads (like Maple ones) are another nice example of having more interest to a part and less to another one, like you can see with these gigantic heads and such tiny bodies; there are many other examples of how proportions can be distorted without changing the quality of a piece, as long as you don't mess around without even thinking about some "base sizes".
Honestly, I'd care about proportions just in case of a realistic drawing, a portrait, that needs to follow a set of rules and look exactly like what you normally see on a "normal" human being; but when it comes to any other kind of drawing, it doesn't really matter. As I've said, you can change the proportions as much as you want, just because you want an element to stand out; in these cases, proportion doesn't really matter nor there's any rule about the canon sizes of absolutely anything.
Hell, not even my own body has these proportions, why would I care about it on a free styled drawing? :o
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The image above is a pretty nice example; these legs are long and "off the correct proportion", but there's a reason for it (that doesn't need to be that complicated or justified, it's simply a form of expressing your style), there are many cases like that: the beautiful and colorful bright eyes from some drawings, they change the proportion and colors for it to stand out from the rest of the background; big heads (like Maple ones) are another nice example of having more interest to a part and less to another one, like you can see with these gigantic heads and such tiny bodies; there are many other examples of how proportions can be distorted without changing the quality of a piece, as long as you don't mess around without even thinking about some "base sizes".
Honestly, I'd care about proportions just in case of a realistic drawing, a portrait, that needs to follow a set of rules and look exactly like what you normally see on a "normal" human being; but when it comes to any other kind of drawing, it doesn't really matter. As I've said, you can change the proportions as much as you want, just because you want an element to stand out; in these cases, proportion doesn't really matter nor there's any rule about the canon sizes of absolutely anything.
Hell, not even my own body has these proportions, why would I care about it on a free styled drawing? :o