Character Reference.

[GrooveMan.exe]

I can garuntee it's not about being trendy, its about keeping my character design aspects in the same way as i wish them to be to reflect mtself, which is what a personal character is all about, right?

Then your fashion sense is pretty bad, just saying.

To refute your argument about Paper Mario; characters from that series don't have arms or legs in general; so it's a bad comparison. And yet! Go take a look at Cortez. He's a skeleton in design also; and they make a point of showing all the joints for his bones, because that what skeletons fucking are - bones and joints.

A skeleton with no visible or working knees isn't a good or logical 'style direction' by any stretch of the imagination.

Edit: Hell, look at my avatar. He has noodle-legs too, but look! Visible joints! The legs bent in a logical place!