[DRAWINGS] Doodles and Finished Pieces 2.0

[Gors]

Yeah... anime kinda sucks at 'ethnicity' portraying - the manga aesthetic will often override these slight details. Cartoon, on other hand, seems to portray those differences better (if a little stereotypical at that)

for example, take punch out's design



and compare with say, hetalia.



since the ethnical features are more prominent in the cartoony-styled punch out, you can kinda judge where they're from easily. This isn't really the case with same-face-just-change-eye-design anime-style hetalia.

It really depends on what you want to portray - there is probably a better way to represent ethnicity in manga style, but there are no absolute "rights" and "wrongs" when coming to character design

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What's bizarre, is that cartoon consistently draws japanese people with thin eyes, which is a given, whereas anime does the opposite - Japanese characters are often portrayed with bigger eyes than (or at least, as big as) western characters...