Poll: How Big is Too Big?

[renegade7]

First, I want to say that given that poll and the title this thread is not about what I thought it would be about.

I think anything between 2 and 5 there is going to be best, unless you're trying to go for realism, then I would definitely say 1, maybe 2.

6 and 7 seem tolerable. After that, it's kind of pushing it into ridiculousness, although I think 8 or 9 might work in a really cartoony setting.

 

[JochemHippie]

When your jaw hurts trying to- Oh.

Well, more then 6 would be a bit odd, but if the atmosphere asks for it then I'm more okay then anything up to 8 (9 scares me D

 

[JochemHippie]

Something with double posts.

 

[tofulove]

When i first saw the title, i was thinking this was a penis size thread. When i saw the poll, i was like this is a penis size thread. When i looked at the op post, i was like oh not a penis thread.

 

[sumanoskae]

Well, it's not a deal breaker or anything; if the show is good, it's good. I can look passed all the characters having severe deformities and crippling brain tumors.

Sometimes an over the top art style is even appropriate (See Madoka Magicka; made all the more disturbing because all this awful shit is happening to children's cartoon characters)

 

[Idsertian]

5 is acceptable for me. 6 and beyond is just too much.

Though anything beyond 1 on a real face, is obviously going to look a bit odd.

 

[pearcinator]

5 is as far as I would go...6 is too big. 9 scares the shit out of me!

Now, when talking about the eye size...

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I like six because it reminds me of older style anime. Anything above that is too grotesque. 1 and 2 are also hideous. 3 is where it starts getting acceptable.

Btw, I know this is not the point of the thread but I have to ask: how come manga/anime artist draw their characters with such big eyes?

Because they frequently only have one week to draw a ~20 - 30 page chapter, and because eyes and eyebrows are extremely expressive.

 

[DjinnFor]

Looking at the diagram, at what point do you say "Nope, too big?"

None.

1 is human. 2-7 is just varying depictions of ages in the same stylization. 8 & 9 are completely different art styles. I can appreciate all of them. 8 & 9 aren't much different than your average modern saturday morning cartoon as far as eye size goes.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

In my opinion, the first row is enough. Anything more than this delves into "AAAAAAADFKDKFSKFD;SMFS; IA, IA, CHTULHU FHTAGN!" territory.

 

[Robert Marrs]

6 looks to be the cutoff point for me. Everything above it is just too much. 1 is probably the worst though she looks like an alien in that picture.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

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dude The graph of results is so perfect. Such a smooth histogram

 

[chinangel]

my view is that they all can work, depending on the style.

 

[Raikas]

It depends on the style of the whole work - past #4 I think it would be hard to have the characters be taken seriously in a semi-realistic setting, but if the setting itself is super-stylilized, then the giant-eyes might not stand out as much.

 

[Nooh]

As a fan of science, look at that curve. Almost perfect Gaussian distribution.

OT: I chose 4 as too much because I'm not an anime fan, so I'm a bit bland and boring.

 

[otakon17]

Honestly, depending on the artstyle they all work for me.

 

[Ariseishirou]

Four is pushing it - everything after that is Oh God The Horror tier.

 

[Olas]

I don't really care, anything below 8 is fine, my issue is more with the weird way the eyes are drawn than their size. Here eyes bleed right into the rest of her face with no line of separation and it looks like she has bats for pupils. This is as true of #2 as #9.

 

[Movitz]

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Thank you, o wise frog-brother.