hey everyone,
it's me again. i always been curious what you call the art style that you mixed cartooning and anime? since that's the art style i use when i draw. i know there's a few cartoons with that style but they called it anime-influenced animation. thank you all for your time.
sincerely,
-Joe:)
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Personally as a artist/student of comic book art and cartoons, I do not think that kind of mix is really a official style with a name. I feel it is more a personal thing for each artist and how they are influenced.
I too draw with an anime/manga style while striving to find my own take on it. and I have worked to infuse the two generic styles together, but really in the end there is no true "Western" comic style vs. "Anime" comic style, it is just how one is influenced in art and to brush their work off as "oh well they were influenced by anime," or "oh they were influenced by western comics" is sort of ignorant, because there are so many different artist in these fields who all have their own take and suddel to extreme differences.
Look at Jim Lee he draws in a very western style, but he is obviously influenced by asian comic art as well. Or look at Sakai- Sensai who's style for Usagi is influenced from his work from the days of Groo and the artist we find cartooning in the Sunday funnies of the newspaper. Or at Alex Rose who was influenced by the art work by his mother, Norman Rockwell, and western comics.
I don't see Cartooning and Anime as two separate entities of art. I see Anime as one branch of the concept of cartooning. And then when you look at anime style what style are we talking about? Influenced styles from the period of Tezuka, Lejii Matsumoto, Tatsuo Yoshida, and Go Nagi. Are we talking about the 80's period of Rumiko Takahasi and Akira Toryama. Are we going at the recent styles of Masashi Kishimoto and Yoshiro Nightow? Or are we discussing the more realistic styles of Sanpai Shirato and Katusahiro Otomo. Then we have to ask are we talking about the Shonen style or the Shojo style. So to say it is Anime style is kind of ignorant.
So in short I say don't box yourself in by saying "I draw in this style" Say "I am influenced by these artist and thus is where my style comes from." ie make your own style based on your influences. and they do not all have to be comic artist. Heck I have been working and studying techniques from Alphonse Mucha, DaVinci and Rubens.
I too draw with an anime/manga style while striving to find my own take on it. and I have worked to infuse the two generic styles together, but really in the end there is no true "Western" comic style vs. "Anime" comic style, it is just how one is influenced in art and to brush their work off as "oh well they were influenced by anime," or "oh they were influenced by western comics" is sort of ignorant, because there are so many different artist in these fields who all have their own take and suddel to extreme differences.
Look at Jim Lee he draws in a very western style, but he is obviously influenced by asian comic art as well. Or look at Sakai- Sensai who's style for Usagi is influenced from his work from the days of Groo and the artist we find cartooning in the Sunday funnies of the newspaper. Or at Alex Rose who was influenced by the art work by his mother, Norman Rockwell, and western comics.
I don't see Cartooning and Anime as two separate entities of art. I see Anime as one branch of the concept of cartooning. And then when you look at anime style what style are we talking about? Influenced styles from the period of Tezuka, Lejii Matsumoto, Tatsuo Yoshida, and Go Nagi. Are we talking about the 80's period of Rumiko Takahasi and Akira Toryama. Are we going at the recent styles of Masashi Kishimoto and Yoshiro Nightow? Or are we discussing the more realistic styles of Sanpai Shirato and Katusahiro Otomo. Then we have to ask are we talking about the Shonen style or the Shojo style. So to say it is Anime style is kind of ignorant.
So in short I say don't box yourself in by saying "I draw in this style" Say "I am influenced by these artist and thus is where my style comes from." ie make your own style based on your influences. and they do not all have to be comic artist. Heck I have been working and studying techniques from Alphonse Mucha, DaVinci and Rubens.