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Part two of my Understanding Your Style: Symbols, Design Pattern, and Anti-Pattern guide/essay-thing.

If you're seeing this first because it came up stacked first in your messages, please, go read part one first! It might be a bit confusing otherwise!

If you like what you see here, please, share it with your friends. I literally put over a week's worth of work into writing, formatting, and illustrating this. If you like it, please support it! This message is extremely important to me, and I've been thinking about making a guide on it for a long time.
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~AishaTsukiari May 3, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Wow, this tutorial sure made me learn a lot....Even if I draw anime and don't want to change it, man I neither want to end with horse-human faces xDDD I'll practice my anatomy from the source, as you said! Thanks a lot for making this! c:
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~funnygirl99 Apr 15, 2013  Student General Artist
I don't even know how I found this, but thank you. I kind of want to improve my art style, and I figured the best way to really start was to focus on anatomy, so I've started there. Reading this actually made me more determined to improve, so thanks again. I'll be sure to send this to my friend when she gets on.
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:iconzumiex:
Wow! That's some good insight! I have wanted to get away a bit from the anime style I want just for something a bit more 'realistic', however I normally found that going right from one style to a new one too quickly actually makes it look worse so I'm trying to take my time by incorporating new things as using real anatomy references at the same time. However do have a hard time with the nose, mostly because I can't figure out how to draw a nose that I actually like (they all look ugly to me, I mean in general), so yeah. But this will help me to get a new perspective on things, thanks! :D
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:iconjonarty:
yo tambien hecho mi propio estilo
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:iconnexson:
I never even realized I was doing this! I always wondered why my free handed drawing looks so different from sketches from my realism practice. They looked sort of empty, it never donned on me that I was skewing them like this. I can't help but say thank you! Now that I have identified my "disease" I can work to cure myself of it.
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Mood: Wow! ~DyLaN-gReNkE Feb 3, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Uh. Wow. Thank you for this.
I had noticed I was doing this in my non-anime drawings and couldn't figure out what was up.
Now I know.
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:iconhalf-cracked:
This is great, very insightful. I can see the idea of the anti-pattern being a really useful concept to be aware of.
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~mearlyNear Jan 15, 2013  Student Digital Artist
thank you!
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*ohTHATsean Jan 12, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
What an interesting exercise with the long nose test there..
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~ToranekoStudios Jan 10, 2013   Digital Artist
Thank you so much. This is helping me greatly.
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