Thread 149341568

Why do Western cartoonists give their characters such tiny eyes? I've never seen dot eyes in manga, but they're everywhere in the West.

>>149341568 (OP)
>I've never seen dot eyes in manga

my name is edwin, i made the mimic

Tons of Japanese characters have dot eyes.

>>149341568 (OP)
My 2 cents:

1.) Manga has quite a lot of beady dot eyes, it can be cute or signify some sort of mob face etc. Sometimes it's even just part of the style.

2.) If you specifically mean the "squint" then it's to make a more cartoony, likely easier to print and or animate version of a squinted action hero eyes.

>>149341568 (OP)
Before sunglasses were common having squinty eyes indicated an outdoorsy type and thus conveyed masculinity

>>149341568 (OP)
Are you stupid?

>>149341568 (OP)
Back in the days of newsprint, you couldn’t draw too many tiny details or they’d bleed on the page when printed. So artists too stylistic decisions like that.
A lot of what became staples of cartooning exist because of the limitations of print from past eras.

>>149341568 (OP)
Because Western comics were never about introspection or emotion.
They were first and foremost about the plot and the events and the real world commentary.

>>149341568 (OP)
Christopher Robin dies in space
https://youtu.be/ghUzQgX40Yo

It's an exaggeration of European facial features, specifically ones considered masculine at the time

>>149342025
Shut up

Many characters lost their charm when they started having sclera.

>>149341568 (OP)
The same reason why many artists draw four fingered hands.

>>149341568 (OP)
>I've never seen dot eyes in manga
Have you read like, one manga? Fucking One Piece has characters with dot eyes.

Look at old pictures of classic Hollywood actors

>>149342586
NGL I'm actually struggling to think of a manga where there isn't at least one character with dot eyes. I don't know what the fuck OP's on about.