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8/2/2025, 9:27:04 PM
Collage anon here, I have been looking at.. what I suppose I must call "small figures".
Most figures drawn in comics and mangas are the focus, they are drawn big and in proper detail, but opposite to those are figures which are in the background, or figures which feature in very small panels.
I am curious to see how pro manga artists approach these sorts off miniature figures, what details do they include and what do they omit, how do they communicate the actions and emotions of the characters at such a small scale.
There is a random full-size manga page on the right for scale, which features what I assume is a pretty average scale for a manga page and its panels.
All of the snippets have not been resized, they are exactly the size they were drawn at, in reference to the reference page on the right.
I found this study very surprising. I was expecting about 50% of the small figures to be drawn in goofy chibi styles, but this was not the case at all. Almost none of them were dramatically stylized at all, almost all of them are drawn in their proper proportions.
Most figures drawn in comics and mangas are the focus, they are drawn big and in proper detail, but opposite to those are figures which are in the background, or figures which feature in very small panels.
I am curious to see how pro manga artists approach these sorts off miniature figures, what details do they include and what do they omit, how do they communicate the actions and emotions of the characters at such a small scale.
There is a random full-size manga page on the right for scale, which features what I assume is a pretty average scale for a manga page and its panels.
All of the snippets have not been resized, they are exactly the size they were drawn at, in reference to the reference page on the right.
I found this study very surprising. I was expecting about 50% of the small figures to be drawn in goofy chibi styles, but this was not the case at all. Almost none of them were dramatically stylized at all, almost all of them are drawn in their proper proportions.
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