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Our brain when drawing is trying to simplify the features into by rotating them to be on a flat plane.
It's like the face is on a hinge.
This is why often with beginner art, the individual features look correct but the face looks "wrong".
The depth and variety of his settings. Think about each "place" in Ghibli films compared with the blandness of Disney settings.
Each Ghibli setting is almost its own character in the film.
The ability to create equally dramatic and fun characters
Some #ghibli drawings from my favorite storyteller: Hayo Miyazaki. His sketches and drawings communicate so much.
Kiki's posture and expression contrasted with Princess Mononoke. The simplicity but memorability of their costumes.
Another trick for strong panel composition is to think in terms of foreground, middle ground, and background, instead of *just* foreground and background.
Look at how Milt Caniff creates depth in his panels with this technique.
One of the things that's also noticeable about Linge Claire is the realistic, unexaggerated proportions of the characters.
They are cartoony but also consistent. They're much more constrained by the boundaries of the real world than comic logic.
But what about styles coming out of Disney animation and in specifically targeted young-adult comics, aren't those Linge Claire? They have simple and clean lines.
Not really.
Johnson composed some outstanding sequences with the skill of top notch comic artists at the time.
Transformers by Marvel was generally a pretty shoddily drawn comic with the exception of a short run of issues by an artist named William Johnson