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One of the most interesting features in Anime / Manga characters is their eyes. their eyes are one of the first things that I wanted to know more about when I saw them in characters. Please let us know what you think about Anime eyes. Here is a brief history about them. Source - J-List:

The Secret Behind Anime Eyes

One of the most famous features of anime is, of course, the large, expressive eyes, which are so good at showing emotions. These oversized eyes seem to be the first thing Westerners notice about Japanese animation, and we generally perceive them as taking up half the characters' faces, though when you look closely you see that there's a lot of variation in character designs.

Since anime is all about helping us escape from the dreary, mundane world we all inhabit, artists take the opportunity to create characters with unique eye features, some of which don't exist in Japan, such as purple eyes or heterochromia (differently colored eyes).

Though these large eyes define anime today, it’s easy to forget that Japan has always taken their cues from Western animation like Disney and Betty Boop, and it’s not hard to see the influence of Bambi in anime eyes today. J-List stocks many fun How to Draw books from Japan, and we recently got one in that shows techniques for drawing beautiful anime eyes.

So let everyone know what you think about the eyes.

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Ron (Smithers456)