Xei @nimbosaur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It's just fascinating to me because there definitely are birds who are wide, but a lot of them have pretty narrow and tapered beaks and I always see a specific shape in more toony works and I just never pinpointed the origin myself 140
Siplick! 🎃 @siplick.art · 20/09/2026I guess it's easier to make the frontal view features more human-like to express emotions. Like the corners of the lips can go as wide as for them to reach the bottom of the eyes, so a character that can't go that wide may be missing out on some expressivity 111
Xei @nimbosaur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026That makes sense and it's enlightening to me! It's an angle I usually embrace in not looking like a human at all but I totally see why someone would want to convey it from all angles. 010
