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CaseStudy-Basic Dimensionalityby #ArtistsHospital
Patient Question:
What is basic dimensionality?
Staff Advice:
When you look it up in a dictionary, dimensionality is the measurement of something, or the life-like quality of something. In anime/manga/comics, it's tied up with proportionality, or the correct size of something in accordance to a certain ratio. (Forgive the big words, but you will encounter these words often when you study further, so best be familiar with them.)
Basically, you use these two to attempt to give life to a work. How do you do that? Emphasis on certain elements.
Check out this picture for instance.
You see how Ippo's right fist is bigger than how it really should be. Artists term it as "deformation", wherein they alter some parts as they see fit. But usually, the nearer the part is (the fist), the larger or more magnified (or DIMENSIONAL) it is. You see this style all the time in comics as well as in anime screenshots. In doing so, you make the art seem less "flat" and more "3-dimensional". THAT is dimensionality.
But you have to be careful and know when it's "dimensional" and not "unrealistic" -- through the rules of PROPORTION. So you have to study both in detail.
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