Flat (AKA Pseudo-Disney)
This style uses thick colored lines, westernized features (lips & noses) with minimal shading. Good for stories with a more light-hearted or classic tone.
Digital Watercolor
Creates a more airy, whimsy feeling compared to the previous styles. Suitable for children’s books, or maybe light romantic stories.
Cell Shade (Anime)
This style uses outlines & hard shading. It’s a popular, economic style for a clean, polished look.
Eastern styles (most anime) features huge eyes, cutesy tiny dot or line noses and small mouths, whereas Western styles (DC comics/marvel or sometimes seinen manga) use more facial diversity, real noses, and lips.
Normally, I fall somewhere in between both Eastern/Western, but I can make an effort to go more one way or the other if you have a preference.
Soft Shade (Anime)
This style uses colored or almost invisible lines, and the shading is more blended to give it a more 3D appearance. This can look higher production than cell-shade, but is also more time-consuming and costly to produce.
The most time consuming out of all the styles. (At least for me, personally). Used often for fantasy characters portraits. Tends to work well with stories that have a more epic or grounded tone. (I do not offer commissions for this style, as I am too slow / inefficient in this style.)
