Why do cartoon characters always only have 4 fingers?!


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Why do cartoon characters always only have 4 fingers?



Answers: For Artists an Cartoonist there is a scale for doing our work and it is from a realistic to an abstract form. Cartoons traditionally fall in the middle of this scale. The more realistic
the drawing the more seriously it is taken, so if you want a character to be a funny character, you draw him more simple and less realistic. So, you have characters like sat Elmer Fudd, he has three fingers and a thumb, huge head and disproptionate feet to his body, he is a funny character in how he acts and he loks the part. Now look at Characters from Ghost in the shell, they are complex and more realistic and so is their storyline. This is the best way I can describe why we do it. I am a cartoonist and and artist, I have studied and practiced it my whole life, it is psychology, draw the characters how you want them to be perceived. If you think a character with three fingers and a thumb is silly than the artist succeeded in their objective. have you ever tried to draw 5 fingers? So they can't flick you off? LOL I don't know. BECAUSE WHEN YOU TRY TO DRAW FIVE FINGERS ON A CARTOON, IT LOOKS FUNNY. because cartoonist find it to damned hard to draw thumbs they always have a thumb and three finger!
And im like what the hell? whats the point of having a thumb? good scrutiny,they shouldn't appear as complete creatures They do it to save time. not enough space on the hand... try to draw a hand some time; you'll notice that it is harder to proportionalize the hand with that many digits in that limited amount of space...so in lay-mans terms it's hard to make one with 5 fingers. and it just looks better with 4 at some points. Animators started doing that because it was easier to draw a hand with less fingers. Hella hard to draw thumbs Its just to give the cartoony appearance, you know? Maybe? No?

And since its cartoons, 5 fingers appear to look like there are too many XD Cause i know IIII cant draw them cause they'll look funny =P Um... Because that's the way anime is drawn.

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