Which eye should I use?

[quaxxerl]

Hi~ quaxxerl here~ I'm still a n00b cause i have like one topic, which died (Tips for a n00b!) So, this n00b is back with more questions, except they're art related. So, since my style of art tends to be inconsistent, I want to choose a style I can stick to so that the CGs and sprites would look the same. So I'm asking you guys to help me pick! Here's the main character of my VN. The story is suppose to be basicly a gag, and dark. (These two don't really go together though.../shot) Here's 4 dif. styles.
Okay, maybe I shouldn't call it style OTL. So many replies so fast =.= Anyways should the question be, how old should he look? I totally messed up on this since they all have different expressions OTL. Well, here's another attempted picture of "style" (which it is not OTL)

OLD WHICH DOESN'T SHOW DIFFERENT STYLES


NEW
okay, photobucket really hates me right now, or I need to upload the pic somewhere else. Here's the pic on my DA http://quaxxerl.deviantart.com/art/Nodn ... -198756646

So yeah....I personally like #3 and #4, but I'm not really sure if those styles would work for a gag and something dark...

So yeah, I tried making them look like different styles. I want to know which one looks the best, cause it feels like a lot of times when I draw Roat he comes out looking different...

[Snowflower]

I personally like the 2nd and the 4th XD

[YonYonYon]

you know... I don't feel any difference . Well, eyes are changing, right, but it can be considered as a manifestation of emotions.

Or you meant "Which eyes are better?". Then I liked #4

[James]

I have to agree with YonYonYon, all four faces look similar enough that it can be seen as the same character. It seems you like unshaded eyes in #3 and #4, so go ahead and choose that, it will probably make coloring easier anyways.

I do see that #1 "huh..." expression, #3 have the "oh!" express, while #2 and #4 have a "sigh, this is troublesome..." expression. In that case I like the #2's sigh, since the shoulder shrug makes visual communication clearer to me.

[luminarious]

Personally I love it when people study classical drawing first and then stylize later. The style is always stronger and less generic that way.

[Duredhel]

Aren't these all the same style? :/
Sorry if I appear mean, but try drawing from life for a while, then go back to your own style, see what happens.

[Miss-Mae]

I like 2 and 4! Nice eyes *0* <3

[LVUER]

Frankly, it's not style. All of them have more or less the same (if not exactly the same), only with minor expression/face difference. Also, it's not fair to ask which style is better, when you draw them differently (different emotion, different expression, different cloth, different pose, even different quality).

Anyway, I like number 3 the most.

[quaxxerl]

I tried again OTL...

[Miss-Mae]

Aw man, now I'm even more torn... First, fifth and sixth are my favorites. <3

[Deji]

I'll try to explain to you what people are expecting from this thread and why they're getting disappointed with what you've been doing.

Look at the following examples.
http://fav.me/d39t7z4
http://fav.me/d3a4t3g
http://fav.me/d3aajwg
http://fav.me/d3a6pz2

And in case you would only like to look at anime-like pictures, compare the following:
http://fav.me/d3834ao
http://fav.me/d39dr8s
http://fav.me/d393lof

That's the kind of things people expect to see when they're asked "which style should I use?". You can see many differences in how things are drawn (leaving the coloring alone), the proportions, the thickness of the line, how each part of the character is drawn, how long or thick/thin the legs are, for example. That's what we call 'style'.

Compared to that, the problem is that you are basically just changing the iris of the eye and probably making subtle changes on the rest of the picture, calling it a different style altogether. The most changes I can see you're doing is the inside of the iris on the eye of the character, but the rest looks pretty much the same, really. At least it is the expected amount of difference between one drawing of a character and another when you're not animating something and you're not a more seasoned artist.

If you want to get feedback about the different kind of irises on the eyes of your characters, maybe you should just draw a bunch of eyes and ask which one we like the best? When I'm in doubt with eyes, or hair, or, idk, noses, I usually ask directly "what kind of nose works better?" or "do this picture look better than this other where I drew the eyes higher?" and get better feedback. Maybe you could do something like that too?

By the way even if you say your drawings are inconsistent with each other, the fact a lot of people say they look pretty much the same means that maybe you're nitpicking too much on your own style C:

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EDIT:
http://fav.me/d2oghla - This style meme is fun, the links of some people that have done it at on the artist's comments part (the one I like the best is this one http://fav.me/d393x17)

[quaxxerl]

What I really want to say is sorry to all the people that put time into telling me something.

I'm immature, and failed to try to correct my mistake, so sorry. I'm glad that I was taught an important lesson. I feel depressed and a little happy about the outcome of this thread. I'm depressed that I was stupid to even post what I did, yet I'm glad I get to learn from my mistake. Hopefully I won't make a stupid mistake like this ever again. I understand what I did wrong. I should have known they weren't a different style. If I ever make something like this again, I will make sure that I have grown as an artist, and can truly display different styles. Now that I look back to what I had done, I look horrible. I am ashamed of myself. I hope I don't seem annoying, and I am very happy to see that I was corrected and shown that I am an idiot.

Thank you for being so nice to me, despite the fact I clearly need to grow as an artist!

I changed the name to make this better. ;v;

[Lotus]

You're not "stupid" or an idiot for making a beginner's mistake, and you definitely shouldn't be ashamed. You just need to study a bit more is all. Every artist, no matter how talented, makes mistakes; it's the great artists that learn from their mistakes. C:

[sinjin25]

You definitely don't need to feel stupid for posting this - it's far better than being afraid to get critique like me (been lurking forums for years now).

On topic, may favorite is #1, on both your deviant art link and your pic here. Try and pic an eye that matches the average level of detail of the rest of your drawing. If you have super detailed soft shaded whatever type drawings, you should go with a detailed eye. If you have simpler, anime level detail (just one or two shades of shading), you should go with a simpler eye (which would be like eye #1). Hope this helps.

edit:
oh crap, I didn't like necro this or anything, right?

[Lotus]

I'm not sure what counts as a necro on this forum, but typically necros are threads at least a month old. The last post before yours was only a week ago, so I don't think you have anything to worry about c:

Edit: On topic, I prefer number 1 in the post, and number 2 for the pic on DA.