Small cheeks = Extra cute? Structurally necessary?

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Rice pone
I know some typical, atypical, and by-the-book suggestions on what constitutes of a “cute” character or image, be it pony, human, animal, or anime.
 
But something I’ve noticed in my image folders where I save pictures of other’s art, my cute folders tend to have an overwhelming number of characters drawn with very small, sometimes small chubby, facial cheeks. In fact, it’s one of the more consistent things I’ve seen, but is it really integral to the concept of what is “cute”?
 
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I’m probably not changing my bigger, rounder, wider cheeks of my own art by much, as I’m personally not a fan of such small cheeks on characters. But it’s something that’s been bothering me for a few weeks. I’ve begun to wonder if maybe what I do with cheeks is structurally incorrect in some way.
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Sad Confused Artist.
I love big round cheeks full of jizz
 
If you ask me, I would have done lower jaws a little larger since you overdo eyes and they cover about 2/3 of the whole face.
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Rice pone
I am glad you are happy with your drawings, take care.
 
These images I posted were just examples where the cheeks were very small. There’s some where they’re almost nonexistent.
 
I’m not entirely too happy with my drawings as of late. One thing I was wondering about were the size of the cheeks I draw, which I prefer to be larger. So it was an area I was wanting to explore.
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