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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.

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, 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.