| Creating cute works of art can be a very difficult | | | | difficulties those attempting this ran into was flow. |
| goal because the creation of cute art is attempt | | | | Cute art flows together its lines and shapes form |
| to create specific emotional reactions, which | | | | well into one another and compose with each |
| requires solid draftsmanship, and a real | | | | other better then other objects. |
| understanding of what is cute. Generally we all | | | | Another important aspect of cuteness comes |
| know what's cute when we see it, however this | | | | from compacting baby elephants are fairly large, |
| does not mean that we have understanding of | | | | yet many consider them to be incredibly cute. |
| what makes something cute. | | | | What makes a baby elephant cute is both the |
| Ham Luske one of the nine old men of Disney | | | | knowledge that they are a baby, and in visual |
| showed the other Disney artists as they strove | | | | terms that they are compacted much more then |
| for realism that cute is often made easier through | | | | older elephants. Examining the proportions of a |
| simplicity, by having less lines, less external | | | | child we will see that these being more |
| anatomy one would have an easier time of | | | | compacted in nature helps other compacted |
| drawing a cute picture. Cute in this case is a | | | | things to gain cuteness through association. |
| reduction and a rounding of what is normally seen. | | | | In this case then such compactedness is in |
| For Ham Luske also pointed to the rounding of | | | | association with other things, a baby giraffe for |
| forms as a means of reducing lines and creating | | | | example is cute though less compact then many |
| cuter pictures, this is what Fred Moore did in | | | | other creatures. However knowing what a giraffe |
| order to perfect many of Disney's cute | | | | looks like allows us to judge the cuteness of the |
| characters including Mickey. Indeed if you examine | | | | baby giraffe based on the older giraffes. Further |
| many of the greatest creators of cute art you | | | | the giraffes flow and method of composition is |
| will notice that the forms of their characters are | | | | fairly nice. Emotion and mental associations are |
| very rounded Samuel Butcher's work for example | | | | however a big part of what makes us think of |
| creates cute pictures by making his forms | | | | things as being cute. This is way artists such as |
| rounded and less detailed. His work is of special | | | | Ezra Jack Keats create such wonderfully cute |
| interest because it translates well to three | | | | drawings, because their art though not necessarily |
| dimensional objects. It is often difficult to have | | | | in keeping with many of the rules so far |
| drawings translate well into such objects, as | | | | established as cute have an emotional quality, the |
| shown by the attempts and failures to make | | | | are sentimental, reminding us of our childhood, or |
| Curious George a 3D animation. Part of the | | | | of childhood in general. |