Type Moon's Takeuchi Takashi is famous for it, even, to the point that they even leaned into it and deliberately made characters look similar to each other.
As someone who dabbles a little in art myself, I can say that it's a way of distinguishing something as yours. It's not that she's unable to paint eyes or faces any other way, it's that the way you do eyes and faces is one of the easiest ways of making it obvious you're the one who painted it. Again, not the only way, but one of the easiest.
As someone who dabbles a little in art myself, I can say that it's a way of distinguishing something as yours. It's not that she's unable to paint eyes or faces any other way, it's that the way you do eyes and faces is one of the easiest ways of making it obvious you're the one who painted it. Again, not the only way, but one of the easiest.