Iconic Proportions

The best characters are not only easily identified by their shape and silhouette, but even by colour alone. On a forum I frequent the users created blocks of colour and their proportions and let others guess which characters they were referring to. It's went pretty well. As it turns out, characters with balanced colours are easily identified. It goes to show that colour proportion does not only simply look better in the artwork overall, but also makes it more iconic.

Scooby Doo

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