I like stylized things more. Now, I draw a THICK line between stylization and contrivance. When an artist has a STYLE that they always draw every last person in (a technique of drawing/not drawing things) it's an actual mark of that artist's style. However, using "anime eyes" on your FF fan art doesn't make you a mangaka. Yoshitaka Amano uses a very surrealistic style with soft lines and subtle colors..... except red..... for some reason he uses a really loud red. Anyway, this sets him apart because he uses distinct techniques. Generally, in Marvel comics you'll have superhoes who all have the exact same build as each other. HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE muscles does not = stylized. It's just your way of compensating for your feelings of inadequacy. The women in comics are even MORE uniform though, sometimes not even differing much in hairstyle. That's one thing I DO like about recent FFs, you could re-texture a character to be completely black all over and you could still tell who was who. Cloud is a scrawny white boy with a flock of seagulls haircut. Barret is very husky. Vincent is really tall. Tifa is a white girl with disproportionate bossoms. Yuffie has incredibly bad posture, etc. The only "problem" with making things more realistic is that they're not as stylized. The conceptual art pretty much goes right out the window since there's only so much variation from the theme you can do. But like all art, themes come and go. At one point there was a huge movement in painting to better capture the human figure. Then came Modern Art and we threw all that in the garbage so we could fling paint about on a canvas randomly. Not that I have anything against Jackson Pollock, I just don't really feel his art work. This is probably because I'm not viewing it in context. Now, I have a feeling that with CG art, we're going to reach a point of detail in emulating reality that will be AMAZING, but then we'll start to experiment more and see how STYLIZED we can make things. Cel-shading is just one example, but it's very basic and ubiquitous right now. Anyway, sorry for ranting, just wanted to get that off my chest.