/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3763491
I don't know about the drawing itself. I don't think so, not for the design it CAN'T be common. If we're talking about anime, it's nearly impossible to "stylize" a person into an anime character, at least the average anime has a pretty generic artstyle that doesn't allow to include enough characteristics of someone to truly call it their anime self.

Now, if we're talking about a more "freestyle" manga like One Piece, yeah. This manga doesn't have a set-in-stone artstyle and Oda can draw literally anything without looking out of place, so he can put in a few more attributes than normal, enough to see a connection between Enel and Eminem. Even then it's not THAT accurate.
But if we're talking about personalities.... again, the average anime only has walking tropes and characters that don't really act human, but better stories I assume have characters based on real people's personalities, people the author knows. It doesn't have to be anything too strong, but whenever I think about writing I'll say for example
>Hmmm that girl Rose from highschool was kinda cool, how she always started using her eraser on the nearest surface whenever she was anxious, also I found her fun to talk to

And from there I'd create a female character and channel Rose through her sometimes. Of course I barely knew Rose, but I know how it felt to talk to her, so I can pretend the character I'm writing is her and have her act as such. It has to be common on the top tier mangas and books that have characters acting like real humans, I doubt the author made them up from scratch.