>>56138575>I don't know if there's a term for it but it's a similar philosophy behind caricatures. When you exaggerate pronounced features the art is still easily recognizable as being for the person who modeled it. If you don't get those details correct and you exaggerate things that aren't already pronounced the whole thing falls apart and the art is completely foreign to the model.The closest term I can think of is uncanny valley, but that's more about how an imitation that's extremely close to the original but wrong in a few key details can be more off-putting than an imitation that's barely like the original
But overall what you're describing is the logical behind why art classes insist on teaching the real proportions of things, you need to know the real thing inside and out so you know how to stylize it in a way that makes sense.
