I'm a really big fan of Anime and Manga art styles and you can see the influence in much of my art. I do realism but I upload mostly to the Anime and Manga art. In my opinion Anime and Manga are the physical representations of exagerated raw emotions.  If a feeling could come to life as a characte, it would look like Anime or Manga..

When I make my characters, I think of the emotion first and then think of how that emotion would look if it came to life.  I know some artists create the character first and add the emotion but I do it just the opposite way. I think of an emotion and then I think of what would that emotion look like as a character. 

Frederick
Poser By Design