History Main / FourthWallPortrait

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html This]] strip of ''OrderOfTheStick''. "What are those weird bumpy things between their eyes?"

** A couple of strips had jokes where the cast complained about the simplistic art style, which caused the artist to redo Heero's face in the more detailed style used for the actual story. Unfortunately for him, the rest of his body is still SuperDeformed and he can't support his own head's weight.

* Inverted by IkaMusume, where Takeru draws a picture of Ika, which looks exactly the same as her. Takeru complains that it looks too "manga-like," while Ika argues that she doesn't have such a simplistic face. (Of course, she does.)

* Inverted by [[IkaMusume Ika Musume]], where Takeru draws a picture of Ika, which looks exactly the same as her. Takeru complains that it looks too "manga-like," while Ika argues that she doesn't have such a simplistic face. (Of course, she does.)

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* In ''SamAndMax: The Devil's Playhouse'', there is a painting of Sam and Max on the wall of Momma Bosco's lab, as a realistic-looking dog and rabbit.

* Subverted(?) by [[IkaMusume Ika Musume]], where Takeru draws a picture of Ika, which looks exactly the same as her. Takeru complains that it looks too "manga-like," while Ika argues that she doesn't have such a simplistic face. (Of course, she does.)

* in "AvatarTheLastAirbender", Sokka can be seen following this trope when drawing Appa in the episode "Lake Laogai". Katara and Aang comment on how silly looking his picture is.
** That wasn't this trope, because his drawing was just very crude, and not realistic at all.

* in "Avatar:TheLastAirbender", Sokka can be seen following this trope when drawing Appa in the episode "Lake Laogai". Katara and Aang comment on how silly looking his picture is.

Largely a subtrope of StylisticSelfParody.

** Another time, during a Treehouse of Horror episode, Homer ended up in a parallel dimension that led him to the real world, keeping his cartoony features in live action.

* ''{{Animaniacs}}'': When the Warner siblings met Pablo Picasso, they played a game of Pictionary. The Warners drew in a cubist style and guessed it right every time, while Picasso criticized them for not knowing how to draw. But when he drew the same objects in a realistic fashion, the Warners were stumped. Eventually, a dealer saw the Warners' drawings, mistook them for Picasso's, and bought them... AndNowYouKnowTheRestOfTheStory.

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* When the [[{{Animaniacs}} Warner siblings]] met Pablo Picasso, they played a game of Pictionary. The Warners drew in a cubist style and guessed it right every time, while Picasso criticized them for not knowing how to draw. But when he drew the same objects in a realistic fashion, the Warners were stumped. Eventually, a dealer saw the Warners' drawings, mistook them for Picasso's, and bought them... AndNowYouKnowTheRestOfTheStory.
* When a picture of Elvis Presley appears on ''LiloAndStitch'', it's a photograph of the real article, rather than a drawing done in the film's unique style.

* A scene from ''TheSimpsons'' in which Homer worries that his children could turn into "hideous mutants, with pink skin and no overbite", followed by a shot of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie in a more 'realistic' cartoon style than usual, plays a slight twist on the same basic joke.

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* Frequently used in {{Calvin and Hobbes}}. In very early strips, Calvin's imaginary excursions were often drawn in a cartoonish style basically the same as the main strip's art. Later on though, the artist experimented with different styles in different fantasy worlds. When Calvin played "house" or "doctor" with Susie, the art was in a style a lot like soap opera strips: normal human proportions, angular lines on characters, etc.

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html This]] strip of ''OrderOfTheStick''. "What are those weird bumpy things between their eyes?"
* [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20080202.html This]] strip of ''[[WalkyVerse Joyce and Walky]]''. "My art teacher wants me to stop making up anatomy that doesn't exist." "Were you drawing lips again?"
** As that statement implies, [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000924.html that wasn't the first time.]]

* Parodied in the Anime version of ''ShamanKing'', where a member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad makes a portrait of one robber in a 70's {{Shojo}} style (a style more detailed than the cartoony {{Shonen}} of the series - but not by much). And two of the heroes (besides the artist) are the only ones who see the portrait and the aforementioned robber and confirm the likeness.

** Another Simpsons gag involved Lisa explaining to Bart, thanks to evolution, humans would have an extra digit on their hands in several thousand years. She then shows Bart a picture of a five fingered hand, prompting Bart to hold up his own four fingered hand and comment on the weirdness of having five fingers.

* ''TheFarSide'' once featured a street artist in a city where everyone had a simple two-dots-and-a-semicircle smiley face for a head. He is, of course, completely unable to draw them correctly.
* Used in the 4-koma short comics at the back of the manga adaptation of ''GundamWing'', which were far less detailed than the actual manga. The shorts also featured strips on "how to draw characters" which were three panels long (the last reserved for the punchline) and even simpler than the 4-koma themselves.

* Parodies in an AbridgedSeries of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' (no, [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} not that one]]) by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/puddleths puddleths]]. Yugi is asked to sign a deviantART drawing of him, and claims it looks nothing like him, even though it's drawn in anime style. He then praises a stick figure drawing of him.

* Happens in ''{{Bakuman}}'', when Takagi and Mashiro create their first manga series. Since Mashiro wants his girlfriend Azuki, an aspiring voice actress, to give her voice to the heroine in the anime adaptation of his series, he [[ComicBookFantasyCasting makes the heroine resemble Azuki]], and the first draft design of her is ''much more realistic'' than the usual "big eyes" style in which Azuki is ''actually'' drawn within the ''Bakuman'' manga. Later he decides to makes the character more stylistic.

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* Parodies in an AbridgedSeries of ''YuGiOh'' (no, [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries not that one]]) by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/puddleths puddleths]]. Yugi is asked to sign a deviantart drawing of him, and claims it looks nothing like him, even though it's drawn in anime style. He then praises a stick figure drawing of him.