That's a very good article. It offers a lot of insight into why attempting "extreme" realism isn't always desirable. Here's a good quote from the article:
It's interesting, because this isn't generally something I would think about, but it made a lot of sense when I read it.Comic-strip artists have known this for years. As comic-book theorist Scott McCloud points out, we identify more deeply with simply drawn cartoon characters, like those in Peanuts, than with more realistic ones. Charlie Brown doesn't trigger our obsession with the missing details the way a not-quite-photorealistic character does, so we project ourselves onto him more easily. That's part of the genius behind modernist artists such as Picasso or Matisse. They realized that the best way to capture the essence of a person or object was with a single, broad-stroked detail.
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