[EVEN IF I NEVER OWNED GB ADVANCE]
I was not into games at the exact time. I have everything else even the bulky first generation GB!

Anyways after posting [THIS ARTICLE] on my two different styles and mentioning it on my [DEVIANT ART POST], I got some insightful replies and messages on it I just had to rant about it a little more. I mean, people paid MORE attention to my styles than the person who actually DRAWS them... WAY TO BE FAIL SELF!!! So to regain my rightful status of being THE artist I paid attention to the REAL differences between VF style and DM style.

First off I didn't explain clearly WHY VF style became my primary style. Answer is simple:

Because VF style is much more difficult to express expressions, it made me become more expressive when I'm in my sketching phase even if I'm drawing in DM style. Since it's what I draw initially, it just naturally became my default. Even if I've been practicing and developing DM style ever since I got interested in drawing. If the two styles were humans of the same sex... it would make one hell of a drama-tastic romance story.
Is my sketches always this colorful? YES. I usually use about minimum 3 layers of sketch before even considering inking. Because I color Vince's hair in flat black, I only need to know the general direction of the hair/air so I purposely left that out FYI.


Here's VF style Vince; all familiar and friendly(?)...



And I kid you not it's the same Vince, just in DM style. You don't see those band-aid eyebrows anywhere.

As you can see, DM style is MUCH more easier to draw facial expressions and angles just because of those stupid eye balls! Because of it I try to make everything more realistic and try to make the lines thinner accordingly. I just don't have to exaggerate features on this so the hair doesn't defy gravity (as obviously).

Now with the VF style, the lines are MUCH more bold and pronounced to fit the simplicity and lack of delicacy in the eyes. The white-out side against the black shadows needs to be placed a bit higher and curved more to express that joyful arrogance, and to really let the viewers know he's looking down at you, the lower eye lid must be drawn in or else he'll just look like he's facing straight forward. The chin/jaw line needs to be thicker for the shadow effect and eye shape needed to be modified and made larger for more impact. Without the actual eye the focal point becomes lost so I need to really make them stand out. To show he's tilting his head back a bit TO look down at the camera I ignore gravity and let the hair act like a movement/direction line. By making majority of the bangs flow towards a certain way it makes a subtle movement to the head that suggests it's titING back even if it's a still, and it naturally creates a eye flow towards the face/eye area. When really the hair SHOULD be flowing like it's in the DM style. Also the mouth is another area that needs to be exaggerated to show the EVIL in the smile. The emotions are expressed usually by the dilation of the pupil/iris and quite obviously VF style doesn't have the benefit. Facial wrinkles and creases are HIGHLY looked down upon human forms in art (the reason why I despise realistic 3D human models... unless you go Blizzard/Lucas quality you just don't have enough on faces... the one thing I absolutely DESPISED about FFVII Advent Children) but in VF style I am forced to use them for expressions and for age. In the story line of Verardi Famiglia he's mostly 21 ~ 23 range and because I make the eyes larger than it's supposed to be he looks younger automatically. To counter or buffer the effect I need to add wrinkles in places or else he'd look like late teens easily. I completely ignored this effect when I first using this style thus he looks WAY younger than he really was.

[IN THE END]
So here you are, the more OBVIOUS comparison and more in-depth description between the styles. It came out more like "how much thought and effort you need to put it when you don't have eye balls" description than anything else. When there is so much thought process involved, why haven't I noticed the pretty obvious differences you ask? Well, because I never draw a same character with different styles! Vince will stay in VF style, and other characters used in DM style, stays in DM except for maybe special occasions like these. But I do thank people who pointed out the differences for me to be curious enough to find them out my self.

Thank you for reading!