Nintala's avatar
Im sure its been said somewhere on this thread, but in most cases teachers hate it because thats the default popular style kids have now a days. They really look down on cartoons and manga style in a portfolio because, hey its an art school, they want to make sure you understand basic srt principals.
And in most cases when kids drawn manga style, theres nothing really to it other than bigs eyes and random japanese cultural stuff thrown into a picture.

But I found while showing my portfolio, that when you can show that you understand composition, anatomy, lighting ect. no one cares what style you draw in.

And then theres the teachers who let kids blatenly ripp off the Disney art style and not bat an eye, but thats a whole other topic :P