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Works drawn in a simplistic or cartoonish style may feature a piece of art, often including a person, drawn in what we would consider a much more detailed or realistic style. Almost invariably, some character will remark on how unrealistic that art is, or how bad the artist's grasp of anatomy must be—why would anyone give people ''[[Four-Fingered Hands|five fingers]]''?
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140207122756/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, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825192935/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000924.html that wasn't the first time.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101128064552/http://starslip.com/2008/01/31/starslip-number-708/ This] strip of ''[[Starslip Crisis]]'', where the characters ridicule court sketches.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825010119/http://doctorcatmd.com/2011-06-03/doctor-cat-art-critic This] ''[[Doctor Cat]]'', though it's closer than others.
* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' does it with body art: [https://web.archive.org/web/20180203211605/http://explosm.net/comics/1199]
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[South Park]]'' "Free Willzyx" featured forensic sketches of the main characters [https://web.archive.org/web/20100208125239/http://www.southparkstudios.com/media/wallpaper//913_Composite_Sketch_1280x1024.jpg in a realistic style]. Of course, when those sketches were shown to residents of the town, nobody could recognize who they were supposed to be of.
** Though one woman thought Cartman looked like [[Dakota Fanning]].
* A scene from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in which Homer worries that his children could turn into "hideous freaks, with pink skin and five fingers on each hand", 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.