SpongeBob's early design thinks inside the box!

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I'm an artist cursed blessed with the ability to ONLY be able to draw SpongeBob, as well as his underwater buddies. Something I've noticed is that SpongeBob's face gets smaller and smaller by time. By season 65, he WILL be a sponge. Of course, I'm joking. Slightly. His face just mostly goes up overtime.

However, when we are talking about Season One or even Season Two, his facial expressions were the main point of the body. His face is HUGE! Despite the art style being rather bouncy, his face is kept in a box INSIDE his already box shape! Obviously, you can't make it TOO big.

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This is my example on MS Paint. Don't worry about the text I can decipher it.

When SpongeBob gets dramatic expressions, though, the box is eliminated. Well, not quite. It's still used as a guideline, but it will get ignored. At least, this is the case from what I've studied of this bottom feeder. He's very dynamic.

Also, the box shifts based on how SpongeBob's body is posed.

This is a more detailed and probably clear dynamic on his face by me:

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