shout out to oda for playing around with empirical perspective in one piece, the same technique applied to ancient egyptian and medieval religious art.
the importance of the figure in the painting was always portrayed as the largest while the more insignificant diminished in size regardless of position.
it’s a techinque based on experience and feeling rather than logic.
it’s so interesting when you look at some of the manga panels, like the one with whitebeard and shanks, because even if they are both emperors of the sea, it’s obvious that whitebeard will always command the room with his age, experience and reputation.
same with the warlords of the sea, and the insignificant marine giving them orders, who’s so small in comparison. they play the role of the government’s dogs, but this panel clearly tells it like it really is…
