When used as a prefix in comic or animation it refers to a specific style of drawing where the characters appear in a chubby, childlike style.
In a primitivistic painting of an accordion player, Donald Baechler doesn't depict a child but rather creates a sophisticated amalgamation of childlike style and modernist abstraction.
This small show presents three big, colorful, thickly painted pictures of what are purported to be trees, though the exuberant childlike style makes it hard to tell (Johnson).
His mysteriously oblique narrative paintings are well made and imbued with a bittersweet mood, but the blotchy, childlike style looks too much like that of Donald Baechler (Johnson).
The term naive suggests a childlike style in an artist's line, form, perspective and composition.
Stevens says it is the contrast of Chast's childlike style and grown-up ideas that is her special appeal.
Sweet Lolita - is the most childlike style, mostly characterized by baby animals, fairy tale themes and innocent, childlike attire.
Ms. Hartsook's childlike style gives the windows a delightful insouciance.
His childlike style is typical of folk art, which embraces art from artists that have little or no formal training and use techniques uniquely their own.
Mose T.'s design includes a medley of his favorite images - a bus, a peacock, a slice of watermelon - in a deceptively childlike style.