hi! i know you probably get asked this a lot, and im so sorry to ask, but i was just wondering if you had any tips for those struggling to find a unique kind of art style? i personally stick to realism, but ive always really wanted to have my own style (if that makes any sense), but i tend to struggle a lot when it comes to that! thank you so much && i rlly love your art!! keep up the good work !! :-)
Hi! Actually no, I’ve only ever gotten one and I thought it was a joke so I never answered ^-^’ I’m happy you asked though, and thank you!! :o❤️
It’s really good to start with realism because it’s something you have to learn no matter what style you draw to get a good feeling of what should go where (and you don’t have anime as a base skill and have to go back to learn real anatomy later on, which is a real fucking pain :<)! I usually train by using quickposes, it’s fun and simple :)
Then, of course, comes stylisation.
This is all bout finding your sweetspot. I used to copy styles to see if I liked them, and when I didn’t, I jumped to the next in hopes it would work better for me. This didn’t work because a style is a compilation of things the artist finds apppealing - we all have our own mixes. What helped me in the end was to choose my ten top artists and study just what I liked about their art, as in, why I was drawn to it. Like: I like the way (all on insta) @/lovisb proportions her faces and has fluidity in her poses; I love how @/z.pico drawns legs and arms; I love how intense and expressionful @/kimjinggus draws eyes and lips aso!
I’d reccomend to do this and to study their art in general, since there is stylised realism that you can draw insperation from (like (on insta) @/kildren and @/iriscompiet), then toggle all these pieces together and eventuelly you will have mastered your own art style (and don’t worry about it being an immediate thing, because it’s going to take time for you to connect the pieces and see what you like with what)! The same goes for colour and the way you do lineart.
Imma be real and say that most of the AFTG art is things I’m not overly proud of, just because I’m taking barely no time to check fluidity and proportions and stuff... the fact that I’m doing lazy noses for example. I enjoy myself some semi realistic, clean western comic-ish styles, like:
So do things you can be proud of, becuase otherwise it’s easy to be discouraged. Also, my style still hasn’t set because I’m still figuring out just what I like, just scroll through the art tag and you’ll see. Don’t stress it, it’ll get there eventually ^-^
(It’s a bit all over the place, but hoped it helped! Good luck! :))
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