So like my last mARTch studies I picked an artist who has a style similar to what I'm aiming for. This time I'm studying @rxsiki! My main issue has been not rendering my pieces and even though I kind of know how to do it, I need to learn how to have fun doing it so I've been looking for artists whose style seems fun so maybe I can incorporate some stuff.
(Pictures on the left are from them, pictures on the right are my own.)
I started with a little warmup with these stuffed animals. This let me see that their style is a lot more loose than I originally thought and it was fun to copy that. Really makes me think I've being a little too perfectionist with my art cuz if their art can look this good and still have little mistakes, then maybe I should embrace my own mistakes a bit more. (Mistakes prob isn't even the right word but just little imperfections that are purposefully kept.)
I also made a new brush to use that's a little more variable compared to my own, so while my last mARTch study I used a brush with no line weight differences and used color to change their apparent weight, here the line weight is actually changing a lot and the line colors are more stylistic when used. It's really noticeable on a bigger piece but not so much on the stuffed animals.
I saw this pose on their art a few times so I wanted to use it cause I thought it'd be a good representation of their art. I made the character more my own instead of fully copying and then because I wanted to color pick to see what their colors were doing it ended up being a little weird to have a purpley-grey colored human.
The shading was less subtle up close than I thought and I didn't do a good job emulating their style with this one. I did more of my usual dark tone and blending one side of the shadow into the flats, but they have an in-between color and instead of blending like it looks from a distance, up close it's distinct and done well. So with this next piece, I'm gonna focus on that specifically and try what I've learned on my own character.
(And obviously no artist always has a consistent style, the intermediate color in their shading isn't present in all of their work but I still think it's cool and want to try it for myself.)
I do really like the concept of using a shading line for blending instead of actually blending the colors, even though I'm not entirely proud of this piece I am gonna use that going forward at least for a while. But I do feel like I learned some stuff and that's the main point.