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Post by Fireball on Nov 17, 2024 5:58:34 GMT -5
I took a very long hiatus from art in general, and coming back now I feel pretty daunted by the idea of developing my own style. I have NO idea what direction I want to take. Every piece I make is an experiment, and while i'm having a lot of fun just making art, I also want to know how others grew their own style. Did you get inspired by others? Do you have multiple styles, or just one? Do you have a goal? Feel free to just tell the story of your own development, hopefully I and others who are a bit lost can learn a thing or two.
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Post by Kit Collie on Nov 17, 2024 23:12:39 GMT -5
In my experience, my current styles have come out of seeing cool techniques, using them in my own way, discarding what I don't like & keeping what I love! As you incorporate techniques, design elements, and other things that you enjoy doing & so keep on coming back to, your style will develop out of all the quirks of those elements that you've incorporated into your process ^_^ I'm pretty new to art (3 years of dedication at this point) so I'm still finding my way, but some examples of things I've picked up & tried along the way are: - Trying to copy Aaron Blaise's pen + copic marker techniques (I discarded the markers because they didn't work for me, and instead I use a mixture of different inks & coloured pencils)
- Learning from Jeremy Vickery's videos (Lighting Mentor on youtube) and using a lot of desaturated colours to aid with colour harmony, reserving saturation for things I really want to stand out
- Incorporating some of Denise Soden's watercolour techniques for water control & implying fur
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Post by Margarita on Nov 17, 2024 23:51:17 GMT -5
I second Kit Collie's advice, as someone who's been churning out art for a little over ten years now (but who's counting?)
Exploration and experimentation is going to take you a long long way with developing your personal style. Art is not one size fits all, and yes, sometimes you'll find an aspect of art that you REALLY like to see in others' work just doesn't fit your process or your own style, and that's okay.
The things that really drove my art leagues in the past few years was spending one month a year just trying new techniques or replicating artstyles, and changing it up every single artwork that I made. One month dedicated to trying things out, and then after that's over-- keep what works and what you like doing! (For example, replicating the Wolfwalkers artstyle taught me I REALLY love adding texture to my art with bold, sketchy strokes and adding the sketch over my finished art on low opacity)
Speedpaints or timelapses are very helpful from a digital art perspective because it allows you to see the actual process and methods with which artists do certain things. This is how I learned to utilize the magic wand/select tool to color!
There's a lot of tutorials out there nowadays so it's a really great time to learn. Anything you can imagine probably has great resources available!
And style wise, something I didn't personally do but have seen help others; create a collage or moodboard esque collection of PIECES of artstyles you like. Highlight what you like from those styles (ie. a bunch of different images of how x, y, z, artists draw muzzles) and use that to reference while you sketch/draw. Frankenstein the bits you like from various artists and again, keep what you like and forget abt the rest.
It all comes down to practice and keeping at it. You'll get to where ya wanna be, or you'll create a style for yourself you never imagined but enjoy wholeheartedly!!
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