Finding Your Art Style
 

Do you have an art style of your own... or do you mimic other popular styles like one of your favourite manga artist?

How important do you value having your own unique style? Or do you value the art of imitation more?

I personally believe finding a recognisable style to be something worth finding... but you cannot find it through force. It happens naturally as you practice more and more and experiment.

I don't think I have something completely recognizable yet. But there are some similarities amongst my works that make my art a bit recognizable.

I learned a friends art style back in highschool then I learn to make my own watch other peoples art over the years use a little bit of that and little bit of this to make my own ask some people for tips. So in away it is important but at the same time not since I can't figure out how it is to look for me.

I used to do Puff style... then Anime style... then Lisa Frank and style similar to that... I've tried sooo many things xD

i've honestly given up on finding it.. just drawing and something will come naturally

my art is badly drawn stick figures, i also specialize in invisible drawings

I love your stick figures Ashyyy x3

I think I had been mimicking for a while, but people tell me they recognize my style, so I suppose that means I have one?

but when Duchess draws things, I recognize itttt! <3
I think I'm getting closer to finding my style. I pick up bits and pieces from art that I like, and mush them together. but my style is still developing and changing, so I'm not sure I'm quite there yet. I have a long way to go!

My style...is "Can I draw this? =O Maybe *scribble doodle draw lol*" And that's pretty much how it goes for me. I'm not really proud of much of my art, except for some art I did when I was president of the Anime Club at my old school, and made some for our walls...

Duchess I think your art is really original, specially the way you color it :D
Me I know that there is probably ten billion anime artists out there and at least a few of them have my style I guess XD
Ah well, I am still learning and improving as I go :D

Thanks guys! I did the bits and pieces then smush thing too xDD I also adapted from RL...esp for my legs... whether exaggerated or not, I pulled that from a live drawing class where I spent forever staring at the models legs xD

A friend of mines mimics the Bleach art style... A LOT. He's not too good at it either ^^;; I'm trying to get him to branch away from that and experiment more... because I believe you don't truly improve, until you start trying other things

I knewq a person who was exactly like that too XD Super into Bleach and all the characters he made looked exactly like Bleach characters XD

And I love your sexy bunny sig >:D

I have a particular style I usually /like/ a lot, but I also really like when I see artists that have a particular style if their own. It amazes me cause I think it takes in a way more creativity.

So, first off, I don't really think I can call anything I do a 'style' since I really don't feel I can draw. I'm trying, but most of my results get 'round filed'. But, I feel that over time if you draw what you're inspired to do your art will look less like a mimic of something else and more like something that is uniquely you.

I first mimic styles I like and give it my own thing since it's not always possible to copy someone else's style. I'm also really inconsistent so I can't say I have a style

I mimic at first and then tweak things until I can make it look good to me. I'm not very good at art though, so it never looks that good <.<

I love to try new things. If I find something inspiring I might get ideas and make them my own. I've been experimenting with 3D art, book altering, pottery, painting, drawing, etc etc. I really don't like to take other people's ideas. I like to let people see what I can come up with.

My very first inspiration to draw the way I used to was from Sailor Moon I had these large heads then the body's were super skinny, then it was Ouran to proportion the bodies right, then Hetalia got into the whole one strand of hair sticking out and that's all I can think of.

During that time when I was heavly into soul eater but not really drawing fanarts of them I learned to use circles and lines as guidlines to fill in when I do the body's right.

And this is how it comes up to be

www.shinatty-kitty-1991.deviantart.com

Merg this is something we spend days talking about in school. From what I've learned it will come to you. I am sad that I can't draw in a popular style like manga because then people don't usually buy my art work, especially since its not digial.

I would rather have a unique and identifying style than copy someone else's but that doesn't mean I can't learn things from other people's styles. :3 Like, I really liked the The World Ends With You (a game for the DS) art style with all the black shading so I experimented with that and made something like that for my own.

I think it can be helpful to try out other people's art styles to learn new things but you just gotta be careful to not lose yourself. Over the past year or 2, I got really obsessed with drawing in other people's styles trying to make them my own but I learned (from some advice from Blaine. Cx) that that's backwards. So now I'm back on the road to finding my own style naturally.

Everyone keeps saying that my style is from America since I live in America, but I got one of my artist inspiration were from Canada so I got my style to go Canadian.

So I say that my style is Canadian even though I'm an American

I think my style actually evolved from copying others. And while I still think I have a long way to go to get a distinct "style" I think I've been making progress a lot lately.

I used to do was to find a Sailor moon anime original artwork and I would take a piece of paper and use the light monitor as a tracing light and traced it from there oTL

I usually just take one thing, like the way they draw the nose, or address the hair, etc.

When I first learned to draw, i used imitation
however I enjoy my own style as well, however, it is one I need and want to improve

Copying is good in it's own right for practice but it is always good to find your own style.

I feel like my style is weird and out of norm...or in another words, not good enough

I love your Deviant ID Echo. Looks great. :).

I don't think I have much of a drawing style, probably because I tend to copy other images than draw my own. I'm still playing around with some stuff now and then. I too wasn't always fond with what I draw and wanted a style that was more like other people or more like anime at one point. I think in part style is something that is accepted as much as gained. I may not always have been happy with what I was doing but it did look to me like something I did.

I think I have more of a painting style because my free form watercolours are something I do without references to outside sources, or without concious outside sources. I'm not actively referring to anything when I do them.

My account is here. http://jesterseven.deviantart.com/
It's mostly writing but my paintings are there too. Sketches and pencil work are in scraps for the most part.

I like acrylic too. It's been ages since I've done anything significant with it. I've gotten to be a very lazy painter working with water colours. I hardly bother to mix paints anymore, I just layer them on the canvas. I did a large painting for art class in acrylic. It took me about 1 hour to paint a section the size of a postcard or so, depending on detail. It was fun though. I was proud of myself because I painted a specific showdog in the work and my sister was able to recognize him in the painting.

I like to think my style (especially colouring) is unique.
At least on the site I always use for uploading my artworks. (:

Thanks Kyp. Now I really want to paint something in acrylic but I don't know what. :p. What do I do?

A FOX! Haha, just kidding~

And, Echo, your art is not out of the norm. There's just improvement to be made (need critiques?)

And I've been changing my style drastically since last year.
http://fireofthefox.deviantart.com/ <--doesn't have any recent traditional art.

I'm beginning to wonder if we need a thread somewhere of Deviant art profiles for Trisphites. Seems there are many DA types here.

I tend to pop back and forth from different styles like all the time. I have no main technique, BUT, I do try to draw anime/manga like, and end up failing at it xD

I actually got a book on drawing comic styles since I'm not good at it naturally. I actually grabbed a book on Manhwa because I found I liked the style a little better than Manga; less outrageous at times. It's a good book so far, though I've only tried something from his once: my avatar on my DA account.

I used to want to imitate people a lot. I would see art, and then try to imitate it. After a while, I realized that the art I was seeing was all anime, and that it was beginning to mess with my perception of the world. Since then, I've been using real people as reference and have slowly been improving, sometimes with massive shoots towards what I'd like to be categorized as-- cartoon realism.

Ooh, paint. I hardly have the chance to use it, but it's fun. I don't like oils... they're messy and just... I don't like using thick paint. Watercolors are too thin for me, as well. I like me some acrylics.

My drawings and digital stuff can be seen at facemeetspalm.deviantart.com. Most of my stuff is a few months old.

I usually draw by getting myself inspired by many style, but I never really draw like any in particular, I guess I have a...mixed-up style?

When sketching/drawing via HB pencil or wacom tablet I usually tend to use the anime style more, or the chibified style, but when painting via acylic paint I tend more to use a realistic style or a 'anime style with more shading etc therefore making the character look more 3D' style.