@@Rinkyu that's what you call having art parents. You combine all the style of your favorite artists. For me I have at least three, old and new masters.
I understand why people say to develop a style if you want to be hired against a sea of other candidates, but it really just is a code for: practice the fundamentals to build a foundation for your work and then put your own view of the world into it. The focus on "style" is really just another attempt to gloss over the fact that you need to put time into making good work and there's no cutting corners for achieving that.
😢i Idk bro i just want a cute artstyle so i enjoy drawing again im not trying to take any shortcuts But at least now ik how much harder it is to get hired as an animator
When it comes to jobs, we rather have diversity. I've seen candidates who would draw absolutely gorgeous anime girls but fail when I ask them to draw a book or vehicle in a particular project's style. If you're looking to work for someone else, best be able to quickly adapt.
@@laddie8615 a cute art style is not gonna make it fun for you again; just keep drawing, practice what you have the most problems with, if its hair, practice drawing hair, if its hands (they are a BITCH to get right, same with feet) then try to include more hand positions and perspectives in your work.
I still remember when I stopped searching for style. I was in a figure drawing class, with a bunch of other talented artists, all of (in my opinion) similar levels of skill. We drew the same things, in basically the same way (we were being graded on proper anatomy and rendering the form) albeit at different angles because we were all seated around whoever we hired to be a model. Same education, same training, same tools even down to the paper. One day after our midterms I came to pick up my piece. I started apologizing for forgetting to sign it, and my professor just smiled before handing me my work. "I can always tell which one is yours, even on blind critique days." Sure enough, everytime it was on the wall (for blind critique we wouldn't sign our work, and would tack it to a canvas wall next to each other's) he'd critique mine and look at me from then on. It was a huge ego boost, and it went a long way to making me feel less anxious about who I am as an artist, and more secure in feeling like I can do whatever I set myself to do. Even if it's drawing a naked 60 year old musician friend of our professor lol. I still don't know what my style is. But I'm content with whatever it is right now. I just focus on improving as an artist, in improving my workflow, and figuring out whatever the hell I'm gonna do with it.
Yup yup yup! All you need is to look at nature and do some life drawing to get a feel on how things should connect, and everything else is just whatever you feel like.
I personally have different "artstyles" for different projects. Like, for my comic I have a palette for common shades and lights, I made reference sheets etc. For singular drawings I use more detailed shading than in comics and animations. It's more difference in techniques than in style though.
@@Junior10847 same, and I'm having a hard time since the art style I currently familiar on is semi realistic paintings kinda animeyish. But if I do that kind of art style on my comic, it will make things so complicated and slow, and I don't do line art at ALL on my paintings since I hate line art, I specifically go for this art style so that I won't do line art but then I have to do it (-.-). (Sorry for my English)
Same here! I hate it when some artists say you should have a single style, and I'm like "but if you're working on different things, the style will be different..." I have different styles when I work traditionally and digitally, comic and portrait, graphite and watercolor. I wouldn't want it any other way.
Trying to find a style is *nothing* in the face of actually knowing the technicals Styles themselves are built on how you bend reality, not a clear sign that you know your stuff A true style is not the only thing you can do, it’s what you *choose* to do but you’re still able to draw however you want
I couldn't agree with this more. Students and beginners (like me) should avoid finding an art style early on in their career. It would only hinder you from developing and only keep you warm and cozy.
I think a lot of artists and new artists draw a lot of the same thing over and over and over again but then when it’s time to learn a new skill they never wanna learn it or take it as a offense. Art is about learning new things there are tons of art styles art forms
What most newbies don't understand is the fact that your art style is literally a direct reflection of the things you learned and how you assemble them Nothing more, nothing else
This is such a good video and really gets at the meat of why the whole focus on art style annoys me. You already have a style, and no matter what you draw it will show through. The important thing is continuing to draw and learn and grow, and you can have twenty different 'styles' and they'll still all read as yours. The way I draw illustrations is not how I draw comics. I'd die if I tried to render out a comic or an animation in the same way as an illustration. Flexibility and understanding of what a piece requires is more important than being perfectly consistent and stagnating in the name of having a 'brand'.
It's hard when a different conflicting art styles appeal to you equally. Super stylized simple cartoons AND detailed realistic anime styles both appeal to me a lot and I can't choose or "settle". I guess the solution would be to find some kind of middle ground between them...
Just draw both. In doing so you end up creating your own middle ground by combining the elements from each. Hard to create the middle ground if you haven't drawn the opposite ends of the extreme already.
Drawing realistically, studying anatomy and honing your observation skills will only improve your ability to do stylized art. Cartoons are a caricature of reality, so the more you understand reality the better you can simplify and break the rules.
"art style" art is like cooking you might say o I'm only good at chicken then you try cooking steak it does not come outright. then you keep trying then your "o I can cook steak and chicken" art is like cooking :,)
I want my art to actually look good and be able to draw my characters repeatedly in the same style. Does that count as a reason to get an art style? Because mine is under developed at the moment.
Honestly, you probably don't need a consistent art style, but a consistent character design instead. It doesn't matter if the character is in a different style if they are still easy to identify.
@@SarahAbramova If you are planning on working on your own projects like your comic than having a consistent art style is important. But if you are planning on moving around to work with different studios etc. than it doesn’t really matter.
I have the problem of my art style changing everytime I draw a new piece of art. I never really keep one. And I always see people who have one art style that they always use. While mine is always a different one everytime. So I'm always scared that when I submit my art that someone thinks I traced or smth, since my art style is never a single one.
I never really looked for a style but when I wanted a new style I couldn't really find one but then I took a big break from drawing and when I came back I just drew in a new style and then I had a new one
personally I've never actively looked for an art style, i just drew the best i could. and eventually i stumbled upon some styles that i liked a lot and took inspiration from them
I have many "art styles". I draw in certain ways, but I don't bound myself to it. I have some tools and programs I can stick to, but I'm not afraid to test other things as well. I love drawing animals, but I'm also learning how to draw people and painting landscapes as well. I'm more interested in learning anatomy, color, and perspective right now than finding an art style. I think it might be fun if I studied other people's styles, but I end up mainly studying from real life.
People do tend to forget "style" doesn't only apply to the visual parts of an artwork but also the "narrative" part of it when its applicable. My favorite way to draw is using vibrant colors (barely using the color black even for outlines) and using "feelings/emotions" as my subject in my art that isn't character design since I don't express this so well IRL. As for character designs, I enjoy making my characters look fashionable when IRL I dress like a homeless gremlin HAHA. Truth is though my current style is the result of trying out the Frankenstein Method where I took inspiration from different artists and their visual and/or narrative style. Although when I take a step back and look at my work, turns out I just sorta worked everything in reverse because this is really how I drew anyway and none of the styles I took inspiration from is blatantly obvious when you look at my art. My biggest challenges are definitely background, character-building and story-telling and that's what I'm playing around with right now although I tried doing some and it turns out to be super fun to just experiment.
I think a lot of young artists fall into this trap of "originality" when they should stop trying to be original, like you say, and just be themselves, take inspiration. If they look a bit like a copy its not a big deal, it just is what it is. There's also the adoptables community who put a *price* on a lack of originality (basically cancel culture for anyone who doesnt meet an arbitrary standard of "originality" all because they put a price on supposedly wholey "original" characters)
Origanility is not the Most young artists problem, most create their design until its done and show it to people, most people trying to be artist but these can't understand entertainment because, they LOVE to see an artist draws as their taste of likeness
If the people who obsess over getting an art style truly wanted an art style, they would've gotten it by now. But i suspect, y'all unconsciously just want recognition or are motivated by some other unconscious agenda. So that's what you're gonna get. Don't be surprised. 💅 These people work day and night on their art style, all the whilst their brain is focused on wanting recognition. At the end of the day achieving neither. It's sad. It frustrates me how people don't realise that.
@@samc5602 Because I am, lol. It just makes me sad how people waste their time, trying to get a "unique" art style but then never achieve it because of displaced motivations. :/
@@Vanyx1000 i think they should focus on improving their skill level before trying to get their own style, but there's nothing wrong with wanting a unique style imo. If your style is cool it will get recognition and i don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to get recognition if you aren't annoying about it. You're basically telling them that if they haven't gotten it by now they should give up which doesn't sound right to me. Unique styles like in the animes "demon slayer" and "Toilet bound hanako kun"(i think that's what it's called) have really cool styles that make the animes stand out, and they probably wouldn't have been nearly as popular if they looked more "normal". I'm working on making my own style and i get inspiration off of other artists which i think should be fine since im not straight up copying their style or tracing their drawings. I want to have a mix of a few different artists style until i have it where I want it. If i just give up because I've been taking years to do it I'll stay dissatisfied with what I draw. I found an artist recently and i love their style. i changed my style a lot after seeing some of their animations. I don't think it's sad that we're motivated to keep trying, we have our whole lives to figure out what we want with our art, and it's highly unlikely someone will quit drawing over not finding a style, or die of old age before coming up with something.
I think having a style involves drawing something that comes out naturally for you, and not something that you are constantly "trying" to find by either copying others or trying to get used to a different, perhaps preexisting style. Even if you're in that stage where you "can't figure out" your style, you already have a style, based on your influences and tastes. It will evolve as you get better at fundamentals and master anatomy, even if your art style is exaggerated and not anatomically correct.
Honestly? I've never really been concerned with art style, but more concerned with technical ability and being able to express original ideas with them. I'm currently working with a friend on a game, and it's making me get out of my comfort zone. Normally my stuff is body horror, surreal, "real", but now I'm being made to draw cute, wholesome, stuff like that, and I'm actually having fun with it. Hoping it will help push me in my ability.
Style is important, it shows what you choose to emphasise in terms of appeal. You can be very geometric, very detailed, very cute, mostly you have to find what is most cozy with your eyes not your hands.
You're so right. We all already have a style. And improving it for the sake of making it an original style isn't the best idea. I think I'm just gonna draw how I like. Wether it's an iconic style or not.
I think people do look for styles.. just not intentionally. Not with an end goal in mind. No professional artist woke up and said "By the end of the week I am going to have my art style!". Its more about following other artists, figuring out what you like most about their work and then trying to adopt it for yourself. There is a stigma around "copying" especially with very very young artists. But I think what everyone learns eventually are 1) Every professional working in some sort of art industry uses reference, and 2) Every professional artist got where they are by studying other artists. Their style is generally a combination of techniques they discovered and techniques they saw other artists use and adopted it for themselves, over time.
i have been drawing for a about a year and a half, and personally i think my art is pretty good. But it constantly changes and its hard to be consistent, but honest i think i sort of like it this way
I never bothered with such nonesense, yet everyone says I have an artstyle. Just don't even think about it, do what you do and people will get the hand of stuff you do or tend to like to do.
Toniko So does that mean I could just be myself I mean I was trying to find someone's advice of finding my own art style because I wanted be someone that is different that where I came what define me but I can do something creative and try to be original even though my art is not perfect but I still practice instead of finding answers I could try finding my own artstyle do it my way instead of using my thoughts in my head I rather try just practicing to be fair I would like to thank you for that advice I could just try to be original and facing those challenges.
I love to always draw something differently. Making sketches and lineart in different ways, maybe wider legs and arms, other ways of colouring and shading. The list goes on and on. I just like trying other ways to do the same thing
Something I learned in illustration and concept art classes, is that styles change depending on the project and let's be honest, it feel really amazing to say "yeah this is my style" but (at least in my class) you don't get to far closing your style to one or a few ones, the more styles you understand and can copy, the better protects you can make, and at the end a style is a reflection and assimilation of the art fundamentals, so my classmates that understand more the fundamentals, are able to recreate a lot of styles and make them pretty, yet they have "their own style" but is something they only use when drawing for fun o with free protects, the rest of the times they change from one style to another depending on a lot of things in the project. What I want to say with this is: don't close doors to yourself, don't exhaust yourself looking for a style. Explore, experiment, assimilate and learn the fundamental and all will come along the way. Try styles and take in account that a style is just a "look" and it feels really cool and cohesive when you have a style, but the more you learn and experiment the more you are able to tell visually and transmit, and the more you control, the more you can create At the end of the day we all want a style but I still think its important all I've said before, the more styles you can control the more stories you can tell and the more people you can reach, *don't take it as a personal think, but as a professional thing.*
I tried for so long to "find" an artstyle but all it ever has done to me is stress me out, made me lose motivation and fun in art. But now im ignoring finding an artstyle and just draw whatever i feel like, some days ill draw lineless work, some days i draw chibi, anime or a combination of that. And it's okay to do that, i do not think my style is inconsistent, it's just changing on how i feel. And i do not think it should be an issue, since art is subjective and it's just a fun hobby to pick up on, which you can also use for profit, but it's also for fun, so an art style isn't that neccesary in my opinion.
Huum Idk if I agree with the thumbnail title of "Stop trying to FIND an art style". To me it was always clear that "find an art style" meant "experiment". People do stagnate on doing always the same thing and aren't always aware of some specific stylisations/ techniques they'd actually like to incorporate on their current artstyle.
For some young artist, "finding an art style" was actually just another way of saying "finding an artist trademark", aka developing tics and symbols to make your art seem uniquely yours in the way that big name artists have parts of their body of work that can be identified as belonging to that artist, like Butch Hartman and Studio Ghibli. In this case a lot of times it does lead to its own form of stagnation, where artist are trying to find things that they can repeat in their work instead of things they can improve in their work. It's sort of a silly thing to work towards if you're just a no-name kid learning art and you don't have a very big or well-known body of work.
Trying to develop a style without practicing the fundamentals regularly is like trying to grow fruit without tending to the tree. I tried to develop a face-drawing style on my own, and the results were horrifying. Now, I'm sticking closer to what I'm learning from other people, and my work looks more presentable because of it.
Yep, I tried that once and my anatomy and art style got so broken that I almost gave up, now that I'm following references a bit more I've been improving a lot in a very short amount of time. And if I do make my own art style, I just mix and match what i already know and its helped me make art styles without them looking like a hot mess. Hopefully I can continue to learn more soon.
I myself already found somewhat of an artstyle, but that doesn't mean I don't draw other ways from time to time: sometimes I like drawing realistic, sometimes I like drawing cute chibis, and sometimes I wanna make crazy mixes. The reason why I tried to find my artsyle is because I wanted to find a way where I wouldn't compare myself to others and say "My art sucks compared to theirs.". I wanted something that I would feel happy while drawing and made me proud of my drawings, which is a combination of chibis (simplicity), anime (eyes, mouth, things like that), realistic (stuff like shading and lighting), and traditionally (cuz yeah, I want my drawings to look like in paper). Again, I could be wrong and people can say "but you are just staying on a comfort zone, you will learn nothing", but that's ok, I just want art to be a small hobby for me, something to not stress out about. I'm not looking forward to be an artist, but more into psychology. Anyways, just a random comment, but still, great video! Really enjoyed it.
this left me a bit confused but that could be because over all I struggle to learn new things. I'm a small artist who wishes to open there own animation studio and wants to tell very amazing stories and even important life lessons. I don't know how to draw humans and don't really mind since I love drawing Anthro animals. I have I bad on not trying out tips that could help me improve my art and I use weird colors that probably aren't a good Idea for a serious show/story like pink and rainbows. I want to somehow take the color normal and use it differently to make characters, I want the depressed character to be bright and colorful not blue and full of dark colors. I want to make characters with different body shapes and highs and not talk down about them if they aren't thin. my problem could be I want to throw the norm out the window and go nuts, do things that people would normally say no to and find a way for them to work amazingly into a story about real life problems
Yeah I started comparing art styles to basically practicing someone else’s handwriting and taking things your like from that. Thank you for this video because it has given me so much clarity. Not having an art style actually made me stop drawing and made me depressed but i’m ready to get back out there and start drawing again. You have no idea how much this explaination has helped me
I find it very interesting all this thing about the "art style" because talking from my field, which is music, people don't really say "Yeah, I want to find my music art style, to know what genre I have to compose for". Folks maybe do like to compose mostly on specific genres but I think musicians are more versatile than visual artists on this aspect.
i think young artists try to go for an "art style" because let's be frank, most of them didn't learn basic proper techniques, so they rely a LOT on pre-made tools, or corrective tools, and neglect to acknowledge that painting and drawing... well, they require a LOT of time to do "right"; this isn't as prevalent with 3D modelling for example, because well, in the end, specially if they are photo realistic, 3D models tend to look... real, and it's very difficult to develop a "style". So digitally produced 3D art tends to look samey and cookie cutter, because everybody is "learning" from "2D drawing made easy" tutorials, without developing the fundamentals, wich, to be honest too, is quite boring and tedious to learn properly.
Does anyone else feel like drawing/painting etc isn’t a hobby anymore, but just something you do. Like you don’t enjoy it as much or even not anymore but you just do it. Edit: Just some sentences structure fixing.
Is it really worth avoiding sleep for days on end, just to stand out from a crowd? I personally don't think so, but here's the thing. If you're making a series, you have to have a consistent art style, otherwise you'll alienate anyone watching or reading.
I reached my style because I found it the easiest for me to make faster art with, while keeping the type of theme and sensation I wish to deliver. It just fits me, and it is a comfort zone in order to freely express with it. The art style I reached gave me the freedom to create animations with. I had experiments, and just felt the best with it. I don't think my style fits the industry, it's too specific.
Finding a style is like branding. You don't find it. It's a reflection of your experience, values and beliefs. Just learn the basics and master the principles. A style will develop on it's own.
I started drawing at mid 2010s. It's gonna be seen terrible and childish since I may lack Style, but I never stopped doing this, including PIxel Art. What I am currently doing with Pixel Arting is to challenge myself with how many colors I am limited to, following limitations of old video game consoles.
I'm the author of "Hiroshi and the Neon Ninjas." I realized that I really improved since volume 1 (which I did consider fixing to resemble the refined manga art style). But, in general, I now purposely create different styles. It helps to stay flexible around different plots, characters, etc.
I don't really have a fixed style either. I love to explore various styles. There are so many I like, I can't just choose one! It'll stress me out if I draw the same way constantly.
Me trying to make two characters make sense being in the same universe wile not recking the character wile keeping a simaler art style for both characters
I'm doing an animation proyect and I HAVE to find an artstyle for it since I found that the different characters aren't consistent with each other or the background. It's not only a matter of artstyle though, it's also related to a more technical aspect of it, will I rotoscope it? will I rig some characters? will i just do some frame by frame stuff? what about the palette? will i keep a realistic one or try something different? I think artstyle is really important when you're trying to do one specific proyect.
Ive been drawing cartoon animals since i was a kid when i got old enough to get on the internet people didnt know what to call it. My friends called it anime then other people called it furry now people call it beastar😔😔😔 bruh i just draw animals nothing more nothing less i have drawing for years for others to tag it as someone elses style. No shade to paru itagaki im just not her
I think I'm a little different from the norm because I never wanted to find my style. I just combined things I liked into a drawing or character and called it a day. I still needed to learn some things like how to look at nature and doing a bit of life drawing to get the anatomy just right, but I never once thought I had a style. I only thought that my art would coincidentally look like other people's art sometimes, but would just brush it off.
I don't have an art style, or any plans for where I wanna go with my art, I just draw. I draw once and have fun doing it I draw something else and draw in a completely different way from how I did the time before, and STILL have fun doing it Art styles aren't that important, just have fucking fun goddamnit.
With 3D you may think is easier than 2D but there's a reason why so many unappealing 3D characters end up with horrid styles, like the first design of Sonic. You can easily turn your original character to profile or have the character emote and suddenly your appealing character now looks monstrous. Also, translating a 2D drawing that looks super appealing but given to 3D and now it looks wrong.
It's pretty simple to find a style really Just learn from everybody and Combine whatever techniques feel the most comfortable for you It's not rocket science and over time your styles gonna change anyway
Hey toniko can u plz tell me where can beginners like me can post the 2d animations films we made... Mention us with any portal or forum that makes us engage and is eccentric.... Other than YT
They irony I had been trying for four months fully dedicating 4hrs a day since January till I freaking hated drawing, then last week I realized I had a style, one that's pretty reflective of myself, which was weird to realize
Honestly, I don't try giving myself a singular style. Even if I do, I end up getting really bored and burned out quickly. I just draw in whatever style I feel like each time I make a piece. The only exclusions from this are animations and commissions, since those have to stay consistent. (for commissions it's cuz people buy a piece in one of my specific styles, and I just give them said style)
I also have different art styles depending on the series. Project Euphoria has 3 different artstyles, one for Corruptland, one for real life, and one for Euphoria. Intergalactic Scourges and Project Euphoria share the same irl style because they take place in the same universe, but I digress.
I am guilty of this too. I used to do plenty of artist studies just to break down my favourite art styles and implement them into my own work. I guess I managed to develop my style to be a bit more refined and purposeful that way, but at the same time I discovered I hate being restricted to just one way of drawing or rendering (and not sticking to what became sort of my signature style made me feel like I'm doing something wrong too because of the social media pressure to be consistent, even though many Internet artists have a few different styles too), and that the style I developed is good for drawing pretty vintage manga girls and boys, but not older people or more masculine men, and that isn't good at all. My style also became a way for me to oversimplify structure and anatomy since I could cheat by making it more flat and graphic, and now I got to suffer the consequences lol. I don't necessarily think doing artist studies to see how people whose work you enjoy approach problem-solving, what is their workflow, how they use their tools and take inspiration from that and even steal from them, but you need to understand what they're doing in order to gain anything from it, not just monkey it like "oh, this is how they draw eyes, ok, I'm gonna draw eyes like that from now on". For example, if you like simpler style or anime and struggle to draw noses from extreme angles, this is a good moment to study your favourite art styles to see how it can be done. But you also need to know why it's done that way, meaning you need to know what real noses look like in perspective.
Whenever I hear people talk about "their style" I cringe like f**k. Most of the time it's not even really their style, but rather something they've seen somewhere else and practiced until it became their go to thing. Sometimes it's conscious, sometimes it's subconscious. But what gets me every time is when people brag about "their style", but they can't draw hands or something. People forget that you need to understand the basics before stylizing something in a believable way. Joe MAD understood how to draw hands before he drew the Crowfather's claws. He understood how to draw animals before he designed Dust, Ruin and Despair. And he understood how to draw the human body before he designed the nephelim and the makers and all those amazing characters.
When I look at a cool drawing, I think "Wow I want to learn how to draw this eye/mouth/nose/ear/whatever" then I try it out. Trying to look for a style is like trying to look for an identity, to be different, when in fact being too different just means your art worsens because you're not focused on making it look good.
Great video! Now that I am getting into drawing comics and illustrations, I am definitely mostly concerned with being legible and consistent, rather than embracing a style. I found that I am focusing more on what will help me tell the story faster and still be visually appealing. My style has definitely shown under that pressure of deadlines :)
I've never tried to find an artstyle, in fact it was never in my mind at all, so I was kinda shook when I found people trying to develope it like it's some important thing...I do have an "art style" but I never activly developed it, it kinda just happened when I was learning basics and art in general Also, it kinda became a curse cuz when I try to draw in a different style it just have some flavour of mine lol...so yeah
