How to Find Your Art Style (What No One Tells you)

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One way to “find your style” is to make a drawing. Copy that drawing without looking at the resource. Copy the copy. Twenty or so iterations in you will see how you like to draw. Then pick up the resource and copy it in the way you drew your last few drawings. Don’t work too big. A few of these exercises will help you know your own hand.

I started at 66 and had my first book published at 67.

Words can’t justify the amount of respect I have for not only your ability as an artist, but also sharing of knowledge

Don’t let anyone say drawing monsters won’t earn you money. Monsters are in, they’ve always been in. The weirder the better.

i lost my job today. i really needed this. glad i found it when i did. instead of moping or panicking, im drawing.

i love in between the deep and meaningful advice there's just "what is this thing?" 😂

I was doodling while listening to this and finally drew something that I like (I think I found my style 😭)

I needed to hear "you're not too old to learn". I used to draw all the time. I still at 42 wish I were a comic book artist. I let a lot of time go not drawing that I'll never get back, but drawing, sketching is all I think about. I can't that time back, but I can better utilize the time I do have to get better.

I found that focusing on what I like the feel of helped me find my style rather than focusing on what I want my art to look like. I found that angular lines are more enjoyable for me and feel more natural, so I tend to add more in my drawings. Most artists never end up making art the way they had it in mind anyway, so I feel like focusing entirely on how you want your art to look will lead to frustration.

“When in doubt, make it disgusting” Love that you critique and change your idea as you go. I think that’s the mark of true art. It’s not ever done or sure, but always molding to your style as it is in the moment!

the thing that helped me a lot was to realize that all artists have their own standard of "good" in art. we shape our opinions about art based on things that we like and experience. for example I personally don't really care about realism and proportion accuracy, because the most important part of a drawing for me - is to be able to show the idea or scenario from my head. also art doesn't have ANY boundaries and any person who think otherwise is a liar, cause everyone perceives art differently and everyone has their own truth about it. i know that if you go to an art school, or you have a job you might have a certain standard and rules to follow, but I do art as a hobby and it's really nonimportant for me

This speak a lot also in writing. The rabbit hole of comparing with other authors and trying to be like them, it’s tough. Especially in the horror genre, which my writing and art are in, it's easy to be swept away into thinking "They're better than me.", " I'm not like them.", and " I'm not good enough." I learned that comparing myself with others only result in self-inflicted misery and hinder my progress. When I take a step back and looked back, I realise that I'm not bad, I'm just doubting myself and I'm actually doing good. Never compare yourself with others for the sake of self pity, I learned it myself. Speaking of style, I found mine and it's a tough one. My style is all about the absence of human similarities on creature designs, and a huge amount of body horror. I found it after years of writing and drawing and it snapped to me that I'm more into non-human, non-humanoid creatures. Others create non - human creatures that are human-like, mine is the opposite, I create creatures as far away from human traits as much as possible. They are the farthest things from being human. It came naturally without any attempts from me to actually learn a style, it just snapped inside my head.

As someone who has spent more than half of my life doing art traditionally, I can agree that transition from traditional to digital is quite hard, if not difficult. I am so used to traditional art techniques that it's difficult to copy and paste that same technique into digital because it's not the same, so I had to find another technique to use for digital--which I still am--and it's tiring and hard to adopt two different techniques for my art style(s).

I CANNOT FREAKING WAIT FOR THE HARD SURFACE FOUNDATION CLASSES. I'm a sucker for Mechs, and things that blend the line between "was this built or grown?" and the ambiguous textures that come up when you design characters and creatures like that. Is this stone, plastic, metal, glass, ceramic? some weird undiscovered metal or mineral that's been refined? etc etc. So interesting. You're doing gods work Bobby! Well maybe the elder gods, hahah!

Such a fantastic video and so much wonderful information. You see I have an issue calling myself an artist. I served in the British Army for 13 years and shattered and crushed my spine on operational tour. I became depressed and suffered PTSD and pain and turned to art as a form of therapy. The amazing people who follow my YouTube channel call me an artist but I see myself more of a glorified printer. I can replicate an image reasonably well, but I just can’t do what you are doing, creating creatures that don’t exist, with no point of reference for shading and texture etc. But I don’t want people to think, I say I don’t class myself as an artist just to get sympathy, because that is not it at all. I don’t really know what an artist is to be honest, I knew how to be a soldier and I was really good at that, but I turned to art for help, not a career.

I only discovered your channel a few days ago, and watched the “how to create creatures from spheres” video, and have since watched twenty more. Please never stop making these, they are awesome!

You had me at Bernie Wrightson...:eyes-purple-crying:RIP to a great artist and great person.

Young artist here! I've been going through a rly tough time with my art and the prosses of it and this video helped so much I cryed like 3 times art is a really important thing to me so thank you 4 giving me the push to keep going!❤

I really need to remember to constantly remind myself that many artist I admire and compare myself to have been making art for years, if not decades. I got back into drawing regularly a few months ago (I’ve always loved drawing but after the age of 11 or so I did it less and less) and my expectations are already very high because I always see experienced artists and compare myself to them