Hi everyone!
Welcome to lesson two.
In this lesson, I will be discussing what I think
makes up an artstyle and how
you can find a unique one of your own.
An art style is really just many, many little
decisions throughout your art process.
It’s is a mixture of what inspires you,
everything that you’ve seen before
and the techniques you use.
Firstly, I’ll talk about what I believe
influences art styles fundamentally.
Apart from the more obvious differences
in proportions of the face or body.
So some people will say brushes are
not that important, and brushes do not make
the artist.
While I do think that brushes will not
magically make you into a great artist,
I do believe that a good brush will help you
achieve the look that you want.
This is the brush I use currently use,
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I'll talk more about it in future
lessons, but, I'm just gonna use
it to make a simple gradient.
Yup! And this is an old brush I used to use.
You can already see that they are very different brushes and
they're giving me very different results.
And there are textured brushes like this one.
Personally, I don't prefer using them,
but it will definitely give you a different look too.
So, play around with different brushes and textures.
And find something you like.
Another big thing that can influence art styles
is technique and art process.
So, when I do clean art lineart like
this, it turns out very different
when I paint loosely like this.
So, what I recommend is to constantly experiment
with different techniques and be open
to trying new things.
A way I found new techniques was by
watching speedpaint and art process videos
on Youtube. You'll be surprised with how many
ways there are to draw a single subject!
Now, let's talk about finding a unique art style
of your own!
Finding an art style you like is very much
a process of gathering little bits of
what you like from other peoples' work,
and incorporating it together
to form something new and unique.
At the start, you can have a collage
of works you like.
I reccoemend having different artists so you're not
fixated on taking all the elements from one artist's style.
And while you work, you can reference the different parts
that you like.
For example, maybe you like how Davinci
draws faces, and how Sargent paints
bodies, but you like Van gogh's
brushwork and how Monet chooses colours.
So of course, any artist or art,
can be your inspiration. I just chose
these for copyright reasons.
And just try to pick out one, or two things
about their art style and incoporate it into
your own.
And I wanna stress that it's completely OK
to use references. Whether it be
photographs or art. As long as
you're not whole-sale copying, theres nothing wrong with it.
And actually, a lot of people in the art and media industry do it too!
So, when you find something you like, an effective way
to adopt that into your style is to do studies.
As you do study drawings, with your
inspiration as reference, you will
start to build that muscle memory to draw in that style,
and it will naturally be incoporated into the way
you draw or paint.
I will be going more in depth about how to
observe and do studies in the next lesson,
so, see you there!