How did you develop your artstyle?

[musicalseason]

Im curious as to how people have developed their current styles and their inspirations ^^ I developed mine by experimenting with different styles, if you were to look at my art over the past year there would probably 15 different ones 😂 I think the artstyle for my webcomic was a little all over the place since its my first comic, but I think ive figured out a good style! Id like to see you guys artstyles too ^^

[Shanny8]

The foundation for my art style is patterned after 3 of my fave comic book artists- Marc Silvestri, Jim Lee, & John Byrne. Ive picked up other stuff here & there and eventually eliminated or simplified stuff until I have what I do now. I wouldnt say my style is complete; even now my style is still evolving.

[Mocha]

Mine was sort of a result of trial and error combined with an unconscious style eventually forming on its own. Even though i now have a style I'm still trying different things to improve it as well as trying new styles. Basically styles are just a thing that happen over time once you get more or less comfortable with your drawing.

[SpavVy]

Learned a lot from my favorite artists. Shirow Miwa was my biggest inspiration and as a teenager I wanted my art to be just like his but my hand wanted to do things differently so I just accepted it lol
But in the end I'm happy I just ended up doing my own thing.

[Down_the_Rabbithole]

That's a lovely question to ask!

I developed my style from observing classic Disney animators. I believe my start was Don Bluth and then I went on to others. I hope to give that same grasp of emotion, staging, and action that they did.

[joannekwan]

A list of all my phases across the span of like 22 years that eventually lead me to where I am now. I've bolded the biggest influences.

4–16
Simpsons / Arthur /anything else that made an impact on me when I was just starting to draw
Pokemon / Digimon / Cardcaptors / Monster Ranchers / Sailor Moon - first introduction to anime
Shaman King / Naruto - the start of my true anime phase lol
16–20
Mushishi / Monster / the works of Natsume Ono and Est Em - when my anime phase started waning, I got into more mature series and a more mature style
20–22
Leyendecker / Homer / Hanuka brothers / Secret of Kells - during my years in college, there was more focus on fine artists and contemporary illustrators.
22–now
Kevin Wada / various tumblr artists - currently I love seeing things on the internet and picking bits and pieces to sprinkle into my own work.

I actually have a few styles I work in, from the detailed, to the more geometric. My series, and my work in general.

[Overlord_Thundersnow]

I'm self taught.

I was voted 'Most Artistic' at my school. But in reality I was a mediocre artist.

Five years ago I made a promise to myself that I would put all my focus on improving my art. So I studied Youtube videos and taught myself Photoshop and then later Manga Studios.

You can judge for yourself, but I've definitely proven to myself that hard work and dedication towards a specific goal will show results over a period of years that you would never have thought possible.

[phen]

Experimentation with other styles, especially mimicking of other styles, is definitely one of the fun and frustrating parts of the journey in finding your own. There are so many different influences around us -- from advertising to cartoons to fine arts.

I think my first real influence was Rude Dog and the Dweebs (which was a mesh of advertising and cartoon, heh)! Bright colours, sharp angles, exaggerated, asymmetrical forms, it was quite child-like in design and something I ADORED as a 4 year old.

As I grew older, Ren & Stimpy, The Lion King, and Rocko's Modern Life left a huge impact on me. As well as a moment I had with my uncle -- he was watching me draw some of my characters and asked me to show him how I was drawing their hats (they almost all wore backwards hats because yo, that's what cool characters wear). I did it in one motion without lifting the pen from paper and he was just... he made me feel like I was this unbelievably skilled pro by the time I was 12. JUST BY DRAWING A HAT. It was awesome and I started paying attention to how I controlled my tools at that point.

Now, the experience of drawing with others, that stuck with me. So the things that have given me desire to push even more, to figure out the limits of my capabilities would be family and friends. I went to art school, did the foundations work and got my fundamentals down but it's an experience which was more meaningful thanks to talking, to the social exchange. And I'm a bloody recluse, like... I prefer to be on my own but it's the moments sharing art with others and seeing others' art that fuels me and definitely affects how I approach a piece. In school, presentation and critique days were my favourite things EVER because... my god, a dedicated moment to experience this stuff personally, to hear thoughts and demonstrate techniques.

EXHALE. Ultimately, my style was developed by the people around me and an urge to get weird things out so we can talk about it, haha^^

[MidZM]

Mmm, my art style originates from Kisihimoto's art style in Naruto. I always liked the way he made Naruto look realistic yet still had the anime tone and styling to it. Although now my style has morphed into it's current state of being half anime/half manga styling with black and white color/cel shading and painterly shading for backgrounds.

When I was first starting out on digital art I tried doing 3D art and I got better at it but never followed through with it since I didn't have the patience to make something absolutely gorgeous. I then moved onto Corel Draw to which I made some not so great clip arts, I then moved onto photoshop and some other free software that had a line tool where my art got better but it always took too long to draw something with that line tool. After all that I moved to my current and best set up of Photoshop and Paint Tool SAI making Doujinshi's, my current comic, and other artist projects and getting better as I go.

[AlkseeyaKC]

I think my style came from a mix of JRPG games from the 90s early 2000s and petsite game art. I love the thick lines and bold colors.

[X.J.C]

I have many different styles but I use the one that I find the easiest to make on pc for my comic. I figured that I am not very good at line art so I cheated and used a style that has none. I would like to practice different styles in the future though

[indagold]

Had an original style, had friends pester me to do anime and felt guilty everyone online did anime and I needed to step up my game. Realized at 14 anime is kinda extremely unoriginal and a style for extreme perfectionists and just kept drawing from life until here I am. As for styles I like to change it up with each piece of work to give variety but I do have one style I keep usually.

[Mharz]

I developed my art style by training and working on animation industry. Learning the basic principles of drawing and animation and applied all those knowledge in my art.

I grew up watching animes from 1990s-2000s and I adapted some of those aspects on my drawings henceforth ending with a anime-ish style.

Then after that I just apply stuffs I observed if it's something that catches my attention I try to apply it to improve my style.

[AwezumArt]

By practicing realism studies and life drawing to improve proportion as well as doing "style studies" learning what makes various styles. Over time a my style developed.

[Vanesalisa]

my artstyle before was small people with no hands and nose also with cute eyes and long faces then I self learned some styles in artbook or how to draw anime then I stop drawing anime for a while and....my style has limbs and normal jaws and nose also the eyes are normal no more cute anime eyes but just the fingers I'll might have to work on that

[LCT_m_a_d]

Definitely a combination of artists, subjects, and themes that I thought were really cool and I spent time exploring, plus learning super basic fundamental stuff.

[KoreanTacos]

My art style has been mostly thanks to Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) for most of my male characters, animes like Azumanga Daioh, Slayers, and Yuru Yuri are my influence in female characters, and as much as I hate to admit it Naruto is the influence in having different eyes for most of my characters. I've been drawing comics since I was in the fourth grade so I just had a LOT of practice and improvement.

[Ambat]

I think I turned about 19, I was really heavily influenced by anime and manga because that was my primary media of choice growing up. The funny thing is though that even in my "anime" phase, my art had pretty strong western animation influences--it was very much an "ugly duckling" phase in my art because I had no direction and was trying to mimic and replicate different pieces of things I saw in other art that I liked, regardless of origin.

I started studying to get accepted into animation school around then and did a lot of gestural/figure drawing work, as well as style studies from artists who inspired me at the time, including oh-8 (Skullgirls) and Disney post-renaissance films like Treasure Planet and Atlantis. During this time, I started to find a clearer direction of where I wanted to head--I wanted the fluidity and diversity that western animation had to offer, but wanted the visual appeal and attractiveness that anime characters tended to have.

Enter animation school, where my whole world got flipped upside down--it's funny how much of your teachers' art styles you'll pick up on without you even realizing it! I was taught by teachers who were very influenced by Disney and Warner Bros. style animation, as they worked there for a very long time, and as such, I began picking up similar habits in my own drawings--specifically in my facial expressions and eyes I've noticed a big similarity.

I stopped attending that school about a year ago and since then have definitely branched out and found my own sea legs, so to speak--I understand enough of what kind of aesthetic I'm going for to make informed decisions on the direction of my art and put a lot of focus into specific things to reach those aesthetic goals. Right now, I am particularly inspired by western animators that were such a big part of my childhood--particularly Butch Hartman (specifically his work on Danny Phantom), Maxwell Atoms, Craig McCracken, Lauren Faust, etc. TV animation is where I'd like to work in the future so I do a lot of studies on the visual aesthetics of well-received TVA and try to replicate what I see is successful/what I like from them!

[demthorshie]

My artstyle has mostly been experimental since I graduated from high school. My art was initially inspired by my anime loving ways, but it later evolved to be a mix between anime and realism. I later started practicing my skills by creating concept art of characters I would make up for fun. I went through a strange phase during and after high school where I wanted to become a video game artist which fizzled out quickly once I realized the likelihood of that type of job wouldn't be too high for me.

I later got in to freelance art and storybook illustrating, which I now do for a living, although the styles that I use to create work for books quite a bit different from my comic art. I think drawing on a regular basis helps me to point out the areas which I wish to improve on better with my art (human anatomy and coloring techniques specifically at the moment.)

[wander_creature]

Outer Spaces is a huge departure in style for me from my normal grooves. I wanted to try something that looked simple and beautiful, but still captured an element of darkness or mystery. I've seen a ton of art where the characters are colored and the world is black and white, so I decided to try the opposite, and make the characters simple black and white in a world of color. I try to retain elements of character design and structure, though. I'm hugely influenced by things like Calvin and Hobbs (particularly his Spaceman Spiff segments) along with the early Star Wars comics, IDW's Transformers, and classic animation like Studio Ghibli films.