Let's talk about art styles

[ZAPPI]

The art for my comic CrimiNET is deeply inspired by early 2000s Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network cartoons. Mosty by the works of Butch Hartman, Craig McCracken, and even a bit of Jamie Hewlett in there, who is the artist who created Gorillaz in the early 2000s. I guess I'm just a sucker for thick-outlined characters in minimalistic backrounds.

[remiquise]

Most my childhood memories are so spotty I cannot honestly say where I picked up my style. I know I watched a few animes, and no doubt I picked up some of my style from those... but it doesn't look like the animes I watched. Naruto, Inuyasha, FMA... So as for where is all began I really cannot say, probably random drawings I'd take and use as my rp characters while being entirely too young for rping with strangers online... but even looking back at old pieces I can see I've building upon whatever I came up with as a teenager.
Case in point (ignore 2007);

I know my shading style (on full pieces, not comics) was a poor attempt to copy one dark souls 3 fanart's rendering. I now do the great taboo of doing shadows with reds and other warm colours... Oh, and outlining the edges of the shadows a shade darker for some reason.

How I use overlay to make colours pop more came from a fill bucket mistake I made one and realized it was actually better, birthing my love of coloured "lighting" now. I probably overdo it; here's a very silver character straight up being purple because of my heavy overlay hand;

For a while I tried doing narrower eyes and more "realistic" range of expression and motion and what not-- since my tattoo artist of a father would shit on my "anime bullshit", but stopped caring in recent years because, well, why should i care about the opinion of someone who basically vanished from my life bar Christmas when I was 8? lmao. I'll make the eyes as big as I please, thanks..

Since it's been stagnating generally for years now, I think I'm stuck with it like it or not. If it's "me" I couldn't say, but it's mine. Do I like it..? For years I hated it, and I still find myself recoiling if I see it when I wasn't expecting it. I respect it for what it is now. It's never going to get me a job, fame, fortune, anything of the like on it's own and that's okay.(It can get a following if I use it for evil... My old blog proved such.). It's fine. It's my joy and I've been forcing myself to respect it as such, so count that as "Like" if you please.

[Leyelle]

How I use overlay to make colours pop more came from a fill bucket mistake I made one and realized it was actually better, birthing my love of coloured "lighting" now. I probably overdo it; here's a very silver character straight up being purple because of my heavy overlay hand;

i think colored lighting adds a cool effect. many kinds of lighting have at least a little bit of color anyway, we just don't notice them as often because we're used to blue and yellow light

[Leyelle]

I used a very different style for my most recent Mental Soup panel by I like the effect, though it's hard to trace what it reminds me of.

[krazycafetales262]

My style started out as stick figures and kind of developed from there. I decided which parts I wanted to make more detailed while keeping others things (like hands) more simplified.

I agree with the idea that your style just comes over time as you try different things and decide which to keep and which to ignore.

[Leyelle]

finally got into drawing in this style again

[Leyelle]

My own take on vintage cartoon style

I think my art may have leveled up again. The line art looks like a coloring page to me.

[theyrebothakilogram]

Think I already posted this somewhere else, but I figured I could post it here too! I've done a couple pieces in the arcane artstyle

And a couple different styles as well :))

[ArtGremlin]

Was inspired by @theyrebothakilogram to try drawing in Arcane’s style, so I used Viktor as a reference to draw my oc Victor

He actually looks 21 now bro looks like a baby how I draw him normally 🥲

[theyrebothakilogram]

Yooo! This looks so cool!

[Leyelle]

Wait he's 21?!!! Shooketh

[enderdragon]

I still draw in a very cartoony style, because I draw very quickly and I want to be able to capture details without too much technical precision.

I also like things to be super expressive, because that's always appealed to me whenever I looked at other works.

Here are a couple characters I created for my new series "The Moonlight Manifesto".

[Leyelle]

I love cartoony art too. I don't prefer to go super-serious with my art style

[Tursastheeternal]

I have kind of an old school dark fantasy style. It uses only black, white and a single greytone as a self-imposed limitation. I can't say I've fully found it. I still experiment learn new things all the time.

Biggest Influence by far is Berserk, especially the early/golden age arc style. It didn't just influence my style, it's why I became a comic artist in the first place.

Vinland Saga was a later influence.

That's the Manga side. Also from my home country there's Tuoni Myllylä, Petri Hiltunen...

...and, as the one-of-these-is-not-like-the-others entry, Tove Jansson.

TLDR: Berserk and Moomins

[The_Chosen_Z]

Check out "Capítulo 6: Lídere galático parte 2" from Poketrix on Tapas: https://tapas.io/episode/3475793 esse é meu antigo estilo

[ambermdo]

I have a very cartoonish Disney-like style since I've used How to Draw Disney Characters books to improve my drawing skills.

[ArtGremlin]

Wait he's 21?!!! Shooketh

For some reason I never saw this comment but yes, he’s 21-22 throughout his storyline. He’s just a little guy. This reminds me, that arcane study was probably what inspired me to work on simplifying some of my character’s hair (especially Victor) because at some point later I edited the hair arcane study above to look like this

And I realized how much easier to draw/nicer looking it was. I think it influenced how I draw hair now.

[wolflu66]

My habit is that whenever I see a style I like, I always want to try imitating it. So you can often see me painting in one style for a while, and then after some time, I start painting in another style. In short, I'm learning from multiple sources, and once I get the hang of it, I integrate it into my own creations.

To be honest, I'm not sure if this is good or bad, because this way, I might not become proficient in any single style.
At the moment, my favorite art style is "Art Nouveau". Although my manga is in an ink painting style XD.

As you can see, these images have very different styles, so I've already become confused about what my own style actually is! XD

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[RED-VELVET-CUPCAKE]

I try to include things I like to see in other art styles! I love bright colors, bold lineart, and high contrast between dark and light colors. I'm definitely not satisfied, because there are a LOT of things I need to work on... But I'm improving slowly and that's really what matters to me.

[stiatent]

Lost lots of older work but mines based on what fits the story I'm trying to tell in the moment:

1. mostly Videogames (Fighting Games, Rpgs, Horror and Dark Fantasy games)
2. Music Videos and rock bands from 90s and 2000s,
3. Shonen Anime
4. Hindu and spiritual art
5. guy fashion
6. classic Disney animated films/ Tim Burton and other western animations

I never like to limit myself settling with a 'True style', while I do have about four different stories of varying styles, I'm also open to whatever new mood or influences come.
Guess it fun & feels natural blending stuff as I grew up around so many different personalities and cultures (childhood between England, the US and Trinidad).

I do have a tendency to use sharp edges and love high contrast
Enjoy once in a while to use rounder shapes eg. this Retro Disney version of Evan, been planning to do the entire cast at some point in this style

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Early Digital Era
Used to do lots of anthro furry characters back then thinking about it and bright colors
(there was one with fantasy pirate dogs named Rover Kinghts but lost those sadly)

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ANIME -Fighting Game PHASE
(never took the opportunity to experiment with textures and noise back then)

THE HUDGE (an old videogame Idea inspired by Hinduism, Goddesses and Scifi- that I plan to transform into a comic series in future) all these patterns were made from scratch
(around this time i got addicted to adding noise textures on everything, a trend that remained today)

Higher resolution in link (Was too big for forums):
https://www.deviantart.com/stiatent/art/Maa-Durga-s-arrival-animated-clip-school-days-858844284

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AGE OF RUINS (one that would also become a comic series, was going for more earthy tones and inspired by sci-fi and European legends)

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Sick Boy
2d Era

and well the 3d Era you guys see on on Forums often, the 3-d better captured the AAA Action-Horror and creepy moments of Sickboy. Though I've done them in other styles for Chibbi Collabs on Discord.