what genre does your art style belong to?
It's a hard call and I'd be afraid to make the judgement myself. At the very least it's "Anime-esque". I only really consider the eyes of my art to be unique and I generally refer to them as "Fencing Eyes"... which might sound cooler then it actually is. There was a point in my late teens, when anime was at a peak in it's popularity, when I had a straightforward 90's era anime style... and it bother me. I kind of hated having a common, popular art style. At that point I started looking for inspiration in the real world and found this little item:
.... it's a fencing staple!
Using this I started working out the way I currently draw my eyes. They have an anime-like shape, a western super-hero kind of build and are unusually tall and thin, akin to cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny. Another term I came up with is breaking. Basically this is just a way to describe breaks in the lines of the eyes. I refer to my eyes as "Quarter Broken" because they have a quarter of their line broken off. More conventional anime eyes have breaks on both sides and I'd call that "Double Broken". These terms aren't really official to anyone and I just use them for my own convenience. I made this handy little reference when I've talked about it before:
... and of course don't quote me on any of this. It's mostly my own observations.
how do you pick your colors for your art style? were the bright or balanced
I don't really restrict what colors I use but I do try to make them consistent in any work I do. My current comic sits in a comfortable space between subdued and colorful:
do you have to match the backgrounds with your art style? I've asked myself this question and i am still unsure about that.
Admittedly I have a conflicted relationship with my backgrounds. I generally try to minimize background art so I can produce pages faster. Catch is I still feel I need to make the BGs more prominent when I need to hint at things. I'll hide plot details or put cameos in the background. I want to keep my BGs simple for the most part but there are times I feel I can't get away with that... though.. to ACTUALLY answer your question: I don't match colors to the foreground characters but there is a consistent color scheme based on locations in the world. York, a common location in the early comic, has differently colored buildings but also has a lot of recurring colors. It helps that York does actually have a consistent layout.
do you use a brush to make lineart? and how did you color after making the linework?
Finding two people who agree on what you should do with your brush is next to impossible. When looking for advise on the matter I kept finding conflicting information. Ultimately, I fiddled with a simple solid brush to make the one I use for Octeal. It begins quite thin but can get significantly thicker the more pressure I apply with my pen. I've consider both making the pen thinner and making it go even thicker. Unfortunately I don't think there's one agreed upon method for your lines but one piece of advice I have started using is to not use solid black as the line color.
I generally color on a separate layer underneath the line layer but that's about as complicated as things get between lines and color. I tried a lot of the fancy coloring methods but actually ending up aggressively simplifying the way I color in the long run.
do you sometimes want to change your art style but you could not?
... Constantly. The style I'm using right now is one that I try to break away from regularly but somehow I always find myself settling back into it. Luckily, I can spot my art from a crowd in an instant so at the very least it stands out I think. I have seen other artists use a similar shape but they're generally wide and flat rather then tall and thin OR if they are tall and thin they're more rounded like yours and fully enclosed without a separately drawn line for their base. "CalArts" style is a term used a lot for this, though I think some folks don't like that term... for some reason. A recent consideration I've been having is using heavier shadows, but that change is very much in the design phase.
are there times where you felt your art style is out of place of the intended mood of your comic?
No. My style has, at the very least, been very convenient for me. It's in a nice comfortable space where I can use it for more serious tones of writing as well as lighter or goofier stuff. It sits in a lot of middle-grounds and I think that helps. It's flexible, if you will.
Links to my Comic:
Octeal on Webtoon
Octeal on Tapas