Very recently I found a tweet I liked a lot:
It's such an interesting take that I've never heard anyone express before, and yet as soon as you think about it it feels so obvious.
Most of the professional artists that I know (who are usually past the point of obsessing over 'finding a style') do a lot of different kinds of art, and yet, I can always tell its theirs by the 'energy' it holds.
I even know a few hobbyists/amateurs like that...some tend to do soft things, some tend to do unsettling things, some tend to do rustic things...no matter what style they use to express themselves, you can tell what themes and emotions they're attracted to.
And with that said, I ask you guys: what do you think your artistic voice is?
If I had to describe mine with a word, I'd say: INTENSE. ^^
I like to create art that reflects the way I see the world: a series of powerful experiences that etch themselves into your soul. Everything I do, from visual art to writing to music, tends to revolve around intensity-- intense sounds, intense colors, intense emotions.
...Some of my best pieces of the last couple years. ^^ I can remember what it felt like to create them; the strong feelings that just kept building upon themselves, and rekindled every time I stopped to look at the whole picture...whenever my work feels like that, I'm usually in the process of creating something great.
Of course, I can appreciate gentle things, too. I love seeing 'soft' or 'rustic' pieces from other artists, to the point where I often try to emulate them...but honestly when I do that I usually end up "overshooting the mood":
All three of these pieces were supposed to be much softer and more melancholy than they ended up being (even the third one, which I obviously tried really hard on, is way more intense than the piece that inspired it...you can tell I kinda gave up by the time I got to the right wing :P).
I still want to learn how to speak artistically in those voices, and maybe someday I will. But I think now I can accept that they aren't my voice, and that maybe the reason I have a hard time with them isn't because I'm lacking in some kind of talent, but because my mind just doesn't work that way. And maybe the way for me to achieve different moods isn't to try as hard as I can to change my voice, but to figure out ways to use it that can get me as close as possible.
