How do you create your own style without copying someone?

[hunchback]

This might sound like a stupid question, but i was wondering if this happens to people a lot. They end up drawing like another artist and there stuff becomes the copy cats stuff. Is it better to take pieces or ideas of inspiration and use it to come across your own style. How many people have there own style? In meantime i will keep drawing.

:yayca: peace guys

[MiniGoth]

Time.

[J Wilson]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=142459

Third question from the bottom in the first post.



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[Farvus]

Really old post about developing style by Jason Manley

http://conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=264812&postcount=11

[hunchback]

damn thanks guys
sorry wilson should have checked the nooby thread
:yayca: no fear !! hahahaha

[TASmith]

don't try to copy and you won't. Work from life and then from imagination. Not everything's been done yet.

[Dave_]

Usualy ppl get a copied style by just copying stuff from 1 artist that they adore. If you get a lot of artists you study from/cheak out regulary, then a copied style is very unlikely.

[CaNiBaLe]

I once read something like this "copying one person makes you a fool, copying many people makes you a genius"

[prodpoke]

well the way i strive to draw is to be photo realistic, and that's not really copying anyone. and as in terms of theme - currently i only draw from photography or still life so no fake stuff. if i make stuff up its totally deformed and fucked up and it just comes to me. i usually draw as grotesque as possible. big fan of deformities. there's a whole genre of art dedicated to that, but i ended up finding it after i started so its not like i was copying. when i draw those its cartoon style and its pretty generic. i don't think any two things i draw look the same. i'm more likely to copy concepts rather than art style.

[hunchback]

thanks for the help guys:yayca:

[HunterKiller_]

First of all, don't worry about style, just worry about being good at drawing from observation.

You will have a personal style whether you like it or not. Consciously altering that style is another matter.
Draw subjects that you enjoy.
When you observe and draw, focus on the factors that you enjoy. The curvy lines? The bold shapes? The vibrant colours?
Amplify these things, and in turn, diminish those that you dislike.

[Maxine Schacker]

This is what JM said in that old post:

Style is something which comes on it's own. It is not something you can force. As you become proficient it will become like your own personal handwriting. Learn your art history, learn your foundation, as an artist masters this stuff he or she will find their style coming out just based on their own tastes which are finally settling in.


Here is something which can aid you in your own development of style though. choose your favorite four artists from ART HISTORY....ask your self what you like about those artists.....and make some images for yourself using those qualities. For example...maybe it is muchas' flowing design, Bouguereau's ability to render life like flesh, rembrandts value range, chagalle's rich color, etc.... or maybe its sargents brush strokes and rockwells use of interesting character etc....the list is endless. the handwriting of art is not as important as your perspective. When doing this, use your OWN subject matter.

as an artist works on their foundation and masters the craft and emotional qualities of their work, their style just comes out all on it's own.


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[lukey120292]

This might sound like a stupid question, but i was wondering if this happens to people a lot. They end up drawing like another artist and there stuff becomes the copy cats stuff. Is it better to take pieces or ideas of inspiration and use it to come across your own style. How many people have there own style? In meantime i will keep drawing.

:yayca: peace guys

Your style is hardwired into your system.
sure you can change it, tweak it.
if you copy and copy somebody, and then go back to drawing without their work infront of you, your natural style is going to still come through.

trick.

Don't think about it.

[vandalrat]

Carlos Meglia in his drawing lessons gave his students an exercise of making a comic book using the style of another artist, the objetive was to be as close as possible to the original artist, but using your own ideas.

The point of the exercise was to understand how that artist solved different situations, so that when you are working on your own you may recall that solutions and apply them to your own work.

It's pretty much the same that Jason recommended, so it must be true.

[timpaatkins]

"Don't worry about your style. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to"

Robert Henri (I believe)

[Dile_]

thanks for posting all those quotes and links guys.. I really needed to read some of this today .. :)

[Crane]

With great style comes great responsibility

Great info guys

[archipelago]

be inspired by your own life and your own unique experiences, whatever is close to your heart, your friends and loved ones.

let love stream from your friends into your heart, convert it into inspiration and transfer it to a blank page.

but really though, everyone draws like everyone, so dont worry about it and just have fun.

[jhgoforth]

styles come and go and really are kind of irrelevant unless you are directly ape'ing one artist's work (ie a forger in training?). Unless you are consciously trying to do work in a particular 'style' it's going to be whatever your own personal stamp from learning over the years has developed. The names of styles will be labeled to yours and other's works well after we are all gone. Art historians get the honour of labeling such things. Think about all the different periods and how artists were feeding off each other's works and pushing them forward. the style 'names' were added by outsiders to describe the works collectively and really had little meaning to the artists themselves. (re: Ashcan School of artists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcan_School) is a good example).

[Raoul Duke]

one way to develop your own is to limit your technique. Use a limited color pallet with limited tools, limit stroke variation, limit line weight or whatever rules you understand. Set rules with in those rules and keep it objective.

[SoufMeng]

Raoul duke, to be honest i dont really see how all these limitations "or whatever rules you understand" are relevant to the topic. :shrug:

And btw, here is a quick quote from Loomis' "Eye of the Painter":
Norman Rockwell likes detail... he is being himself by painting it, which in the long run is the best thing any artist can be.

[hunchback]

thanks for the loomis quote S.M
that is definately a big help x)