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UNDERSTANDING YOUR STYLE - 1
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---PLEASE DOWNLOAD FOR EASY VIEWING!---Part one of my Understanding Your Style: Symbols, Design Pattern, and Anti-Pattern guide/essay-thing.
A lot of you already know about symbols and stuff - if that's the case for you, please skip ahead to part two!
If you like what you see here, please, share it with your friends. I literally put over a week's worth of work into writing, formatting, and illustrating this. If you like it, please support it! This message is extremely important to me, and I've been thinking about making a guide on it for a long time.
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I'm going to go ahead and heap more praise on you. I have come a long way from surfing Tinami.com to take in as many cartoons as possible to build my own theoretical knowledge. You hit the nail on the head again and again.
I dig it. I make it a habit to focus on something I haven't developed well. Yet, again and again, it's my inability to focus on minute tasks unaided that causes me to backslide.
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Where you been, dawg.
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Thanks for making this. I love what you say and the way you say it. It's easy to read and understand the message is a great help to any aspiring artist and even developed ones too.
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Thank you for your hard work on this, I'm really trying to apply myself and need all the help I can get! My style's been called "all over the place" in the past, and while it's improving, it could use more polishing.
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I learned to draw from other people's drawings and diagrams, mostly in how-to-draw books. However, photo references have also been helpful. As for my style, that's something that has simply developed naturally over years of drawing; while I have on a few occasions attempted to emulate other people's styles, for the most part I just draw something to the best of my ability.
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Congratulations on your well-earned DD! This deviation has been featured in the following article:
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It's interesting, but I'm one of the few people who learned to draw almost completely from photos and realistic works of art. A lot of people I know think that's amazing, but they don't realize that I fail at other types of art, especially cartoon drawings.
My problem, I think, is consistency. Since I am constantly synthesizing the lines in my drawings, I can't remember the lines I drew and do them again in a similar way. This means that if I stylize something, I have to look at the original drawing all the time if I want to draw it again.
*Don't mind the cartoonish style of my more recent works, I've been working hard to make them look the way they do.
Perhaps you could include some wisdom in this tutorial for people like me?
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I love how you never discouraged people from drawing anime/manga style, and just encouraged us all to develop something of our own. Whatever that is.
There are a lot of people (like me) who just need to see this and finally hear from someone. "It's going to be okay. Just take your time, learn, and do your best."
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This is really interesting, and clearly a valuable resource for any artist to have. Thank you for putting so much effort into this.
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My teacher [my /science/ teacher, nonetheless!] said these very words to me.
I see the two of you as very, very wise people.
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Oh, wow! This is great. Provided some much needed insight. c:
(Oh, and congrats on the DD. 
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Ah, this really helps when I try to explain to artists about criticism and correction. It's difficult to explain, especially when feelings are involved, but no harm was intended.
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yey! u totally deserve this! i was thinking it should have a DD when i featured both parts at #ArtistsHospital
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This is probably the best DD i've ever seen since last year... I've been taking a look at the DDs every day, and your work is amazing. You've simplified a complicated concept (symbol) and made it clean, simple, beautiful to see, to read. I really really loved it! Holy Yeah! xD
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Omg have you heard Understanding Comics: The invible arts by Scott Mc Cloud? It rimides of it.
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Indeed, so is internet.
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I really enjoyed reading this & I'm definitely heading over to see part two!
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This is excellent. 
Kudos for the DD!!! <3
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Your guide, part one and two,
Blew my mind.
Great job!
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THIS. OH GOD THIS. Theoretically this should put down every shitty excuse for those people with horrendous "art" who refuse to take criticism, saying that it's part of their style.
Unfortunately we know that in practice it never will. ;_;
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Aaah! this is so cool. It's so well written and it makes so much sense and it's just really great! it makes me really glad that i've been doing a lot of portraits lately from my friends just sitting there. aha! x)
also, i think it's funny because - i was just in a Beauty and the Beast musical! :'D I think I had a coloring book of it when I was little too but I know I had a little book of it. I'm not sure where that went. Anywho, /random tangent!
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jΒ΄est ne pas une pipe...
(or whatever itΒ΄s written like... dammn french)
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This was a nice read. I'm definitely working on style around anatomy.
Congrats on your DD as well!
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I think this is one of the important messages Scott McCloud was trying to make in Understanding comics.
Well done on this tutorial through its good to get reminded of even the essentials for drawing.
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This is VERY cool. I fall squarely in the category of having started by imitating cartoons, took some life drawing classes in college, but have been away from studies of actual human beings for so long that the bad habits have crept right back in. Even when your own style develops, it's good to go back to the source now and then!
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YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU.
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS. β₯
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In artschool also teach to see that in fact there.
It excellent reminder for me. Thanx
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These two tutorials are great
And I think they'll help me alot, even though I'm a natural artist^^
And I'll share it with my friends who're into drawing too, I think it'll help them greatly
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Draw 50 Horses! I had that book too, along with Draw 50 Monsters :'D
Thanks a lot for this! It was very insightful and presented some great new views on things for me ^^ I'll be sure to think of this in my practice
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Wow. This really makes me think about my drawing. Thank you
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Excellent! I think you're nailing down some concepts here a lot better than some books I've read. This is definitely what one's style boils down to. I hope everyone sees this, veteran or not! It helps to be aware of these things! Thanks for a genuinely helpful tutorial :3
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Oh god, thank you.
People have been saying that you can't blame bad art on "style", but thank you for basically saying that it's nigh impossible for them to see their own mistakes.
People like that never recognize the fact that they, too, were like this, regardless of how they first picked up the utensil to draw/create.
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Both Parts 1 and 2 were really interesting reads. Not only have I been looking at human relations with symbols in language from a Saussurean perspective in my studies, but also trying to develop a less of a manga drawing style myself. Well done on the DD, very well deserved if i say so myself.
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I could have sweared that this was a DD already o.O
anyway, congrats on the DD!! this is very helpful
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Didn't Scott McCloud already write this book? :\
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The first part of the guide reiterates things you can find in the Scott McCloud book (and elsewhere), but it's necessary for the reader to know this stuff in order to understand part two. I can't expect every person who comes to my gallery to have read a specific book.
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