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PHEW This took all day but I finally figured I'd throw up a tutorial on creating your very own style. I'm not claiming that I'm a master of the world's most unique style or anything, but I figured I'd offer my take on how you CAN create a unique style.Credits:
Lackadaisy art by *tracyjb
Stock Images for practice:
Male: [link]
Female: [link]
Architecture: [link]
Nature: [link]
Goat: [link]
Please respect the rules of the stock artists.
For more tutorials of mine, see the Reference folder of my gallery: [link]
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Wow, this was...intriguing. I'm sure it'll come in handy. 8D
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thanks a lot for the tutorial!!
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This is an awesome tutorial and has given me a lot to think about. Thanks so much for making it!
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Brilliant and thorough. Awesome
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sweet this is sooo cool, good work on this !!!!! I want to try now !!!
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Lovely tutorial.
The challenge looks fun. I may actually do it.
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This has actually been a BIG problem for me, not feeling like I have my own style. And I've tried to make my own style, but haven't quit made it yet (or at all), so this is SUPER helpsome
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I'm glad to hear n.n Thanks!
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lol
i am terrible at getting my own style 8D
but i hope this helps
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What an amazing tutorial! It's so well-written and easy to understand. I think a lot of artists will benefit form this. c:
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I'm glad to hear n.n Thankye kindly
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Very well put and interesting, I really like the way you put this!
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Wow, I never thought about developing styles like this. o:
You rock; as usual.
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This is great!
I was just thinking about this yesterday, and turns out there's a new tutorial posted just 2 days ago! Haha! I think I'll try this, now.
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XD Sweet! Awesome; glad to hear n.n
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Writing about "how to make your own style" seems really difficult to do, but this is super helpful! You make the best tutorials. Thanks!
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Thanks so much!!! Honored n.n
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Wow, at first I thought this would be quite the joke but I actually find it very helpful in remembering to look deeper at everything. Nice work.
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so totally keeping this OwO
thankies ol' wise and insane one -bows-
XD
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Wow. This is intense. I love the fact that you included... EVERYTHING. We always hear about how disney studies things but you never know how they do it. You know?
This is fantastic. ^^
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Thanks! I'm glad to hear n.n
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I was going to just fave and not leave a comment, but then I realized one wouldn't get lost because there are surprisingly few. This is a really good tutorial. I realized as soon as I saw Hercules in theaters Meg was based off a column, but never really thought of it beyond that. So faving now!
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Thanks! Glad to hear n.n
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THIS IS GENIUS!
I'm about to enter college in the fine arts department and this tutorial totally inspired to not be afraid of the said department! Thanks so much for this~
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I'm glad to hear! What college, eh? I just graduated SCAD with a BFA in sequential arts. ... comics XD
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Applying for AB in Graphics in Media here in our city~
adjf excited and nervous but yeahh! COLLEGE FTW
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Awesome!!! Well do have a great time in college! THey say it's "The best years of your life," and it truly is. College is everything you make of it! Have fun!
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BRAVO.
This is really a great exercise in 'opening' the mind to different opportunities and destroying the rigidness of schema and the limits of things.
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this was sincerely fascinating! Honestly, I'm curious about how those last two artists indirectly developed from a main source. It's actually one of those burning questions, "what is style?? how do you get it? does it matter?"
Some people I know would be insulted and others would be proud. a matter of recognition I suppose! like the "look what I drew mommy!" "oh, a helicopter!" "no mama it's a turtle" thing xD
anyway!
You're awesome for putting this together
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Thanks so much! Well as the tutorial explains, style is derived from individual interpretation of reality, like you said about the helicopter and the turtle. You can see style most predominantly in children's art, because they are uninfluenced by art, and more influenced by what they see in reality first.
With the latter two artists, as with MOST artists really, we draw from our memory banks of what influences us most. It's likely that that's the art they grew up learning about or liking. They also combine hundreds of other influences to create a unique style. No artist really draws from just ONE influence. With Fables, you can see an influence from Bouguereau's paintings, or other painters of that time. You can also see influence from other comic artists, fantasy painters, illustrators, etc. Unique style is just like that equation there. The more influences, and the more personal input, and the more you draw directly from the source of the inspiration, the more unique the style.
I hope that helps to clarify.
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very nice! we can always count on you to make an advanced tutorial!
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Gee thanks, fyu! I'll jump right on this! I just hope they won't be over analyzed like i always do. But yeah, the Craig McCracken reference is great. Maybe i should incorporate a bit a his style in there too, no? I just love how he draws clothes..
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Ja, the more refs you draw from the better, and as always, go back to the original source, reality if you can. Try the excercize too, it might help
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kk. I've already started referencing baggy clothes from real life. You have no idea how hard it is to draw baggy jeans. All them folds and wrinkles and crap xD
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XDDD I do have an idea! LoL It is difficult indeed D8
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woah lol never actually thought of all this other stuff influencing style! very interesting!
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