I...dislike anime very much. Even if it is of beautiful quality with intense details, I can only appreciate the technical skill but not the art, because it (anime) is all alike. Sure, you can draw your characters in a novel position or action, and sure, you can modify your style so the nose is longer, the boobs are bigger, smaller, pointier, the legs are longer, the hair is weirder....But at heart, it's all built up from the same conventional strokes. Wonderful things can be created with anime, but it still bores me. I like excitement in the form of true novelty.
That said, my style is whatever I can think up that day. I tend to draw cartoony (perfect and smooth lines, nice curves, rounded edges) on the computer because it's such an accurate tool (especially with undo ^__^) and because I can. Traditional medias, however, I get very sketchy and loose, I use hatching, pointillism (really, saying that sounds so pompous, how 'bout we just go with "lots of little dots"
wink , block shading...anything I can. What makes good art to me is the passion -- the style and technique used (which is influenced by mood and emotion), and NOT the subject. I could almost care less what the subject I'm presented with is, or what it's doing, as long as the art makes me feel something -- ANYTHING -- when I look at it.
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I don't like realism either, it is just as uninspired as anime. once again, I can appreciate the skill, but not the art.
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