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 Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:59 am
Ok, I know how to change the style (try to study those artists' style, what you like) but in my case, my style has gone just much, much worse than it originally was.
So dop you have any other methods to change your style than drawing 5 page a day pure crap without results?
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:31 am
Everyone is influenced by artists they like regardless of skill level or originality. Studying another artist's style is okay if you use it as a basis for something different and don't flat-out copy it. Besides causing intarweb dramaz, it doesn't actually help you if you don't add anything of your own creation back into it.
But you probably knew that.
I think it's kind of silly to force a change in your drawing style - instead of trying to overhaul your entire way of drawing, maybe you could start adding adding things that weren't in your art before. Draw something in your style, but make some changes that you don't normally make. Start off with doing something a little bit differently and then go from there.
I had this problem years ago and attempted to do the same thing you're doing now. It didn't work. I ended up with a style that was ugly enough to override any other features of my art that might have been appealing or worth looking at (not to mention my art in general got a lot worse). Maybe you'll have better luck than I did, but from personal experience I'd say that you can't force a change in style without it looking weird, at least until you're used to it.
Five days isn't a very long time, though. Try looking through weeks or months of work and see if you've gotten anywhere then.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:07 pm
try doing more life drawing.
I think the more you learn to draw something accurately, the easier it is to break the rules you've learnt and develope a new style. If you spend all your time drawing something in a particular style, you're not getting a full understanding of what it is you're trying to draw and so it will be harder to make changes.
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:37 am
Make it your goal to do something different, not just to sit down with some paper and change your style- go and paint some landscapes with watercolour or buy some clay, try new pencils or markers or a different kind of paper or computer program! Using some new tool will force you out of whatever rut you are stuck in, as you just can't use the same methods with different stuffs.
It'll be totally frustrating as you try and make something good with something new, but you might just find that when you go back to pencil and paper, that you are looking at your style in a new way.
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:53 am
If you really want to change your style, you'll need to do a lot of thinking about what you'd like to become, I'd suppose.
You need an awakening maybe? Read some art books and such.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:18 am
Take the best of the old and the best of the new. Sorry for being vague, but I don't have more input than that. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:30 am
I'd recommend a back-to-basics approach. Try and draw something that looks as realistic as you can manage. Life drawing classes help. Work on looking at tones and values, lines, proportions, perspective and all that stuff. Study the Old Masters if you need inspiration on that - the ones who strove for photoreal quality, hundreds of years before photography existed.
Spend a while doing that. Weeks, months even. Don't try and imprint a "style" on your pictures. Draw things as accurately as you can.
Then start loosening up. Start adding personal touches, tweaking things here and there, slip in your own interpretations of what you're drawing. Eventually you'll end up with a style which is uniquely you. A representation of the way you see what you're drawing, not an attempt to slavishly imitate a particular style you like.
Incorporate tricks you think are cool, sure. But try not to become a clone of another artist.
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