Inktobertale 2024 Day 9: Crowd

Inktobertale 2024 Day 9: Crowd

This is a redraw of this post

Hi! I wanted to ask for advice on finding an artstyle, I've been drawing for sometime but I still dislike my style.

Thank you in advance :D.

Hi hiii

Whenever my artstyle gets kinda boring to me, I try asking myself questions to figure out what exactly is it about my artstyle that I don’t like. Things like what is it about my art that feels boring to me while this other’s artist’s work excites me? What makes me most insecure about this piece? What do my favorite artists do in their artworks that I don’t do?

This isn’t to put yourself or your work down, make sure to go out of your way to still note anything you like or are particularly proud of in any of your artworks, you work hard on your art and that deserves to be appreciated, even if your artstyle isn’t quite at where you want it to be yet! But this is mainly what I do to try to address reasons my artstyle isn’t giving me as much joy, and what changes I can make that might make me happier. Most of the time I can’t really put my finger on what it is that I dislike about my art, so I keep these questions in the back of my mind while I try experimenting through doodles and messing around with my style in each one. Have some doodles dedicated to things you dont normally try in your artstyle. Varying eye sizes and distance from each other, some doodles with different ways of stylizing noses, trying varying levels of realism vs cartoonishness when drawing characters, and trying different brushes if doing this in digital art. If any specific doodles jump out to you as kinda neat, take note of whatever you did in that doodle and try it more often!

(Sorry i was doing this in a hurry but definitely couldve utilized more full body shots, varying poses, face at more side angles, coloring styles, would 100% reccomend experimenting with that too. But this is mostly what those batches of experiment doodles usually look like for me)

As always, it doesn’t hurt to also study other artists’s whos stuff makes you so happy and figure out what it is about their art style that excites you so much. Whatever that may be, think about if its something you want in your own art style and try replicating and practice doing it if you do want to take your art in that direction.

Quick example from me but november 2023 i remember starting to feel super uninspired with my artstyle. I asked myself what felt like the most unrewarding part of the process for drawing and realized the answer was my lineart. At the time I was seeing a lot of @/bixels ‘s artwork of drawing mlp characters as humans from the 1920’s americana and was so delighted by their lineart. I kept experimenting with brushes in my doodles and realized that using the gel pen reminded me somewhat of bixels’ art, so I took that and ran. It was a neat change after a while of having thicker lineart and actually having fun with pressure sensitivity and how the brush is able to taper.

This is what i found works for myself so im not sure how well it applies to other people or if i worded everything well, but I hope its at least a bit helpful in some way!

HOLY FUCK REALLY???????????? I NEVER KNEW THIS. WHY WAS I NEVER INFORMED.

@toffeebrew @swiftmitsu @justanidiotartist I know you guys love Killer so I'm dragging you into this even though I haven't talked to two of you a single time

I FORGOT KILLER'S SOUL HOVERS OUTSIDE HIS CHEST BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'LL MELT HIM. OH MY GOD. WHAT THE FUCK THATS METAL AS HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

happy birthday to cross and jakei!!!

Yeahhh!!!!! 🎉🎉🎂🎁

I don't have anything new made so I'll just repost my chef cross doodle cause I like that one :3

TS Underswap Chara and Frisk Design Doodles thats been in my head for a few weeks

Outfits based on previous ref sheet I made for them

Its a bit subtle so I’m pointing it out here but Frisk’s sweater is a bit oversized and too large for them and I want people to know this

Disclaimer: still way behind on the underswap lore, if any design details here contradict anything in this au then I’m sorryyyyyyyyy I’m still learning