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"don't worry about your art style it'll come naturally" 05/27/26(Wed)20:50:48 No. 7951342
"don't worry about your art style it'll come naturally" 05/27/26(Wed)20:50:48 No. 7951342
"don't worry about your art style it'll come naturally" Anonymous
05/27/26(Wed)20:50:48
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How true is this? I see it repeated by online figures and teachers a ton. Is it really a waste of time to worry about your art style being "right" and what you want or is it just another /beg/ trap that you only realize is horrible advice when it's too late?
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It isn't a /beg/ trap per se, but people often tell /beg/'s that because their fundamentals aren't strong enough for a style yet. It's in the same spirit as
>"don't have to worry about material all you need is a pencil and paper"
Eventually you'll have to do studies of certain people's styles and try to capture the essence, or if you're working in the industry you're given style guides and whatnot. Worrying about style as a beg is like worrying about your anatomy while your proportions are out of whack and you can barely draw 3d shapes well. Worrying about 'style' too early can easily obfuscate the gaps in your knowledge and keep you stagnant for months.
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There is no advice you will receive that is 100% accurate, but generally starting out with studies will make transitioning into personal projects easier. You notice with all illustrators that their art still follows fundies, but has style. Take a look at r crumb for instance, he has a very distinct style yet everything he does has expert form.
Basically it all comes down to begs neglecting 3d construction, form, and perspective. symbol drawing is a big no no.
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>>7951342
just like most things when it comes to learning illustration, what's true for someone may not necessarily be true for you and the other way around, but this little insert brings up a few interesting points.
if you are just trying to enjoy drawing or improve, i wouldn't fuss too much about it since the way you draw will shift slightly as you explore new concepts or apply new fundamentals from your studies.
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i don't see anything wrong with having a style goal in mind then pursing it while also practicing fundies. sure it'll be ass, but just drawing circles and croquis all day without applying it to you goal is just going to make you bored. it's also fine having no clear goal in the beginning
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>just another /beg/ trap
You know what trap people do not talk about a lot? The fundies trap, where you don't create your ideas because you think you need to know all the fundies before making it then years past, you no longer like that idea and are so creatively bankrupt from grinding fundies you don't know what to do anymore so you have to take the time to actually remember how to do things like design, creating scenes, etc while your friend who had shit art joined an entire community and did collabs and comms at the shit level they're at.
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>>7951342
in my experience you find your style the moment you stop actively searching for it and just passively take pieces you like about other peoples styles or find your own little tricks and things via experimentation
or that's how it was for me, after years of not having a style and instead frantically looking at other peoples art and wondering why I can't have my own *thing*
in a way everyone already kind of has their own style though, it's the thing made uniquely by your own hands and it's an amalgamation of everything within your skillet, mental library, everything you've ever seen and taken for yourself consciously or even subconsciously
you have your own style right now actually, you just don't like it probably but that's fine and you'll get there one day and not even know how you got there
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>>7951342
if you already have a style you clearly want to have in mind, go and learn it! the advice is more so for the beginners who "want to have a Unique style somehow" but are otherwise unclear and aimless in terms of the kind of stuff they want. if you don't know what you want, don't worry about it!