#cucuoz7

[marsoid]

Hi, I love your work!

I have read almost everything I find online made by you.

I really love Long Exposure, I will have read it I don't know how many times. I love your style so decisive and descriptive.

If you allow me I have some questions from artist to artist. if you had to describe your drawing style or styles similar to yours with one word what would you call it? I have been drawing for 6 years now, I have a semi-realistic style, but I would like to imprint myself more on a style that I define as "cartoon" or "stylized" like yours. How would you recommend that I start approaching a less realistic style? what helped you in the beginning?

TYVM

oh god the style question.. i never know how to answer the style question because i am a believer in the idea that your style is both something that happens naturally AND something you have to deliberately formulate

maybe it's two separate things (im making this up as i go) (aka take w grain of salt) like maybe your "art style" and "artist trademarks" are intertwined but also kind of 2 different things. for the sake of explanation let's assume "art style" is how you deliberately choose to draw, and "artist trademarks" are things unique to your art that you didn't choose to incorporate but make your art YOURS

there's no way for me to explain how or why my "artistic trademarks" are the way they are because they come from my lived experiences or whatever. that's why everyone's art is technically unique even if you're purposely trying to copy someone else's

as for "art style"... i guess mine changed the most in my brief time at art school. my art went from what i would have described as kinda... ATLA/LOK inspired? and then i took a costumed figure drawing class where the point was to stylize/exaggerate the shit out of the figure you're studying. which was cool bc it was the exact opposite of what i had been taught previously, which was "copy figure exactly how u see it"

i also learned that having a "cool style" meant jack shit if your artistic skillset wasn't very strong yet. i think stylized art done well is harder to achieve than photo realism and takes more skill. controversial opinion that u dont have to agree w i dont care but im just trying to say that if you dont like your art rn, the answer might be Get Good and not Change Art Style (i mean this generally speaking too not Just You idk what ur art looks like)....... like personally i feel like my art style hasn't changed too much over the years, i've just improved as an artist (hopefully LMAO) so what you might like abt my art might be less the style and more the fact that i am consciously making an effort to improve by studying. and i still got a longgg way to go because there is no end point, we gonna be studying and ideally improving forever

um so i guess to actually answer ur question "how do i stylize my art" maybe find a photo and exaggerate stuff and try diff things until it makes u go "oh hell yea"