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PHEW This took all day but I finally figured I'd throw up a tutorial on creating your very own style. I'm not claiming that I'm a master of the world's most unique style or anything, but I figured I'd offer my take on how you CAN create a unique style.Credits:
Lackadaisy art by *tracyjb
Stock Images for practice:
Male: [link]
Female: [link]
Architecture: [link]
Nature: [link]
Goat: [link]
Please respect the rules of the stock artists.
For more tutorials of mine, see the Reference folder of my gallery: [link]
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This tutorial is seriously amazing!! I can't wait to try this out xDD
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Thanks n.n Can't wait to see the result
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This has really opened up my eyes. I've been in a "rut" for the longest time and this has helped me see things in a new light.
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Thanks! I'm so glad to hear n.n
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This was a very interesting read. I liked the equation, lol. (Even when you apply the distributive property, it still holds true!) I agree with you, even though I may not have much original artwork to express it.
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Haha ayup! I'm glad you could appreciate my little throw back to algebraic equations. XD
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A great tutorial! This has helped me out a lot, thank you
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Nice tutorial! I'll try to incorporate what I've learned into a character soon~
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My style is to horribly ruin anything I attempt to draw. XD
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this is quite amazing! i know exactly what your talking about, using your style, chaos's style and disney style made my own unique style in the process!
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And don't forget KND! Kheke
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I see some artists who try various styles for their characters. Sometimes, they put down "Disney" as a style. If you look at the Disney Animated Canon, most of the films have a unique style.
Bambi- Naturalism
Sleeping Beauty- Medieval Tapestry
101 Dalmatians- 50s/60s contemporary (to complement the sketchy look)
It seems silly to lump them into one category.
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I will try it tomorrow when we visit a few cities here in germany.
Thanks for getting this information to my attention.
I never thought about it this much.
=^.^=
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Ooh, very nice ^..^ I'll have to try this sometime.
Although developing my own style won't help that much since I have absolutely no art skill at all. xD
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Thanks so much! And I'm glad to hear! You've got a great collection of stock!
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Lol,I love this one >8D
Especially the Lion King one >xD
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Thanks so much, Phobs! Haha, yeah so many people think that the Disney style is somehow the ONLY way to draw Lions, but few realize what reference they're drawing from! Especially those "eye things" they draw around their lions. That's totally straight from African masks!
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Man If I could draw, I would so totally use this.
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I've never thought of doing it with architecture like that, normally i just look into the shapes and patterns of other artists, and envelop as such. This is a great way to develop style, it teaches me a lot!
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Thanks! Glad to hear! Yeah when I was studying art and architecture at SCAD it opened my eyes. XD
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Yea, I mean, I understand, and view architecture as an extremely important style of art. I would never think in a million years that it is what influences artists to create unique styles.
It makes sense though, as when illustrating an interesting story, the characters need to be able to fit the scenery that is around them. You don't see a sharp, slim, and slender character in something loose like Alice in wonderland, and vice-versa. I would also think it would be helpful for characters away from were they hail from, to develop them with what their surrounding origins would look like, am I right? It seems like it would help them stick out more.
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I was born in the year Dragon's Lair come out.
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This is very insightful! Great job on this! I've never thought about looking sat nature for a style, since my style sort of happened on it's own...
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Lol, I love how the comments on this basically devolve into everyone talking about themselves and their styles. XDDDDD But it's inevitable.
Glad you finally did this, now I don't have to do one. 8D
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HAHAHA XDDDD Ain't that aaalways the way? XD Thanks, man
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I liked it. Worth the read =] Well done.
I should do more art lol the think about creating my own style lool
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This is cool, and certainly food for thought. Thanks for making the effort!
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Additionally, I had no idea of the connection between African masks and the way the lions were drawn in The Lion King, but that makes so much sense. It's funny how that's become almost an almost canonized way of drawing feature film animals since then, even though the influence was so specific.
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thanks for the tip, I enjoy my style evolve on it's own, but this does give me a few interesting tips that I didn't see on my own
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i like how you clarify the "orijinality" some people i know in RL, they always have in mind "thats anime" (well im not too impresed since they are not into drawing and suff) but i always tried to make my drawings, diferent, i got everything from lots of diferent stuff, even from you maybe XD but everything that you like in the places that you want them to be makes your own.
This tutorial is just perfect in my opinion.
You even got historic things! FTW!
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LoL thanks so very much! And yeah, I used to draw Anime too but got sick of being "just anime" So I began to draw caricatures from life n.n
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Woah.
I never thought to look for inspiration from non-living things for living characters.
I think Ima go do some research on African art and culture now. |3
Thanks for this!
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Thanks! I'm so glad to hear n.n I hope it yields awesome results! IF so, shoot me a link, I'd love to see how it turns out.
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Will do!
['course, i gotta go out tonight, but i'll keep in touch!]
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OMG Im the first to comment!!! :woot:
I think you have your own unique style I'm trying to develop my own XD I always look forward to your tutorials, they always help
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Actually, this is very good! Great work, and rather enlightning!
I guess the way I draw is influenced from memory of all the Disney I watch, I never looked much when drawing, but when I watched some stuff again it made me think back creating the guys and how much of them are similar to some things. Can you say "The Great mouse Detective"?
Anyway, great, this actually helps alot Fyuvix, I understandthis alot better now.
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Haha totally! I'm glad it helps n.n Yeah as artists, we are always just drawing from memory. The best way to get out of that, is just to continue to collect MORE memory, and even to make the links/connections to different parts of our memory. For instance, we've probably ALL seen Roman collumns and architecture reflected in modern architecture, historical pictures, etc, though few of us recall that memory when creating character designs. The best concept artists are able to draw from a PLETHORA of influences. I hope this helps! Thanks for the comment!
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it helps a ton!
Hm, maybe that is why I can only seem to do Toon drawing. XD
Mostly because people don't stay still long enough for my memory to Load them.
My characters are dressed like people around me though, so that's a start!
Ya, i love roman culture -W-
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