Thoughts on this art style? Is ditching it entirely a good move or should I keep focus on fundamentals first while improving it and emulate better artists?
The first question you should be asking is what you would like to do? What are your goals as an artist? Do you like what you're doing or would you like to move in a different direction?
sounds like you aren't happy with it, you should try and pinpoint why. trying to emulate other artists only sounds like a good way to make yourself miserable. just try and draw stuff you find cool
>>7944418I didn't draw for nearly a year purely to focus on university and trying to find a new job (the latter isn't going well), but I have the intention of getting back at it with the focus of building my own autistic setting and characters for my projects.My tastes changed a bit in the meanwhile, but I still have a weird specific problem where I want to draw like totally different artists depending on the mood and content of the drawing. Some professional artists I really like in the long run are Hiroaki Samura (regarding semi-real anime styles), Kazushi Hagiwara, Rui Araizumi (character design, cartoonyness), old school Rumiko Takahashi (same reasons as Araizumi), Atsushi Ohkubo (pretty much just Soul Eater tho), Akihiko Yoshida (hatching, mute coloring), Hiromu Arakawa (emotional connection since I grew up with FMA), FF8 era Nomura (he peaked there), old school Frank Miller (Panelling, visual storytelling, Inking when it comes to stuff like Sin City) and others I forgot. I have pretty surface level taste in general sadly and would consume more media if I wasn't already busy with life alongside trying to get back on art
>>7944412Do you like it?
>>7944429Also, do art mutuals that inspire you count as well? It is valid to study the art of a few artist friends who are objectively better and more experienced than you if they're skilled enough and have a similar enough art style to what you want to accomplish? Pic related by @NoahDoesArt and @SHINBEEDABEST respectively
>>7944412Looks like Gabe
>>7944469It is gabe.
>>7944429Do you find yourself alternating between two different styles? If so just get gud at both. Trying to force yourself to draw in a particular way when you don’t feel like it won’t work in the long run
>>7944412top right is repulsive character design and not because it's a furry, take your hand off your dick right now
>>7944611It was for an art trade and not something I designed myself
>>7944412Top left is good. Everything is garbage and please just copy good artists instead of making shitty threads, Gabe. You realize you can like, ask for help your drawings in /beg/ right???
>>7944412Soulless, Soulless, Soul, Kino.
>>7944412AAAAAAAAAAAAA SOUL EATER SCHIZOOSHOOO SHOO SCHIZOOO
>>7944611i disagree. All of them look repulsive.
>>7944412I think you should make the boobs bigger, please be accurate to the character designs as the original artist intended
>>7944658why would you post it then. anyways you've been saying that you'll focus on studying and improving for like 5 years now, yet you never did, stop asking questions
Gabe is making it and you’re still a permabeg. How do you feel about that?
>>7944412>he improved I have a soft spot for you, Gabe. Too bad you aint a girl.
>>7944881Gabe has objectively improved his art in every metric in the last 5 years, he just hates his art style because he feels its ugly but never commits to actually changing it.
>>7944429Thats not what the anon is fucking asking you here >>7944418 he is asking what are your GOALS?Its easy to fucking say "I wanna be as good as [x] artist" but thats not a goal. WHat the fuck do you want to MAKE? All the artists that you listed MADE something, none of them are just good draftsmen/artists they created SOMETHING.If you dont have something you actually want to develop then all the bullshit questions of "Hows my style?" really doesnt fucking matter if you arent gonna apply yourself towards something bigger. Like look at pic related. Some fag dev on /v/ made this with this kind of look and Im sure some dumb fucking idiots on /ic/ would call his drawings crude and basic and /beg/ for this work in isolation but in context of this larger more expressive project he made it fucking works.APPLY YOURSELF IDIOT
