thanks for your comment :)
It's not so much consistency that I'm worried about, although that is a pain anyway, but more that I love so many styles that I can't pick one!!!
At one point I did have the thought "I want to have my own unique style", but along the way it's diverged into "I want to have so many styles and copy-styles that I get accused of stealing work". To me, it's doing the things that are the hardest that give me the greatest fulfillment, so I think I'm likely to lean towards copying other artists styles (not their actual art!) exactly, at least for part of my work. I don't know if I want to give my own flare to it, or copy it perfectly, but I'd love for someone to say "hey that's [artist name]'s work you thief!!!!" XD
but equally I want to have a few different styles that are my own, developed from zero with planning and thought. Like I sit down and say "Ok today I'm going to add a new style to my portfolio", and just keep sketching and changing stuff until I like what I see
that sort of deviated from what I was trying to say but that's my thoughts
Yeah I totally agree on the "one perfect style" not existing, since at least a while ago I've wanted to have multiple styles, especially for drawing in different genres of manga. ie Ajin style vs lucky star style - both are great because they fit the genre.
I think my style will come naturally once I get my proportions and other basic concepts down a bit better, as part of a style is drawing proportions the same way, and I can't draw proportions any right way yet lol
same with shading and folds in clothing, you need to understand the fundamentals to give it your own twist. At least I want my style to be based in realism, even if I play around with the proportions afterwards and end up with a chibi.
my plan for getting a style will most likely come as a training regime, where I will pick a past drawing of mine which I like the style and say "ok this is now my only style", develop it and then draw 100 illustrations in that style.
I have about 10 different distinct styles from my past artworks that could be a nice base for a permanent style but I'm probably going to focus on fundamentals first. within a year I might have started on a personal style but we'll see :P
edit: finished a bunch of sketches.
I'm gonna be busy for the next couple of weeks until probably the second week of September, so if I'm AWOL, that's why :P
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