#153 - In Stead Of Copying Artists, Try To Use Them As Inspiration And To Draw In Your Style
On starting from reference and making it your own.
Art Flashcards, images ready to be drawn.
have a problem. I admire the works of so many different artists, all with unique styles! I look at their work, and immediately, I am inspired to draw like them, to draw in their style. I’ve been copying works by artists I admire for the past period. While copying designs that work yields beautiful sketchbook pages, something is dissatisfying about it: I want to make work that is uniquely mine!
This is a fun thing I am trying at the moment: look at a part of art I admire, a part of a drawing small enough that I can somewhat memorize it, and then I draw from memory, directly in pen, in my style, thinking up new details and changing things as I go. It is liberating!
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