#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.Warm-Up Drawing Exercises
Quickly become better at drawing—without burning out—by using my workbook.
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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