I just don’t get the obsession with “having a style”, just draw and steal what you think looks good. When you have stolen from a lot of artists, you’ll have a “style”.

Maybe I'm a heathen, but I noticed that artstyle is like handwriting. Once you learn to write, it eventually evolves in a direction, and that's it. You could force yourself to write another way, but your handwriting is your style.

You don't just find your style, your style will find YOU. I drew for a long long time thinking "I wonder when I'm going to find my style..." when one day my fiancée told me that something I had drawn felt very fitting to my style. I asked her what she had meant and if she was saying I had some kind of style, and she said as if it were completely obvious that I clearly had one. Starting to look back, I could see bits and pieces in retrospect that really were like little fingerprints of things I had done that she mentioned. Sometimes you really need another set of eyes, because you're probably not going to notice you've developed one until someone points it out to you.

you don't have to know how to draw realistically before you can draw anime but learning how to draw realistically will help you draw anime BETTER

says "dots" draws lines says "triangle" draws squares pd: love your videos asdhbgh

You can looks at any veteran manga artist to see how their styles constantly change and shift over time to suit their aesthetic, preferences and sometimes even just their age. Older manga artists tend to get more conservative with intricate linework, whereas in their youth, they might have gone absolutely nuts over it - and that shows a skill in choosing what to emphasize that only develops with time. When Hirohiko Araki was asked why he doesn't draw his old characters in the style that manga was at the time, he just said simply - "I forgot how to draw like that". That's just it, because it's also a fascination and inspiration with certain kind of works also popular at the time. Trying to see style influences (and influences in general) is something that I really enjoy about art, because it also helps me understand how these great artists and writers think, what they feel free to experiment with, what they feel okay to include in their works and it can just feel very playful and fun. So in essence, just draw what you like and get tired with trying to perfectly replicate it/get pressured for time/get a little bit lazy over time/ just have fun! That's where your style will be!

i think "what's my art style?" is an artist's version of the question, "who am i?" and always our identities are shaped by the people who have the most influence to us, but at the same time whether we're aware of this or not, everyone writes in their own font anyway

Copying a style without learning fundamentals is like copying some else's homework without understanding their solution. Sure it gives u a nice picture at that moment but u learn nothing useful and can't improve beyond a certain point. Learned that the hard way myself 😢 so keep drawing those boxes 😂

I only started drawing about a month ago and I’d say I’ve finally reached my first plateau. It’s somewhat discouraging but when I watch your videos and see how much fun it can be if you just do it in the right state of mind, it encourages me to keep pushing.

Pikat's channel is growing SO fast i swear it was JUST 30k subs. So deserved cuz these videos are so entertaining and very helpful. Thank you lawd pikat

This drove me crazy for years! I've tried drawing on so many different styles. I've been influenced and inspired by so many different artists. I'd copy their character or their style, then I'll try to draw out on my own, and it'll look horrible lol! My style now is pretty much 90's cartoony style, and I've embraced it. I mean, it only took me like over 20 years to figure this out, but I'm happy now lol! Great topic!

You are so right with people being obsessed with finding an artstyle and hyper-fixating on it. I think im still on that boat in which i feel like i studied art to the point where i wanted to at least try and find my own style. But no matter how i drew things after the people I admired, they would never be close to their quality. Many people just dont realize the years of work and practice the artists we admire put in.

I've been loving your videos. You put into words what a lot of learning artists need to hear.

Well, I think you've pretty much hit the nail in the head with regards to this topic without being contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian, so good on you for that! Your videos have been quite informative and well put together, so you've earned a sub!

You're amazing. This is exactly the kinda help I needed. Thanks!

I heard this a long time ago and I still consider it true. Calling it an art style is a bit inaccurate. Think of it as your voice. It's just naturally the way your art comes out because of your unique intersection of taste, knowledge, and life experience. Thinking of it that way takes the pressure off of trying to find it and can help you focus more on just learning how you like to do things.

love the video, your drawing and advice is awesome

i love your videos so much pikat

The videos are so relaxing and interesting at the same time, I love them

I've been getting semi-inspired to pick up drawing again. Although, for me, since I have a problem with perfectionism, I've been discouraged to for a while. A problem I have with anything is that I know I'm not going to be very good at it when I start, so I don't start. But I've been watching your videos for a little while now, and the casualness of them is really helping me want to get back into drawing. I'm probably gonna go pick up a few how-to-draw books from a library soon, so hopefully I'll start making progress soon.

Girl you are really good at explaining things! Keep up

Found your channel last night and have really enjoyed it! Right now I'm trying to get back into art with a pewdiepie-esque "draw for 100 days" challenge and your videos are giving me all the inspiration I need to crank out the next few days of drawings. I definitely can't hope to be as good as you by the end of the 100 days, but I hope I can at least learn a thing or two from you by then

love your videos, keep up the good work

you're such a relatable art youtuber, super happy i found your channel :D

Great job on explaining and breaking it down,I kinda understand art styles a little bit now.

this is very helpful thank you! ill now continue my study of marc brunet's and your style

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the fixation with "art style consistency" was a huge thing that plagued my earlier work, eventually i got over myself and just let myself draw whatever i wanted. funnily enough, this actually led to my work becoming way more visually consistent since i've worked out how i do linework and coloring in the way that's the most fun for me personally. i think anyone trying to develop a style should focus on what they like (neat vs messy lineart, simple vs detailed coloring, soft vs angular shapes, etc.) and not try to force themselves into artstyles they don't have fun drawing. well-put video! you've earned a subscribe from me :)

I have been watching your videos after looking at your Twitter accounts for a few months and they are very helpful. I have just started drawing again after a decade and agree you need to understand the basics before studying the masters. I tried studying Bruce Timm when I got back into it and was totally lost. One day I would like to try again with a better sense of anatomy and gesture. Maybe one day I can study TB Choi as well! She is so good.

@4:39 This reminded me of an explanation an English teacher I had in school gave when talking about grammar and why there are so many examples of these giants among writers breaking the rules of grammar. "They know the rules and are breaking them to get exactly where they want to go." The thing about rules in creative fields isn't knowing them and staying staunchly beholden to them at all times, but instead to allow you know know the basic forms and shapes that they can take on, and then break the rules to bend the language to assist in putting your ideas into another persons head. If you break rules without knowing them, it won't help you do that. It just comes out a mess of broken thoughts, few of which even indicate toward the idea you wanted to get across. But if you know the rules, you can break intentionally them in order to better communicate ideas. Intentionality is the important thing.

"your style will shine no matter how you choose to draw that nose in the moment" this is SO TRUE. I change my style up a lot, as in when i watch a new tv show or play a new game and want to draw characters from there i usually change my style up a bit (say i usually draw semi-realism and i get a hyperfixation on idk, Adventure time, id suddenly draw a way more cartoony style) and each time i draw something i share it with my friends, and they ALWAYS say "its so crazy how your art still looks like its made by you even though its a completely different style"

Pikat tem muito conhecimento para passar, com uma didática leve e uma dose de humor que adorei conhecer. Um nível de carisma altíssimo. Acompanho nas lives (embora eu seja iniciante em inglês), mas consigo entender a ideia que quer passar. Excelente artista.

Good class... Good class.. I gotta step up my practices

Your art style grows with you! Take pieces from artists you like an incorporate each into your own piece. Even with those you will have your own quirks added. Things that someone else will see and be like i know who drew this!!! Keep going!!! Climb that Artist Mountain!!!

I 100% agree with everything said in this video! In the end, everyone’s experience and perception is unique and it’ll show in their art :)

Interestingly, when it comes to learning the fundamentals I feel like I'm learning it backwards. Evertime I see someone draw my brain is automatically analyzing the shapes and movements they use. Its honestly the practice part that gets me. As learning the hand eye coordination feels like alarm bells in my head telling me everything is wrong even though I already know I suck. I've made progress, though, so that's what matters.

i did that, and my favorite style was an inbetween of anime style and realist draws, i think it looks really cool because i can decide whether i will add three million parts of detail or just a suggestion of the shape, then there is my inking crosshatch which is "messy" and "rococoo" if you want to say it with pretty words XD

your videoes helped me alot.. thank you...

I love the thumbnail with Fern and Stark lol.

tbf artstyle is just an accumulation of anatomy errors that we make, like and keep in our art. i used to be so obsessed with finding my own and i remember crafting frankenstains of things i liked from other artists but it always was tedious and annoying to keep it up. i gave up on it and just kept drawing. with time my skill improved, i practiced more anatomy and proportions. When my skill got to the point of being able to draw lines and proportions freely and confidently (if that makes sense) i started noticing tendences for specific ways of drawing this or that and if i liked them i kept them, if i didnt i corrected them. Plus arstyle is something that will smoothly and slowly change trough time. obsessing over it is probably the last thing that will help finding it

ive been watching u for a while and i might try picking up how to draw

Hey your art style looks clean though, it looks really nice, looks smooth and everything, i've been trying to find my own art style for a while

Amazing!!!

If I have to describe my current rt style with just one word. I'd pretty much be "Amalgamating". Whenever I draw a character, my brain cherry picks minor aspects from existing designs and just mishmash 'em together with my own little touches. It may not be a perfect style, but I do like how I draw and it can be improved overtime.

awesome! :)

The thing about always having a style is very true. When I was little I would draw very thin figures. That went for every animal, not just humans. They looked like someone had deflated them. Now that I have more practice and knowledge under my belt, I have been able to use that to my advantage to make snakes and dragons and any sort of sharp-looking creature. While that doesn't mean my style is only that forever, it gives my art a very unique flare and some fun shape. I would also like to say that style is influenced by the tools you use. I've always been in love with bold line work, but I tend to ease up on it a lot more with my paper drawings and focus more on shadow. I also don't usually do any color on paper, mostly because I don't want to spend that much on pencils or markers, but also because I find pencil and a bit of pen to just be how I enjoy traditional art.

I love Yuto Sano's art style and have been studying it for a while. I've been able to incorporate some elements into my own art, but I still need to get better 😅

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I really needed this video because I really feel like my "stye" changes everytime I draw something. Kinda scared people would not recognize my art bc of all the changes

"Art style" is my a-word. It's spmething that only makes sense in the concept of a show, movie, or comic where the model sheets and backgrounds have to be aesthetically consistent, but the way newer artists think about style makes them think that they have to only be capable of drawing in one or two ways

alright zerobobu is a cute pronunciation and I think it's perfectly valid lol. Also I love trying to replicate stuff and it looking like absolute garbo even tho the steps taken are not that different on the surface, there's just so many thing that can make an art besides raw skill especially in the digital medium, layer blending modes, color correction, brushes, freaking filters, etc. Chances are you're gonna struggle a lot if you're not aware how some stuff just work, like digital drawing software have so much tools and they can have a lot of interactions with other tools. Like I remember watching a rendering tutorial and they put it all under a multiply layer and put a lighting layer on top and this sounds obvious but it wasnt obvious for me😂

Omg.. The guy painting himself that you were taking inspo from. (Aka copying) was a little model at my grandmas house. I see it there! It's a tiny model with a real mirror. Lol!

THE ENDING LMAO I was there

Learn how to blow glass, and make a cup. Throw said cup on the floor and reassemble the shards into a stained glass bowl. Stylin’

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I admire you pikat :)

There is no secret, just draw.

My art style is drawing terribly.

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Style is a manifestation of your own taste into drawing, trying to get someone else style doesn't make sense and won't feel good because it's not really you The whole goal of all of this drawing style thing is to find what you like and explore, it's something within you, not outside of you that you can "get" like purcharsing something at the supermarket

that thumbnail had me thinking about life

I remember when I first found pikat's Twitter account and I said "Yes! An artist I can learn along with!" and then I found the main account and yeah... I gave up on that idea. :)))

my way to drawing is without fundamentals just do what you imagine in the prefect , but some time I feel like I can't do what I imagine so I think I need some fundamentals to help my imagine draw

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I feel like we don't 'find our artstyle' to be honest, art style finds us. You just gotta keep your fundamental solid and keep practicing in many different ways, take from many different artists. You gotta know a lot so your hand can choose what it likes best Edit : Just finished your video, good as always!

For years I tried to force myself to draw realistic and I was always unhappy with how it ended up, I realized after a while that it’s just not my style, my style is way more cartooney/anime like and forcing myself to draw realistically will never look good or be fun to me 😅

"I don't want to just be a copy of another artist" Same! ... unless it's tbchoi, I'd definitely happily be a carbon copy thereof if not for that other thing you mentioned about being unable to avoid making something your own, alas!

I love your laugh so much😭😭😭😭

What's the best way to learn the fundamentals, especially when it comes to drawing digitally?

how i got my artstyle: -draw lots of goku -draw lots of vegeta -draw lots of yuji -draw lots of denji -draw lots of hentai-

Always had a style according to everyone but it always tickled me when people with these nice anime styles look at my cartoony-chibi style and tell me I'm a good artist. "Nah I wanna be like YOU-" is my response naturally-mentally... but it feels so weird to draw out of said style. Main difference between them and me is the fact I still draw in Paint, maybe medibang if I want to be fancy, but Paint has been my go to since I started drawing digitally. I study but I can't do that stuff in my art programs of choice and I really don't want to learn a new one since I'm not an "Artist-artist" if that make sense lol. Maybe I'll stick with my cutsey style but one day I want to learn how to draw buff scary men and not every guy look like a twink.

man i had this math formula stuck in my brain and this replaced it I'm dead in exams now

Hey ma'am, i've looked around both in my main languange and in english but i still can't understand about those so called fundamentals, watched a bunch of videos but i'am still clueless about where should i start from and how to >-< sooo maybe could you pretty please make a video about it? TY

I have like 17 artstyles and i switch between them constantly.

What does pikat stand for?(what does it reference?) genuine question from a new subscriber 😅

HOLY SHIT YOU'RE AT 40K???

When I turn my brain off and just draw I find I make characters really dynamic and expressive. I tend to make their eyes and mouths absolutely massive but with just small black pupils like a mix between anime and cartoon. But if I just do that all the time my characters end up all looking the same so I like to mix things up with different styles of facial features. Which makes it easy to differentiate them by their face which I think is cool. Sometimes I see a way an artist does something so I just put that In one of my characters instead of making it my whole deal

Im curious on how did you make your cursor with a drawing pen. Did you use a custom cursor or is that an app?

Fern, pouty magician.

I usually don't watch those "find your style" videos, cause the answer is just "draw, duh" (which is accurate), or they invent some bullshit, but I like watching your content ^^

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My design lecturer said the same, everyone's lines would be different. You will NEVER be the EXACT same as anyone you copy. That's how they know if students did plagiarism or tracing or trying to copy one another

My art style is literally because I was drawing on $20 drawing tablet, that's why my line is very thick to hide my wobbly lines and somehow it's my art style simply because I don't have a choice

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Man... i forget how little shades my reality have... I cannot see too many shades of any colour and I keep failing colour matching tests at like level 3

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I really liked one piece and code geass characters.. One piece characters how the shapes are exaggerated and simplified.. Code geass with the gorgeous long proportions plust the vibe and facial features.. also the way clothes are drawn there are mostly composed with edges and triangles making it so aggressive to look at.

I found my own style some time ago, I FUCKING HATE IT BUTS ITS THE BEST THING I CAN DRAW DUDE, i wanna change it but that shit ain't easy

I drew girls for majority of my art journey but I didn’t study them really. And then I started studying how to draw guys, and now I have a way better understanding on how to draw guys to the point where my girl drawings just aren’t up to par with my male anatomy/facial knowledge.

Pretty sure Pika is Shar's long lost chibi sister, cuz they both be looking the same; it's cute.

What are the fundamentals? (Relatively new to art myself)

Usually if someone puts 808 in their name its an indication of where they're from.

i gave up drawing like 5 or 6 years ago idk why i'm getting recommended videos like this, even though i drew for like 5 or 6 years and gave up because i never got good lol

Bros lines of code is wild: waitForChild = find:art_style() and (when.found) and (art.style = true) print("Art style found" .. tostring(waitForChild))

I don't know what secret are you talking but I have personally found my own art style for the game I'm working with out following eny guide The game I'm working it's have old school esthetic mixed with staiylize. The reason I and up have this art style for my game it's the following 1. Most of 3D models for my game it not high poly and it's mixed between flat and smooth shading. 2. as for the texture's most the texture for my drowning by myself or are convert from phtose with filter to look my like drowning. My game mode on peruse to look like older game, However my game have dail texture's also the reason I have disait to make my game texture to be like drowning it's in the order to able to drowning my own texture if want to with out field out of place. As for why this game's game mode in the order to look like older game is for multiple reasons, 1. Nostalgia I'm trying to getting people that have Nostalgia for older games to play my game. 2. Because my game made in the order to look like older game wean I add model's with not much polygons looks great. One last thing my game it may look like older game many way's but the game I'm working have a lot of details on 3D models and texture's not every 3D model or texture but those texture or model's that matters. What I'm trying to said it's the art style for my game have become neutral, And the wail my game trying to look how people remember those older games not how those games actually are.

Chat did i find my style?

Classic art convo: Artist: "You're really good!" Better Artist: "Stop lying to me and you're plenty good on your own, I like your art!" Artist: "You lyin sack of-"

Is it weird for having 2 types of Art styles? Because I somehow managed to obtain 2 for some reason. I can do a lot of details if I draw on phones (app to be more specific) but when I touched a paper, the art style change and it becomes more simplistic and looked more cartoonich or like an anime. But the thing is that I can do shadowing very good on the app, it's like I have two sides 😂 Can someone help me with this? Edit: And also, another fun fact. I can't draw anatomy, how do I draw character then? Imagination... 😅

just take a bunch of peoples style and put them all into one Boom, you have your own "style"

i look up body and head guidelines and i cant do it