SwiftOnSecurityIt's my experience that artistic expression has both a hugely analytical approach that can be broken down and taught and benefited from hearing, paired with an utterly unexplainable inexplicable one.
You can start off – and maybe most should – with imitation in honing ability, but eventually to actualize you have to gain the skill to find your own self and depart the proven. There is little success without knowing failure. You're going to need it. You're not going to skip it.
self-made skeleton@SwiftOnSecurity yeah. i started with normcore furries on deviantart and i cant tell you how the fuck i arrived at nothing has pupils or irises anymore anymore and also thats an impossible amount of teeth
@SwiftOnSecurity for real though - i get told my art style is unique constantly and to that i always tell people it's probably bc i don't think about art style or influences. i draw what FEELS right. if i dont like the shape of something i just change it until i do and there's no logic i can explain about that part of my process.
i don't go into an artwork thinking about what i want to draw - i go into it with a feeling i want to express. and that feeling is uniquely mine. others will feel the same thing, ofc, bc i'm human, but we all feel it in our own unique ways. and arriving here, where i draw Feelings rather than Things, is how i broke free of emulation. because it's kind of impossible to accurately emulate another person's feelings, you can't possibly understand them in the way they do.
anyway sorry i think abt this a lot