What are some ways you guys found/evolved your art style? And how did you make the drawings more... like, even? Instead of some looking one way and the others looking an other way?
My art is....well, hard to describe. Its ok. The way I did was to go a semi-cartoony way, but also realistic....with no or small wings. I do lots of headshots to get my free hand drawings looking the same.
I think what really helps with improving your art style is to fallow tutorials on how to draw it but you don't need to keep that art style. Oh and just looking at references and maybe when you see the thing you want to draw in real life just look at it and see how the shadows and bones move. But thats just how I developed my style do what every makes you feel comfortable and have fun! art is a journey!
Honestly, my art started looking the way it does now when I got prisma color pencils XD. And when i started trying a new method of sketching, at the end of the summer. I dont have time to go into detail, but I'll show some examples later (i.e. in a few hours lol)
alright, I'm able to go into more detail now lol. I've been drawing horses for literally my entire life, (so maybe that was a lie..... ever since I could hold a pencil XD) They started off as circles with smiley faces and sticks on the bottom for legs. I was five. Cut me some slack. Then it moves to ovals and thicker sticks, oddly rounded joints and stuff. All through that, however, I was also studying horses and horse anatomy for fun. I had memorized all of the different body parts (I absolutely ACED the fun little quizzes we had at my barn when we couldn't ride), and let me tell you: IT HELPS SO MUCH. You NEED to know/understand the basic anatomy of what you're drawing, it helps SO FEATHERING MUCH. anyways, then in seventh grade I kept using the traditional circles technique (you know the one. Circles for the hindquarters and joints and head and muzzle and stuff?) and they always came out weirdly rounded. (wow, could never guess why. BIggest mystery of the decade. THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW)
Then covid hit. I had a ton of time on my hands, and I started using reference pictures. MAJOR improvement. That was also when I started drawing pegasi fan art. I was still using crayola pencils then, too.
Then around a year ago, I started watching colored pencil realism tutorials and got a large set of pencils that were similar to prismacolors. That was when the big improvements came. I had stopped using the circle technique a while ago by then, and it was looking a lot better. (yikes this is getting long. SORRY!) For my birthday in May this year, I finally got a set of prismacolors, and my art improved SO MUCH from them. I also came up with my own technique for sketches that works a lot better than the circles. I use squares. Yes. squares. idk why, but its so much easier for me than circles. the edges are just so....... satisfying?? idk, they make me happy, circles make me irritated XD but yeah. I also take an art class for school, which has been helping me a ton.
(GAH WHY IS THIS SO LONGG???? please don't feel the need to read all of this, I can't imagine why you would willingly read me rambling on like this for that long. yeesh)
ALRIGHTY!! So, how I found MY art style was by, MOSTLY, drawing MLP characters (Especially Luna and Celestia, their taller body types really inspired me!). Over the next decade I practiced with this style, I found what worked, got rid of what didn't, and tried new things, repeating the process over ten years until I got to my last art style!
Then, earlier this year, I realized that my style looked a TON like MLP (Which wasn't a big surprise, considering it was my inspiration for the past 10 years!), and so, I changed! I made the muzzles look a bit more realistic, I changed the legs a bit, and the ears and manes changed slightly too. Even over the last few months, my style changed a bit, I had to get used to my new style, so there was a lot of trial and error, until finally, we have my art style today!
As for consistency...MY art isn't always that consistent. HOWEVER, as long as the style and details of the piece remain the same, it'll ALWAYS be recognizable as yours!
My advice is to just practice! Find what works for you, get rid of what doesn't, and find what inspires your art! Over time, you'll work your way into your own art style!! It just takes some time and practice.
My style currently is always changing a bit. So I am not quite qualified to answer such an amazingly complicated question. I wish I could, but alas! I have not discovered the secret to full consistency!
As for how I found my art style. I studied the anatomy of my subject.(This case We'll go with a horse) and copied many pictures. Then I studied art of Horses and even just other artists, then I mashed all my knowledge together into what I do now. A mix of realism and not...
I worked through a LOT of different art tutorials, spent quite a bit of time looking at other people's art and ultimately playing around with how I drew things until I found something that I could do, and do well, on semi consistent basis.
As for making the drawings look consistent... yeah, still working on that one. My drawings always end up looking a little different from all the others rather it be because I used a different sized line, I changed up the way I did shading, etc. But I always try to keep a few details that are somewhat the same such as the way I do the eyes, or how there's always exactly 3 feather bumps on the leading edge part of the wing. I think that at least to create the illusion of things looking the same, it might be in the details.
My art is....well, hard to describe. Its ok. The way I did was to go a semi-cartoony way, but also realistic....with no or small wings. I do lots of headshots to get my free hand drawings looking the same.
I think what really helps with improving your art style is to fallow tutorials on how to draw it but you don't need to keep that art style. Oh and just looking at references and maybe when you see the thing you want to draw in real life just look at it and see how the shadows and bones move. But thats just how I developed my style do what every makes you feel comfortable and have fun! art is a journey!
I used the how to draw books and used Breyer horse photos as reference pics, but now I mostly draw freehand
Honestly, my art started looking the way it does now when I got prisma color pencils XD. And when i started trying a new method of sketching, at the end of the summer. I dont have time to go into detail, but I'll show some examples later (i.e. in a few hours lol)
ALRIGHTY!! So, how I found MY art style was by, MOSTLY, drawing MLP characters (Especially Luna and Celestia, their taller body types really inspired me!). Over the next decade I practiced with this style, I found what worked, got rid of what didn't, and tried new things, repeating the process over ten years until I got to my last art style!
Then, earlier this year, I realized that my style looked a TON like MLP (Which wasn't a big surprise, considering it was my inspiration for the past 10 years!), and so, I changed! I made the muzzles look a bit more realistic, I changed the legs a bit, and the ears and manes changed slightly too. Even over the last few months, my style changed a bit, I had to get used to my new style, so there was a lot of trial and error, until finally, we have my art style today!
As for consistency...MY art isn't always that consistent. HOWEVER, as long as the style and details of the piece remain the same, it'll ALWAYS be recognizable as yours!
My advice is to just practice! Find what works for you, get rid of what doesn't, and find what inspires your art! Over time, you'll work your way into your own art style!! It just takes some time and practice.
As Dragon said, I watched videos, and got better over time! It also depends on what Im drawing.
My style currently is always changing a bit. So I am not quite qualified to answer such an amazingly complicated question. I wish I could, but alas! I have not discovered the secret to full consistency!
As for how I found my art style. I studied the anatomy of my subject.(This case We'll go with a horse) and copied many pictures. Then I studied art of Horses and even just other artists, then I mashed all my knowledge together into what I do now. A mix of realism and not...
honestly i memorized a tutorial riverglade made for me and changed it into my style
I worked through a LOT of different art tutorials, spent quite a bit of time looking at other people's art and ultimately playing around with how I drew things until I found something that I could do, and do well, on semi consistent basis.
As for making the drawings look consistent... yeah, still working on that one. My drawings always end up looking a little different from all the others rather it be because I used a different sized line, I changed up the way I did shading, etc. But I always try to keep a few details that are somewhat the same such as the way I do the eyes, or how there's always exactly 3 feather bumps on the leading edge part of the wing. I think that at least to create the illusion of things looking the same, it might be in the details.