Developing Your Personal Art Style

Hello, cozy art community. Welcome back and thank you for all your support! My nickname is Raeclair and my brand is Raéclair De Lune. My mission is to help encourage you to get back into art or to start making art. I like to share some of my work on this website and also have a Youtube channel if you're interested. Without further ado, let’s get into this week’s blog.

Personal Art Style

Everyone at some point of being a creative, realizes that they want to make a style of art that is uniquely their own. Even famous artists of old drew inspiration from other artists, and would practice and experiment until they found their own unique style. So, how do we create our own personal art style?

Creating Your Art Style

Spoiler alert: this is just my opinion but I believe that everyone technically already has their own artistic style. It is just a matter of honing in on it. We all draw inspiration from others as we learn and practice but ultimately, you will learn to create your own style. All the ‘greats’ have done this. From DaVinci to Michel Angelo to Van Gogh and so on. I was amazed to learn how Van Gogh was inspired by Japanese art and artists like Hokusai. In turn the Japanese artist, Hokusai, was inspired by Dutch art and artists like Jan Bulthuis. And yet, each of their art styles became synonymous with themselves.

“*And we wouldn’t be able to study Japanese art, it seems to me, without becoming much happier and more cheerful, and it makes us return to nature, despite our education and our work in a world of convention.” -*Vincent to his brother Theo, 23 or 24 September 1888

Learning To Create My Own Style Over The Years

For me personally, I enjoyed drawing anime characters when I was a teenager. If I was interested in a certain cartoon at the time I would also try to copy and experiment with that style. I liked comics and cartoons ranging from: Archie comics to Charlie Brown to shows like Hey Arnold! and many more. My friends and I would make up our own comics or storylines on each of the characters. I guess this is what you would call fanart.

In more recent years, I tried to develop my own cartoon style. I wanted my characters to reflect the anime style that I grew up with but also have my own touch. I wanted the style to be easy to redraw and also look cute, simple, and clean.

And that is just my cartoon style, I’m still working on my painting and sketching skills separately. I have a long way to go when it comes to improving my personal style in that area, but learning from other artists has been fun. From time to time in these blogs, I will include links to other artists that I find helpful and that you may also like. I hope that we can build up this cozy art community together. And that we can help encourage each other to pursue our interest in art whether we are beginners or long time artists. And I hope that we can create a safe space where we can enjoy art without any pressures of whether our art is ‘successful’ to others or not. Let’s just create for fun.

If you have any thoughts on developing your personal art style or anything else art related please share in the comments below. Have a lovely day and have fun being creative!

References and Links:

Website about Vincent Van Gogh being Inspired by Japanese Art:

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/stories/inspiration-from-japan#5

Videos To Help Understand the Importance of Learning Art From One Another:

Great Art ExplainedThe Great Wave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBcB_dYtGUg

Great Art Explained ‘Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE

Raeclair De LuneLearning Rhythm And Repetition In Art | Draw With Me | Art Practice’ (I talk a bit about creating master copies in order to learn about techniques)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPNh4x-Qrvo

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