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hi you guys welcome back to watching the number one place for people who love design art and
all things creative you are watching D+B's channel my name is Laszlo and in this video i want to
give out some thoughts on how to develop your own creative art style and talk about my creative tips
for better art i think getting to your signature artistic style is that mystical holy grail of a
journey as everyone who's creating things desires a level of recognition right whether you're a
writer a dancer an illustrator a musician you want to make a mark and be famous for doing
your art your own way oftentimes it is your style which will appeal to the messes and not individual
pieces of work this is what will set you apart from your competition what will build your brand
and what will help you get those shiny client commissions coming to your way so after my modest
6 7 years of creating drawing designing things let me share with you my art style tips and tricks
let's start with breaking down this subject into little bite-sized places let's explain
the mystery what is style really well i think your creative style is nothing more than the
result of this very simple equation your creative taste and your creative skills adds up to create
your creative style yeah i know this might sound somewhat underwhelming explaining such beauty
this god-given thing of creativity with simple mathematics disgusting creative people tend to be
not big fans of this sort of you know left brain logical kind of thinking as we like mysteries
fiction and the unexplainable things don't we but at the same time putting art and creativity
into these very logical little boxes is incredibly helpful if you want to study analyze and up your
creative works quality and style so this basically means if you want to get to your creative style
all you really need to do is up your taste or your skills preferably both if you are watching this
video i'm guessing you are kind of an artist or a creator which basically means that you already do
have your own style so the issue is not that your work is lacking style the issue is that you're
not happy with the style that you have at the moment and this has a lot to do with your taste
some of you might have heard this brilliant quote from the writer ira glass but i'm gonna put it
here anyway because i just love it and i think everyone should know about it all of us who do
creative work we get into it because we have good taste but there is this gap for the first couple
years you make stuff it's just not that good it's trying to be good it has potential but it's not
your taste is why your word disappoints you we know our work doesn't have the special thing that
we want it to have if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase you gotta know it's
normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work it's normal to take a while you
just gotta fight your way through oftentimes it is so hard to realize what exactly it is that we are
unhappy about within our work so what you need to get into the habit of is analyze your own work in
a very objective way go through the body of work the portfolio that you have at the moment and
make some brutally honest notes note the cameos the returning elements positives as well as the
mistakes within your work easier said than done i know like now that i look through some of my
own drawings they all tend to be at the warmer side in terms of colors most of them are very
dark maybe too dark in places one flow that sticks out to me is a lack of three-dimensional thinking
most of these characters are being portrayed from a full front cell or a perfect side view i like
using very very bold line work i never really got into this trendy lineless way of shape drawing
and this boldness radius to the logo and brand design projects i have worked on as well
it's up to debate how well this style works for branding but i would be lying if i said i have
never been told to simplify my logos before in client presentations so how do we get past these
mistakes and develop a better taste to avoid them in the future we look for inspiration
outside our usual toolbox to challenge your taste and your way of thinking is an incredibly healthy
but incredibly hard exercise i often times make a habit of listening to music from genres
i wouldn't normally look out for watch a movie or read a piece of writing from someone i don't
particularly like because i believe that your brain needs all these stimulus and all these
different worldviews and ideas in order to grow listening to opinions that are different from
yours is something that helps you to mature and grow as a person as well as a creator by the way
and i believe none of us are doing enough listening these days especially not online
anyway another thing i like to do is besides my own work i analyze some of my favorite creators
works as well and try to put a finger on what exactly it is that makes them so great i look
up to concept artists illustrators designers who can teach me how to get better at color palettes
and mixing those colors with incredibly well-flowing shapes and characters
other artists amaze maybe how they can render reality in a brutally simple way while also get 5
stars on mixing traditional and digital techniques in their work others have miraculous abilities to
balance design and illustration and branding in character-driven bold and playful pieces of work
now how can i pull an hosting cleon and steal some of these aspects as an artist well by upping my
skills and practicing like crazy so let's talk about skill please note that i especially said
skill and not talent in my equation i believe that talent is overwritten and it has very little to do
with influencing your creative style people who boast on and on and on about talent are
threading on very dangerous waters as it is so easy to use talent as an excuse all these popular
artists their work is awesome because they are so talented and i'm not right wrong their work is
awesome because they have worked on their crafts for decades talent is part of the equation but its
importance is minuscule compared to your skills and your taste i am a big fan of this bob ross
quote that talent is a pursued interest in other words anything you are willing to practice you
can do so what's the secret there is no secret you just need to practice more shocking i know again
just like challenging your taste you can also challenge your skills by expanding your toolbox
i talked about this kind of stuff in previous videos many artists have told me that what they
tend to do when they are feeling burnt out or uninspired is they mix up their used mediums if
they are a traditional artist they would get into digital or vice versa or they change their subject
matter like i tend to draw people and faces quite a lot but have i ever given a real try
to something like food illustration not really also if you're an artist please draw from life
it's not getting mentioned enough these days but drawing at its core it's still
very much an exercise in translating something three-dimensional into a two-dimensional scope
so relying on photoreferences that you download from the internet won't help you practice the core
skills that drawing and painting is all about many people don't know that pixar provides live drawing
classes to older employees on site because they know how important this is to sharpen your skills
as an artist it's a cliche thing to say but you don't need extraordinary subjects to get inspired
slow down a little and take time to look at the anatomy of a flower follow the perks of a tree
covering its trunk look at the expressions and joys on your roommate's faces when they
are getting ecstatic over a video game or your partner's relaxed posture when they are making
coffee in the morning there is so much beauty and expressiveness in ordinary life screaming
to be translated into art all these shifts changes and experiments will result in some weaker pieces
and believe me i know exactly how frustrating it is when you spend a long time on something and
it looks like trashy in the end but whenever that happens just remember the ira glass coat you are
closing that gap every time you are creating these are essential steps to get to a style that you are
happy with just as a closing thought i also want to mention that your style is oftentimes something
that you might not see but other people around you do it's a bit like when you have learned how to
ride a bike as a kid initially all your focus went on to making sure you're pedaling the right way
making sure that you're holding the handlebar and whenever you slipped and fell flat on your nose
you thought it was because you messed up one of these little things then you got back up
and your focus shifted onto the road your surroundings the sky the trees around you
and suddenly as you looked back you realize that the grown-up who was supposed to hold a saddle for
you is far far away and you are all good riding on your own guys i hope you get something useful out
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