What's Your Favorite Style?

PFC · Still very bored Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 343

I'm wondering. Mine is sort of American-Japanese. Mainly because I used to draw Anime a lot. Now I'm an all-American artist. I love the style. When I say, "All your own" I mean something like artwork done by Kaare Andrews. So...

Touzoku-joou · Oldbie Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 2399 Location: interweb

I do anime fanart, but I don't really have a specific style. I never do my art in the style of the series I'm drawing fanart for, though. Each of my drawings is a little bit different.

Though, I try to be a bit more "realistic". And by that, I mean things like... visible lips/cupid's bows, realistically-proportioned noses, and eyes that aren't the size of dinner plates.

But yeah, my style is ever-changing. =/
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Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

I do a bit of anime, a bit of anime-realism, but usually I just stick with drawing creatures.

Ink detail = teh win.
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Rindi_chan · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject:

My style's always been my own. At some point, I decided that anime-styled artwork was cool and tried to emulate it, but failed miserably. Since then, I've just taken various elements and mixed them together. My art's definitely anime-influenced, but I don't bother with those generic 'anime eyes'. Noses are also downward pointed - I don't really like those sideways-pointing noses. Besides that, I guess the thing that defines my style is simplicity. I fail at details.

Brianhjh · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject:

I'm gonna be uber-specific and vague at the same time.

Somewhere between Tsukumo Gou, I love strong colors and figure

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Brianhjh/street.jpg[/img]

and Yoshitoshi ABe, my drawings remind me of his art, and I don't use rulers either.

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Brianhjh/1114671114935.jpg[/img]

with hefty influence from Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion), Urushibara Yuki (Mushi-shi), Hiroaki Samura (Blade of the Immortal) and Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto)

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Inu-chan_rox_mah_sox · Has No Life Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 452

I do my own style of anime. It can be influenced by what anime the character is from though. Like, if I do my character, Shianne, who's from Fullmetal Alchemist, I try to make the eyes and style look more like FMA's style. If it's InuYasha, then Takahashi's style. It just depends I suppose. *shrugs* I have a lot of ways for making eyes, and I'm just now experimenting with showing the nostril without making it look weird. @_@

Stratadrake · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject:

[quote]I do my own style of anime.[/quote]
For some reason, that strikes me as an oxymoron. If you base your style and experiences on someone else's, then how much is it truly "your own"?

I don't have an answer to that.
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1_4lvl · Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 87

I've been told multiple times that my painting style emulates Edward Munch, but recently, in paintings I have yet to post, I've been mimicking Wayne Thebone when it comes to colors... Or at least, I've been attempting to. That guy was on something...

For non-realistic drawings, I tend to do my own weird things.. It's a mix of whatever I feal like really... Sometimes there's a definate anime influence, and sometimes it's much more americanized and cartoony...

Inu-chan_rox_mah_sox · Has No Life Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 452

Yes, good point. Well, to me, which is probably wrong anyways, my own style is a bit of a...combo if you will. Combining what I know about anime with a touch of someone else's style. I don't know, I guess it's not really my own style. Just...forget I ever posted.

Inu-chan_rox_mah_sox · Has No Life Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 452

Come to think of it, the style isn't really 'based' on it. It can just be influenced by it. Like...hmm...say I'm reading Fullmetal Alchemist manga, as I usually do. Then I do a drawing. Well, maybe I'll do a clothing style similar to that. Or even a small touch like the way the hair curls off at the end. I dunno, it's hard to explain.

jhonenfreak · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:59 am Post subject:

I don't really have a style. All of my stuff is so different from the next. I guess it looks kind of illustrationy.
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PFC · Still very bored Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 343

Brianhjh, I really like the picture of the blue-haired dude. What is that?

Brianhjh · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject:

[quote="PFC (Nate)"] Brianhjh, I really like the picture of the blue-haired dude. What is that? [/quote]
Tsukumo Gou

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SilentSoul92 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject:

I have no idea what my style is. It's anime-ish, but I like drawing realistically (doesn't mean I'm good at it) so I don't know. Somewhere in the middle?

Beatlechick90 · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:27 am Post subject:

My style is a bit of ah, minimalist realist. I try to look at the big picture and don't get hung up on stupid things like the pattern of a dress or something.
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dolphinprincess · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

I'm constanly changing. If you look at my stuff on here, none of that is exactly the style I do. The work I'm doing now (and is not on Fanart yet) changes depending on my mood. It's always familier (my characters always stay around the same). But sometimes it's an anime style, other times it would be manga style. I'm always drawing wisps of hair so that my characters always have messy hair, and blush lines across their faces. Big eyes (because I'm more of a shoujo style) of course, small noses for the female characters, larger noses (with a large bridge) for the males'.
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Rindi_chan · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:05 pm Post subject:

What's the difference between anime style and manga style? o___O

jhonenfreak · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject:

Nothing. Anime is cartoons ([i]anima[/i]ted), and manga is comic books.
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Rindi_chan · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject:

I know... So many people seem to insist that the two are different though. I don't know why. <_<

Brianhjh · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject:

In the magical world of Harry Potter, "Anime" style is when the pictures move.

Since we're muggles, they're the same.
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