Style Development

So for a while now I have been trying to sketch as much as possible mainly because I del like i need to find a consistent style. Recently I had a conversation about this with my brother and he advised me to keep a constant style so that if employment for any commission work were on the table, the employer would know what to expect from me. It is good to be flexible but I am no genius so I cannot be good at everything, so it would be best to develop consistency in  my work from now on. So I started sketching and looking for a style, as well as studying a bit about body lines and just in general trying to understand  what certain aesthetics demand.

Then I looked other artist sketch work, and what I have noticed is that for the body pose to make sense and look aesthetically pleasing is lines going through the pose. It is sort of the same logic I was going about last year with Animated Self sketches. So I recapped a bit on that.

 

 

 

Another thing I decided would be beneficial was to recap on the basics of drawing. Basically the sculpture we had to draw when I was back at school. It was mainly about breaking down shapes and and understudying how the surfaces sit on objects-

Then I started building from there, just taking bits and bobs from artists that I liked, like the way they draw bodies,eyes, noses, what colours they use. Basically I took all those artists that I have blogged about and tried creating a style borrowing some aspects from them.