04-19-2020, 10:44 AM
You have good taste. I hadn't heard of a couple of those guys so I looked them up. To me, your linework looks to be in the style of Eddie Nunez and Mohammed Agbadi while your shading is more in the style of Stanley Lau. I'm not sure if that's an ideal combo, but maybe you can prove me wrong and get it to work really well.
I am not a stylization expert, so how to practice at it is mostly a mystery to me. There's always improving fundamental art skillz, but you will definitely not become Artgerm Lau if you do figure studies for 10,000 hours. There's some other nebulous element, usually called "appeal" or "zazz", which apparently needs to come from your feelings and is impossible to capture by technical means. So keep working at whatever technical areas you feel you're lacking in and let the ZAZZ flow!
I am not a stylization expert, so how to practice at it is mostly a mystery to me. There's always improving fundamental art skillz, but you will definitely not become Artgerm Lau if you do figure studies for 10,000 hours. There's some other nebulous element, usually called "appeal" or "zazz", which apparently needs to come from your feelings and is impossible to capture by technical means. So keep working at whatever technical areas you feel you're lacking in and let the ZAZZ flow!