Trying to emulate a style

[Geffron]

Hello I like these anime styles with painterly colorings.
 Any tips on what I can I improve upon to emulate these styles, I like the coloring of the painterly style but right now I want to focus first on the line drawings, which is sketchy and feels traditional but still clean and readable and presentable.Hungry clicker https://www.instagram.com/poch4n/?hl=en


here are my works please see the latest 6.


https://www.deviantart.com/geffron

I know the fundamentals are usually what they advice, but can you break down which parts can you suggest I work on, like my biggest weakness. 

thanks in advance for the one giving advice. I plan to reach the level of sellale prints on small convention, I just feel I'm still far from that.

[darktiste]

I am not sure what you mean by sketchy it hard to define what your after you should pick some picture and be more specific.Like let say find your 3 favorite and try to find what they have in common or atleast describe the quality of what you are after.

Clean and readable that just vague alot of style could fall under that definition.It boil down to the choose you make not what other are doing.But obviously you learn what you like by contrasting what people are doing against one and other.

I dont want to discourage you.But from my perspective Your priority are at the wrong place right now i know it hard to listen to be it just how it is.

You dont need to know everything about the fundamental to emulate style but if you dont understand how to achieve it then it mean you are just not there yet.You can ask advise but if you dont understand the advise what the use of it... when we begin drawing we are open to a alot of advice because we need to recognize good advise from bad advise.But we are also learning to be critical of were own work and to agree when it correct and to disagree when it not and sometime we are wrong.

Your biggest weakness right now is impatience and inexperience.Dont compare yourself with pro to much even if you have goal or else it make you loose focus of the road in front of you.

You dont need me to tell you the obvious but maybe you do... when you have dealt with the fundamental in a more serious manner you should be trying to copy them... but what does it mean to copy what does it teach you that i cant answers it for you it depend on the intention.

[Geffron]

I am not sure what you mean by sketchy it hard to define what your after you should pick some picture and be more specific.Like let say find your 3 favorite and try to find what they have in common or atleast describe the quality of what you are after.

Clean and readable that just vague alot of style could fall under that definition.It boil down to the choose you make not what other are doing.But obviously you learn what you like by contrasting what people are doing against one and other.

I dont want to discourage you.Your priority are at the wrong place right now i know it hard to listen to be it just how it is.

You dont need to know everything about the fundamental to emulate style but if you dont understand how to achieve it then it mean you are just not there yet.You can ask advise but if you dont understand the advise what the use of it... when we begin drawing we are open to a alot of advice because we need to recognize good advise from bad advise.

Your biggest weakness right now is impatience and inexperience.Dont compare yourself with pro to much even if you have goal or else it make you loose focus of the road in front of you.

You dont need me to tell you the obvious but maybe you do... you should be trying to copy them... but what does it mean to copy what does it teach you that i cant answers it for you it depend on the intention.


Hello I posted the reference on link?

[darktiste]

Yes you did but there is so many artwork on the instagram that it not necessarly easy to understand what you are after this is why if you have a better selection of what you are trying to emulate it easier to give more specific advise otherwise it only going to be about improving your fundamental and copying which mean nothing when it not defined let say correctly as i said it to vague even if you refer to a body of work clean or readable is not something that require to be copied... it a quality of the work it not something you have to overthink... it just taking decision that make the work to be clean and readable.

For example you cant be clean because you dont know how to clean up your work for example because you dont know how to use layers or mask or you simply work sloppy.

Readable that the quality of making good decision but that not something that can be easy to teach because for that you need clear intention otherwise you make it hard for someone to visual read where you want them to look.

It advance concept you should not be really proccupied with at the moment in my opinion.

Realism is the first step good design/style is far secondary 

Preoccupy yourself with your own artistic vision you will get influence anyways as you progress you dont have to run after anyone in particular.It just make your work stand out even more because you dont try to be a cheap copy.

[Geffron]

Here's one from Clicker I really like



Sorry having some trouble with mobile.

Please tell me if the link doesnt work.

I like how it kinda looks traditional. It has some "roughness" to it but very subtle. I personally dont like digital art that looks too clean that it looks ai made.

I also like the character and how it' drawn. She's not overly cute. I don't like the "moe" style.


Im not expecting to be 100% like hungry clicker, but im fond of similar artwork, will post more

[Geffron]

Here's on from poch4n. the face is too cute for me but I really like the coloring and the details on the folds, a bit more tighter than Clicker.

here's another one I like from

sephinee draws



seems image sharing is broken for me right now, i apologize if i can only share links.

This one is in the same vain with clicker and poch, has traditional looking feels.

this one i'm trying to avoid,
digital art

I know it's very hard to reach this level, but the super cleanlines doesn't appeal to me, i know most people will say it's better than clicker, but I think clicker has more peronality than this, but of course this is a subjective take.


now this one I made is an attempt to go for the same vibes as the first few ones