I believe you never stop growing as an artist, never stop trying to improve your skills and in turn your style. Your style adapts with you through time, the people who inspire you even the art than does not inspire has lessons to learn the real question is why? What is it about these artists that call to you.

Artists that inspire me -

Arthur Rackham - beautiful illustrations and his use of both ink pen and watercolour

Alphonse Mucha - amazing detail and line

Stephanie Law - nature/ fairytale inspiration which I love but also amazing watercolour paintings

Teagan White -I love her cute storybook style and equally her nature/realistic style (as I too do both cute style character based art and also nature/detailed/ more realistic styles -and truefully I don’t believe you have to just stick with one )

Elena Limkina - ornamental design element within her art beautifully rendered pencil drawings

Mister Finch - beautiful fairytale/nature textile sculptures (I love the style and themes of his work)

Ellen Jewett - again a sculptor creating amazing detailed fairytale/nature inspired artworks

Growing as an artist - image 1 - student project Growing as an artist - image 2 - student project

What I love to draw- storybook /fairytale cute characters /nature/detailed/ ornamental

What I struggle to draw- anatomy / poses /movement/ perspective/backgrounds /values

Ive been drawing Since I was five longer than I care to mention as over years I’ve become a lazy artist not spending as much time, developing /learning all my art fundamentals if I had I feel I’d be further along than I am now. In fact I have only started using a sketchbook in the last three years.

So lve been making more effort to spend time drawing not just the things I love to draw but also the things I struggle with. Happily I have been doing a lot of these tips myself and am. Starting to see some improvement again

Growing as an artist - image 3 - student project

What I am working on now - I drew this yesterday using Procreate ,I am not sure how to colour this or if I even should?

Julie Taylor

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