Signature Art Style

Signature Art Style - student project

This is an excellent series of exercises and prompts to work through. When I started, I didn't think I had much of a cohesive signature style, but as I worked through the exercises, I realized that I actually do have my own style and that by focusing in certain directions, I'll be able to make progress in improving the quality of my work. I also had a kind of big insight - I would like to take my art from being "just" a hobby and look into the possibility of illustrating books. 

I'm going to post all my work, but I'll start with the final worksheet, as it gives a nice snapshot of my entire journey.

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How, here are all my worksheets, chronologically.

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At this point, I did an inventory of my more recent work, organizing it by medium and topic. This was very eye-opening… not only was I able to look for stylistic things that unify my work, but evaluating things like this helped me see what technique I really like best, and are most successful. For example, I realized that I really, really like a relatively quick sketch that I did during Inktober ( the heron and snake ) and I think this might be a good direction for me… it's a very clean and professional look, which I didn't really appreciate until looking at it for this course.

 

Here is my inventory:

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Since I had already pulled all these images into Procreate, I decided to pull together a comprehensive color palette:

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Worksheet continued:

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 Inspiration board:

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Finally, here is the summary worksheet!

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This was a truly eye-opening experience for me, to evaluate my body of work in this way. I learned a lot - not just about my personal style, but about motivation and goals, as well. Well worth the time and effort! Thank you so much Jeanetta!