Creating a style

[Fusion Fox]

A beginners drawing class I attended the other day seemed to focus mainly on learning to observe other's work and real life in order to draw realistically.

Thinking about people that draw in KP style, while their work can be amazing, it got me wondering. People here that draw in their own unique style, how did you come up with it? Indeed, how did the creators of KP come up with such a style?

[jinxs]

I think many people have their style gotten stuff from anime like that but they can personally then answer ( and there are tho many styles probably )it depends what have you done before and what you want do now

creators question answer might be stephen silver who was lead designer in art of this show. I have weird feeling seeing interview with him about discussion of Kp ideas or sumthing



I believe these are stephen silver sketches

[Malory Evolent]

Okay that first Drakken sketch scares me!!!

I don't know exactly how I developed my style but everyone says it's very unique and can tell when it's my work. To me....it's *blah* but I am what I am. It's just kinda there.

Sorry I'm not much help, but I did want to respond just so you'd know that I wasn't ignoring you. ;D

[mego]

kobocha said:

Okay that first Drakken sketch scares me!!!

Haha He looks like he's on the left side of the evolutionary scale.

[Lord FunkyHoof]

Drawing in your own style means drawing in a way you're comfortable with, one of the great things about art is seeing how differently everyone draws certain things. It's really hard to say how you come up with your own style of drawing, it's all trial and error, you have to make a few mistakes and try things in ways you haven't thought of, that's what I think.

[drakkenfan]

I did have my own cartooning style for my whole childhood and teen years, but I haven't used it in 10 years because it looks awful. I need to invent a new style of my own, but nothing feels natural to me. So none of my recent artwork has a unique style to it. I really enjoy looking at art where people have their own style though. Maybe someday I'll have developed a style of my own.

[Mr. Dubois a.k.a IvyMae]

I think for the most part, artists develop their styles by first trying to emulate another artist's style. You take the elements you like and make them your own. When I came up with my weird block headed stck figure style, I wanted something simple so I could concentrate on getting my ideas across without spending hours tying to get my characters to look just right. For the head shape I actually borrowed from Stephen Silver namely Mr. Dr P. There was something simple and angular that I liked. So I incorprated those elements into my design. I chose to make my hands into circles/balls because hands take way too long to draw and at the time were giving me problems. Bodies are another area that I have problems with. My stick bodies allow me the feedom to be expressive without too much fussing over poses.

[Luqkim...]

I just doodled alot and drew shapes that eventually become heads and bodies.

And I was influenced alot by Webtoons, webcomics, and such.

[Levelord]

luqkim said:

I just doodled alot and drew shapes that eventually become heads and bodies.

And I was influenced alot by Webtoons, webcomics, and such.

I know what you doodle D:

[mike]

Styles? On my case, it's a mixture of every style I've seen ;D

[Bring]

This is actually a really good question so I thought I would chime in here with the information I have found.
The KP characters are designed by taking knowledge of figure drawing from life and simplifying the lines down to basic rhythms. Its almost like a formula you can follow to design a character based on the knowledge you find from figure drawing (straight vs. curve, curve vs. curve, straight vs. straight, etc). If you look at some of the drawings, you will notice in say the arms, often times they use a straight for 1 side and 2 curves for the other to simplify what is going on. Alot of these design elements are described in drawing books.
Stephen Silver in some of his online videos talks about how he finds shape to be an important element because it is the first thing the viewer will see. Much of his style comes from his background as a caricature artist, he focuses on shapes and simplifies features when designing characters. Also, he studied from many different artists to learn different things. All of those influences shape his style.
So I guess style is a combination of your interests and your influences. It all starts with studying from life though. Sorry if I rambled on, but I had the same question and this is a summation of the information I got. I hope it proves useful to you.

[nabusan]

levelord said:

luqkim said:

I just doodled alot and drew shapes that eventually become heads and bodies.

And I was influenced alot by Webtoons, webcomics, and such.

I know what you doodle D:

Now you've got me curious!

[Darth_Comrade]

I use a sort of shaded lines style, because it's as close as I can get to 'drawing'.

Think of me as a toddler with a crayon who's been instructed to draw the Mona Lisa.

[Luqkim...]

nabusan said:

levelord said:

I know what you doodle D:

Now you've got me curious!

Crap, my cover is blown!

*runs away*

[blak]

Currently, my style is just a "combo" between many other styles I saw, starting from Kim Possible and American Dragon (Season 2). It was also influenced by DeviantART's deviants: even ivymae's gallery (one of the best) somewhat influenced my drawing style.

Comics and Animated Series that most influenced my style:

-> Kim Possible
-> American Dragon
-> Wondercity -Italian comic
-> Danny Phantom
-> Johnny Test
-> My Life as a Teenage Robot

[Sarah Ashley T.]

I'm pretty sure eveyone's been influenced by something.. for me it was The Lion King, and Kim Possible. Other artists sometimes insipre me to change things around... and, whenever I feel like I need to work on my style, I look at something, or an animal, or person, and try to draw it as close to the actual thing as I can. For me, my style still comes out in it, and that helps improve my style as well.

[ArtFan88]

My style is a mix of realism and a light touch of cartoony-ness. The realism is influenced by things like landscapes, ships, and stuff like that. It's very prevalent in most of my nautical art. KP has brought about the cartoony-ness. The way I now draw people comes from trying to blend KP style with realistic aspects; something that I'm getting better at little by little.

Which actually makes it a lot easier as I never could draw a realistic enough person anyway.

[Loser7]

I just take my favorite things from what I like and mesh 'em all together...providing I'm not drawing KP, which in that case I just stick to the KP style.