Art: Developing an Art Style

Most questions Artists ask themselves right from the first time they decide to do art is if they have an art style.


First off when I started, I didn't know what an art style was, I didn't think I had one even up to this point because I always wanted to incorporate a lot of things at once in my art.

Also because I was self taught and most of my art tutorials came and still comes from the internet.

I wanted my art to have life, I wanted it to be fashionable, I wanted concept, I wanted it to look like a work hanging in a museum.

All these I wanted and more but I didn't give myself time to breathe and actually enjoy painting.

So whenever I put out a painting, I saw a million things it could have been so I will end up resenting the art but that art will end up beating my expectations.

What am I actually saying?

Art styles come naturally, from famous painters like Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinchi, Henri Matisse down to instagram works of @loisvb, @_picolo , @princess_kay , @peniel_enchill, who have works that even without their watermark, you know who the work belongs to.

Developing an art style has been a bit tricky for me, maybe because I see it from my point of view or also it could be because I want my art to speak different volumes that I end up confusing the art.

 I am more of an overachiever, an over-thinker, a mortal with enormous expectations.

So why don't I just paint as the spirit leads, then maybe I can grow to love my art and also develop a constant art style that will evolve overtime due to constant practice???


Baby Steps!