How to Draw With a Unique Individual Style

Drawing requires both skill and talent. As with any art, your skills need to be developed to make the most of your talent for drawing. Whether you are just developing your skills or looking to further expand your talent, developing a unique drawing style is a sort of benchmark of mastering the art of drawing.

Instructions

1. Develop your skills. You can't expect to develop your own style until you've mastered the basic skill sets of drawing. Take a class or just keep practicing to develop your skills at first.

2. Find inspiration and copy it. Yes, copy. Find artists that you admire and copy their drawings. Try to figure out how they create the lines and shading that make their drawings attract your eye. Paradoxically, in the process of studying another master, your own process for drawing becomes more apparent to you.

3. Let go of the notion that your art must be unique, individual, and somehow new to the art world. Fixating on what your drawing is supposed to look like is a surefire way to thwart any emerging style of your own.

4. Focus instead on what you like and what you don't. Step back from your work and try to see it with fresh eyes. Ask yourself to look for aspects that draw your attention and also which aspects detract from the composition. Keep what you like and change what you don't.

5. Go with your own reaction to your work as much as possible and trust your own sense of the aesthetic. Critical opinion from people you trust is a great way to further your skills and vision, but in reality, the art is your own when you claim it as your own.

6. Trust your artistic instincts and in no time at all, you are going to look back on your work and suddenly realize that you've developed your own unique, individual drawing style without really thinking about it.