How to find your art style FAST in 3 easy steps (yeah, really)

Your art style is the product of thousands of little decisions you make about your art while going along your journey-- but what if it was possible to deliberately craft it?

In this video, I'll walk you through how to find your art style fast in three easy steps giving you the skills you'll need to find your style, achieve your art goals, and paint like you've always wanted.

a lot of artists on YouTube make "how to find your art style" type videos that talk about style like it's something given to you by the gods, a divine reward once you've created a lot of art, but that isn't really how your art style works.

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[brittanystorm]

1:20 collect inspiration
2:27 create connections
5:30 make a plan

[fincentvangogh]

ive been drawing realism for ages now but ive always been jealous of those with a style that just flows through them. it gets really disheartening, but i think im gonna finally sit down and try to get my own. thanks for the vid, i really wouldn't have thought of using pintrest <3

[sharonstewart]

Your " How to find your art style Fast, in 3 easy steps." is very impressive. I'm an artist and instructor of 66 yrs.
Rarely do I come across an inspiring young person that hits the nail on the head. In artist terms, you fundamentally delivered a gem of information that informed, inspired and impressed. Live long and prosper my dear.🖖🏼

[Kyriehubbard]

I created a "find my style" folder on Pinterest. I have about 4 styles I need to try out. It helped SO much to see it all right there in 1 spot. It showed me not only the styles, but the subjects as well!! Now, I can create and not sit and try to come up with ideas. I have something I can actually use now! TY!!!!

[PrincessHmong]

1:20 Step 1: Collect inspiration. Collect art you love and gravitate towards.
2:27 Step 2: Create connections. Figure out what connects it all together.
5:30 Step 3: Make a plan. Take all these characteristics and make them into goals.

[SunnyDreams_lofi]

This helped me so much! I realized the art I've been struggling to create isn't even the kind of art that I like to look at.
Anyways I'm crying because I watched this video maybe a month ago, followed the steps, and today I made a painting that I'm in LOVE with for the first time in a long time. 💗

[LouiseStigell]

We think so much alike. 😁 This was very well explained, and similar to how I would lay it out to a new artist. I still think finding/discovering/aquiring a style takes some time. It's not something you can do over the weekend. But it certainly doesn't have to take years either. I guess it depends on where you are in your art journey and what your goals are. I probably started finding my style after around 6 months of roughly following your process here: gathering inspiration, trying a bit of everything, and deliberately practicing the stuff I gravitated towards. I'm a big fan of having a plan and a process and not just "waiting for something to happen". 😂

I also want to add that I don't think we have just one style. We can have several. And out style will change and evolve throughout our life. So, no need to stress about "finding the one". Art is allowed to take time and be a slow exploration. Everthing does not have to happen fast. And it's not like the clouds parts when we find our style and angels start singing and finally art is fun and everthing starts going great for us. Art can be just as fun and meaningful even if we don't have a personal style yet. Maybe even more fun. Heck, I almost miss those days.. 😌

Thanks again for a great video! 🖤

[stick]

When ur art style changes with ur mood so ur sketchbook is a mess 😎✌️

[HazekSkirmix]

Something that has worked for me is actually copying some of the artworks I feel most attracted to. Obviously the intention is not to publish them, but just to use them as practice to “merge my mind with that style”. After copying and copying several times, turns out that my brain learns to decode the world in terms of that style and then it begins to flow naturally on my own art. The best part is that we can do that “copying practice” with more than one artstyle, so in the end we will have a brand new style derived from all of those things we really like, and that will result in our own unique style ✨

[tbcbexu]

I’ve always had a deep love for art for as long as I can remember. Once I had reached adulthood, my anxiety and ADHD has over taken my life, especially with being creative, the dwelling of my artwork to be “perfect” is overwhelming. I miss being a child and creating whatever came to mind and did it without over thinking it. Thank you for creating this video because for me it puts it into PERSPECTIVE! 😊

[TiredTaleTeller]

I’ve recently figured this out as well, a friend of mine kept sending me these goofy little cartoons she’d find online. I instantly fell head-over-heels in love with the art style. And what’s weird, is that after picking apart a few simple things (shapes posing expressions etc), my art almost immediately improved and my style which I had been trying to find for years came to the surface

[maline]

I had to quit art for 4 months due to some important exams to get into my desired college and finally found the time to get back into art and this helped me out so thank you kelsey!
new sub XOXO

[byebyebae]

Don't try hard for this. Practice is the key. Draw what you want. Draw a sketch, just make some scribble, draw a realistic piece, draw with watercolor. Just love your art and don't be a perfectionist. Try to draw constantly. With this way, You'll be much more comfortable and clear to finding your style. Also search for other artists. You can observe their style and make it your own with some differences too :)

[SilverSabertooth]

One way I'm teaching myself to draw realistic proportions in my art is by tracing over real animals and seeing how the different shapes and lines interact, which also helps me discover other things about perspective and such along the way! Thank you for this video, it really inspired me to start doing more art and shaping my style.

[babycatto]

after teaching ppl art anatomy and art history THIS should be how the rest of the classes that teach art should revolve around and end with so then the students could be able to branch into a career that is best suited for their preferred style! iv heard too many sad art school graduates say they burned out in art school from not being able to draw what they loved and i think this would help with that!

[bernelleian]

kelsey!!! how on earth do you constantly outdo yourself??!!! 😲😭💕💕 every time you upload something, your content gets so much better which i didn't even think was possible considering how talented you already are! you're doing absolutely amazing!! i'm so proud of 🥺

[jordanphillipsart]

The space between the art I like looking at and the art I like making... hit the nail on the head. I love super stylized stuff with flat shapes a lot of the time, but that's not what comes out of my hand!

[hhrnbud]

It’s weird coming back to this video, which I remeber watching a year ago, when I had no clue what I wanted my style to be, now that I’ve completely found, and are happy with my style.

[xina]

**notes**

finding your style takes practice & isn’t that difficult.
1. finding inspiration
find art that you really love & gravitate to the most. take notes about pieces & styles.
2. connecting
what can you connect about these pieces? what are common themes of these art pieces?
3. making a plan
take all the characteristics & make them into goals. think about it as a course for this style. then you have an actionable plan for your unique style. look at different things, find inspiration & collect it.

[plazy._.]

Middle schoolers are amazing at this! A year or two after Undertale exploded, I remember sitting at a table with underclassmen in like 7th/8th grade and they had perfected a cartoony Undertale/Steven Universe type art style just because they loved the show and loved drawing it. I learned a lot about references and making my art what I want from just passively watching them make their silly, cute little OCS. Don't let your memes be dreams