Develop Your Art Style Without Forcing

When you want to develop your art style, you don’t have to force it. Stop feeling frustrated not being focused enough and s tart growing the visual vocabulary: learn how to create a variety of shapes and lines and find different ways to use color. Whether you want to paint abstract art or fill your art journal with fun drawings, this week’s video is for you.

Develop Your Art Style – Grow Your Visual Vocabulary

This week I want to bring back the topic I wrote about at the end of May: Visual Vocabulary First, Style Second. I felt that the importance of this topic could not be expressed well enough in the written text. This is also a very important issue for me in my own development as an artist. It is like a big onion with a lot to peel.

Not Everything But Essential Stuff

When I was making the video, I kept thinking that it doesn’t express everything. That I should also talk about deeper levels of imagination and expression. And it also bothered me a bit to say in the video that the subject is not important and ask you to just focus on growing your visual vocabulary. But I don’t mean that what you express wouldn’t be important. I mean that when the content is taken to a generic level, for example, whether you should be painting landscapes or portraits, it’s superficial.

So I dare to publish a video that doesn’t express everything about making art, because it’s probably more useful when it offers a more limited view. The video dives into visual vocabulary, because in my opinion it is the solution to more issues than anything else related to making art. Here too, I emphasize the “in my opinion,” because there are of course many different ways to approach art making.

Develop Your Art Style Without Forcing – Watch the Video!

I personally believe that in art, being a creator makes a person visionary. Although art is also a work of the mind, the mind expands by creating, just as language skills grow through speaking. I am a pretty fast speaker by nature and it has been quite a task for me to get my English to a level where I can speak at a reasonably natural speed and fluently. When I notice grammatical errors while editing videos, I remind myself of the same importance of doing.

Even though we are not perfect, let’s keep creating and always moving forward!