5 tips to Discover and Transform your work and 'style'

In Search of my Artistic DNA

The infamous artist’s style. It’s haunted me since the beginning of my career, and quite honestly, I wish I could have convinced myself early on JUST TO LET IT GO. I hate the term, because what is a style really? I prefer the word language. Language is not something that will just come to you; it’s something you learn over time, and art is exactly that, a visual language. The best thing I did was ignore all the dos and donts of ‘finding your style’ and create work I wanted to with the intention of learning.

Throughout the last 2/3 years, I shifted from looking at my drawing as a ‘style’ to more of a visual language. I spent time understanding and exploring what media I enjoyed working in and how those could contribute to what I wanted to say with my illustrations.

In this post, I’ll discuss the main things I did to arrive at a stage where I feel I’m creating authentic work, listening more to my ideas and personal experiences and relying less on social media and trends. There were courses, a lot (and a lot) of mistakes, and time involved, but the process of working now feels more natural to me and more authentic.

There is no particular order to the steps I mention here; these have helped me over the years, and I hope they can be helpful to you, too.

So let’s go!

Before doing anything else I first had to sit down and have a long conversation …