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Might as well. XD

Believe it or not, the Balto fanworks that you see in my BS gallery are actually a small portion of all the art that I do. Even limiting it to just my fanarts, the Balto stuff only makes a fraction of it (most of my fanart is Inuyasha, heh. XD)

So here, decided to make a thread for it. Don't know if anyone will be interested at all, or if anyone will even see is as this board goes by relatively unnoticed, but it's worth a shot, no? XD

Click to enlarge:


I also do some animations, seen here:
"Chucks a Paintbrush"
"Sad Cat (Looking at Stars)"
"The Hunter Flies" [Warning: contains sound!]
"WOLF Fanimation: Glomp

More stuff can be seen on my dA gallery, if anyone's interested. 8D

Thanks for stopping by!

That Inuyasha picture is so cute! I really love your style.

Wow, all of these are really good! You've definitely been blessed with talent.

I especially like the wolves and the fox one you did. The Inuyasha fanart is amazing too.

This is a heck of a late reply, but I actually wanted to add some more art here, so thanks, you two! Glad you like it. ^^



Here's a a ton of more recent arts. Again, click to enlarge.

You have a really unique style, I'll admit! Do you think you could make a guide with coming up with your own unique style?

Haha, thanks. :) Y'know, that would be neat, but I honestly don't know how I'd go about it. I've never really sat down and tried to define/create "my style"...I mean, I attempted to when I was like, 10, but not to much avail. My style--and, I'm sure, the styles of many other artists--is just something that's kinda slowly evolved over the years through many, many drawings into what it is today. ;) I guess the main thing is once you grasp the anatomy, you can stylize any way you want. And that's really about all I can think of to say about it. XD

Yeah, I can understand that. Everyone has their own art style that evolves over time (like you said), but I sometimes do see users who look like they've copied an other artist's style. Although I can admit doing this with Silver Deni at one point. lol

Well, I think that's a commonality with just about all young artists, in all honesty. When I first starting coming here at about age 9 or 10--a year or two before actually getting an account--I had a PLETHORA of artists that I would copy from--even trace from, at first. The first one, I recall, was AmberSea, whose art is what originally brought me to BS. Soon to follow on my list of "inspirations" were many other artists, including Pample, SilverDeni, Beauty_Jenna, CatWhoHas14Tails, Cat_Wings (now Zukitz), DragonDrawer (during the brief period that I was drawing anthros), Draco, and more. I did draw my own art-plenty of it-but theirs was just so much prettier I wanted to be able to draw just like them. Of course, I soon learned that directly copying/tracing their art was wrong and stopped doing it, but I still took heavy influences from their art until I began to feel more confident with my own abilities, and a personal style began to emerge. Even now I see styles out there that inspire me--to name a few, Paperiapina, GhoulShoe, and randomkag, and those inspirations can help mine evolve.

Every young artist deals with certain levels of insecurity in their work. They want to be able to draw like the "good" artists. So...they reference their style. Sometimes heavily. If they need help with anatomy, by all means, help them out. If a drawing's directly copied/traced from another, then yeah, it has to go. But if it's their own original drawing with simply a similar style, I'd say just give them time. It will evolve into something more personalized eventually. An artist needs to discover that path on their own. That's what makes it their own style.

(Not to mention that oftentimes when artist try to come up with their own "style" so young and inexperienced, they resort to incorrect anatomy (not exaggerated...just plain incorrect), big "hair", big tails, etc. as an attempt to make it more "unique", which could, for a while, stunt their growth as far as grasping the anatomy goes.)

So basically, a personal style's not something you can learn in one night or that anyone could just grasp from a guide. It's something that takes years of practice and self-discovery. They'll get there. :)