How To Draw The “Right” Way
If you are or where and artist at some point or another, there has probably been a time period where you have encounter some sort of criticism based around something you had created. It may have been positive or negative, I can’t say, but there is one type that I have heard numerous people say that kind of annoys me to the bitter end of my core. Its when the say “That's not the right way.” Ok…so what it the right way? is there subjectively a correct way of creating art? Personally I believe it sort of a yes or no answer. If we are to give a precise answer to these questions, then we would have to examine some factors around the idea that is presented around its formation.
For starters, let's take a look at some different art styles. We are all familiar with the standard Disney cartoon art style, wherein characters are drawn with minimal features that are centered around the facial expressions and movement of line to create a sense of realism with the animation at hand. Each character is drawn in the same style to create a representation and an identity centered around this particular style of art. When you see something drawn in this format, you will be able to automatically tell where it's from or what it represents. If an artist were to come around and draw in the Disney style but make some changes to be different, some would say that he's doing it the wrong way. Technically it is wrong, but fundamentally it's not. That artist is simply trying to take what exists and create a spin on it to formulate a new identity that closely relates to their own.
The reason that I decided to make the topic centered around this topic is that throughout many years of my experience within arts, I have always tried to follow the steps of other arts to create good works. I would make attempts at imitating their styles to see if I could make interesting works of art using the tips and advice they would give. But behind all of the watching and attempting, I never once considered doing it my way. There is nothing wrong with getting advice or looking up certain ways to draw, it's in fact necessary to do it because how else are you going to learn how. But when you obsess over trying to do it the way the big leagues do it, you lose sight of who you are as an artist personally.
Doing your way is the most artistic expressive decision one could make for themselves, because at the end of the day, you feel like your work is special in a unique way that no one else can match, no matter how famous they might be. Never feel is if there is a supposed “right” way of creating art because, at the end of the day, no one is neither in the wrong or the wright. There is no such thing as the “right” way or the “wrong” way…there's only “your” way.
