Changing Your Drawing Style: The Pros & Cons

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markcrilley

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@SilentTrip 9 ай бұрын

I love that in the age of digital art, your traditional art is always amazing and more inspiring to me

@MichaelIllust 9 ай бұрын

Also traditional art is highly underrated. But is lesser apreciated

@QuincyKane 9 ай бұрын

You know, I later learned that there's a second half to that "Jack of all trades" quote: "A jack of all trades is a master of none, BUT often times better than a master of one." There are pros and cons to both, but one pro of having many skills is that it makes you versatile and capable of doing a lot on your own without having to depend on someone else, and also allowing you to be serviceable in multiple areas to others. You might never be a master in one area, but you can be "good enough" in many areas. Great video, Mark!

@kitsubug 9 ай бұрын

I came here to say this, as soon as he said it as a con I said wait it’s a pro not a con! 😂

@QuincyKane 9 ай бұрын

@@kitsubug Haha, that's kinda how I felt!

@azalea1404 Ай бұрын

I think we willl always be able to see "you" in all your drawing styles, Mark. Like handwriting, there are features in our drawing styles that are sort of beyound our control. It's a subconscious, neurologically controlled aspect that slips our "will" so to speak. I agree we need to adapt our style to the assignments we are given by our customers. Also, that trying out new styles are great ways to learn and evolve. Many greetings from Denmark. 👋🙂

@dikembedouglas4588 7 ай бұрын

Crilley Dog, you're a treasure dude. And seeing as you've published books over the years for us over the years, I think it's time you get your work pushed in libraries. If you're publisher can land you in libraries all over the nation and long time fans can check out your books for free as regularly, the libraries will make note of the frequent check-outs and buy your books in bulk. And I think it's time your best books get recognized in the library of congress, though I don't know what process is needed for that, just my way of giving you a compliment.

@dikembedouglas4588 7 ай бұрын

UPDATE: Wait all this time I didn't think to check you had books available in them until I said this. I checked my local library database, your books are there, wow I feel really dumb.

@filnn 9 ай бұрын

Mark, I just wanted to say that even though you change up your style per book series, your signature look is still visible in the changes, which I find amazing. I'm always blown away by the fact that I can make out your art, in the various styles you've experimented with.

@poe_thing5376 8 ай бұрын

Love to see you still posting!!!

@ellebastonart 9 ай бұрын

If I could play devil's advocate for a second on one specific con listed, there are world-famous artists who have drawn in a multitude of different styles, but it's a specific style in particular that caught people's eyes and was what put them on the map. Picasso's different phases of artistic development is the first example that comes to my mind, as most people associate him with his zany and surreal works while he was capable of painting a variety of works that looked as if they were created by completely different artists

@herkestenbiri5912 9 ай бұрын

Hello, when i was 9y.o i saw one of your videos on KZbin that *manga faces* one. Then i said "that looks nice i should try that" and i followed every step u did then it become almost same with yours!! That day was the day i actually find out a have a smoll talent to art which is motivated me to keep going. Now im almost 19 and i wanted to thanks to you to being part of it. Now im preapering for Art uni's entering exam and i wanna study animation or similiar thing with that. Art become my all life. Thanks you🤍🤍

@mranonymous2729 9 ай бұрын

Con #4 hits close to what I've always felt over the years: I was heavily influenced by your "Brody's Ghost style" and learned all the perspective art, and city-scapes that you would do around that time. Additionally, I also loved your traditional watercolour "rustic" illustrations thoroughly, but over the years, I have still kept coming back to your videos.

@MrNexor-cj8gs 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. It makes me feel a lot better about changing it up.

@karlitateruel964 4 ай бұрын

So I have a your book that I checked out at the library with this drawing in it. I was so happy to find out that it was at my local library. I absolutely love it! I love your style and how genuine you are with what you do!

@thisischris5351 9 ай бұрын

What a cool book! I totally have to grab that!

@artawhirler 9 ай бұрын

THREE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!! CONGRATULATIONS, MARK!!

@majimadayoyoyo Ай бұрын

It is been a while since I dropped a comment on your video, I wanted to thank you so much teaching me how to draw manga. I first discovered your channel when I was 12 (2010) since I wanted to become an animator, I've been subbed to your channel since then until now. I've improved a lot since then and became an animator (I quit because of low salary) but I still draw 'til this day while watching your videos and listening to your tips. I will never get tired of it.

@QHYPEZFIFAGAMEPLAY7 9 ай бұрын

Mark fucking crilley, i watched you from you made the 100 anime eyes video back in the day when i was a kid, brodies ghost days. I can’t believe we would see the day Artificial intelligence is making MUSIC. Keep reinventing yourself, bolster your presence, im glad to fomented your career when you did. I will forever be appreciative. Its about to get crazy!!!!

@blackroseillustrations6484 4 ай бұрын

I always liked how versatile your artwork is. I've been following you a long time and have changed quite a lot as well. Used to draw similarly to your Brody's Ghost kind of style but lately I find myself doing more realistic, detailed historical or fantasy art. It's fun to learn new things. I'd like to learn how to do that cartoony child friendly art some day. I'm not great at that one.

@gigafp6239 8 ай бұрын

Mark Crilley!!! im so glad youre still making videos, used to watch you 16 years ago! :D

@HTMangaka 9 ай бұрын

Dang, I feel like this one's been a long time coming. O_O You're the only Artist I can think of, besides guys I know from the Gaming Industry, who've experimented with such a wide variety of styles.

@RegioVlogsMty 2 ай бұрын

I used to watch you as a kid, long before I even learned how to speak English. It wasn't until I was in my teens that I understood what you said during the videos. You were one of my first art teachers

@LittleBrownToast 8 ай бұрын

I watched your videos so much as a kid, that most of my art then was from your tutorials! I’m now a student in college looking back at your channel for tips. You were my Bob Ross lol

@FL85106 7 ай бұрын

Wonderful insights, it’s something I think about every day.

@MusicalRaichu 9 ай бұрын

The variety of styles I've seen in your books did surprise me at first but I came to appreciate it.

@SketchWithJim 6 ай бұрын

Both can be true, being able to mimic does increase your chances of employment and more opportunities in freelance work. Watching an artist develop a personal style that becomes refined over time is fascinating. Great work in whatever style you choose to work next!

@yngvarsskald 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It's great when the work brings fun.

@sabertoothanimations2912 9 ай бұрын

Been fallowing your Videos for a long time to help get techniques and such to improve my art Ya have to be one of my favorite creators to watch despite anima not really being my thing Lol

@rachaelritchey5789 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Mark!

@darrensurff8554 8 ай бұрын

Brodys ghost will be a movie series one day ,its just to good to ignore 😊😊😊

@CloudlessStudio 9 ай бұрын

Currently changing my style. I am a game developer but we still make art, I mostly focus on 3d art and the biggest challenge was just making it simpler. The only advice I have for people that want to change their style is: USE REFERENCES! and PRACTICE A LOT!

@cheungchoiwan6402 Ай бұрын

beautiful

@SweetTooth1102 8 ай бұрын

Been watching your videos since I was 9. Now I'm 19 and got into an art university :3

@LyneaFlynn 9 ай бұрын

Changing styles and multi media comes so naturally to me, the con of authenticity and the pro of doing what comes naturally ring really true. I always choose the style that feels right for a certain illustration, but I have so much issues to keep things consistent. I'm trying to learn how to stick to only a few trusty workflows, though. Because changing style between panels is not an option if I want to make that comic one day xD Also, I've been told that even though my art always looks different, there still is a certain "me"-ness in it. I guess it just happens naturally.

@josh8901 9 ай бұрын

Have you ever thought about doing a horror comic/manga style?

@aichi_arts 9 ай бұрын

just like you i am doing new styles of drawing so one minute im doing anime and the next realistic animals and landscapes and it swifts to realistic portraits (im no master but im getting there lol) i really love semi realism more fun and now i got into digital drawing its a whole new world then traditional art but i still do traditional art

@darlenehoover6577 9 ай бұрын

I try anime ever so often and its hard. My usual habit of heavey detail drawing always tries to come through. But I dont have to worry about alienating fans though. 😁

@sashimiysalsaverde3031 7 ай бұрын

you are my childhood :3

@wookeye 9 ай бұрын

mark crilley - always one step in ahead of ai.

@slimcognito383 9 ай бұрын

Pro 6 is me. I have a hard time working in one style. It's do with the fact that I am horrible at consistency when it comes to art. Every time I try to come up with a style I can call my own I end up seeing a an art peice and am influenced by that and then another piece and am influenced by that one now and the cycle continues. Basically I can't decide what I want my art style to ultimately be in the end.

@RodneyKing-kz3ym 9 ай бұрын

This looks cool. Do you use colored pencils on your published works, or is the colored pencil just for this drawing? Thank you for covering this video topic, the insight was helpful.

@furiouschicken1 9 ай бұрын

Heyaaaa!! :D I've been drawing for so long, idk if I can or want to change my style. and I didnt really choose it. It just developed over the years based on my preferences. :D

@angiepen 9 ай бұрын

I think it's a fallacy that using a variety of styles means you'll never master any of them. Your work is always very professional, no matter how recently you've changed or seldom you use a particular style. And it seems to me that a lot of the basic skills of an artist translate between styles. Aside from things like form and perspective and construction and shading and proportion and anatomy and composition and all that stuff, from my POV as a hobby artist who hasn't put a lot of time into this stuff yet, one of the big issues is control of your tools -- making that pencil or fineliner or dip pen or brush or whatever do what you want and make the marks you want, the way you want, in the place you want -- which is 1) just a matter of practice [sigh] and 2) once you have a lock on it, as all the more experienced artists I've watched work, whether in person or on KZbin, seem to have, that control will serve you no matter what style of art you're producing with your tools. @Ellebastonart mentioned Picasso, who's a great example of someone who worked in a bunch of styles and was pretty darned good at all of them. One of my favorite modern artists is Colleen Doran, who also works in different styles, project by project, and rocks it completely. Her "base style" is probably the more standard comic-book type style she uses for her own comic, A Distant Soil, but if you look at some of the graphic novels she's done -- Troll Bridge; Gone to Amerikay; Snow, Glass, Apples; Chivalry -- each has a different style, and they're all awesome. I can't imagine anyone looking at the art in Snow, Glass, Apples (my favorite) and saying, "Well, it's nice, but if she'd just stuck to this style and worked on it for thirty years, maybe she'd have *mastered* it." [eyeroll] Yeah, that style has been *mastered,* despite that being the only project she's used it on, to my knowledge. Changing styles to fit her projects hasn't hurt her any, and a couple of Eisners indicate that people who know a lot more about art than I do agree with me there.

@ladywicked935 9 ай бұрын

Funny enough, I can say I'm an artist who will change styles based on the project. I like to tell stories through writing and art. Although I'm also that person that depending on the artist I would be shocked if they change their style. You can change the art style in a subtle way to help reflect the setting or tone of the story. Clamp is a good example of subtle changes in art that help the setting of the story. While Card Captors Sakura and Chobits seem to have a very cute style, xxxHolic can be creepy and, at times, unsettling.

@Hertog_von_Berkshire Ай бұрын

À propos of me going off at a tangent ... How about making a "Mark Crilley's Colouring-in Book"? Maybe, for each of several drawings, two copies of blank uncoloured linework and one fully coloured. Thus, on one blank people can be invited to attempt emulating your colouring, and do their own thing on the other.

@KoongYe 9 ай бұрын

Hey Mark, thank you for your wonderful videos. I was wondering what your thought process is when you are putting letters from foreign language (such as your drawing in this video). I always worry about the font of it being too weird for the people who uses the language as their mother language. (I guess something like using comic Sans when you need to put alphabets.) You obviously worked on comics where the setting isn't western by any means. So I'd love to hear your thought on it.

@gabrielutterback6951 8 ай бұрын

When is your next video coming out

@dennisheyes4561 9 ай бұрын

Your advice is no doubt good, but is bound to hit people differently depending on what their goals/priorities are. For instance, art is a hobby I do for fun and being a "Jack of all trades" provides far more variety and makes it infinitely more enjoyable... but I also do not need to worry about improving too a level that someone might actually pay me to do art.