My Current Goal With My Artstyle Is To Get More Cartoony And Stylized With My Characters...

My current goal with my artstyle is to get more cartoony and stylized with my characters...

More about all this below!

For a while I had been strictly staying to attempts at realistic stuff. Not full-on realism, but as good as I could get it.

It was fun, but hard to do, and I was always struggling with some feature. And I never really let myself do cartoony stuff because I had this mindset that if I started doing that, I'd "lose my progress" on all the realistic skill.

Then for art class we had a unit on cartoon characters. It put me out of my comfort zone, but I was actually having WAY more fun with these characters and CONSTANTLY creating these little cartoon designs where I could, like, instantly TELL exactly who they were.

Not to say realism is boring, not at all, just that I think it's important to find which style is, personally, the most enjoyable to draw with. And as someone who is really into expressiveness and character design, I think something more stylized and exaggerated will be a good direction for me. It's already proven to be something I thoroughly enjoy...