The Meta style Isle

Style sauce, can it be picked?

Style : A point of visual specificity

Two approaches. Both have their advantages and drawbacks.

• Tackle the top peak of specificity and find it through personal projects. You are the artist, you make the rules, as it were. Adopt art parents and find it. Think powerlifter and competing.

Advantage: You're doing personal projects and developing self-efficacy, autonomy. Pleasing one such client such as yourself first and foremost. Becoming more specialist has its perks.

Disadvantage: Just like a powerlifter who narrowly focuses on bench, deadlift and squat. Weak points could occur that may not please certain clients (including yourself), that's okay if you know the cost.

• Focus on base building, get more well rounded like a bodybuilder. Study the fundamentals of the art field. Fundamentals.

Advantages: You become more well-rounded, robust. With mastery of technique being the forefront. Developing competence to aid in the given task for your clients. George Bridgeman and anatomy charts are meant to be style-less given their purpose, to teach fundamentals, that's the point. It's what you do and take the methodology given.

Disadvantages: Becomes an all show no go affair, no performance. Realism is nice to practice technique, but can be boring. It can also make you fall through the trap of perfectionism; not making your work hit the spec necessary. Being obsessed with tech demos.

So ultimately, do both if possible. Being an artist, to lead and to solve, is more important anyway than having a singular brand or style. Just treat style as yet another tool, including your own personal one!

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