My opinion on 'unique' Styles

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Hiya guys! I don't usually voice my opinion on the internet cause it may cause trouble and stuff but there has been a topic around for a while that I truly want to give my thought on;and as you can read on the title,it's about  "unique" styles.

Lately I have been told a few times how "unique" it's my art style,and,while I get it's supposed to be a compliment I feel kinda awkward being told such things.

Let me explain,When I first started into digital art,my drawings variated a lot from one another,cause each day I was super inspired/obsessed with a different artist.Then I started to just completely imitate my favourite artist's style,Hekicha (It's also the time I started this Da account,but most of those pics are all stored cause I feel embarrassed)and I was told several times "Wow your artstyle looks a lot like Hekicha!" Then around a year ago I started to think I wanted my own style(because I was tired of just being a Hekicha copycat) and I added new inspirations into my work like Namie,Banafria/Nuri,Rella,Anmi,Glider and many others, and I kept experimenting until I found more or less a style that worked for me.


So,when people call my style unique it feels reeeeeally weird and as if I came out with it entirely by my own and it just doesn't feel completely right,don't misunderstand me,it makes me happy when people say they like my style or that it is distinguishable,but calling it unique just feels weird to me ;;w;; maybe it's cause I'm not used to this kind of compliments but anyways:

Unique is something you can't copy (at least that's how I see it) and there's no drawing/coloring style that you can't copy/reference etc, you can easily put little lines on your drawings and sparkles and all the things that I do,every style is like a megamix of many other styles you've liked over the years,and that's perfectly fine,and normal.Nowadays practically nothing is original or unique,cause humans take as inspiration everything we see,and I repepat,it's normal.


So yeah,just wanted to get this off my head haha see you guys and thanks for reading it if you did!


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Icefelis's avatar
I know how you feel, it is really weird being called unique. I've been told that a lot, and sometimes it's confusing whether they actually like my art or not. ^^' In all honesty though, I really like the uniqueness of it.