u/mollie_rae

I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere with my style studies :)

16 years old before art school vs 24 years old after. This is the oldest photo of my art that I have. I don’t have any older art than this because it was lost in a house fire. Most recent art is a mix of digital and traditional. I think in 8 years I’ve improved a lot with anatomy and now I’m working on stylization :) girl in the snow is my most recent. I think I’m getting somewhere with finding my style finally

I realized recently that I’ve gotten stuck in realism. So this is my attempt to break out of it and try different styles as well as learn how to do digital art!

In order: dark fantasy, Impressionism, Renaissance, storybook, rococo, graphic, sketchy
This is also the order of recency.

I’ve learned a lot doing this!! I think I’ve improved a lot on a digital workflow and I’ve also learned a lot about what I like in a drawing.

I genuinely hate some of these lol. But I also really love some of them too. The storybook and graphic ones are my least favorite, but I still learned from doing them :)

Next I’m planning on doing another series of style studies where I start combing what I’ve learned and what I like!

How can I improve with this style? I feel like it’s just not quite right :/ should I use a more textured brush? Should I change up the colors more? I was going for kind of a Monet style but with a slightly more realistic rendering of the face. I’m not trying to copy the style exactly, I’m just trying to learn how to use more texture and be looser with my digital paintings after doing realism for so long. Also trying to learn how to be more creative with colors. I had attempted to layer colors a lot but I don’t think that fully came through. I like how Monet has such soft muted colors but I don’t think I fully achieved that here.
Reference is 2nd photo.

Was doing a renaissance painterly style study. I know the sketch or any sort of line art wouldn’t be shown when done traditionally but I kind of like it with the sketch showing through? But I also like it without. I’m having trouble deciding.

Also, I’m having a hard time moving away from my background of realism which is why I’ve been doing style studies like this. Would you say this is painterly or is it too realistic?

I had posted this in r/chemistry and the mod team removed it for lack of content :( so maybe you guys will appreciate it here

I tried doing a soft watercolor storybook style digitally. I tried it with some sketchy kind of lineart like is in some Beatrix potter work but I don’t really feel like it works with this :/ I think something might also be off with the colors but I’m not entirely sure. Second pic is with some lineart. 3rd pic is the reference. Any advice is appreciated :)

I also just feel like something is off. Trying to go for a storybook watercolor style. Any advice is appreciated!

Any critique welcome, but specifically looking for composition and lineart critique :)

No real reference used? I kinda combined things? Like I looked up photos for the glassware and used a stuffed animal jellycat mole I have lol for the mole

My goal was rococo but I think I ended up more impressionist. Regardless I like it!

1st was a drawing I did in 2018. 2nd is my first ever digital piece. The rest are more recent artworks :) and the last is my published art in a scientific journal. I don’t have a lot of my old art or even photos of it, but it is fun to look back on the few I have and see how I’ve improved. I still have a lot of learning to do, but seeing old art really helps to put things into perspective

Currently I post art on instagram and reddit. Then I also post a video of me making the art on instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. But where else are artists posting? Are there art communities I’m not aware of? Where have you found the most success reaching an audience? And what kind of content do you post? Here’s some art I’ve made recently :)