I feel like artists nowadays practiced art fundamentals and then explore their styles by simplifying the features and/ or details. For example, portraits, the facial features are simplified to the point where they are easy to identify and still can tell that they are facial features. Some artists like the caricature artists even exaggerate the facial features depending on what their clients look like. I think it’s a great thing to have simplified art, because it gives aspiring artists choices to take when they explore their styles. I like simplified art, because I like animated features and cartoons.
There was this female artist named Lilstarnerd and she paints simplified portraits. To me her portraits are simplified Renaissance portraits, because the way Lilstarnerd paint with guache looks like oil painting with texture. She doesn’t really blend her highlight and shadings she leave them with texture. Maybe I will try to copy her painting style to practice and explore my own painting style. Unfortunately, I don’t really like painting textures, because they make paintings look unclean.
The other artists that I like are James Jean, Jmizu, Greg Craola Simkins, Kiptoe, Jess Karp, Kat Liepins and Ten Hundred. These artists like Lilstarnerd all have their own simplified styles. James Jean’s art looks like characters from animated features, Jmizu too paints simplified plants. Simkins can paint to a point where his highlight are actually produced by the sun. Kiptoe, Jess, Kat and Ten Hundred all paint smooth paintings which I like a lot. The above artists are my art heroes even though I like Ten Hundred more than the rest of them.
Ten Hundred is my art hero, because he paint smoothly with lots of details. His characters are simplified with lots of simplified details. I want to copy Ten Hundred more than Lilstarnerd, but I won’t sell any of the copied paintings. I would get in trouble if I even post the copied paintings on social media. So I am going to practice Ten Hundred’s style until I can find a painting style similar to his.
I would encourage aspiring artists to find and copy their art heroes, but don’t sell the copied paintings or put them in portfolios. You never know whose going to tell on you and have law enforcement come after you. So practice to copy your art heroes and create your original art in your original style. It would be cool to see more and more simplified paintings and drawings. If aspiring artists still want to create Renaissance art go ahead, because there might have market for these traditional art. I don’t dislike Renaissance art, but they are so complicated that it’s hard to copy them. So it’s better that I practice and create original smooth paintings.
