
Two different art styles make my art look weird, how to fix?
I feel like a 'jack of all trades' artist, where I learned too little of everything and so now I have 5 different styles and they all kind of clash.
I wanted to try a 'glossy' style this time around, where everything looks slightly wet or jelly-like, but then I got to the background and just didn't know how to make it look good in the same style, so I went with my usual pencil sketchy style, but now, it all looks weird and honestly kinda looks ai, and I hate the fact that it looks so weird? Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but I've never drawn a sky or a pirate ship with super clean cut and 'glossy' look before and I had to rush finishing this for a friends video.
Any tips on making my art look more 'cohesively stylized' and less realistic lighting?
I think I picked up two bad habits tbh, one where 'dark = blue and light = yellow' leading to me always picking veryyyy IRL colours and irl lighting, and two, I almost always use super clean and thick line art. I've only done one image where I didn't use black line art and it looked great, but I'm struggling to recreate that.
I always see people making digital art with these cool coloured lines that don't just 'outline' the entire image, and they always have like, purples and greens and pinks just making the entire image look so interesting, how do I start incorporating that?