Two different art styles make my art look weird, how to fix?

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?

u/GrungeGhostie — 23 days ago

Mods can we please get a mega thread for recent complaints

I understand people are upset, unhappy, angry, and would like a place to voice their opinions.

However- this entire sub has turned into the same complaints/discussions every other post.

Many of us (myself included) have turned off notifs and any updates in this sub because of just how many new posts are being made multiple times a day about this topic. Every time I open reddit the first 3-4 posts from here on my feed are complaints about recent updates. It’s too much.

We all understand that opinions on the game, and discussion, are important. And everyone is 100% allowed to feel what they feel.

But this sub has been derailed, and it’s hard to see/ find posts about the game itself and its content (and content on the stuff people are enjoying), rather just complaints. I don’t think the solution is to nuke complaints entirely, but I’d really love to see a mega thread for people to voice their opinions about the recent updates instead of new posts every other hour. It’s been nearly two weeks and it’s clogging up many people’s reddit experiences at this point.

With all respect, please consider the options. Thank you.

Edit: I should clarify that I’m strictly talking about discussion posts only. The ones that typically start with “so the game is ruined, what are your thoughts?” Etc.

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u/GrungeGhostie — 25 days ago

FYI - I'd really love advice from people who have higher than 10 avg

I've been streaming almost 3 months, started at 0, and I've been suuuper proud of all the progress I've made.

However, I can't help but feel a little sad when I watch people who have 40 viewers, and less active chats than mine. How do I get people to watch even if they don't want to chat?

On a good day I have a max of 15 people, 10-12 of them are all actively chatting the entire stream, but no one new ever shows up. Our newest regular appeared last week, and before him, not a single new person chatted for nearly a month straight. Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy people are sticking around once they do chat, but it's been really difficult to get that number higher. I see people who have nearly 80 viewers, and like 2 chatters. I have 12 chatters and 12 viewers. I'd really love to try to bring in more viewers in general, but so far it's been way more difficult than I thought. I do know that I should probably try to funnel more people into my discord from tiktok (who then may turn into twitch viewers) but I'm so bad at making an active discord that I don't really know how to pull in tiktok to discord, ya know? I don't like talking to people on my off days lol

At this point, is it really just a waiting game?

(please no copypaste comments about basic streaming advice, i have a very active tiktok, a youtube that is doing decently well, and im consistent, im just looking for advice for taking a small stream into a bigger stream)

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u/GrungeGhostie — 2 months ago