How have you found your own creative style?

The Borg approach. I look at other artists’ work and add their distinctiveness to my own.
In my early days I was mainly Donald Duck comics-inspired, then I started learning elements from comic books at large, and in more recent years I’ve been developing a somewhat-realistic anime-inspired style.
Just go with what works. If you come across someone else who does better than you and you can figure out how they do it, copy their techniques. Peruse tutorials, absorb knowledge, gain skills, practice, level up.

Using one style becomes effortless when it becomes habitual. There’s no reason why you should limit yourself like that, except maybe that you can specialise in one style if you do, and then it will also take less effort.
Would you want to specialise in one style?

I simply lack the filter that should go between my brain and my mouth.
I end up saying what pops in my head. Sometimes its funny, and means nothing. Sometimes its right on target.

I think you should spend less time worrying about what your style is and more time just enjoying painting and creating for what it is.
Pure joy. :))

I take a lot of photos. I noticed from all the pictures I’ve taken over the years is that what seems to fascinate me are textures. Not that I ever achieve the affect, but I would love to be able to take photographs where the viewer could feel as though they could reach out and touch the object.

It’s interesting because my main creative outlet is writing and then music. I guess I’m what Barbara Sher calls a ”scanner”.

I haven’t painted in a while, but I used to be pretty prolific, and most of my work looked like the works of Yves Tanguy or David Hockney (who are two of my favorite artists, but I never meant to consciously imitate either of them.

My photographic style is pretty eclectic, but I keep coming back to quirkyness and dreaminess as the two major hallmarks of my style. I also like playing with darkness and light.

My creative writing style is pretty consistent. While some of my poetry plays with historical and even apocalyptic themes, most of it is dreamy and relies heavily on imagery (see Bixi Girl in my profile). My fiction writing is often surreal and emotional, and I spend more time developing setting than I do characters.

@lucillelucillelucille: I am a Virgo born on September 11th with Taurus/Gemini rising cusp and Moon in Gemini. Venus, Saturn, and Mercury are also in Virgo. I cannot help but think about the process, analyze it, think about thinking about it…I am not worried about what my style is, it’s just that I may not be objective enough to see what my style is, and maybe what i do does not feel completely authentic to me…..oy, I have issues.

@aprilsimnel: I read that book too! :) Mayeb I shoudl reread it, because I think I am too much of a scanner to even define my scanning!

You should try any style that appeals to you then morph in your own ideas. Before you know it, you have your own distinct style! It’s a process not to be over thought….

@ladymia69 I would just paint,dear.Just paint. :)

Why look for a style instead of doing what you feel makes you happy?...

I so agree with @lucillelucillelucille. Let your style organically evolve and flow out what you create, not the other way around. Having said this, I’ll add that this is a highly subjective view, borne out of my own, personal experience in the creative field. Others on this thread will have their own “take.”

I think my own style has come through artists’ work that has inspired me over the years.

You could try a different style for each new piece of work, but that sounds like it could take a lot more effort to do so! But saying that, it is actually great to experiment and try out new techniques and styles.