Or, I suppose, what is your favorite type of art style?

I looove work that is detailed while also managing to maintain simplicity. Something like Jamie Hewlett's art style.

I also love things that are very simple design and cartoony with noodle limbs, like Jhonen Vasquez's art style or the style that appears in the anime Kaiba (2008). I also really enjoy soft painting looking styles, much like webang111 on deviantart. Funny enough, none of these styles reflect on my own art style. (Well, except for perhaps Kaiba.)

So what type of art appeals to you the most? Chibi? Realistic? Western? (These are just vague suggestions.)

And if you're an artist, do you find that your love for these styles reflects in your own work?

Feel free to link examples or your own art if you're comparing!

Not going to lie. I am a major Sakimichan fangirl.

I love these crazy realistic guys. But I also like more simplistic, vibrant pieces like this.

As for my own art, it's been years since I had time to do anything. ;-;

I'm drawn more toward realistic/semi-realistic anatomy, but I appreciate any art a lot more when the artist seems comfortable with their own style. I guess this mostly applies to non-professionals but I've certainly seen some artists online who make a (presumably great) living from their art and somehow their work still feels very forced. I can't quite describe what makes some art feel this way to me except to compare it to looking at something and just knowing in your gut that it's traced. Sometimes something looks nice but it looks stiff and unnatural and your brain registers that something is "off" with it.

I think this, among other reasons, is why so many artists dislike their own work so often too. If my sketch of something is all loose but has flaws that I agonize over fixing and getting right when I'm lining, I generally don't like the final product as much.

I like simple but magical realism, like, my current favorite artist is Chiara Bautista because her work perfectly embodies that concept. Her stuff is technically all realistic in proportion and has just enough detail to count but the concepts are very dreamy.

I had to go look up Chiara Bautista based on what you said and! Wow!! Her work feels very... "Enchanted"? I adore it. Thank you for sharing!

I'm generally open to any style as long as it's done with "confidence." An artist that tries to mimic someone else's style perfectly is usually noticeable in my book. As long as you're comfortable drawing in your style it shows.

I am a total Sakimichan fangirl too! I love her style!

I love gorgeous, flowy-glowy styles in general :).

I love cute and cartoony styles. I do like realistic but Im automatically drawn to cute styles. I love art that makes me aw out loud.

Nowadays what most makes me want to draw is looking at simpler art, very stylized or semi realistic art (Panty&Stocking style, Shunya Yamashita, Madoka Kinoshita, simple watercolors etc). Mostly things with some manga influence. But I also love very loose more realistic painterly stuff. I really suck at stylization myself though (but also semi realism lol). If I stay away from drawing more realistically for too long I can feel my skill diminishing o_O' I need some practice in real proportions etc to feel like I can draw again

Semi realistic or anime style with semi realistic features are really attractive to me like kuvshinov_ilya, petite_ madame, kawanocy and qinniart of instagram.

I could only wish my style was like that. sweats

When it comes to stuff like webcomics then I'm drawn to people who can draw very varied and expressive character designs. My favorites in this regard are Aaron Ditz of Dresden Codak and ]Minna Sundberg of Stand Still Stay Silent. I'm very fond of art nouveau posters as well as...well, art that has anime influences but that's grown to be it's own "thing". Expressiveness is important for me. I'm also very fond of what I'd like to call the "concept art style" - the kind of proportionally realistic but exaggeratedly shaded figures and scenes that one often finds in certain computer game or book illustrations. I'm fond of the works of Peter Mohrbacher for example.

I definitely do not have a specific style that I favour over another in terms of what's appealing. I adore realistic art just as I loved painted styles or art styles that are more cartoon-y. Within the more cartoon-looking realm, it can vary from thick lines with vibrant colours and basic shading down to thin or lineless and much more detailed shading. All in all, it depends on how it's put together.

Personally for my art style-- I can't really work too well with thick lineart or no lineart (i'm not too fond of how I do it haha). So I tend to have thinner lineart with a mesh of painted and cel-shading for method of shadows. Colour wise, I tend to go for more saturated colours, but i'm still working on making it not look as flat. The art struggle is eternal.