[Taiki]

I would rather have a unique and identifying style than copy someone else's but that doesn't mean I can't learn things from other people's styles. :3 Like, I really liked the The World Ends With You (a game for the DS) art style with all the black shading so I experimented with that and made something like that for my own.

I think it can be helpful to try out other people's art styles to learn new things but you just gotta be careful to not lose yourself. Over the past year or 2, I got really obsessed with drawing in other people's styles trying to make them my own but I learned (from some advice from Blaine. Cx) that that's backwards. So now I'm back on the road to finding my own style naturally.