Yeah, studying is very important, but if you know how to do it it’s best to just as you say do what feels right in your art piece. Haha, I know I’m one of the very few people who uses a soft but high contrast shading style here and I really like that style for most of my art pieces.
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I don’t even know how to describe my shading style… 
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Uhm, what I’ve seen your shading style changes. The new year ducks had a soft high contrast style, but most of the time your art is more subtle as in lower contrast and in general it’s a pretty soft style (even tho I’ve also seen harder shading from you as in less blurred shading) 
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I’m actually really proud of this lol
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I usually blur my shading because it looks weird to me most of the time otherwise My art teacher used to try to make me shade with darker colours because my shading was too soft in her opinion
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That looks pretty cool actually! I might try to do different techniques in my little holiday that’s coming up soon
Haha, yeah you generally have a very soft shading but sometimes if I look at your art I feel like you haven’t fully found your own style yet. That’s nothing bad at all, I’m still changing things around as well, but your style changed and is still changing quite a lot
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I just like to experiment a lot because many different styles look good to me it just often makes my art inconsistent because my style changes with almost every new art piece I create
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I love how this looks like hair 
I was going to make it into a ball but I quite like the hair effect I’ve created.
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True, like the basic outline of your work stays similar which makes it recognizable, but it’s mainly the shading that changes. But it’s also fun to like not stick to one style but try a lot of different things tho! And you don’t have to stick with one style since with certain drawings certain styles might look better than others.
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Hahha, yeah, it does really give the feeling of hair.
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Omg, it’s a hair ball 
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Oui, it just bothers me that I seem like one of the only ones who hasn’t found their style yet
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My style is bad, if I even have one
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You are not the only one at all! I think art is a process, every artist keeps making changes in their style to be able to improve. I went from no shading to soft shading to low contrast hard shading to very high contrast hard shading, and I’m going more to the soft direction again. And I’m sure if you see it in a year my style has changed.
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Don’t use the word bad, you still have many things to learn and improve on like every artist but that doesn’t mean it’s bad!
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Shading is very important, unless you like to draw flat stuff.
Hair is really difficult, I get bored doing it because it’s just line after line after line and I’m just like 
But I like shading, mostly
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