Young artists all seem to be trying to “find their voice.” It’s a way of saying that they still don’t exactly know what their “style” is.
It’s important to have a style and be recognizable. The problem is that you can’t merely go out and “find your style.”
Your style comes to you over time and as you work. You create and you find what you love and lots of things you might not even realize start to appear in your work. Things you would have never set out to create. Those elements become “your style.”
The fastest way to get there is to find work that you love and copy it a million times. Maybe less than one million times, but you get the point.
Copy work you love. It’s a fun and creative way to trick yourself into practicing and making new art.
The process of making new art is the process you need to find your style. It will come. Just work. Don’t rush and don’t worry.
“Start copying what you love. Copy, copy, copy, copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself. –Yohji Yamamoto