>>5777244The best of both worlds is picking multiple art styles you like that aren't similar and instead of trying to do all of them you pick elements of them to study.
Like color, brushwork, values, notan, composition, specific body parts even (female face, male face, body types, fashion), any unique rendering styles, overall process (do they work opaquely, dark to light, many layers, one layer, random textures, etc)
This will take a while to start looking good but hopefully you end up with a signature style if you persevere through the ugly phases.
For example Mike Mignola has a great sense of notan or designing with pure black and white. If you studied him and then started all of your work with the goal of dividing it into pure 2 values and still having it be readable but then started rendering it like leyendecker, what would happen?
John Singer Sargent has a great minimalist brush technique and only adds detail and blending in the focal points like faces. What if you took his brushwork and moebius' color and composition?
You will probably end up with many ugly experiments but you will also learn a lot about those painters when you break down their work into single elements and what you like about them will stick with you.
