what if instead of jumping between styles and meeting things that the style is bad at portraying you just skipped the whole style stuff and took a while out of your life to learn atleast some properties of realism rather than faking it with pre-determined states of objects and creatures. By the time you start doing that it's basically less efficient cartooning. It looks like you're looking at tutorials or something to get those odd looking figures, they don't have any depth to them because you don't know what a view from any other side than the one you saw would even look like. The farther you go into that the longer it'll take to dig yourself out of the hole you just dug under your feet. That's all from my perspective though, maybe you want to persue art one day and be asked to draw something at the peek and/or mastery of your career and having to reply with: "I don't know, I've never seen someone else draw it like that before". It'll only get worse each time too, not being able to create something that exists even right infront of you is very infuirating. Attempting to draw the object and only being able copy maybe a simple icon of the object stored in your mind for recognition and not details. At the very least when learning to correctly and effeciently create art you know you're learning from the experience even if you render/proportion/anatomize/etc it wrong you can still be aware of mistakes you made and not the mistakes your "style" made if you know the correct way to do it. ie those heads could be fixed to easily and stay stylistically consistent if you knew what parts of a skull and face muscles affected the shape of it.
I doubt anyone would want to hear they need to scrap everything they've ever been taught about something for the past years~ and learn it over again correctly. I don't know where people get the idea they need to jump on a style rather than develope it naturally like most people of non-modern ages have done. I blame tumblr tbh
sorry in advance for that huge mostly irrelevant paragraph of horribly explained advice and spelling errors that had was probably 10x more that needed to be said rather than just "move the neck" to the left or something, i just know how it feels.
