>>149988049
Unless an artist is incredibly self-conscious of their style, it's very easy to lose what individuality and appeal that style has in exchange for competence. Copying a house style's details down to a T is a misunderstanding of what being skilled should look like. Rather it's the underlying foundation of solid drawing that one should hang their idiosyncratic shapes that are a product of one's own individuality on.
You see this shit with people copying Spumco eyes or wonky UPA perspective, without knowing what goes on beneath all the time while ALSO sacrificing their unique voice for being a pastiche. It's sad.