>>212150477
As an actual artfag before you are allowed to stylize anything it should be beaten into every fiber of your being the basics.
People scoff at abstract, cubist, modern art and go "a todler could do that!" and maybe they could, but I can guarantee those various artists spent years and years and years of drawing bowls of fruit, models, the back of your hands, your shoes, trees, shower curtains, etc a thousand different ways, you will have Grays anatomy memorized front to back, and once you have an idea of how the body moves and fits together, how fabrics fold, how surfaces reflect and absorb light, how color influences other colors, how shadows would happen in various light sources, perspective, blah blah blah.
And during the whole time you're having to do the shitty prep work you're starting to figure out how to inject some personality and stylization within the confines and constraints of the subject matter.
Then when you're ready to work with the leash off you have all those lessons to draw upon to, you can break all the rules you want, but you've got to know what the rules are, and why they're there.
And like every skill or trade, Hatari Hanso made plenty of frying pans and farm tools before he ever folded his first katana.
