Originally Posted by
Patch
Great post, typeomega!!!
To the OP - just do whatever the hell you want! If what you're doing sounds good to you, great - that's the sound YOU are developing to represent YOU.
If I could start over again (in EVERYTHING I ever tried my hand at...) I would take NO NOTICE to ANYTHING ANYONE SAYS about what you are and are not allowed to do to develop your own style.
SERIOUSLY - the absolute BEST THING you can do to develop your style, is copy absolutely everything you like. Then take little pieces from every source that you've copied, and use those pieces to make your own, individual style.
TRUST ME - that is exactly what a huge number of successful creative people have done. Also, it is possibly the best (fastest?) way to develop your style.
As well as using other people for inspiration, you'll also throw your own ideas in there, too. Don't forget, your own ideas are based on your own experiences, so, by copying (biting, stealing - whatever you want to call it!) you are actually arming your brain with MORE experience to draw on in building your own ideas.
I know it's common sense, but people ARE put off developing their own ideas when they are told to miss out the essential step in arming yourself to MAKE your own ideas, which is building a knowledge base which you can draw upon.
The only way to build your knowledge base it to BITE THE SHIT out of everything you like!!!
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