1.Start With First Principles
Start with those most basic rules which have been developed for your medium, which apply to everyone who is a master... you must work WITHIN those principles to express yourself.
2.Find a Role Model that You Connect With
Once you have found the first principles, the next step is to find a role model who's style of expression resonates with you. Straight out imitation is okay at this point, as you'll become more unique as you go through the next stages.
3. Find Moments of Brilliance
The next step is to take the baseline style that you have created, and look for places where you go ABOVE your current level. Artwork that you think is better than anything you've done, clothes that you like more than anything else in your wardrobe, etc. Extract personal principles of expression from these, and apply it to new pieces of art, new clothes, etc.
4.Increase Detail
Now, you use the same three techniques above but with increased detail. Instead of just the basics, you're starting to layer things together in ways that are uniquely you.
5. Add Flair
Now you add the finishing touches. Those tiny little details that tie everything else together. At this point, your expression should be completely unique.
6. Upgrade
Now it's time to start at the beginning again. Look at your original baseline for even deeper moments of brilliance. Then do the same thing for detail, then for flair. Remember not to skip anything here... you don't want to upgrade your flair, only to find that it doesn't fit with your upgraded baseline.
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