You can’t think your way into a style. You draw your way there.

Style is a residue, not a decision. It builds up out of the thousand small choices you make while actually working, most of which you do not notice until someone else points them out. Sitting and planning what kind of artist to be produces nothing but a mood, because the raw material of style is finished work. The hand gets there before the head does.

Instead of deciding what your look should be, make twenty things quickly. Keep them all where you can see them. After a month, look for what repeats without you meaning it, and lean into that.