So, I bumped into this name, anthony barbosa, kinda randomly a while back. Wasn’t looking for anything specific, just browsing around, you know how it goes. Saw some stuff attributed to this name, or maybe inspired by it, I dunno. It looked different, had a certain feel to it. Not like the usual things you see everywhere.
What grabbed me? Hard to say exactly. Maybe the way lines were used, or the colors. It felt… simple but kinda clever. Made me stop scrolling for a bit. Got me thinking, maybe I could try something like that. Not copy it exactly, but just borrow that feel for a little project I was messing with.
Trying It Out
Alright, so I decided to give it a shot. Didn’t have a big plan. Just wanted to see if I could capture a tiny bit of that style. Here’s roughly what I did:
- Grabbed some basic tools. Nothing fancy. Just some paper, pencils, later tried it digitally with a simple program.
- Tried to mimic that specific line work I remembered. Focused on keeping it loose but intentional, if that makes sense.
- Played around with the color palette I saw. Tried putting colors together in ways I normally wouldn’t.
Honestly? It was harder than it looked. Way harder. My first few tries were just… bad. Really stiff, nothing like the smooth feel I was going for. Felt clumsy. Almost gave up after the first hour, thought it was just one of those things that looks easy but takes years to get right.
But I kept fiddling with it. Spent an afternoon just sketching variations, trying different pressures with the pencil, messing with opacity settings on the computer. Slowly, very slowly, I started to get a tiny piece that felt… okay. Not great, but heading in the right direction. It was that feeling of, “Ah, maybe that’s how it works.”
Where I’m At Now
So, did I master the “anthony barbosa” style? Nope, not even close. But that wasn’t really the point for me. The whole exercise was kinda refreshing. It shook up how I usually approach things. Made me think about basics like line and color in a slightly new way.
It’s good to try things out, even if you stumble across them randomly and don’t fully get it at first. You never know what little thing might click or push you to try something different next time. Still got those sketches somewhere. Maybe I’ll pick it up again sometime. Or maybe it just served its purpose, getting me unstuck for a bit. Either way, it was time spent doing something, and that’s usually worth it.