In a world full of copycats and those that create their designs based off of other artists, I'll admit that even I have looked at other artists' work and tried to emulate them. Not copy mind you. My work is my own but I've learned from their art. But when it comes down to it it's not my art style that I am designing when I do that. It's those artists. How do you keep yourself from doing the same? How did you come up with your own style? How do you separate yourself from the masses to create and innovate?

The reason I ask this is because, it wasn't until this year that I've gotten back in touch with my truly artistic side. I was stuck in the world of graphic design that involved application design, so you can all imagine how much artistic creativity that involves, or should I say how little. I want to learn again. I'm re-invigorated and I want to develop my own style, so I ask this to see if others artists can put in a few words of advice. I want to be able to come up with a new way to design that when someone sees that style, they would know it right off the bat without even knowing for sure who designed it. I want them to say, he/she was influenced by OMD if it wasn't I who designed that particular artwork. You know kinda like Warhol, or Lichtenstein and so many other artists of the past and present. It's not the fame that this is about, it's about the innovation.

With that being said, how were you inspired to come up with your unique style?

Thanks ahead of time.