Yeah, this is an easy nuance to miss in solely image-based step-by-step books. Kid me never figured it out! Adult me obviously picked it up somewhere along the

Yeah, this is an easy nuance to miss in solely image-based step-by-step books. Kid me never figured it out! Adult me obviously picked it up somewhere along the way. :) Leaving room for style is a complicated thing, if you say “it’s my style!” too often in defense to people trying to critique your work (especially artists who have been at it longer than you) then maybe what you actually have is a big gap in what you are able to draw that you are trying to cover with “style”. There’s a a point in every young artist’s development where they get obsessed with “finding their style” and it’s usually at a time where they still have a ton of gaps in their anatomy, rendering, and general knowledge that they’re covering up with “style” borrowed from someone else without really understands what’s going on with it and why. But actively spending a lot of time playing with different ways to stylize reality is part of how you find the set of stylisations that work well for you, so you’re probably putting your daughter on a good path here!