/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Wayne Barlowe has some nice pieces too.

To answer your question OP, you obviously have to learn the fundamentals still. Depending on how weird you get you can help you avoid drawing certain things, but at the end of the day, a bad artist is still a bad artist. Knowing the basics will help you distort things with better understanding, which will make your art more appealing. Gore in specific will make more sense if you know more about how a body is built. Gore will look utterly ridiculous if you have no idea what you're doing.

There's no way around learning the basics if you want to be good. Subject and style doesn't change the fact that you have to learn them. Too many people seem to think that subject and style affect how they're supposed to learn.