>>6125726
You lose nothing testing a style for your ideas, if you have an eye for taste you'll adjust it on the fly, I'm talking about studies, here you can make as many "mistakes" as you wish, it's the playground to flesh out your ideas on various approaches. I'd even say that thinking a style doesn't work for a piece doesn't mean it can't be used for the next one, some of them you'll simply not like but at least now you know what doesn't work for you.
If you need a framework to start from, pick a painting/illustrations that's very close to what you'd like to create (as reference next your canvas) and deviate from that based on others things you'd like to see (you can gather reference for that too), some of those ideas will be faced with reality, maybe they don't work (for you) combined with that technique you saw on x artist, or your technique is not quite there yet, now you have options, you sharpen your technique, or decide to try something else, just don't get used to jump ship whenever something doesn't work, even in studies, people try to rush, that doesn't work and defeats the whole purpose of experimentation and actually learning something from it, I assume people value their time, so why not make the best of it?