Impressed after reading painting and writing here. Many artists, even very successful ones, found out which artists for him to follow in later time. The trick is what you like may not suit you best, draw a remote analogy, a male is bound to like a female, generally, but a man's image for himself is what he needs to keep, this seems absurd for someone and incomplete as like or dislike may irrelevant from gender fact. But more or less it can be compared in artistic style, you must find you not what you like most, as simple as sexual identity.
How to find which type is your type, it may be a natural selection by feedback of your viewers. This I have some thoughts I'd rather talk in different occasion.
In art school I refused to imitate Abstract Expressionism, since I already have my influences. Limited external condition confined my artistic development. I did not fully use my potential, but even so, in art world, like other field, "situation is stronger than persons". In the near end of a dark tunnel, a light is shining to me, it is also as a due compensation for my lasting, perseverant efforts. Soon I will focused more on my suitable position and utter my most strong voice.