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I have quite a lot, but just out of the ones I've posted on IG so far. I think I was largely inspired by comic strips and cute little art doodles comic I've seen people make across the internet for the first.

And for the second, old cartoons and probably a good dose of my own insanity. I'm a weird person, this was my idea of beefing up stick figures so I could add more detail.

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Very Disney/classic animation style. Picked it as it's very easy to show emotion and action when the characters are a little more rubbery and flexible in their expressions and movement.

I wouldn't say I have more than one artstyle... (unless we call simplifying stuff a little for comic pages a separate style :P)




As for inspiration... when you draw for so long I guess it can be hard to tell whose stuff has stuck with you the most... is my early clamp influence still visible after all this time? How much of a mark has my jjba phase left on my artstyle? I don't know... though I do wonder if others can tell what you might have been into throughout the years based on your artstyle...?

I think the styles/influences that are usually easiest to pick out are Disney and Anime (which is interestingly inspired by Disney) other's are a little more niche, so probably only people who are into those things too will probably be able to pick it out

I have two distinct styles. They're both very similar but one shifts a little more towards western comics.

Main style is 80s and 90s Indie Comics fused with early Dragon Ball Akira Toriyama and a dash of Nordic funny animal comics.

The other one leans more into American comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes(Watterson), and Franco Belgian comics like Tintin (Herge)

I'm not sure it counts as changing styles but when it comes to action scenes my linework gets a lot messier. I find that the less I work the initial sketches, the better the expression of movement overall. I regularly try to render action scenes with the same love I give to calm ones and it's no bueno. But that's OK. At least it's getting done!

Oh, and I don't know what style it is. Non-artists say it's 'Japanese style', I tend to disagree with that. But it's not Disney, or Ghibli, or like any of the inspirational artist I learned from in the beginning. But I don't know. Maybe someone here can tell me. I didn't intend for it to end up this way but also happy it did.

My two biggest inspirations are Hunter x Hunter for how wildly different each character looks. Not a fan of the anime trope where everyone looks the same with a different haircut.

and the aesthetic of the musical genre black metal. I just think it looks dope as hell. Also my villains are all very gothic/spooky so it fits.

I haven’t got a clue what inspired this style

I’m really just doing what’s easiest for me while still looking nice.
I don’t think I’ve really been inspired by specific media, unless subconsciously. That goes for the style of my new B/W comic and my more painterly style as well.

I'm talking about the stuff from Denmark and Sweden mainly. Like Bamse.
But really I should have just said European. But primarily Franco Belgian. That's my bad.

Dunno if I have a style. My art's kinda all over the place, but I'll blame anime/manga for it all, lol.

Sometimes I do digital painting because linework, ew.

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Sometimes I do sketchy linework.

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Or proper linework, booo.

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But mostly I like to do sketches because I'm lazy and I'm primarily a writer so I can get away with it. :smug_01:

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I've always drawn cartoonishly, though I have been able to adapt it to suit other styles, such as anime or rubberhose, usually via alterations to the face.

At the same time, I do make changes to my style depending on the atmosphere I want to convey, such as whether or not to include outlining. I experiment all the time with what to include or what to omit in my drawings, though almost all of them are designed to be animated.

I don't know what my art style is. Learned by tracing over Filipino comics and Naruto. :laughing:

Ooh, I love seeing people's inspirations!

I find my style having a lot of loose lines and bright colors, especially in my non-comic personal work. I would say I'm mostly inspired by other artists that I like-- Kaneoya Sachiko, Mark Maggiori, and Amir Zand being some of the major ones.

In my comic art for Reason's Lament, I take a less detailed approach (or... I try to. But I can't trust my hands, lol.) so I tend to have a lot more flat areas with really distinct colors. My line work is still always really loose and active, which is just something that I've always enjoyed seeing in comics. I always thought it looked more interesting to have something messy and exciting instead of that perfectly clean animation-inspired style that a lot of big comics go for.

I think I fall into the looser line category when i do mu doodles, especially my "dreaming in color" doodles. lots of freer lines better convey my idea than very precise ones, especially when i'm doing the first sketch/line art in color so that i can't really erase it.

My art style has changed many times over the many, many years.

Back in the late 80's/early 90's, when I used to draw my Sam the Shark comic, it looked like this:

When I drew people they tended to look like characters from The Simpsons:

So did my animals:

Eventually I switched up my style to something a little less Simpson-esque (please forgive the water damage, these drawings are 30 years old and stuff happened):

Then I stopped drawing for nearly three decades. I decided to pick it up again during the COVID pandemic, so I bought a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 and got down to it. I wanted to reboot my Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days story, and this was my first character concept (first row). I hated it, so I redid the characters (second row):

As time progressed I learned the art program better and refined my style:

And refined some more:

Eventually I figured out shading, lighting, and transparencies:

...And started paying attention to backgrounds:

When I started my new story I wanted more realistic characters (no "cartoon eyes") and really got into backgrounds:

But the problem with drawing like this is that I cannot draw a straight line. It's a medical thing. My hands have always been really shaky. I have carpal tunnel syndrome and Parkinson's runs in my family. I forced myself to try, but it took a lot of effort and I wasn't really liking the results, so recently I decided to switch styles again to a rougher, "sketched" look. I still spend way too much time on shading, but I like the new look:


...And am now applying it to new updates of my first story as well (this is the most recent, just finished yesterday):

It's interesting to me how different styles will rise or adapt from different peoples struggles, tastes, and even when we have to adjust to the way our minds and bodies work. I remember hearing about a blind artist who worked with oil pastels because it allowed her to feel what she was doing since she could no longer see it. I'm currently working on a story about an autistic artist who works in monochrome because the color blue is one of the things he uses to stay calm. I'm glad you decided to stick to art and not give up because of your medical struggles.

well here goes my newest header for my novel!!

honestly, my style now is just influenced by styles with big bold lines and saturated colors <3 like in my comics there's now a lot of little details that make it much more ... pop art, so to speak !! your style is super cute !!

https://tapas.io/series/intangible-sins-143

i like the character in the front the best. They're really cute