Is there anything they inspired the style of your comic? Is it something from a show game, artist etc.
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Is there anything they inspired the style of your comic? Is it something from a show game, artist etc.
@sirkbirb Now there's a list of recently familiar names... XD
@Chronitis Don't have one, but my ideal style would be something along the lines of... Hmm, what was it...?
...Alright, so I have a very definite style lodged in my head, but I can't say where it's from. I guess the closest inspiration I can state is @Fuyudust*s style, although I don't know much about his/her comics, per se.
Collecting all of my possible inspirations took a while, but i think i got the most important and noticeable here.
First, the general Butch Hartman style. The one i like the most is Danny Phantom. I just watched it a lot as a kid!
The Ratchet and Clank games
The Team Fortress 2 comics, based on the videogame (you don't need to have played it, just read the comic, it's great). This comic is actually the final reason i decied to start my own!
And last, the Ben 10 cartoons, mainly the first one beause it's the one i wathced the most.
So this is one of the better looking pages on my comic, tell me, does the inspiration show?
Hmm, let's see...
I definitely have a general anime/manga influence overall, although not necessarily from any one artist in particular.
A bigger, more definitive influence is Tetsuya Nomura's work though. I was really fascinated with the line weight and harsh black shading in his character designs for The World Ends With You when I was younger and first starting to draw, and so over time a lot of that has crept into my inking technique. I similarly love looking at his character art for Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy as well.
Here are some recent pieces that kinda show off what I mean xD
Hmm, I'm not sure anymore where exactly I get my inspiration from...
When I first started being serious about drawing I was very into Rumiko Takahashi, espacially Inuyasha and Ranma½. The way she does hands and her more goofy expressions and way of drawing clothes is still showing in my style I think.
Lately I've been into Mamoru Hosoda, and his very lanky characters. The way he illustrates movement, the way his characters run I find fascinating. They feel kinda boneless, yet subtly detailed (More in the actual film, this is cover art, but couldn't find a good image of what I mean).
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I think I'm also starting to take a page out of Kaoru Mori's book and making my art more detailed.
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I'm also very fond of the style in the Avatar series
And then there's a Danish comic creator called Peter Madsen I have been a fan of since I was a child. He makes a series of comics about the Nordic Gods, I highly recommend them
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https://d1ixebpu9pg2je.cloudfront.net/images/cover/750x/1042661
Doraemon was my first manga, so I used to draw like it.
Then I fell in love with Digimon's overall art style
Then there were times I loved drawing triangle noses and spiky hair like Conan's.
Then I started drawing sparkly eyes like this female character from Mermaid Melody:
Detailed hair like these characters from Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
And then facial expressions from Yu Gi Oh:
There are other mangas that have inspired my art style but these are the major ones. I'm glad all those things have helped me find my current style
I HAVE ALOT OF INSPIRATION
the first one is disney. so much disney. specifically Glen keane, Brittany lee, and Jin Kim.
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also even though I worry that it never shows. but I do take alot of Inspiration from studio Ghibli / studio Ponoc. Mostly in backgrounds, creatures, and even just how it's animated to make emotions and feeling so much MORE that it is.
I'm also Inspired by cartoon saloon
and The Webcomic Ava's Demon1
@Thesleepypencil I think Ghibli has inspired so many artists these days, and it's so refreshing. Anime-inspired art tends to come off a little same-y, where as Ghibli inspired work still carries with it the weight of emotion and strong character design. It would be a lie if I said I wasn't also inspired by Ghibli.
As for my own inspirations, my most recent can be traced to a few sources:
I absolutely adore the work of Mini Ludvin https://www.instagram.com/miniludvin/?hl=en4
Her work is also very Ghibli-esk, and that's probably what inspired me originally. Whatever the case, her designs actually inspired the design of my main character, Noa, from my comic The Stone Gods.
As well, the art of Monster Hunter (as well as the whole series) has been a huge influence on me. Their character designs and costume designs are incredible!
The colouring style of K. Michael Russel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCps08eOJfFRm00TE5LStIIg1 has also been a huge inspiration to me. His work really changed the way I colour. Not to mention his regular art.
the only things i can think of on top of my head is i have a lot of anime/manga and deviantart inspiration growing up that devoloped my style
i used to really like yamio's work but now it's too shiny for my eyes lol
I've read a ton of different comics, but I'll say these are the ones that has inspired my artstyle in some way.
André Franquins run of Spirou. Franquin had this amazing energy to his drawings. One of the great masters of comics.