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Apr 2018

Here's my webcomic:

I got inspired by The Amazing World of Gumball and maybe a little bit of Twin Peaks? xD

I've read a ton of different comics, but I'll say these are the ones that has inspired my artstyle in some way.



Don Rosa work on Scrooge McDuck. He has a great eye for detail and use of environments.


André Franquins run of Spirou. Franquin had this amazing energy to his drawings. One of the great masters of comics.



Tom Poes by Marten Toonder. I like the style and the use of screentones.


De Cape et de Crocs by Alain Avroles and Jean-Luc Masbou. This is probably my biggest inspiration to my comic Vulperra. I love the colouring and humor in this series.

What inspired my art and comic the most is Dark souls. Oh boy I love this game.
but mostly I got inspired from my childhood cartoons and anime
like Samurai shamploo, draonball Z, Naruto and Adventure time .
after that I developed my own artstyle based on those influences to come up with art like that

I will be talking about this in reference to my current webcomic Project SHaDe

For the longest time, probably one of the catalysts to starting this webcomic, was Ishida Sui's Tokyo Ghoul (specifically the first manga - :re is quite stylish, but it doesn't have the same gritty touch of the first one)

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Lately, I've also been inspired by Jiro Matsumoto's artstyle, especially after reading Freesia


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May update this later, but these are the things that come to mind quickly as of now.

My comic, Fairy Stories4, is influenced by the comics and cartoons I grew up with....Bugs Bunny, Calvin and Hobbes, Blondie, and Disney. Its colored like a Sin City comic because that's the way my mind works.

I can't say for sure what inspired the art style as a whole, but I know some elements were inspired from cartoons I watched as a kid like The Simpsons or Spongebob. Honestly it feels like I've had the same style for years but now I'm finally beginning to refine it as I work on my comic.

Long answer: Lol this probably sounds weird but I never really thought about it? Although my style has evolved A LOT over the years I've never really had a style inspiration. Way back in high school I used to only like Japanese styles, taking a little from the various manga I liked. The most I remember about that time was I liked how Arina Tanemura drew eyes, so I started drawing eyes in a similar fashion.

Unfortunately this was the only thing I can find, and is from a little later when I was slowly phasing out of the Tanemura eyes. But there's still a tiny sliver of similarity in there. (not really)

In my later years of high school I started thinking "man, I wanna be like a real artist", and in my mind that was finding beauty in the human form and the aesthetics of the real world. At the time I thought real people and things were ugly, only thinking anime and manga looked pleasing.
During that mindset change I forced myself to only observe real people (mostly nude) and real things, losing all stylistic influence. My style just sorta evolved on it's own with the new changes. Any more off the top of my head my favorite styles come from Alphonse Mucha, H.R Giger, Norman Rockwell, and James Jean. But I can't say they've influenced my style because I haven't actively studied their work.




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TL;DR: I never think about it so I don't know?

The original Pokemon and One Piece... but you wouldnt be able to fully tell from my comic XDD

I don't really know anymore about direct influence but there's a pretty big mix of things that have led me one way or the other I'm sure while messing about with styles. Looking at my art style now I think I've begun to drift towards a sort of classic anime style?

Like even though I've never seen Urusei Yatsura I've liked the look of it's characters
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or the bright poppy colors of sailor moon

I'm definitely among those who were drawn in by Tanemura's art style and Full Moon was the first to really catch my eye
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There's also two shows that I've watched on Smile that happened to capture my eye being Little Women and Swiss Family Robinson
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Whether it really shows I'm not 100% sure but it's something about the softness in the art, I guess


Junko is a pretty heavy inspiration for my art, like really heavy. Haha.


I also really like the style of Nakajima Atsuko.

Naoko Takeuchi (sailor moon) was also the original inspiration for my art, though I tend to pull a lot less than I used to from it.

The Persona, Shin Megami Tensai artist is a big inspiration as well. Especially the way they color.

Yuiji Aniya is a fairly recent inspiration, but I realized I already did a lot of thing similarly, so I've been referencing them a lot lately .<3

Some of my art for comparison.

I wanna do some stuff in Mucha's art nouveau style soooo bad! But I know it would take forever to finish, and lack of free time only allows me to draw comic pages right now. Maybe someday.

I can say without hesitation that my biggest inspiration had been Naruto when I was younger.

And also Soul Eater

More recently, I've been inspired by both the art of Persona and The Dummy's Dummy webcomic on webcomic!


Can't think of any more off the top of my head, so here's some of my art:




My largest inspiration from childhood was Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto creator). I was blown away when I saw a style that was a little more realistic and had characters that looked rather distinct from each other, compared to most show styles I had seen before that (Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura etc.)

Around that time, I used to draw like this:

As I grew up I started looking towards new inspirations like Glenn_Arthur_Art

Djamila Knopf

Orpheelin
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And detailed oriented artists like Kaoru Mori
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So nowadays my illustrations/ comics are like this:

Some people have said they think my art style was Disney inspired. Mostly it just started with Naruto and then I added more realism to it that I studied from photos. xD

I was inspired by Art Noveau while living in Montreal. I loved the way the outlines popped.

I was also inspired by David Mazzuchelli’s art for Batman Year Zero. This eventually led to my highly inconsistent art-style. But I’m most proud of it. The intent was to remind people of the art in 1920s King Arthur books.

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Will have to look into this Orpheelin artist! The picture you posted looks amazing :smiley: Very inspiring indeed!
Also, your own work has come such a long way! It looks amazing :smiley: