Do you have any favorite art styles here on Tapastic or elsewhere?
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Personally I adore monkey punch's style. You can google it. He's the creator of the lupin iii manga series. His style is simple, energetic extremely exaggerated.
I'm a big fan of rainboots and mandrake roots18 and hiddenfolk11 for their extremely limited, earthy tones. they complement the stories perfectly and its totally smth i wanna do someday
I love the shonen manga style;hence, why I choose to go shonen for my comic Osca12 .The great thing about shonen is that various styles within it. It's like style inception depending on the artist haha. In addition, I love the Studio Ghibli art style & an independent manga artist named Andrea Jen with her playful taste.
Same as Ogono, I like Shounen for the greater variety of styles and (sometimes) more attention to realism. Naruto really got me into manga when I was a teen because I was mind blown that for the first time in forever, you could tell characters apart visually. I always find myself liking styles that evolved from his or are similar in general. I grew up with Sailor Moon and DBZ so I had no idea you could do more realistic stuff. I like that balance of cartoon and realism while trying to solve same face, which anime suffers from hardcore.
I also absolutely adore Hiro Mashima's style (at least since Fairy Tail, his previous work looked different). There's something about his style man, idk it's just charming to me. It's just fun and cool and everyone looks great. (Specifically the style in his comic, the anime isn't quite accurate to his style.)
For me, there are three comic artist's in particular, who have greatly influenced my drawing style and my storytelling style more so than any others.
Noelle Stevenson7: Her work on Nimona has stuck with me for years at this point, for awhile my sketchbooks were dedicated to emulating her style, and I think at one point I even sent her a message on Tumblr asking for advice? Sadly you can't read all of Nimona online anymore, but I would highly recommend getting your hands on a copy of the book, as it's basically a modern classic.
Emily Carroll8: Her short horror comics are dripping with atmosphere, the pacing of her stories is a slow eerie crawl, and her use of color practically burrows into your skull. My Minicomic was based on an old dream-journal-comic I did after reading hers, and now that I think about it, her story "His Face All Red", with its down-to-earth drama/horror with subtle supernatural elements was a big influence on my current comic.
And finally, Luke Howard6: All of his stories are weird and dream-like, but in a subtle way. Much of his work is based around the relatable anxieties and lives of his characters, contrasted with a surreal surrounding or setup. For example, his comic "Trevor" is about a man who buys a rabbit for his sweetheart on his way home from a vacation, but he gets buried in his cabin by an avalanche. While trapped he writes love letters describing the rabbit, and the conversations he has with it. Conversations.
Luke Howards strange-subtlety is something I try to emulate in my own work (to varying degrees of success...)
Edit: also as far as art styles go, I would say the three I mentioned all have very similar art styles which I think share a "common ancestor" so to speak, with a 20th century cartooning style known as "Ligne Claire" (Clean Line, in french). Most famously associated with TinTin, but it can also be seen in things like Charlie Brown, and other newspaper comics of the time. That said, you get into fuzzy territory when you start speculating about influences and trying to "name" styles, so yeah.
The one artist I immediately thought of was Kaoru Mori, I think her most famous work is A Bride's Story (otoyomegatari).
I love the detail she puts in each and every panel, but also in the story. You can tell that she did some extensive research in different cultures and customs. Here's an example from the comic:
Yeah, there's something so sexy about the mixture of realism and cartoons that shonen does a great job at! Some artists that stands out to me is Eiichiro Oda and his exaggerated facial expressions for One Peice & Hirohiko Araki with his exaggerated poses for Jojo. I love when an artist exaggerates haha.
I'm just gonna mention some in top of my head. I have so many art styles that I love, that I cannot show and tell all. Just gonna pick three that I have pics from my computer.
André Franquin was a Belgium artist, who drew Spirou, Gason Lagaffe and created Marsupilami. This dude has so much flow and energy in his drawing that it's a blast just looking at it.
Marten Toonder was a dutch artist and as far as I understand it, most famous for his Tom Poes series. His art has very much appeal for me, and also has a pretty good rythm to the drawing of characters. I'm not sure if he did the backgrounds, or if he had assistants that did that, but overall. Love the style!
Hirohiko Araki. Love his style. Early Araki felt more like he just drew stuff, even though it might looked silly or just...not right. Later Araki goes more for beauty, which is... you know. I love both Araki styles!
That's just the tip of the iceberg. 