The concept for Super Ordinary House is inspired by sitcoms like The Odd Couple, as well as the slew of supernatural romance stories I had been reading around the time I thought of it. I think a lot of the humor influence comes from listening to other people's stupid conversations on the street.
As for the art, it's kind of like a build a character tracing thing I did in elementary school, where we selected a chin, a hair style, eye shape, and body and just put them together. I'm not much of an artist, so I wasn't being very ambitious when I started. Each character has a set hair style and outfit, and that's how they're identified.
But I've been getting inspired to keep working on the art by the animation of South Park. I noticed that, unless there's something important their doing, the arms in that show just hang at the character's sides. I never know what to do with idle arms, so seeing that made me feel better.
I'm probably forgetting things, but that's what I've got right now.