What People Compare Your Style To vs. What You Reference

[SpavVy]

For mine I usually just have people say it's anime. There was only one time from what I can recall where I've had it be compared to a specific anime and that anime was Hellsing which I can see due to the way I add nose shadow.

My style

Hellsing Style

But five years ago I was inspired by Shirow Miwa's style

Gosh I really love his work still ;w; I'm so jelly.

[winglesscomic]

@Kaykedrawsthings reminds me of cucumber quest but it's because of a stupid reason. it is the very prominent chalk-like lines drawn on the girl's hair, the only thing in the drawing, that makes me associate it with cucumber quest. NOTHING ELSE in the drawing reminds me of CQ except that.
@Kamikaze I really do see the Avatar in this.

I have yet to have anyone compare me to anything other than just saying "cartoon"

And it was even weirder when people started saying it was CUTE. I was like... cute? It's just cartoon, when did it become cute? I never intended this. I just saw it as "my style." There was so much "this is cute!" and "she's so cute!" comments I had enough of so I just took it and ran with it. Fine, it is cute. It's really cute when she gets her organs pulled out.

[Kayke]

I can see Disney/RPG video game influence in both of your styles!

Even if just the coloring changes, it's fascinating how the mood of the pieces can be so different with the different shading. Beautiful work!

[Kayke]

Yeah, your nose shadows are similar to Hellsing, but I can see the Shirow Miwa influence and the eyes and face shape!

[getsuart]

Oh thank you
I was a big fan of japanese rpg at one point in my life, so I'm sure everyone can see it.
Yes, the colors makes everything more simple, but maybe you look more at the details. I don't know, it may depend

[Kayke]

I am trying to think of what you're style reminds me of, but all I can think of is my friend Andrea's work ... which is a good thing because I love her style

[Kayke]

I would also say your characters make me think of Ruby Gloom as well as Tim Burton! Creepy/Cute!

[BitStrange]

I will even take that, I love Ruby Gloom =D

[samuraiotaku]

This is My Comic Nitou-Ryu

I get told mine has a very classic anime look to it, or a heavy 90s influence.
I actually do take a lot of influence from the 90's . Slayers and Dragonball were some of my favorites. I also took a lot of influence from Type-Moon, Sekihiko Inui, Kenjirou Hata and Ken Akamatsu though. Also, I really admire Nobuhiro Watsuki.

[Kayke]

Your style is so cute! I'll admit that I don't know a lot about anime and manga, but there's definitely a retro anime feel to this.

[samuraiotaku]

I'm glad you like it (^^)

[Bii0]

Sure why not.

Haven't had many people associate my style with anyone yet, a couple people have said it looks like it has anime/manga influence, but what style of what Japanese comic/animation artist I have no idea. Also a reviewer once said my style reminded them of Mary Engelbreit's art, which was interesting, but that's pretty much it.

Not going to post anything finished or particularly standout-ish, but here's some linework for a panel of something I'm working on.

As far as my influence, I don't actually have any, at least on a conscious level. When I was in my late teens I did try to put some tiny aspects of Mucha's art in my stuff, though. Favourite artist aside from Salvador Dali, love that guys work!

[Vikiro_Hop]

@Kaykedrawsthings Jamie Hewlett was one of my earliest inspirations to draw. I can definitely see the influence, what first attracted me to creep was your cool character designs.

I've recently been trying to revamp my character design style, and it is a lot of trial and error. I'd be curious to see what others seem to think of these. The first style is my current sorta "comic style." I think the characters mostly just look like a more generic western style (not in a bad way, but ya know.) I literally just drew few characters in that style and decided I could make a comic with them easily enough.

This last one is what I eventually want to polish up and do a story driven comic with. Haven't had anyone coment on it specifically, I definitely take a lot of inspirations from Scott Pilgrim, Adventure Time, anime and finally an artist by the name of Pete Fowler.

[Kayke]

Thank you! I'm so glad you think my character designs are cool

Something about your work, especially the last image, reminds me of Meredith Gran

[Vikiro_Hop]

Oh god, now I have something to binge read...with a misanthropic main character. Welp there goes my weekend.

This is actually a really good topic, I agree that art style is a very personal thing, but I do think artists tend to get a bit touchy about it. In the end you have to be self aware and just accept that no artist is 100% original. I have a huge amount of respect for artists who both admit to blatantly stealing certain style aspects, but are still making there own original take.
Whether or not you intentionally took inspiration, I feel like people should be happy to compared to good artists. (if ya don't like that artist well...that can be bad.)

I could prattle on but I've got a lot of this comic to read thanks for sharing it!

[martharpearson]

I've had my artwork compared to Disney.

Then it had a major overhaul from some of its Kathy Coop influence well actually a lot of overhaul. I grew up watching a lot of action cartoons and a few of the american animators who have influenced me have been William Hannah, Joseph Barbara, Tex Avery, and Chuck Jones. Going back to basic figure drawing helped clean up a lot of my boxy figures.

I found it helped to find inspiration in referencing several art styles and ask myself why do I like this cartoon? How can I reflect something like that in what I do? What can I do in my work to make it stick out from the rest?

It's just a thought. I'm always learning something new even when I pick up a magazine from National Geographic or dusting shelves at the import store in front of the Vietnamese ceramic ware.

[eseona]

My refenrences are web comics with "mainstream web-comic style", if I could call it like this (my favorit is Starfighter). But I also read a lot of manga (I use it mostly for exprecions) and I study paneling from every comic I can.
I think that my style is ordinary web comic. But most of people who doesnt read comics see it as manga. But the only similarity for me is that it is black and white (°--°) It always drives me crazy! Because these people see comics just like Marvel or manga - like no other styles exist. And because they think I draw manga and I am not Asian, lot of people like this tell me that I should draw differently and how wrong my style is... But I am happy that I finaly managed to have "my style"... Oh glob...

[alakotila]

It's kinda hard to say what artists inspired my current style because it's been building for so long! I got really inspired by Dragon Age, the Elder Scrolls games, Radiata Stories, and Valkyria Chronicles. People usually tell me Dragon Age or Skyrim, so I guess I was on target. Just a more ... cartoonish version of them, I suppose. My color palette is the result of weird experiments. I'll bore you with details if you want, but skipping it otherwise.

My earliest comic influences were Archie comics. I'd be surprised if you can't tell. At least a little! The next authors that really hit me were Takahashi Rumiko, Ueda Miwa, and Yazawa Ai. I've been picking up bits and pieces from artists that really hit me, including other indie comic artists and webcomickers, as I go.

I don't get the 'anime' thing often. Only from those who don't really watch anime.

Once I got One Piece. That's cool, but I don't see it!

[VermillionWorks]

What People Say: I've stated more than once that Daniel himself is compared to Levi from Attack On Titan quite a bit. Also I've heard the game Corpse Party and the anime Tokyo Ghoul brought up more than once as well. I don't know why, I haven't watched/played either of them.

.....is it the red eye and the vest suit?

My Influences: Mainly just various horror films (including vampire ones) from throughout the years, noir and early European vampire folklore. When it comes to anime influence, there were quite a few from the 80s and 90s I watched that have had some stylistic influence on me, but no particular one, and it's purely style influence, not story influence.

[efdvorsky]

I think the most common relation people have called Cosmic Fish is Pokemon and then go "Oh I'm sorry, I meant Digimon" which confused me to no end but all right???

Someone also once said it looked like something out of dreamworks because of the large expressive eyes.

But it really depends on the style and the mood I want to do. I personally enjoy large eyes because they're expressive and very animated (also I have expressive and rounded eyes IRL so it's just familiar to me)

But then there's also these non-Cosmic Fish related works like

Where inspirations for it come from different things.

Like obviously, Goodfellas is for the latter whereas I can sometimes go "yeah I can see why you'd think about Digimon in the first one" or a lot of 90's anime or Miyazaki's works. Which were indeed big parts of my childhood.

And for the latter it's a whole different story.