What Top 5 artists inspire and influence your artwork? I'd love to know!

[gmaximin]

That’s always fun to see what influence others... here’s my list—

1. Dave Mc Kean's Cages http://www.davemckean.com/
   

   
   https://www.page45.com/store/Cages%203.jpg
   Because it’s inventive, inspiring, simple in appearance and alive

2. Frank Miller’s Sin City
   

   
   https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/1079978/81121002.png
   Black + White = Woaaaaa

3. Jean Giraud (Moebius)
   

   
   https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/65/29/1852285111-4807412761_f0bbcbacd6_b.jpg
   Surreal, yet clear and obvious, with a very good sense of storytelling and gorgeous colors.

4. He Youzhi’s hundred jobs from old Shanghai
   https://products-images.di-static.com/image/he-youzhi-cent-metiers-du-vieux-shanghai/9782848560625_Q-475x500-1.jpg
   The art of composing a single image to tell a full story.

5. Einsturzende Neubauten (site: https://neubauten.org/)
   https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/300x300/https:%2F%2Fimages.genius.com%2F767e29a51df19f743ee5344760e30094.600x600x1.jpg
   This band influence my art more than any other artist. Their artistic process pushes boundaries, building up ‘abnormal’ instruments/tools to create, to experiment and craft beauty...

[Stargazer31]

1: Lavender Towne
2: Naoko Taeuchi
3: Studio Ghibli/ Hayao Miyazaki
4: Jamie Hewett
5: Nick Sharatt

[KiabIce]

@RedLenai Wow!!! You have listed great artists too! Its so cool how we all have different artists that influence us!

[KiabIce]

Nice artists I will check them out too!

I agree Jean that is some cool looking art

[KiabIce]

OMG For shame I didn't list Hayao Miyazaki!!!!

Jamie Hewett has interesting art!

Thanks for listing your top favorite most influential artists!!

[Fuzzyman818]

1.Matt Groening

2.Dav Pilkey

3.Tsukasa Hojo

4.Butch Hartman

5.Antonio Prohías

[KiabIce]

@Fuzzyman818 I see how this has influenced your artwork! That is so cool I wish you the best on your comic endeavers!

[likhoradka]

In summary: mostly fashion illustrators...

1. Bob Peak
   

   

2. Rene Gruau
   

   

3. Pat Nagel
   

   

4. Claire Wendling
   

   

5. Alessandro Barbucci
   

   

There's also a bunch of uncredited artists in the Lifestyle Illustration of the 50s/60s books that have influenced and inspired me.

[Gleamiarts]

Oh I love Yoshitaka Amano's 1001 Nights. it's so pretty!

Mine change a lot but they are currently:
(These aren't in order btw

1 Masahiko Satou

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2 Junji Itou

3 Kaneoya Sachiko

4 ONE

5 Bob Peak

I recently splurged and got his art book as an early birthday gift and it's a treat to see his work
@likhoradka I'm also inspired by a lot of fashion illustrators too :0 drawing clothes is one of my favourite parts of drawing

There are other artists as well I like but can't remember their names from the top of my head but I really like 60s and 70s graphic design as well as Memphis graphic design

I wonder if my inspirations show in my work?

[likhoradka]

Ooh, yeah! Masahiko Sato's a good rep for 70s!

[FafasMcMelt]

Well, just thinking about them makes me feel so self conscious lol

1. Mike Deodato
   

   

2. Samwise Didier
   

   

3. Kentaro Miura
   

   

4. Ayami Kojima
   

5. Hayao Miyazaki
   

   

That's how the list is for now, at least

[euzalea]

1. Yoneyama Mai (https://twitter.com/yoneyamai)
2. Yuri Joon/QMENG (https://twitter.com/1920x1080pixel)
3. Coax (https://twitter.com/coaxxxxx)
4. Sam Yang (https://www.instagram.com/samdoesarts/)
5. WLOP (https://www.instagram.com/wlop/)

I actually follow a lot of artists everywhere and in a variety of fields (concept art to animation) so it's super difficult to choose, but my top 2 do animation work as well on top of illustration so that's what I aspire to do.

[crowkidart]

in no specific order:

Sergey Kolesov

Naoki Urasawa

Satoshi Kon

JC Leyendecker

Fiona Staples

[Kaydreamer]

For me, it's less individual artists and more the overall style of the TV shows I adore. I used to watch mostly anime, and my style reflected that, but as an artist, I wanted to start having more variety in the faces I drew - mostly where eyes, noses and facial structures were concerned - and my style began to shift into an anime/western hybrid. This happened around the same time that animated TV shows with such fusion styles were starting to blow up, which gave me heaps of examples and inspiration. My top ones would be:

Avatar

The Dragon Prince (Definitely my favourite, stylistically! I can't get enough of the art in this show.)

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I've got a pretty wide variety of artists that inspire me.

Stan Sakai

Herge

Dave Quiggle
I'll drop two of his I love his stuff so much

Bill Watterson
Okay there's two artists that inspired me directly to make my own comics. One is Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. I lived for this comic as a kid, and as an adult I admire his inking linework and ability to capture motion so much.

And the other is...
Eiichiro Oda
His masterpiece One Piece is the linchpin of my desire to make a huge and lengthy adventure comic.

[Zin_Trollborn]

• Kui Ryoko (Dungeon Meshi)
  

• Tetsuya Nomura (illustrator on FinalFantasy & Kingdom heart)
  

  

• Frank Frazetta (Illustrator on Conan the Barbarian)
  

  

• Alphonse Mucha (One of the founder of Art nouveau style)
  

  

• Sachiko Wada (Illustrator on Fire Emblem Heroes)
  

  

[RedLenai]

thank you! and yeah, mostly my work is hyper influenced on Qjo and Spoon, but not gonna lie the other three are so inspiring as well!

[yumeryuu]

KOHTA HIRANO (Hellsing Mangaka)

GUILLERMO DEL TORO (Pan's Labyrinth)

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN (Inception, Interstellar, Tenet)

[R.n.P]

number 1: Tite Kubo the author of bleach

number 2: Aaron McGruder the creator of the boondocks

number 3: Yongje Park the author of The god of highschool

number 4: Eichiro Oda the author of One Piece

number 5: Yuki Tabata the author of Black Clover

[KiabIce]

Nice, a lot of detail in your choices! I see where they are influencing you. Thanks for sharing it may inspire people as well as it inspired you