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Apr 2021

I just can't not mention Sailor Moon because that's where it's all started xD (Itou Ikuko, because it's Itou's style that will forever be imprinted on my retina)
Kajishima Masaki (Tenchi Muyo)
Kaori Yuki (Angel Sanctuary)
Hirano Kouta (Hellsing)
Soejima Shigenori (Persona games)
George Kamitani (Odin's Sphere)
Sachin Teng (original artist)

Big props for the Kamen Rider GIF. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

mike deodato jr (the biggest one, specially for anatomy, but I also love the faces)
araki (for general aesthetic, and I love how not stright forward his actions sequences are)
ayami kojima (his influence was more likely noticed in my last work, The Ghoul, than my current one, but still)
miura (i love his designs and aesthetic)

obviously there's a lot more, but these are the ones that come to mind

Well
Mine is short. My plot/storytelling comes from books. Tolkien, Christhie, JK Rowling, Dan Brown
Drawing Akira Toriyama, Masami Kurumada, Yoshihiro Kuroiwa, Kazuki Takahashi.

This reminds of of the thread I made about comic book art styles -

I believe my artstyle is still evolving in some way, though a bit less then before. A lot of mangaka and cartoonists have inspired my way of drawing and a few examples would be:

Hirohiko Araki (Creator of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, his art inspired me and I love his dynamic panelling)

Kohei Horikhoshi (Creator of My Hero Academia, I took a lot of inspiration from the anatomy of his characters)

Hajime Isayama (Creator of Attack on Titan, I love his writing and the shading in his manga)

Pendleton Ward (Creator of Adventure Time, my earlier artstyle was very similar to that of Adventure Time at first)

Anthony Roux (Creator of Wakfu, also influenced my writing and some of my artstyle)

Here's my comic for you to check out :smiley:

My style is heavily influenced by Avatar The Last Airbender, and The Dragon Prince. They're probably the biggest. In addition to that are:

  • Laia Lopez (Character art.)
  • Loish (Character art.)
  • Angry Mikko (Environments/colours.)
  • GDBee (Environments/colours.)

Like a lot of young artists, I started drawing in a manga style using one of those "learn to draw manga" books like what they have at school book fairs. After years of messing around, I started to actually get serious about art shortly after I graduated college. And like most people who drew manga as a kid, I wanted to move to a more western style.

Enter my single greatest influence, Josiah Brooks, aka Jazza, a prolific YouTube artist. I like his style, and his old art tutorials were a fantastic resource for improvement. I basically straight up copied his style when I first started making comics. Too poor of an artist and too busy of an engineer to worry about my own style, you know.

Then I started to drift back towards a more manga-like style, inspired in part by the work of Akira Toriyama. And, a certain artist of adult content, who I will not name. It seems inspiration comes from unexpected directions.

Ironically, I feel like I've come into my own "style" by not caring about it at all. I think that's the right way to go. Too many burgeoning artists are overly concerned with "style," when they should really be focusing on making things and improving.

Hayao Miyazaki, Terry Pratchett, Eva Ibbotston, Jacqueline Wilson, to name a few.

My biggest ones would have to be:

  • Charles Schulz (Peanuts)
  • Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)
  • Fred Gallagher (Megatokyo)
  • Kiyohiko Azuma (Azumanga Daioh, Yotsuba&!)
  • Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz)

I think I have way more to mention that don't seem to come to my mind, but my biggest inspiration art-wise is Studio Trigger (and also Gainax with Gurren Lagann) because it is so dynamic and I really love the style!

This is an odd combination, but here are what I think my biggest influences are:
-Happy Tree Friends
-Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim)
-John Allison and Max Sarin (Giant Days, Bad Machinery)
-Later Gainax and Studio Trigger
-Turn of the 2010s Studio Shaft (Particularly Zetsubou Sensei, Hidamari Sketch, and Madoka Magica)
-Kyoto Animation
-2010s Cartoons, particularly Amphibia and Gravity Falls

Here's my list:
- Aaron Alexovich (Heart Shaped Skull)
- Johji Manabe (Outlanders, Caravan Kidd)
- Yukito Kishiro (Battle Angel Alita)
- Carlos Ezquerra (Judge Dredd, Rifle Brigade)
- Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo)
- Sam Young (Zero Assassin)
- Masamune Shirow (Dominion, Ghost In The Shell)
- Trudy Cooper (Platinum Grit)

Mind you, looking at my stuff, you probably wouldn't be able to see it.

Steven Universe - influenced the way I draw expressions and how I use shape language and body types in my character designs.
ONE (creator of Mob Psucho 100 and One Punch Man) - Influence me to draw very bold and expressively but still keeping it simple and readable.
Murata (Artist the on One Punch man manga) - Really makes me want to strive for good craftmanship and an understanding of realism!

Annnd a whole bunch of different comics artists have inspired me to work on my lineart and play with where to keep things simple and where to use more detail. Sometimes I feel more inspired by western superhero comics, sometimes it's more of the french-belgium style and sometimes I feel like manga is what influences me the most.

Kentaro Miura - I love the way he draws details and his use of cross-hatching. The fact that his panels are so technically impressive also doesn't stop him from injecting motion and speed into them.

Go Nagai - This one may be a bit iffy for some people, but I love the way he draws cartoonish, exaggerated character and combines them with detailed, realistic backgrounds.

Moebius - His environmental artwork is incredible, and he never lets an opportunity to draw an immersive background pass by.

Katsuhiro Otomo - Once again, backgrounds and details. So many of them.

I'd say those are some of the main ones among others. There are also a bunch of miscellaneous artists that draw in a more chibi or cute style that I'm trying to incorporate into my work.

I’d say Eiichiro Oda, Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihiro Togashi
Strangely enough, although I was a die hard fan of Oda and Togashi, I kinda grew distant to their work. However some similarities to their art is in my artstyle, mostly in design and expressions.
Rumiko Takahashi tho....I’m somewhat lukewarm towards her work. I mean, I like the manga I know of her’s (mostly Ranma1/2 and Inu Yasha). But I never considered myself a fan. Maybe a casual fan.
Yet, I kinda see some influence on how I draw hair and eyes.

Omg everyone has so much influence I feel like I'm missing in this department :: joy:
When I started 3 years ago it was like a lot of you
Tite Kubo (who even now I think is one of the best artstyle mangaka)
And Eiichro Oda for his huge universe and his colorful characters
But somewhere along the way I kinda lost both and made a simpler style ^^