Who inspires your art style?

[DemonzuLucy]

My inspiration still is the everyday, the atmosphere or weather from the day, i took pictures sometimes so i can use them as reference of the colors of clouds, how lights affects the houses, the nature. It's like unconsciously. But if i have to say like something specific, we go back long long time ago. The animation of Gumball, the graphics and atmosphere from GTA 4 and 5, and what i still consider ahead of time the animation of the movie Haruhi Suzumiya animation. But that was in the very beginning, almost childhood and my otaku phase, there's still more and i don't think I'm the only one, as we evolve we like other things that complement our style, but those were like the foundations of everything, my purpose is to make an style close to reality mixed with animation and surpass my own inspirations, which makes me want to surpass myself everytime. And make that young Lucy boy happy and proud

[ThunderChicken]

Back in the early 1990's my art style was very obviously influenced by The Simpsons:

Eventually I outgrew that "Simpsons" phase though, and moved toward something more my own (with a very slight Bloom County influence)

The actual story telling style was a mixture of newspaper-comic-inspired one-offs with only a few panels, and some longer stories similar to the old Archie comics (I was a huge Archie comic fan back in the 1980's).

When I came back from my multi-decade hiatus I went with more realism.

I do want to come up with a comic style though, because I really do want to tell the Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days story in a comic

[abigaillmartin]

Lots of anime expressions and a lot of 2D cartoons from the early 2000s.

[simplykit]

Manga / Comic artists:

• Akira Toriyama
• Tsugumi Ohba
• Yoshihiro Togashi
• Eiichiro Oda
• Jack Kirby
• Jim Lee
• Bob Kane

Film directors:

• Steven Spielberg
• Robert Zemeckis
• John Carpenter

Authors:

• J.R.R. Tolkien
• George R.R. Martin

[jwabeasley]

Oh and Totally Spies...

Now that's a dangerous series to take inspiration from! It's a great show but the subtext is less arcane these days then it used to be...

[jwabeasley]

Lavendertowne was my biggest inspiration for developing my art style

Her YT videos were a big reason why I started posting to Tapas instead of starting with Webtoon or somewhere else.

[CarltonIsaac]

Reminded me of a thread I made five years ago -

https://forums.tapas.io/t/how-many-comic-book-art-styles-have-you-tried-drawing/52848