Going to list and describe why each of these people are so influential to me, my art and general living.
She always seems to draw things that make me, scream, squeal and howl. Whether it be in gorgeousness, the overall creativity, the gravity of colour or the filling of warm thoughts. She's by far one of my favoured artists in the world. She's always working so hard and is evident in her artwork. She strives for nothing but the best in her eyes. If I could meet her, and be a shadow or even have the honor of her being my mentor I would surely die and fight my way out of heaven to learn from her.
Charlie is a magnificent artist, to whom I envy her fluid lines and sense of elegance. I look at her work and I don't feel jealous that she's better, perfected her style or even has success I have yet to taste. I feel invigorated, and wonderful to know such art exists and that someone in their own right and way loves to put pen to paper like I do. I want to love my art they way she does, and I want to aspire holding beauty in subtle strokes by my hands.
This is the guy who made my teen years so freaking awesome. I love Final Fantasy, always have, always will (even when they get to their 50th game). The majority of the stories are fantastic and magical. His artwork is where I derive a vast amount of my own, in the sense that his drawings are stylized and yet hold a realism to them. I love detail and design more than simplicity but everything he does is relatable to me in the sense it already feels like home. This guy, makes good games. This guy, is kinda who I wanna be in 25 years. And Kingdom Hearts, c'mon Disney and Square? Crapola, that's good.
She is a textile artist/teacher from Tokyo. Even though her art is in her clothes I think she has a great mixture of colours and patterns. I always love what's she's wearing and it inspires me ot be more daring with my clothes and let he otehr side that is not always looked at show. My inspiration from her is her endless creativity in clothing. If anything I could only wish to study and try and understand how she comes up with these fashions and try to inject them into my own art with my personal style .
Magdalena Radziej aka Harpiya
Someone I happened across on DA. I know there are so many other amazing artists, but I've actually tried to imitate her style for fun, and somehow developed more of a solid workflow that I enjoy for myself through it. I've never felt so connected to her art, as a third party. I look and I feel inspired to learn as much as she did through constant practice. I understand that its personal drive but it's really nice to want to live up to something. I enjoy her freedom, fearless choice of colour and obvious heart in her work.
Chris Newman aka Viviphyd
Found Chris from one of my watcher's, they happened to favourite one of my works and lurking as I do I came across this spectacular gallery. It was an instant falling in love feeling. I cannot begin to tell you the euphoria I get when viewing his art. His definition of form determined by colour and the addition and subtracting of those spaces using the background colour to "erase". It's great fun to view. I can learn a lot about choice of colour, execution and figuring out what details are important.
Kim Hyung Tae
He made Magna Carta's freakishly beautiful characters. I got to give thanks to the guy who made me want to understand how to make a human body look so ... delicious? I don't know how to say it but thanks, and I want to understand his sense of colouring. It's great ;_; Aspirations! His dress design and overall style is what was mine for a good solid 8 years in the making and though I would love to do it, I think it's something more pushed back for now, while I focus on trying to make simple in design animations and layouts.
Found this artist just browsing for reference photos. I really enjoy her sense of unity, lighting and storytelling that she exhibits in her works. She is a strictly underwater photographer and I find her location medium challenging. The most intoxicating part of her photographs for me is her colour schemes.
A repeat artist for the Guild Wars series. Design and concepts are so wonderfully composed. Pleasing to the eye, and captures a beautifully natural flow in technique. I enjoy following the energy in ecah image. I feel like I learn a lot just by viewing his work; the sense of depth and colour theory is great. Especially since I enjoy the Sylvari a lot; so many organic feels.
I actually went to school with Nic, she was two years older than me and has already graduated from Sheridan. I helped on her thesis film, Pillow Talk. I think what I like about Nic's design the most is the lines and her voluptuous ladies! I'm a big fan of drawing the lasses as well. Her style opens my eyes more, and I've adopted some of the more simplistic views that shes uses in her own work. I tried working on post it notes for other than storyboarding and actual post-it noting and it was like O-o why haven't I done this before? A good role model and someone I'm actual able to talk to and connect with is also pretty cool for an inspiration :)
Sunny Go aka @thesunnygo
Met this student guy on Instagram because he liked one of my photos and not I get a kick out of looking at his illustrations. Oh, god. Just so nice. What else? He's a student like me wishing, trying and working towards getting better. That's pretty good inspiration is it not?
