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hello my name is erin and I am influenced by boobsIm bouta go into an essay about my influences. Watch out.
I draw a lot of canines, and the breeds I model my generic "wolf" outline off of the most are huskies and border collies; I like the shape of their faces more than actual wolves, who have beady lil eyes and really sloped foreheads (that don't leave a lot of room for expressions or eyebrows). Huskies are a really emotive breed in general, but border collies just look nice to me. I don't have a real rationale besides just liking border collies. Also I'm a furry artist so obligatory Disney.
Aesthetic-wise it's kind of all over the place...
I fucking love first-person shooters, and Halo 3 was the game that introduced me to cyberpunk aesthetic. I haven't had an excuse to make any post-apocalyptic/sci-fi narratives or characters, but when designing clothes for a character, "cyberpunk" is always the first thing I search for inspiration; I love the dark colors and smooth lines of it, even though a lot of design elements are too difficult or complex for me to replicate. Also I fUCKING LOVE robots; I've been on a competitive robotics team (through FRC ) for four years and I'm currently majoring in Robotics in college as an adult. Computer science is my jam.
Comparatively, everything sultry, and dark, and smokey gives me such an artistic boner. I LOVE Seattle and Washington state, I love the cloudy skies and pine trees and mist in the mornings. I will go out driving at 8 in the morning just to watch the fog roll in. Related to this, Film Noir is just as cool as cyberpunk to me, but I can't replicate it for the life of me. There's so much shading and composition involved... I just don't have the skills yet.
Lastly, the art and culture of the American 1940s is what I base most of my creative decisions off of. Cowboys and Indians, Pinup girls, Casinos, Smoking Lounges, Military Color Schemes, Wavy Hair, Lounge Singers, Dark Lipstick... You know. "Glamour".
I pretty much JUST learned how to draw humans, and whenever I get confused (Which I do a lot), I turn back to the cartoons I used to watch when they were still airing on Cable as a kid. Action cartoons have my favorite proportions, and everything (outside of DC animations ) have pretty good variations between body types worth referencing.
In terms of coloring, I generally categorize characters into "dark eyelashes", or "light eyelashes". People with black eyelashes are my fav, and the whole outline of the eye is there. In people with light hair, though, the whites of their eyes barely contrasts against the rest of their face, like how human eyes in Scooby-Doo are drawn. I've never found light-colored eyes attractive either; they actually kind of creep me out. Blue eyes make every feature around it look pig-colored and sunburnt, so I try not to have any blue-eyed OCs (besides one adopted one, Britney , who wears contacts). Dark eyes have big, adorable pupils, and light eyes get teeny tiny pupils that accentuate the uncanny weirdness.
When I get to draw eyes with a full outline, I reference eyes in Coastal Native Art . It kind of reminds me of Toon Link in practice. There's so much variation between artists that the style really can't be attributed to just one tribe, so really just say "inspired by..." and draw reference from whichever artist's style would look best for the angle.
The shapes used in Coastal art share a lot of visual parallels with cyberpunk aesthetic too, being in between smooth and geometric. Don't tell me you've never seen silhouettes like this on the outside of a spaceship before. Imperial Shuttles are even the same shape as orca vertebrae . Coincidence?
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