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Been seeing a few of these from some of my fave artists, and I thought it might be fun to do my own. So, here goes:
1. Classic video games. I'm a child of the NES generation, and some of the first things I remember trying to draw were out of the Nintendo game instruction manuals.

2. Chuck Jones. I grew up loving Looney Tunes, and later fell in love with the artists behind them. Jones's facial expressions are the definition of "cartoony", but so evocative it's insane.

3. Marvel Comics. I love all comics, but I've always had an affinity for the Marvel universe above all. It always felt so much more real than DC.

4. Bill Watterson. Calvin and Hobbes was the greatest newspaper strip ever. Not too many artists can do realism and cartoon styles equally well, and kudos f to the man for cramming so much art into the restrictively tiny newspaper format.

5. Osamu Tezuka. When your nickname is the "godfather or manga", you must be awesome. Not only did he singlehandedly create an entire art style, his volume of work is amazingly huge and diverse. He works wonders with simply designed characters. Plus, I just really love Astro Boy.

6. Don Bluth. Both as a Disney animator and on his own, Bluth's character designs are always spot-on and his animation amazingly fluid.

7. Bryan Lee O'Malley. I've only been reading Scott Pilgrim for a few years, but it's freaking awesome and more than once I've caught myself aping something he's done. He might be even more video-game obsessed than me.

8. nature. I love the outdoors, plants, animals, weather, the night sky, all that stuff. I'm not great at capturing it sometimes, but it profoundly affects my mood and artistic vibe. As for this specific picture, my name is raymondthefrog. You guess what my favorite animal is.

9. Frank Miller. he proves more than anyone that fancy shading and digital colors often serve as a crutch, and amazing things can be done with stark black and white.

10. Lupin III. Another of my favorite manga/anime series, and (I think) the start of my obsession with giving my characters sideburns.

11. Transformers. My favorite cartoon growing up. I'm a fan of anything that features giant robots wrecking stuff, but it all started here, and I still devote an unhealthy level of fandom to TF. One of the only properties I would consider getting as a tattoo.

12. Bruce Timm. I credit Batman: the Animated Series with keeping my love of comic books alive while my friends mostly moved on to other things back in grade school. Which is good for my art, but not so good for my bank account or wardrobe. Apparently tattered gym shorts and a Batman t-shirt is not appropriate attire for the real world.

13. Akira Toriyama. I was never really that into Dragon Ball, but I adored Chrono Trigger, and by default when DBZ came stateside, I had to support anything produced by "the Chrono Trigger guy." I picked up a few things from his style, manly by way of eyebrows.

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Been seeing a few of these from some of my fave artists, and I thought it might be fun to do my own. So, here goes:
1. Classic video games. I'm a child of the NES generation, and some of the first things I remember trying to draw were out of the Nintendo game instruction manuals.

2. Chuck Jones. I grew up loving Looney Tunes, and later fell in love with the artists behind them. Jones's facial expressions are the definition of "cartoony", but so evocative it's insane.

3. Marvel Comics. I love all comics, but I've always had an affinity for the Marvel universe above all. It always felt so much more real than DC.

4. Bill Watterson. Calvin and Hobbes was the greatest newspaper strip ever. Not too many artists can do realism and cartoon styles equally well, and kudos f to the man for cramming so much art into the restrictively tiny newspaper format.

5. Osamu Tezuka. When your nickname is the "godfather or manga", you must be awesome. Not only did he singlehandedly create an entire art style, his volume of work is amazingly huge and diverse. He works wonders with simply designed characters. Plus, I just really love Astro Boy.

6. Don Bluth. Both as a Disney animator and on his own, Bluth's character designs are always spot-on and his animation amazingly fluid.

7. Bryan Lee O'Malley. I've only been reading Scott Pilgrim for a few years, but it's freaking awesome and more than once I've caught myself aping something he's done. He might be even more video-game obsessed than me.

8. nature. I love the outdoors, plants, animals, weather, the night sky, all that stuff. I'm not great at capturing it sometimes, but it profoundly affects my mood and artistic vibe. As for this specific picture, my name is raymondthefrog. You guess what my favorite animal is.

9. Frank Miller. he proves more than anyone that fancy shading and digital colors often serve as a crutch, and amazing things can be done with stark black and white.

10. Lupin III. Another of my favorite manga/anime series, and (I think) the start of my obsession with giving my characters sideburns.

11. Transformers. My favorite cartoon growing up. I'm a fan of anything that features giant robots wrecking stuff, but it all started here, and I still devote an unhealthy level of fandom to TF. One of the only properties I would consider getting as a tattoo.

12. Bruce Timm. I credit Batman: the Animated Series with keeping my love of comic books alive while my friends mostly moved on to other things back in grade school. Which is good for my art, but not so good for my bank account or wardrobe. Apparently tattered gym shorts and a Batman t-shirt is not appropriate attire for the real world.

13. Akira Toriyama. I was never really that into Dragon Ball, but I adored Chrono Trigger, and by default when DBZ came stateside, I had to support anything produced by "the Chrono Trigger guy." I picked up a few things from his style, manly by way of eyebrows.