Do you have art heroes? People you look up to or are inspired by their cartoon and/or comic work and feel like it affected how you draw or make your own work?
And remember you don't have to love every single thing about a person to be inspired by them.
For me, no joke it's Albert Temple, and I'm not even a furry. I just love his attitude, his funloving nature, how he separated all his identities and stayed out of trouble, wanting nothing more than to draw comics in peace. What a legend. I always strive to have that passion, to keep on drawing no matter what.
David Lillie, the man behind Dreamkeepers. Not only just good at drawing dynamic poses, but extremely redpilled on the nature of life.
looks cool
comic name?
It's not a comic, it's a funny April 1st unrelated thing. The man's life's work is Dreamkeepers, which consists of the "main/srs" comic, which is made in volumes and gets released slowly, and the prequel/less srs comic which updates more often and it posted for free online BEFORE getting printed.
> but extremely redpilled on the nature of life.
How exactly?
Does not believe creating a police state is ever a good idea. Believes in freedom of speech and the right to protect yourself. With guns. Does not believe in censoring art (just rate it with correct age). Understands if you ban something there will ALWAYS be a black market to compensate.
How is any of that special? It all sounds like common sense regular ol thinki-
Oh wait
I forgot what world I live in for a second
There you go.
Carlos Nine.
Alberto Breccia.
Not a great way to start a thread.
Nice.
Vanripper
Sergio Aragones and Don Martin come to mind instantly. Got some good memories of my stepdad taking me to the used bookstore for retro MADs. Ralph Bakshi also comes to mind. I loved how cartoons could be more than children's entertainment, even if the material was entirely immature anyway. I think about Picasso a lot also, but i never really studied his work, I've just seen a handful of reprints in stores, but i was always drawn to the flatness and composition, the simplicity.
Also got me thinking about Patrick Nagel. Definitely a one-note, flash in the pan, but boy do i love it. It's distinct, bold. It may not be timeless, but it's made it's name.
Dude influenced the PS2 GTA artwork, I say more timeless than you put it.
lisa frank inspired this Ai bullshit, but it's still only an icon from a specific decade
>Discord dedicated to Ai slop
Some people really want to be in The Matrix™.
>lisa frank
Lisa Frank inspired sparkle dog furries, which while it's own bad, is not as bad as AI slop.
I like Lisa Frank
>lisa frank inspired this Ai bullshit
How?
What's the connection or is this some obscure joke only you understand?
google "lisa frank" and you'll see exactly what they're taking from
I know who Lisa Frank is and what her art looks like but I still don't understand how she is responsible for AI art, did she help program Dall-e or something?
Is she on the board of directors of OpenAI or something?
It just seems like a weird non sequitur
nta, but i guess he means that most AI prompters like her stuff? or maybe those who program it do? i wouldn't say she's responsible for it, but i've seen lots of AI art that attempts to emulate her stuff
my only guess is that Lisa Frank is the most "crazy" kinda art that still appeals to complete and utter normalgays, so it's gonna be the most common one they think of when they think of more unusual artstyles
and y'know how AI is... mass appeal and all that
My childhood dentist had a genuine Nagel print in the waiting room alongside a bunch of 1980s pastel pink/blue bias southwestern art. That print is probably cursed with the memories of thousands of screaming terrified childrens and financially pissed parents, but what a keepsake it would be.
OP's question :
>chuck jones
>malcolm earle
>stephen silver (the gold standard)
>Dana Terrance
>Tracy J. Butler
And the major fanart people
>aeolus06
>centurii chan (disappointed she never did Rome in Judea)
>callmedrawgay
>Macabre1031
>the guy who did moronic animal babies
>Noor-99 on deviant art
>Hotrod2001
>Galagala
there's probably hundreds more that can be named, but these are the high spots that are hitting right now.
> Cinemaphile resident israelite
Jesus Christ you kids need to get a life. Why do you know the name of fan artists? Let alone look up to them. Definition of NGMI
There's nothing wrong with knowing the names of fan artists, you hyper-sensitive homosexual. What exactly do you have going on in YOUR life that entitles you to be this much of a judgmental douchebag? Sit the frick down.
Blow your brains out homosexual, steam it, make it well produced. I’ll subscribe if it’s entertaining.
Looks like I struck a nerve. Your tears could power an entire city lol.
wow, first person itt to mention the handles of internet people and fanartists, nice nice
>the guy who did moronic animal babies
huh?
moronic animal babies is a Newgrounds series of only a few episodes. It evolved fast and was probably the funniest and most mature material on the site.
lol sounds interesting, post some
Here's the entire collection : https://www.newgrounds.com/series/moronic-animal-babies
Nagel also died in 84 right as he was getting big, there's no telling what he'd be up to had he lived.
>died in 1984
>young
>assumed AIDS
>was actually a heart attack from and undiscovered birth defect
Huh...
Anybody who loses sight in one of their eyes (or a whole eye) and still keeps going in this visual medium.
is this referring to someone in particular ?
Well, there's Tex Avery, who got blinded in his left through an office prank gone wrong.
Also soviet animator Boris Dyozhkin lost his left in the war abut went on to direct many shorts featuring "Team Meteor".
Was it Buronson or Tetsuo from Hokuto No Ken who lost an eye?
Robert Crumb. He's the epitome of artistic freedom, drawing whatever he wants and not giving a frick.
He's cool
You know a black man is based when he somehow makes being a furry artist look cool.
Black nerds and black autists are great, it's like the urban unga bunga shoot n loot genes are largely completely shut down by the autism juice
That's not at all what I was saying, (you) room- temp IQ racist. Go back to your moron containment board.
Moebius
I'm not trying to start a flame war or some shit, but unironically Jahn Cay is one of my art heroes.
He did do some great art. And some not so great. His philosophy is essentially
>you can only draw lamps, lamps are objectively better
>you do NOT draw chairs, chairs are objectively worse
So, purely art-wise, he is only 50% good.
The problem isn't his art, the problem is him
I don't CARE c**t
Look, i'm just saying, his stuff is nice. Let's pretend that cans without labels shit never existed.
the people who made ReBoot and Beast Wars i have such great admiration for.
Radical centrist semi-based canadians from the 90s were a great people.
All that I really remember about him is hie gene catlow webcomic and his death revealing that he was his own girlfriend.
Hahah Miyazaki, Tim Sale, Darwyn Cooke, John Byrne and Frank Miller for me, comics wise. René Gruau otherwise.
>Hahah Miyazaki
First time seeing anyone call him that. Original.
Autocorrect got the best of me
Shotaro Ishinomori
Is that connected to Tezuka in any way (reboot/remake)?
>Is that connected to Tezuka in any way (reboot/remake)?
Iron Mask Cross/Iron Mask Detective Gen is an original Superhero manga series by Ishinomori and has no connection to Tezuka's work, aside from the visual inspiration from Tezuka that can be seen throughout all of his comics.
Okay, got it. Don't read Shotaro, see.
Akira Toriyama. He not only did he impact anime, he basically invented the prototype of the CalArts bean beanmouth style 25 years before it became the norm for US cartoons
I love Stan Sakai's work!
After hearing that he never really heard the reception of the public to his work through most of his carrer, i'd say Carl Barks became my art hero. To have the will power to do art for the sake of it for years is really inspiring.
Also, his work ethic and humility. It's honestly pretty wild that Disney would just request comics from this wizard living in the boonies no questions asked, and he'd deliver top-shelf work time after time.
ngl he looks cool as hell
>We work together 'cause Opposites Attract!
Definitely Todd McFarlane
I just love stories who come from nothing and turn that nothing into something, it’s even more inspiring when it involves an artist. The dude was living in a trailer, coming from work and pushing himself to get better at art in the nighttime and got rejections after rejections, but that didn’t stop him, he kept going until he got one yes and he did all this while being a rebel and helping to revolutionize comics and the toy industry is beyond inspiring. He made it and he it his way. No one has a right to sing Frank Sinatra’s My Way more than him.
There’s another artists who was raised in the South Bronx who taught himself to draw by reading art books in the library, I forgot his name but that also inspires the frick out of me. If you have a dream and you believe in it nothing can stop you
>Do you have art heroes?
Yes. The big israeli New York cartoonist that revolutionized animation, NOT ONCE, but twice
I was just about to post this crazy fricker. Bashki is the man. His stuff can be hit or miss sometimes but he's my hero because the dude is a dreamer. He saw the medium he loved turn into a big industry for babies and did anything in his power to change that. Maybe it was a gigantic task for just one man but he had the type of balls that lack so much in the industry this days. And at the same time lay the groundwork of what would've become the renaissance of creative lead TV animation in the 90's.
He might not have been a rapist, but he was so difficult to work with, he pushed away a good half of the animators working on his movies. It wasn't just censorship and suppression of his stories that resulted in half baked movies with tons of rotoscoping.
Does Bakshi have any of his movies in blu ray? I’ll like to buy some
Fritz is on Bluray.
>made a show based on one of his main passions in life
>was a genuinely creative and funny show with imaginative art and characters
>even with all the success he stayed humble and pretty private, never did any controversial shit
The ideal artist path
>never did any controversial shit
homie, he got cancer from unprotected pre-marital sex.
Here OP
www.keenspot.com/keencon2001.html
www.keenspot.com/keencon/sandiego2001/daytwo.html
>that pre-common-era web page design
>those uniquely early webcomic artstyles in the thumbnails
oooooooooooooooooooooooooouh
Andrew Hussie
Back during his hayday his absurdist sense of humor and odd, disjointed autistic intellect inspired me
Now... I just wonder if I'll go as mad as him
Hopefully if I do it'll be in the profound artistic kinda way, not the mental crisis kind
Oh well, would still bang that juggapussy
This. I can never forget how in love I was and still am with his stuff. No matter how vitriolic and resentful I get over how terribly his works went to shit I can't deny the huge amount of creative inspiration for me.
do (you) find you tend to be more inspired by artists who match certain aspects of you? like gender, race, religion, culture, or something more abstract like life experiences and character? or do you not observe a pattern in that regard?
>inb4 autism
My art was compared to R Crumb, and after finding more about him. hehe yea.
In terms of more super level aspects, not really. I don't really see any Arab artists to relate to or get inspired by, but think abstractly I tend to gravitate to quiet low-key artists
surface-level*
Tetsuya Nomura
Thanks for helping me get to know him better. I read his comics for a bit while I was more into furry web comics and didn't know much about him. Sorry to find out he has passed away.
He was a nice chill dude to interact with on FA
His comic reflected that, even when themes got harsh in it.
Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken, John R. Dilworth, Go Nagai and Bruce Timm in the comics/cartoons industry side.
Alfons Mucha on general illustration.
Nuzlocke comics like "Hale: Emerald Hard Mode" by Adonowitz and "Tales of Sinnoh/Myths of Unova" by Ky-Nim inspired me as well with how they both handled their art, storytelling and character interaction.
good choices, anon
>Alfons Mucha
he's been inspo for me for ages now, didn't expect to see him mentioned here since he's not really the usual comic or cartoonist but very good taste
>didn't expect to see him mentioned here since he's not really the usual comic or cartoonist but very good taste
Mucha is VERY influential in comic art, especially with cover illustrations like Adam Hughes.
You kinda see Mucha mainly in the more psychedelic comic covers.
I mainly got introduced to Mucha due to my interest in 60s psychedelic rock and the concert posters created in this "Art Nouveau on Acid" style.
I gotta read those comics
no u dont
>Albert Temple
What a wild story that is to unpack.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/mtkwxr/furry_fandomwebcomics_four_for_the_price_of_one/
For me personally it's Erin Middendorf, I made print outs of her work and spent hours trying to draw like her.
More recently Brian Sutton has become an influence for me.
What is this thread all about again?
Supposedly, to mention artists you really like. For most of it, its anons showing their terrible taste.
And nothing is more terrible, than not having any at all 😉
Can you little b***hes get a room already? Goddamn, people on this board have a way of ruining everything
Didn't he have like an entire fake social circle and wife whose social media profiles he maintained for years to create the illusion that he had friends?
In terms of NSFW artists, one of my major inspirations is an artist called kinkycoyote. Sadly he stopped drawing, but while he did, he made some amazing pieces that didn't jerk your dick, but also your heart!
>didn't jerk your dick, but also your heart!
And that's what art is all about
He has a cute style, seems so innocent
For me, it was Jack Kirby, Vaughn Bode, Bill Ward, Moebius, Richard Corben, H.R. Giger, Patrick Nagel, and Masamune Shirow.
qmud
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