Who or What influenced your Art or Writing Style?

[Gaines 986]

Not every artist or writer is "self taught." Who or what influenced your current style? 

My art style is mostly influenced by people who worked on cartoon shows or games such as Lauren Faust, Taylor Maw, and Todd Kauffman, but with a touch of Jhonen Vasquez. Meanwhile my writing style (when I even attempt to write a short story) is influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare, two of my favorite authors, but with a touch of Erin Hunter, a team of authors who write the Warriors series.

Edited July 28, 2020 by Gaines

[SharpWit 2,311]

I'm one of the self taught ones which is a little frustrating at times because it's difficult to try other techniques because they feel wrong, and if someone wants to know how to draw something from me I have difficulty showing them. The one exception might be what I'll call the "hair style" which is fantastic for pine trees. It consists of just several short lines coming from specific areas I guess, so you create something without feeling as though you have, but it works!

I have terrible vision, so when I don't have my glasses on everything's kind of a Monet style which may have had an affect on me both in how I draw but also my preference for realism.

I desperately need to learn a writing style because all I have currently is Wikipedia article, stereotypical evil antagonist negotiator, and exactly how I talk.

[dead account 2,689]

My writing style didn't get influenced at all. I don't read books, so I just write what feels right to me and even change grammar rules to my own liking.

I started to draw not that long ago and it was similar in the beginning. Almost no influence. It was mostly inspired by the Anime style, even though I don't like the mainstream style, but it's the closest to what I like. But drawing is not the same as writing, I realized it's very difficult without references. My thoughts lack the details that objects actually have in real life. So I changed my way of doing and my influences are actually just random things I see sometimes. Could be other art or my own observation in real life.

Currently I try to figure out what exactly it is that make specific things appealing to me. This is not easy, because no one can teach me how to draw in my own taste of course. I have to look at dozens of images and analyze them. It is fun.

[Asbel Lhant 2,305]

I first started using the script style a long time ago on another forum back when I was still a newbie to RPing and learned it from someone I met there. After that I learned from pros.

[Shadicus 18,937]

That’s hard to say. I mostly draw fan art, and I try to mirror “canon” styles as closely as I can. So when I draw original stuff, I end up using all kinds of stylistic choices from all the other characters I’ve learned to draw, depending on what I want.

Sonic the Hedgehog characters, a little bit of anime in my humans, and a LOT of Western Cartoons, from Hanna-Barbara, to Warner Bros., to Disney.

I like a lot of soft curves and bright (but not garish) children’s cartoon pallets.

Here’s an example of one of my original designs:

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Edited July 29, 2020 by ShadOBabe

[Ittoni 532]

At first in my child years it was Ranma 1/2, Rumiko Takahashi. Which wasn't that good of an influence to be honest. And also Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama for a short time.

I've always been self taught so i didn't have structure or technique, i just tried to remember the shapes in their finished form. Then i spent 10 years crying internally and externally because i got destroyed by someone and i don't have self esteem, so yeah. Lately i've been trying to get back to it but learning some structures first and drawing techniques. I want to develop my own style but for that i need the bones to actually understand how shapes work so i don't have to remember every detail.

[Pastel Heart 6,459]

My writing style is influenced in large part by the works of Nasu Kinoku (I never wrote or RPed seriously until I read Tsukihime). Spiritually, I've been influenced by things like Blade Runner, Ib, MLP, Earthbound and Night In the Woods. I can channel Lovecraft, Urobuchi and Itou Junji on my darkest days as well~ 

Urobuchi is my biggest inspiration and my hero basically but I can't do the dark, gritty settings justice like he does. I've always wanted to create something like that though 

[Cagey 4,124]

Books I read as a kid influenced my writing style, and some of my favorite fandom artists influenced my art, or at least that was my goal.

[Vefka 1,492]

I'm self-taught artist and as a 3D art lover I was influenced by the lack of realism in many 3D artworks in fandom. I thought "Why nobody wants to make 3D ponies covered in fur and with mane actually made of hair?". So I made a couple of artworks and understood why a very few people do this - it's Incredibility difficult both for you and your computer. So I got rid of fur and left only hair-mane

[CheeryFox 23,747]

Don Bluth and Charles Dickens are heavy influences.

[ExplosionMare 17,866]

MLP (all gens), FNAF, and various artists have influenced my style. I used to follow the pony one very strictly but overtime I developed a bit of a style.

As for writing, I get a lot of inspiration from mental illness documentaries (best way to learn is to learn from someone who has a mental disorder), my favorite books, and even Scott Cawthon (FNAF creator). A lot of the inspiration I get for writing is used for shorter sentences and informative topics, so the inspiration is more of a guide for things I struggle with.

[Dashy 4 Ever 4,830]

I influenced myself. Might not make much sense, but that's how I'd describe it.

Edited July 29, 2020 by Sondash Studios

[BlankFlank777 197]

My art is influenced by my own art and spirituality, nature, and way too many other people's art to list them, but mostly noise, experimental, psychedelic, and punk artists. Melt-Banana is my biggest lyrical influence and probably my biggest influence overall out of any other artists. Merzbow and Boredoms are big ones too.

[Splashee 28,471]

I get influenced by programmers, how they write code, text and so on. That's where I gave learned to type

[Dreambiscuit 6,852]

My biggest influence is Ralph McQuarrie, a concept artist for the original Star Wars trilogy. I learned shadows, shading and reflected light from him, which made a huge difference in the quality of my art. I also learned a lot about dynamic poses and fluid design from watching cartoons. Loosening up and feeling free with my drawings helped me to be more fearless and unafraid of making mistakes. Getting loose is what makes great art. As far as writing, I’m still a long way off from being the writer I want to be, even with great authors to learn from I can’t seem to manage it the way I want, at least so far. But I’ll just keep at it till something clicks.

[TBD 16,734]

Tim Burton is one of my major influence when I was younger and he still is. Not by how he draw his people but how he makes most of all his art morbid and romantic. It just really sticks to me, because it's not edgy and he really put a lot of charms and classy looks into his work. Burton and so are the rest of "noir" TV show like Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock or Perry Mason has influenced my writing.  The slow-pacing but yet suspenseful and mysterious is what I think often tells a good story. Especially when there's a meaning behind it.  Most of the time, experiences itself too, also influences my art and writing. 

Recently, Hirohiko Akai the artist and writer for JBA, actually made me appreciated my own work more than ever. My style has always been bold and non-smooth coloring unlike many traditional artists who colors their with smoothness and non bold. Akai, uses bold and strong coloring into his traditional art and seeing someone else who does the way of coloring and drawing, make me feel more confidence. He is the only manga artist so far that really inspired me because he's not just telling a story but he also makes arts as well. I have always been an cartoon artist and afraid of drawing realistic people or close to it. But seeing his works and style gave me a boost of confidences to try it and now I love it. 

I tends to mix and match with the styles that has inspired me because it also expressed me as a person as well. 

[Splashee 28,471]

I'm influenced by programmer Yuji Naka, and his pixel perfect math!

[ChikaChan 7,312]

I got mines from 3 youtubers

1.Jazza

2.Kattvalk

3.Tsitra360

[The Wife of Law 18,772]

No particular person influenced my decision to mainly write insert fan fictions. It was the genre itself that got me into it. I read a lot of them and decided I wanted to try it.