Popping in to show that I do, in fact, live. I paid for this thing, so I better be. Posts of actual artwork might follow, fyi.

As seen on a journal at iianbe's account on y!Gallery. Who had ripped it from someone else who started it. Hope it spreads! It's kind of cool.

Artistic and Stylistic Influences
("Bearing in mind there are a TON of artists I admire, but whose work hasn't visibly influenced my own...")

What artists have influenced your own artistic style? Explain.

First of all, I personally believe that style =/= skill, but skill also does not necessarily equal a kind of "style." I just think the the word "style" itself tends to get thrown around a lot by the basis of what genre of art you like to draw. That's not the same thing as having a style/taste/technical skill for drawing all sorts of things BUT ANYWAY--

1. Audrey Kawasaki A small, charming little japanese girl who draws disembodied heads, shoulders and arms of young girls in a semi-erotic fashion. Paints on wood in oil and pencil, modifies the wood sizes herself, and hand selects all of her own frame work. This kind of hands-on effort to take care of your own medium that you are so comfortable with using for big pieces of work is something that I really admire and want to do myself. Her girls seem to take on personalities as she draws them out. Her painting style really influenced my level of taste as far as my own erotic drawings. *flails*

2. Jaime Hewlett I have never read Tank Girl, but I want to. His lines are very distinguishable, not only from other artists, but also depending on the medium he used/uses, and also on the timeline from TG to early Gorillaz to late Gorillaz to Monkey (which is my favourite of his most recent work, artistically). Hewlett has a grittiness that's just completely beautiful.

3. Klar Yeah, I know. Her attention to small-ass details and ambient light fixings on colourings though are amazzzing. She finishes a composition with a start and an end point, and sometimes never finishes the whole body of a character - she makes a border of his clothes, for example.

4. Alphonse Mucha I can see art nouveau in klar's work, actually, with Mucha's attention to UNDERARM FLESH is wonderful. And also detailed near eastern designs like mandala's, etc.

5. Craig Thompson Talented with a nib pen and art brush for filling his comics (a comic memoir, which was a good 600 pages), his story telling in that kind of pacing is excellent.

6. Aubrey Beardsley From when I was in middle school, his pen work was fabulous but his concepts and illstrations were WEIRD. Being older, I understand the artistic movement and progress and reason a little better. But some illustrations creeped me out too much. <3

Bonus! Anais Nin. Not an artist in the sense of drawing (although she drew sketches in her diaries), but a writer of many things. Her short erotic stories compiled into anthologies is what got me into her writing. No one writes with such femininity and truthfulness as Nin did.