Do you remember what cartoon, anime or video game first inspired you to draw?
TF2, the game along with the concept art
>>2494801
When I was just a lad, I watched a lot of Godzilla and played lots of SNES starfox. Lots of monsters and polygonal spaceships were drawn.
Then I stopped drawing for 20 years, but picked it up again after watching KLK 3yrs ago.
>>2494801
Spiral Knights
>>2494807
How much have you improved in three years senpai?
Definitely the god of war franchise. The concept art in those games is so dope.
Dragon ball, one piece, egoraptor and onyng where what inspired me to draw as a kid.
>>2494808
yess
Seeing my best friend being better than me at something
>>2494814
I feel like this is bait...
>improved
Not significantly by /ic/ standards. But personally, I notice that I can draw faster, add more meaningful detail, and use new tools (pen, markers, digi).
My tastes have matured a bit, drawing less animu, drawing an occasional dude, trying backgrounds. It's been a good ride.
>>2494801
Street Fighter II
I remember seeing collector cards of Ken and Zangief, and being inspired.
That said, I have little interest in anime beyond having enjoyed Dragon Ball / Z and Pokemon.
Also, Ninja Turtles had cool looking art when I was a kid.
On that note, what's a good 90's Street Fighter art book? I'd like a physical copy.
I was doodling ever since I was little. I liked to copy Tom & Jerry and Nickelodeon cartoons and shit like that (Cause what kid doesn't), but I think the actual spark came from Invader ZIM when I was young. Not because it was absolutely gorgeous or anything, but because, at the time, it was one of the few cartoons that used dynamic angles, had great music score, some really impressive shots, CG that still holds up today, cool battles.
I didn't get into the Bruce Timm cartoons until later.
The first art that I remember seeing and thinking "I really love this style" was the box of Sam & Max hit the road so I like to say that because I still think that game is great.
Realistically though I only decided to pursue art after adventure time came out. I got into tumblr shit really hard for a few years and I wasted a lot of time I could have spent studying.
Dragon ball i think. I have always been exposed to anime since i was 4yo but i remember drawing goku.
The Ocarina of Time strategy guide, that book had sick art and was one of the first times I saw anime and instantly knew I wanted to recreate that. Would let my eyeballs absorb everything while watching my older cousin play, that game was gorgeous to my 6 year old self. It still is.
this was the first one i got serious, before that i was in classes and everything, but didn´t really care.
This along with Star Fox Adventures. Before then I used to be the kid in class that drew the Mortal Kombat logo all the time.
I moved on to drawing cars but really most of my art been inspirations from games.
>>2495227
Do you have a bara fetish?
Pokemon
When I was, a young boy, my mother would draw the Pokemon my pogs showed in a notebook, and I got jelly, because she drew em really good.
I asked how she drew so well, and she just said she draws what she sees.
And I have stuck with that advice ever since.
It´s bullshit, but I believe it.
If anime inspired you to draw, bless your soul, but you were a mistake.
>>2494801
Ragnarok online. My interests switched since then and i really took a long time to start drawing "seriously" but this is what got me started.
First it was LOTR and Reign of Fire movies.. I like generic fantasy with elves and dragons..
>>2494824
>>2495316
>parents actually conceived me before they turned 17
>tfw have always known I was never meant to be born it just happened
I come from a long line of fuck ups. My soul has been blessed since before I got out of the womb, being a weeb is the least of my worries desu senpai
>>2495292
Pokemon and my mom too. She never draw pokemon but she was always great at drawing and encouraged me to do it. I loved watching Pokemon and was obsessed with it and I wanted to create my own pokemon so I started drawing from it. After that anime in general kept me inspired.
>>2495316
Post your work and I'll post mine and we'll just see about that.
Warcraft 3 and reading shitty pulp fantasy during middle school.
Honestly, it's seeing the cool concept art you find when you complete videogames. Especially during the PS2 era
I always wished I could draw and paint like that
>>2495671
u first since u think ur so good weeb
>>2495690
No I'm not gonna give you a chance to weasel out of it. I know I'll post my work. Being a weeb and all on Jap's jock I believe in honor and all that shit. So post up buddy.
I think warhammer 40k was the first thing I did fan art of. Dark souls after that.
>>2495701
obviously because you're bad
>>2495723
Says the one going around making blanket statements about people who like anime. Any and everyone who spouts the anime sucks meme needs to put up or shut up.
A year ago, I don't really know why, I was never really interested in drawing and only pretended to like fine art to get liberal arts college-educated girls to go out with me.
I picked up Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain the day after I finished the series. I'm starting caricature drawing at amusement park next week.
Nobody with inspiration from league of legends? Their characters are what got me, but damn is most of the art sexy.
The design taste in this game got me into painting.
That and back in the 7th grade, i had 2 friends that were better than me at drawing, and they taught me how to draw some basic things, and i kinda liked being apart of a group that talked about a skill (drawing) instead of talking about other people.
pic related.
first thing i drew back in the day was probably Rayman 2 fanart
>>2495746
>posting the hideous New n' Tasty version instead of the based original
>>2495833
>'ello!
Halo and star wars
The newer halo designs really make me sad. Nothing looks 'halo'ey
>>2495859
>hello
>follow me
The box manual artwork for The Revenge of Shinobi and poster artwork for Legend of the Overfiend
>>2495878
>okay
>fart noise
>>2494801
>that ratio
what a pleb
>>2495902
Fuck, I always wondered what programs they used to make the artwork on computers in the 80's and early 90's. It has a nice vintage style to it even though completely digital. It was so iconic Nero had that retro design style made for their album Welcome To Reality.
>>2495833
i grabbed the 1st one from google, but yes, that one you posted is the pc version i used to own.
I was watching digimon one morning when I was 6 I think, I went upstairs and decided I wanted to draw a digimon, and I realized it didn't look like the real thing, I was so furious and I asked my parents why it didn't look the same as the show did and they told me that artists practice. I'm still not very good but I draw a lot.
Can't remember if it was Street Fighter, Final Fighter or Dragon Ball. As a kid, I was fucking obsessed with martial arts and kimono-wearing fighters with cool ass moves and superpowers and stuff (pic related, my childhood idol). I thought it was the coolest shit ever, so much i started assembling the few (basic) geometric shapes i knew into what i thought looked like Guy, Ryu or Goku; then adding eyes, hair and finally coloring. I was like 5 and i remember i used to draw the torso as an upside-down triangle. Lmao.
Welp, I later moved on to other videogames/cartoon characters, but that's how i started, i guess.
>>2494801
I just kinda drew since I could remember, though I watched massive amounts of anime as a kid. That, and the fact that my dad is a failed graphic designer, probably led me down the path of a creative.
I wasn't into many games or cartoons.
Just this online dog simulation game where there's also a bunch of people who draw dogs.
Okay, it was like neopets, but with dogs. And dog OCs
Ghostbusters, what I got to see of Aliens as a 4 year old, and TMNT. I don't know which of these came first, but as a kid I loved nothing more than mutants, monsters and ghosts.
Later on in my childhood Sailor Moon appeared dubbed to swedish on tv and I figured out I really like girl aesthetics too.
Related to mutants and anime stuff I started drawing Mischief Makers fanart somewhere around the age of 8-10 and even started on a comic book with my own ripoffs of the main bosses from it as main characters, except with more "attitude", like skateboards and backwards baseball caps. The 90's were a glorious time. In the woodwork course of grade school I even made my own action figure of pic related from painted blocks of wood and metal hooks.
Gather around children! Back in the day, when I was a kid and the internet was still super fresh. There was this lady called Chika, who did a lot of KOF fanart. She's since dissapeared, but her art still holds a place in nostalgia.I'll add some old Jdillon and jason chen later as well...maybe some petit pois.
>>2494801
G.I. Joe, 90's Spiderman and other Marvel stuff from that era. Todd McFarlane killed it back in the day. Akira and Shirow's work was/is also a huge inspiration. I think it's hard for kids today to understand
>>2496423
... To understand how amazing manga/anime stuff was back then when it was still new and fresh
>>2494801
drgon ball z as well as manga in general
>>2496423
my nigger
Old school Samurai Spirits
>>2496408
Oh damn Hespiria!! killer qt style!
Loved her art as a kid too. hope she's doing well.
Anybod remembers an old site called impromanga?
>>2496423
>>2496424
I suspect most of the young anime crowd thinks this stuff is hideous. Had a convo with one young dude about 90's anime, as well as modern stuff that actually does appeal to me (Redline for example), and there was no seeing eye to eye on what looked good. Everything he posited as goodlooking had really flat designs with lessened features (in more ways than one), and awfully mundane and sterile environments.
those old coro coro comics/magazines I had as a kid got me into drawing mangos
I still like the artists today though now I realize that their artwork is more simplistic and stylized heavily/not really my thing now.
>>2494801
I used to read a lot of DBZ as a kid and would trace them and hang them on my walls. There was one panel of Vegeta that I was really proud of that hung above the foot of my bed, so that I would wake up and see it every day.
I wish I had saved them for nostalgia's sake.
>>2496462
Trust 4chan to make the world feel smaller again! That's right, search engines weren't all that reliable so we relied on anime turnpike...ugh the memories.
Old school Jason Chan art, he's since improved leaps and bounds.
It's not what first inspired me to draw, because thats what I've always done, but I saw ads for MvC2 in EGM and it made a huge impression on me. I'd never seen superheroes drawn like that before, it defined a level of quality that I've always dreamed of achieving.
>>2496470
This might just be because my dad put me on shit like the Street Fighter films and Akira when I was way too young for them, but damn, sauce? That shit's fucking dope.
>>2496756
It's a 2009 anime movie about racing on futuristic planets called REDLINE.
I've watched it and yes, it indeed is fucking dope. Movie took about 7 years to be made and as a result the art style is beautiful and the animation is absolutely fluid.
I recommend you watch it in the highest quality possible if you have a good TV. Look for 7gb torrents.
>>2496732
BIRDY!
Back in my time.
Comic books was the art initiator.
bought pic related in 1995.
never improved myself { -___- }
Being 24 and horrible at vidya had me pick up drawing but what inspires me to stick with it is my perverted desires of drawing porn and the more important love of cyberpunk. Bladerunner, Dues Ex HR. Akira. That fucking based NeoTokyo soundtrack is the ost of my dreams and i long to put those dreams on paper. That f2p fps BlackLight Retribution or what ever really gets me wanting to draw.
it used to be boredom and having no friends. now i enjoy it. i still haven't killed myself because i want to git gud
cardcaptor sakura and it's outfits inspired me to draw my own magical girls
>>2496977
Have you drawn any magical girls you care to share?
>>2494801
It was porn tho.
>>2494803
Heck, there surely is something to TF2 artstyle. Thanks to it I learnt to draw more varied and interesting comic faces.
DBZ/Pokemon
Dropped anime by the time I left middle school though
>>2495738
seconding this, lol got me in art too. I drew and painted before a lot but because of lol I got serious on it
and now I am trying to uninstall it since the game got boring, but I'm still playing from time to time because of their splash arts
I feel the single way I cold give up on lol is by giving up on drawing too
>>2494803
>>2499117
You mean Moby Francke
>>2499687
same brother
probably this
i was 3 when it just started airing and i guess the idea of kids creating things on their own inspired me to pick up a creative hobby. it's the first cartoon i remember doodling in the living room.
>>2494801
I used to draw dinosaurs in kindergarten, then people made fun of me and I quit, then I became a basketball star, then I was kicked off the team in highschool because the coach was my bully's son and neither wanted me to be in the team making him look like the shit he was. I developed insomnia because of the bullying and being friendless so I started drawing again alone in my room at 4 a.m.
Magic (Walker, Nielsen, Guay, Spears and the Hildebrandt Bros. art mostly), Castlevania (Ayami Kojima), Fable and a Frazetta artbook were my inspiration then.
>>2499701
IT'S TIME TO PAY THE PRICE
>>2494801
Garfield, which has devolved so much in recent years.
>>2500584
And If we're allowed to say more then one, sonic the hedgehog and ranma 1/2 were also hugelly influential.
I want to learn how to draw after seeing zootopia
>>2494801
Megaman ZX and X5.
For anime..Black Cat was one that I used to draw, not any more though.
any other answer is wrong.
/thread
>>2494801
Yoshitaka Amano was one of my first and biggest influences back in middle school.
>>2500607
Patrician tastes, anon.
>>2500599
Could you have picked worse Mega Man games? X4 was the last great of the series.
definitely jojo
part 7's art got so good
>>2496983
i dont think they are really unique or iconic as ccs's, sorry anon
80s/90s mecha designs are my biggest inspiration.
>>2500726
Oh well, that's okay. At least you're drawing.
>>2494863
bumping the question here
>street fighter is single handedly responsible for half /ic/ traffic
in my case, it was the shinkiro stuff, particularly.
Kamen Rider. Even though it won't be possible, I would love to draw designs for some hero show someday.
>>2494801
Toshihiro Ono's pokemon comics published by VIZ media. I really liked his style and wanted to draw like him. Also had various internet artists that inspired me to draw.
From nowadays anime or animation film is the Avatar.
The four elements.
The One who unite this.
It is just a wonder for me.
When I was in middle school I wanted to read manga because it looked cool but the town library only had the first volume of Planetes. I would have never guessed that a series about space garbagemen would exist or even be as interesting as it turned out to be.
I would also look at my cousin's videogame strategy guides that had a lot of illustrations in them, particularly final fantasy's.
Tetsuya Nomura's illustration of Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Ball
>>cartoon
- Ren and Stimpy
- The Secret of Nimh
>>anime
- Dragon Ball
- Ghost in the Shell
>>video game
- Earthworm Jim
- Heroes
Also, Jamie Hewlett's work for Tank Girl and Gorillaz.
I remember having a Digimon-printed bag and tracing characters from it. I was around seven back then.
>>2494801
It wasn't specifically any one thing that inspired me, but my biggest "it's time to get off my ass and do this" was I couldn't find the exact wallpapers I liked for my desktop backgrounds.
So I decided to make my own.
The artwork for Rival Schools for me.
no bully
>>2501445
sf25 is a huge book with mostly pre-sfiv stuff
My inspiration came in several stages
>early childhood
Grandma had one of those View Master things and Fantasia. Art was a primary method of fighting boredom.
>Later childhood
Dragon Ball, easily. Read a few comics here and there; my favorite superhero was Spiderman.
>Pre-teen/Middle school years
Video games became a bigger influence with Kingdom Hearts, Mega Man, Metal Gear, and so on. Late in this period I developed an appreciation for modern masters Moebius and Giger.
>Teens
Here is when I delved deep into anime and manga -- Katsuhiro Otomo, Yoshitoshi ABe, Range Murata, Taiyo Matsumoto, Hiroaki Samura, Takehiko Inoue, Hirohiko Araki, Daisuke Igarashi...
>Adult
After suffering major setbacks and crippling depression, I finally picked up drawing seriously as a new foundation to believe in myself. Tastes are more varied and more numerous than ever. I'm always looking for new inspirations.
this meme was eye opening lol
Does anyone remember that dumb dating sim game on newgrounds that used characters from DNA^2?
That.
Breath of Fire 3.
Danny Phantom. It was the first time I was aware that animating was a job that you could get paid for.
The 90s Spiderman cartoon. I drew mostly spidey and whoever that vampire character was
>>2510010
so much cancer.
k-on
clannad
toradora
katawa shoujo
>>2496458
oldschool manga and Shoujo anime and Urushihara got me into drawing
pokémon made me doodle as a bab, but reading love hina when i was like 10 made me really enjoy it. realising i wanted to become an animator one day made me do it seriously
>>2502545
>Planetes
Patrician tastes, anon.
>>2500716
>that
>good
it barely fucking reads, why do people drool over jojo? it looks like literal beginner trash
>>2510010
>Teen Titans Go
Kill yourself.
>>2494801
I remember drawing ninja turtles, batman and of course dragon ball when i was little, but when i got my mind blown and i decided to get seriously better was when i first saw final fantasy VIII cinematics and artwork. That got me out of the cartoony style and into a more realistic approach (not that ffVIII is THAT realistic, it was just the first time i paid attention to anything different than cartoon). Ocarina of time also made a huge impresión, and the artist from ff tactics and vagrant story. I was an rpg crazed little fuck back then.
>>2496812
That movie is insane
>>2494801
Dofus/wakfu was my shit. Yes, i'm french
>>2494801
Captain Underpants
Anyone else got inspired by shitty art and produced equally/worse shitty art because of it?
>>2494801
Masakasu katsura anyone? Dna2 and i's looked gorgeous to me back then. And they still do
When I was a kid: Hey Arnold!, Disney's The Lion King and The Great Mouse Detective
When I was a teenager: weaboo shit
Young Adult: comic books
I regret waste my teen years drawing anime. I wish I fell in love with western comics earlier in my life. But comics aren't that popular in my land.
>>2496001
You sound like me. I started drawing because of a shitty game called Dragcave. After that I got absorbed into a game called Dragonadopters or something. Both idiotic browser games, but hey, they kept me drawing.
I still do commissions for another dragon breeding game, but that's a side thing while I'm struggling to get good. Feels nostalgic.
I drew a lot of dinosaurs before that, was inspired from a dinosaur book my mother got me.
>>2509443
I'll try the same template:
>early childhood
I cant' remember....
>Later childhood
Video games! My family had bought me a computer, so I draw my own interpretations of scenes from vidya, mostly exploding ships and other stuff...
>Pre-teen/Middle school years
I had an album of science fiction art (that one: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?517727) featuring artworks by Alan Gutierrez, James Warhola, Stefan Blaser and Edward Valigursky. So I tried to emulate them...
>Teens
The manga/anime years... Saw "Akira", "GITS" and others, tried to emulate the style, with no apparent success.
Also I encountered loads of erotic fantasy art in the computer magazines cover CDs and Internet.
>Adult
Shit got real. I began to understand and applying fundamentals. I am still inspired by classic anime and SF/F art, but I relentlessly discover inspirations via tumblr.
>>2494801
Nintendo and SNES games like Zelda, Secret of Mana, Mario, Mega Man. I also remember drawing Wolverine a lot, and Beavis and Butthead, and making up my own characters for Streets of Rage. Making up a Star Wars knockoff universe. I was basically training to be a concept artist in elementary school and didn't even know it. Too bad things got so derailed after that.
>>2494801
Scooby-Doo... Don't watch like this !
animuu. those shitty draw manga books. Stopped drawing in 8th grade age 13. Decade later i pick it up again cuz i have shit internet now and nothing better to do. Draw to have a connection with fightan games because i have no one to play. Also cyberpunk shit like bladerunner and deus ex fill my brain. going to finish reading akira sometime. finally bought the movie. gotta watch it. Also get into ghost in the shell. Even music made me want to draw cyberpunk. That based neotokyo soundtrack.
Sonic 3 was one of the first games I played. Some years later I got into a weird manga about talking dogs. Sounds pretty furry, but I mostly draw landscape now
>>2494801
Typical anime response, but Sailor Moon. I got more 'serious' about making characters after Teen Titans.
>tfw made ~100 fan characters for it
>>2514658
Post your fan characters fgt
>>2511669
Your stupid
>>2514791
And you watch shows targeted at 8 year olds
What a world
Donkey Kong Country when I was so young I thought you could make video games with just drawings.
Yugioh for sure.
I collected cards because I liked the pretty pictures.
>>2515058
I'm also pretty sure it gave me my endless boner for slapping eyeballs and wings onto everything
>>2510743
i guess.
>>2494801
Contra Hard Corps because of the fucking awesome bosses. I used to pause the game and draw them all.
![Jump-Ryu!_vol.08_Takahashi_Kazuki.mkv_snapshot_17.08_[2016.05.08_09.41.53].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/C9Eb6d2.jpg "Jump-Ryu!_vol.08_Takahashi_Kazuki.mkv_snapshot_17.08_[2016.05.08_09.41.53].jpg")
>>2515058
Theres a recent video of kaz drawing kaiba and blue eyes which gets made into a card, quite quickly, he draws ink and colors it. And he even gives a tour of his house.
