Haven't seen one of these in a while. Post the people that influence and inspire you the most! Following the rules in the picture is not necessary.
STOP TRYING TO TRICK ME INTO MAKING THIS TUMBLR COLLAGE SHIT WHEN I NEED TO BE DRAWING GAH THIS FUCKING WEBSITE
>>2295401
>made one months ago and posted it
>"I'll just go fish that up and repost it"
>can't find it
Time to make a new one.
>>2295401
Just made one for the first time in my life. Already considering changing it though.
>>2295457
Are you familiar with matteo scalera? looking at your map i feel like you would like his stuff
>>2295479
I don't think I'd ever heard of him, but yeah I like it! Thanks for the rec. The only problem is it doesn't seem like I can draw like any of these guys lol.
>>2295407
DeviantArt's
this is my old one. i might update it
>>2295619
>/ic/s favourite artists
I mean I like a lot of those guys too, but it does feel like you are a generic d/ic/k. Those are the names that get thrown around more than just about anybody. If you added Ruanjia to that list I would think you were making a satirical post.
made my own
>>2295624
i am a generic d/ic/k
>>2295698
can you sign them? Except Klimt?
>>2295706
rigney, phil hale, final fantasy artist guy, kekai, alex something and a different manga by the same guy that did BLAME
dunno the rest sorry
>>2295712
Thx. You sir are a true gentleman.
it should be obvious who i am...
I have childish taste
>>2295753
seatgirl
Here we go
>>2295842
>arne niklas jansson
i love you
do you have a place you post your art?
>tfw i fish my influence map i was working on from yeaaars ago
>tfw one of them is mark crilley
fuck i am ashamed
I love looking at these threads and trying to guess whose who
>>2295868
Don't be ashamed anon. You can find something to learn from or be inspired by in any artist's work, even if they're not the best or most amazing by most standards. The important thing is that _you_ get something useful out of it.
>>2295874
>I love looking at these threads and trying to guess whose who
Imma guess you're the guy who does those super loose line sketches. The lines are pixelated like done in MSPaint or something and aoften sorta one line as if you don't lift the stylus off the tablet while drawing at all. You do abstract shape spaceships and characters that are sorta Zedig-ish but sometimes have super weird proportions like are top heavy or whatever.
>>2295401
Serious question: How do you guys narrow it down to like 5 or 10 people/things? I feel like I would have trouble narrowing it down to even <50 because I take inspiration from many things. Do you simply only look at a small handful of stuff? Do you just omit tons of things?
probably i have a shit taste but whatever
>>2295860
Set your expectations as low as possible holmes.
iimmpp.tumblr.com
>>2296005
>They all look the same
Indeed.
>>2295992
influence is not the same as inspiration. Many people who post these charts make this mistake. Look at your work and be honest about what artists are visually reflected in it.
Like, if you are inspired by Bouguereau, but your work looks nothing like his, neither your compositions, nor subject matters nor rendering technique, then he might be an inspiration, an artist you enjoy looking at, but your own art is not influenced by him.
>>2296124
While you have a point, these charts are really more useful as an aspiration map. It can definitely be beneficial to analyze yourself and how you've developed by trying to pinpoint how you got to where you are, but what're you gonna do with that information? You don't want to stay where you are, and as soon as you move forward that information becomes less and less important because it's a smaller and smaller portion of your journey. That's like looking at your parents and going "yup, that's why my nose is shaped that way". A more useful way might be realizing your parents have a problem with addiction, therefore you stay away from addictive substances - basically, analyzing your development to avoid problems you've had in the past. Ultimately you want something to help you move forward, so choosing artists you want to take influence from gives you a goal to work towards and makes the chart relevant for longer.
>>2296118
thanks, your stuff is great! by the way you mention in some posts that you stream but i can't find a link anywhere
>>2295625
post the bee photo pls
>>2295979
yep that me
these few paintings are my biggest stylistic inspiration. also i added perry bible fellowship because I like writing jokes.
>>2296298
I only ever post stream links when I actually go live, my Picarto channel is the same as my Tumblr name.
I'll have to update it later, but this will do for now.
I feel this thread might be more interesting if you post your influences and then post some of your own work so we can see how they've all come together.
Like
>>2295842
What does someone's art look like when they're influenced by Akira Toriyama, Dave Cooper, and Garrett Hanna?
Thoughts??
>>2296461
I second this idea, but I'm not sure it'll work for me in particular, as I only just finally decided on my aspiration artists a few weeks ago.
>>2296309
this is me
pic related is a drawing of mine.
>>2295753
Damn, thanks for reminding me of gueuzav, I used to play Wakfu pretty seriously.
>>2296309
>>2296506
this is one of the joke things i've written people seem to like
>>2296508
Is this a race joke? I'm not sure I get it. Or is it not meant to be funny?
>>2296542
it's a dog who himself has a dog, hes telling you to beware of his dog even though he himself is a dog
>>2295753
Nice ones!
I wish I could follow better my influences
>>2296453
Who did that beach rock and waves one?
>>2296608
>Ruo Li
Fuck I should've known. The guy is a master with that type of frothy ocean water.
13 year old tastes reporting
>>2295854
I wish I had clear tastes like you do anon
I'm not even ready to stylize yet, so I see these more as "goals". Inspiration of course, consists of an entirely different list.
>>2298083
My tastes are pretty similar to yours, but I'm a bit lost on how to practice. Am I supposed to draw realistically until I've internalized the fundamentals?
>>2298108
>Am I supposed to draw realistically until I've internalized the fundamentals?
Yes. When it comes to the color process I've got nothing. If you want to be able to draw that shit though, yes you need to learn how to draw realistically first.
>>2298108
OP here, I think it's okay to have fun stylizing once in a while to keep your sanity, but if you really want to improve it's all about grinding the fundamentals.
After that it's just figuring out style, pallets and rendering (to the best of my knowledge).
Lost on the actual creative/design part though, but I think that eventually comes with a ton of visual library and experimentation.
>>2298121
You will never get good at stylization just by grinding fundamentals. Every single artist who is good at stylization got to that level by working on fundamentals and stylization side by side.
Look at life drawings by Disney animators for example. They are structurally sound and properly constructed, but there's always a conscious effort to push shape design, to simplify and exaggerate, to understand the line of action etc. Never just to "grind" fundamentals and copy life.
Getting good at stylization requires conscious effort. It's not something you get as a freebie for grinding fundamentals.
>>2298083
pls kill yourself.
>>2298227
That's only true once you get your fundamentals down well. If you're still at the point where your draftsmanship is shaky, your grasp on perspective & turning objects in space is limited, and you can't even draw something so it actually creates the illusion of being solid and having form and depth, trying to push for style won't help you much, it'll only ingrain shortcuts that will turn into gaps in your knowledge. All those professional artists you mentioned spent years learning to draw real people first. That's why CalArts asks for an extensive life drawing portfolio to get in. The Manga academy in Japan also has its students doing tons of life drawing. You get the foundation down first so you don't get lost and sloppy when you start looking to distort the familiar.
diverse tastes checkin' in
>>2298240
>trying this hard to fit in
fuck off
>>2298280
Ruan "Primeval Necro Lord Demogorgon" Jia
>sanguinem bibimus
>corporem edimus
>avē Ruan!
>>2298593
where'd you get that high res zoom? is there a high res version of that painting somewhere?
>>2298083
>kekai
mah nigga
I'll try to post mine tomorrow.
>>2298696
Tencent QQ chat. it's too late now
the jia's group is full
>>2295619
pretty entry level but not bad
>>2295753
Im not sure about the rest but sergi brosa is awesome
>>2299932
>riceboy
>homosuck
How can you have such good yet bad taste?
>>2295854
we should be art buddies
>>2300043
yo its an influence map, homestucks art style had a good deal of influence on my art
>>2301151
Post your work
>>2301151
>>2301157
my map would look just like that. I'm not the poster but pic is what my art looks like
>>2301200
Cool, you have a website? Nice style. I can see the influence and to be honest it is less derivative than I imagined. I expected someone to post something like this guy but less skilled: https://www.artstation.com/artist/funkymonkey1945
>>2301204
i'd probably look just like his but I also really like ashley wood. my page is greeel.tumblr.com. i love funkymonkey though, they're like Leyendecker + asian
>>2301210
The moving background hurts my head. But nice stuff, I followed you. Might be good to try to get out of your comfort zone more, seems like you do a lot of similar heads with the same palette.
>>2301210
that IQ bullshit on your blog is quite pathetic
>>2301221
thankfully we dont have it your way you cocky little bitch
>>2301221
No one with an IQ above 90 would think a moving background is a good idea for an art blog.
>>2301250
I'm glad it does the job of sifting out the ADHD pedant betas who can't get past something so inconsequential.
>>2301273
If you ever got somewhat popular, you have the potential to become the next Andrew Dobson.
>>2301318
i don't really know a lot about that guy, but i get what you're trying to do. maybe i'd take your word at face value if you posted your art, but it's kinda meaningless atm. if you're some unskilled artist, why these topics? and if you're actually skilled, i'd definitely hear you out.
sorry for the long winded thing there.
>>2301341
your meme persona is already old and you just started posting your work
keep it up and you'll be more pathetic than a 30 something that works at a dmv
>>2301210
>130+ iq
>draws and glorifies degeneracy
Nice memes. Are you per chance also a misanthrope? Anyway, how about you show that IQ through understanding of fundamentals better instead of bragging about it on a mongolian imageboard.
>>2295619
wtf... youre so boring... get an opinion lmao
Might be a silly question but what do you guys call line based artwork? "comic book art" feels too limiting and sounds cheap somehow, and not all illustrations with a heavy emphasis on line work/drawing is for comics anyway.
The Binbougami Ga! Manga did it most for me, changing the art style every few pages, especially since they're all just parody drawings from the same guy.
>>2296556
Mark behm did most dota 2 concept art
>>2304301
ah yes, Toriama, the famous Italian manga artist
>>2304301
man gotlib is the best.
>>2301221
>>2301273
It's really pathetic when someone who draws good is ego retard and shit person.
>>2301221
>if I had it my way, I'd put internet restrictions on for anyone with an IQ below 120. people below 110 would just not be allowed to log in.
So there'd be nobody on the internet. How sad.
>>2304748
Who made that horrible wolverine drawing? No one famous I hope
>>2304775
Dave Rapoza. I like his sketches.
>>2304775
Nice b8, Dave is one of the 4 modern Gods we worship here at /ic/
>>2304796
I like some of his finished stuff, but you have to admit that particular sketch is moving in deviantart territory
>>2304796
>Dave is one of the 4 modern Gods we worship here at /ic/
This comment right here is the real bait.
>>2304800
What bother you exactly? It's the fact it's "unfinished"? It's the texture, the shading? I feel like his sketches have a lot more personality than his finished pieces. But it's just my opinion.
>>2304808
I'm not that other anon but I really dislike his pencils and his linework for his digital comic stuff. I guess it's missing all the things that his paintings excel at--good lighting, texture, and rendering. Quite frankly these pencil sketches are pretty bad. They have wonky structure, are incredibly stiff, have bad value control, have hatching that is way too repetitive etc. Their entire aesthetic is just very unappealing to me and it's pretty clear he is not as comfortable with drawing as he is with digital painting.
Just compare his sketches with those of illustrators who are actually good with pencils and it will become more obvious how his stuff is lacking (I'll name some old CAers since they have the same background as Dave): Marko, Wes, DanielC, Achadobu, Rusty, Whit, Pascenko, Algen, Jana, Lukias, etc. Now add in a ton of old masters and comic artists and old illustrators and you have literally hundreds of choices who are MUCH better than Dave at drawing. So I find it weird that someone would choose Dave as an inspiration over those other people.
Kinda old, but still love a lot of this
>>2304864
Actually yeah, this is still very accurate -!
>>2304829
You mean Steve Lichman? I really don't like what he's doing with Steve Lichman.
I think I understand what you mean, and I googled all the artists you named (I'm already a fan of wesley burt and marko). They are all pretty cool, and probably more skilled but I still prefer Dave Rapoza.
I believe it's linked with the fact he draw stuff I like. For example, if I'm not mistaken (and you can correct me if I am), most or all of the artists you listed draw mostly rpg like pictures, right? Men in armor, brutes, women in sci fi armors, creatures, mech(s) etc. I don't care about this setting/theme, about this "concept art"ish thing. Meanwhile Dave draw comic books characters, animu characters and more in a quality (for me) it's rare to find. I really like it.
You probably know Travis Charest right? After Dave, he's one of my favorites. But I find him kinda generic. Awesome, but generic.
>>2304871
Oh, I named those artists specifically because they do similar stuff to Dave. When I think of him I think of fantasy stuff with muscled men and whatnot.
So it's not Dave you like, it's his subject matter? Still it doesn't really make sense to me because things like comics and animation have insanely good artists behind it. I would look to the source rather than fanart.
>>2304876
>So it's not Dave you like, it's his subject matter?
Exactly.
>Still it doesn't really make sense to me because things like comics and animation have insanely good artists behind it. I would look to the source rather than fanart.
Hm, I do, actually. I believe I know plenty of comic book artists. From the top of my head, artists I know that are better than Dave: Esad Ribic, Vincent Segrelles and Alex Ross (Ross if you can ignored his people like always static, not enough action, at least for me). The rest, I feel like they are generic, for example, if I look at David Finch work, is like I looked at Jim Lee/Ivan Reis/etc and all the rest of the industry work. I don't feel like they stand out. Frank Cho, Dave Gibbons, Brian Bolland, Olivier Coipel, Ariel Olivetti and Steve Epting stand a bit in my point of view. Also, I love Greg Capullo but his faces are too cartoonist for me.
Now, I don't know any animation artists, so I can't talk about it.
>>2304890
*Vicente Segrelles
damn complicated name.
Oh, also, I LOVE J.H.Williams III. I forgot to add him in my influence map.
faggot weeb incoming.
>>2304897
>mfw I also like a lot of the stuff on there
I...I'm not a faggot weeb too, am I?
>>2296453
All these are awesome. Could you label them please?
>>2304923
From top to bottom and left to right:
Syd Mead, Ralph McQuarrie, Simon Stålenhag
Alberto Mielgo, Szymon Biernacki, Tadashiro Uesugi, Michael Whelan, Eugene Lushpin
Evind Earle, Ezra Tucker (Dino Riders toyline box art), Glen Orbik
Enrang/Jeon JongUk, Craig Mullins
Alexandre Reider, Ruo Li
Carl Graeb, Vasily Polenov, Lucien Victor Guirand
