i'm anju

for quite some time now, I've admired your feline art. It's such a unique and expressive style, and the way you draw them make characters feel so alive !! your art motivates me deeply and sometimes a lot of my inspiration has been taken from you 🫶🫶

my questions are,

what are your biggest inspirations, both within the art world and outside of it? Are there specific artists, media, or even life experiences that influence your art?

what do you do, and how do you do it?

how did you learn and develop your incredible drawings?

Hi hi! Thank you, I'm happy to have been an inspiration. I've been drawing my whole life so I can't answer with much detail (since everything has been building up for so long) but I'll mention a few things that come to mind!

I've always been an anime/manga type of guy so I would say my biggest inspirations art/style-wise have been Ranma 1/2, SSS Warriors and Hunter x Hunter. I got into all of those when I was very young and they kind of guided my tastes when it comes to art from there on.

My feline art ofc takes most insp from SSS Warriors; I remember I watched not only Yuji's warriors episodes but also his other art/animation videos with extreme interest because his cat/animal art was so so pleasant and beautiful to the eye without getting overly complicated. I was especially in love with Tigerclaw's design! So intimidating and powerful but also so so pretty and cute...

As for Ranma 1/2 and Hunter x Hunter, they're obviously not felines, but I think the inspiration comes through in all of my art regardless. I think both mangaka's have great grasps on how to make very pleasant and impactful artwork regardless of the amount of detail, not to mention they're so full of character and personality

but ofc, I've had many many inspirations over the years! I just can't really remember most of them

How I learned how to develop my art/style was looking at the artworks that pleased me a lot and identifying specific parts of them that I really enjoyed, and then focusing for a while to try to get my own drawings to have that as well. Might have been things like, I really like how the necks/jawlines look on these Hunter x Hunter characters, so I'll imitate them for a while in how I draw necks/jawlines on my characters until it becomes a part of my style. or I like how the characters in Ranma have their bangs drawn or the highlights, so I'll imitate that. I never fully tried to copy one artstyle, just kind of finding bits and pieces from different inspirations that pleased me and absorbing them. Over time they would start to transform into something of my own as well

when i was younger i had this habit of making all my favourite characters into cats for no reason so. continuing the tradition

didn't intend to make them look like kittens lol i just wanted to keep them simple and cute

this except the hate speech is actually me hating this game and kodaka/uchikoshi because eito was my favourite before the reveal and i was very invested in the subtle ship of him with takumi and i've never felt so utterly devastated and betrayed by a plot twist before. went through the whole damn stages of grief within a few hours after it

my discord diary entry that day

please tell me i wasn't the only one who felt this way😭

like. before the reveal

i already figured he was the most suspicious, or the only suspicious one because i looked at every other character and couldn't imagine it being them

but goddammit i wished he wasn't that insanely hateful and big liar about everything he said before. i liked hiiiimm so much before

Commission!

Kitty-fied eeveelutions

some last minute AF revenges!

My laptop was taken for repairs so traditional Art Fight attacks! You may notice I was still feeling rusty in the first one

When did you start being yourself?

did you know that you can go have the diner date with Susie after you've already had Noelle open the gate to her house to you and she'll have dialogue about it

clip studio paint