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hi! ty 🥹 feels weird coming on here and receiving a question like this because i have barely even been thinking about drawing for a while! what a blast from the past

i used to be really inspired by Sergio Toppi and Taiyo Matsumoto so its probably them thats most visible in what ive posted, and most of the last few drawings ive posted are inspired by ehszter (Molnár Eszter). in terms of composition, line and technical skill 60s american illustrators like Bernie Fuchs and Bob Peak were really inspiring to me. the past few years ive loved George Outhwaite's paintings, they're expressive and precise in depicting nature in a way i love.

i used to like doing movement studies based on kpop dance videos, because i liked the expressiveness and force of the human body in that, i liked pulling that out of the image/video through drawing (i dont like expression study like the classic animation lessons make you do them, hate american animation bc its so exaggerated in its emotional expressions, its simplified to the point of emojis and so unnatural and clicheistic and foreign to life because of it). love french animation (gobelins) though, it's colors, depiction of human figure and movement a lot of the time, im thinking of films like Louise. from art history i used to like Schiele for his disjointed but still dynamic and "somehow together" depiction of bodies. more recently ive loved symbolists like Odilon Redon, and the Nabis, also fauvism for its boldness.

i also love Sonnye Lim's animation, and the atmosphere of Shee Liu's illustration, as well as the tech kitschiness of milkbbi. recently i like soupandcats's sketchy and free use of color in traditional media.