Hi Sneep, I saw your recent post, and it reminded me of how much I love looking at your art. I've followed you for a fairly long time now, and you're one of the artists with a very firm place at the back of my head. Your work always stood out to me as unique, versatile, and highly technically proficient. Particularly your construction, which has always impressed me and would even study it in my sketchbook from time to time. Hope you're doing well!
Been forgetting to respond and don't wanna leave you hanging. Apologize about that. Appreciate you feel that way as I most certainly don't feel I've even earned the smallest morsel of respect. I do wanna recommend these better artists for a higher standard to shoot for. People I'd recommend checking out: Alex Toth Clay Martin Croker Ralph Bakshi Ed Benedict Preston Blair Tex Avery ( And his old directed shorts ) Everett Peck Gary Baseman Milt Gross Jim Smith Jim Tyer Milton Knight Massimo Mattioli (possibly inspired Itchy and Scratchy) David Silverman Bob Clampett Pat Ventura David Feiss Robert Mckimson ( His looney tunes shorts are hilarious ) Ken Macklin Stephen Gammell ( Famous Illustrator for Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, so be careful image searching that. I understand, more so than anyone would know, that his stuff isn't for everyone. It's drab, eerie, off putting, and creepy, but his skill and technique are extremely masterful and he deserves to be respected as much as other artists.) Mike Dietz ( Wish I knew more about him, but his sketch art for Earthworm Jim are amazing.) Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team, "Worker and Parasite" I know I'm probably missing a bunch of names, but can't remember sadly. I wanna say Monkey Punch ( Lupin III ), but haven't looked up a ton. The little I've seen looks pretty fun though. Big fan of the Tony Oliver/Adult Swim dub of Lupin III. Good memories with that. That second series of Lupin III has some cool art here and there. Big fan of Japanese overseas work, like TMS animating western cartoony stuff, like Animaniacs, Tiny Toons. They apparently did some Cartoon Network bumpers which look absolutely insane. Real fun stuff on that latter. Wish I could list some Japanese names, but I already suck at naming American names so those are even more difficult. I'm not big into Anime, but there's no denying the Japanese have an impressively high standard for pretty quality drawing and animation standards, so would recommend shooting that high especially. On that subject, pretty fun series I'd recommend would be Cowboy Bebop, DragonBall, Yuyu Hakusho, Lupin III (Second Series), Trigun, Popee The Performer, and Space Dandy. Haven't seen em' in a while, but I remember those being really funny or entertaining.
