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21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyway frank frazetta and boris vallejo (and julie bell!). i think few people in the world are capable of their ethereal fantasy-realism, save for maybe gerald brom. all amazing works outta those folks. i also love norman lindsay though i think his work borders on illustrative enough to draw comparisons to my own. oh this is just becoming an inspiration list now. well some other influences are david b (who in turn influenced marjane satrapi), mike mignola, and as much as i hate to admit it, r crumb; all demonstrate a strong command over heavy block shadows and black and white media with limited, deliberate color palettes. as someone who fucking sucks with color and color theory, it helps to see examples of how sparse color is used well. the same goes for lynda barry and ai yazawa, who have wildly different styles, but their characterization and panel compositions made me think more about how to tell a story with pictures. kind of as an honorable mention, calvin and hobbes was the first time that i recognized bill watterson was actually an artist; drawing little cartoons was "easy", but many books and strips featured watercolor landscapes where, even as a little kid, i looked at them and thought "oh, these illustrations are simple, but they do require skill. calvin and hobbes is made by an artist. this isn't just 'cartoons', it's art." like, i recognized that the book wasn't just "pictures", it was something someone had made.
30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated not up to me what gets attention or not or to determine the quality of anything but i always did like how my lyndras piece turned out. guess he wasnt found to be as sympathetic of a character as runas because his storyline was limited to tailors, but i remember feeling so crushed when i had to put him down in the violet hold :( as for the drawing, doing the stippling and hatching is always fun. i also like the one i did of the ever-lovely fffrangipani, although it doesnt reflect their current appearance. it took a lot of tries for me to get it right (only two are pictured; there were dozens before the final product) but it was such a captivating image i wanted to do it justice
