Interesting topic to discuss is art, of course ^^.

About your question, I have not a favourite artist, I have a bunch of artist who I like to see and inspire myself of. But I know quite in clever position that arts will never be my main job, just something in side of another job, as best half of the job (future, maybe) but we can't actually know what can happen exactly in the future. ^^

What about your art ? You have such interesting style, you know angular think.
Many lines who work together and never make a mess, alive quite realistic, but with that dreamed part. A part from your imagination. High contrast and dynamic.
That's the points who makes me liking your art. And your small icons on every drawings drives me curious about who you are behind that art. Not what you look like, but who you are what are you trying to show sometimes more deeply.

:3

It's hard to choose a favorite artist isn't it? I never noticed London's influence on me until I paid her gallery a visit after a little while.

You have the choice in life to do whatever you want. It's extremely good to know what you can and can't do in art, although with optimism I believe anyone can draw anything if they try

I love that you admire my work so much and see this in it, you're an inspiration to me too. I love that you speak your mind.

Yes that' hard to choose, then I don't choose ^^
There's no a best, but all nuances makes the life like artists :3

Right if we find the will and the path we can do a lot of things that we want, but not everything. (But near)

And sometimes mind speaking is too raw, one of my weakness.

I admire what you consider a weakness. You tell the truth and if some people can't take it, it isn't your fault for that because there is nothing wrong with the truth! Although, empathy will help you feel what and how something is said.

Near is more true, as we all have strengths and weaknesses that make us, us

Some people can't handle the truth, and at my depends I learn there's way to tell things.
More than just politically correct.

Yes without weaknesses or strengths we would not be us, us. Your words are good and warm anyway. ^^

I'm not sure where you live, I live in the US and here some of the hobby/art stores(Hobby Lobby and Miacheal's) have weekly digital coupons that can save you a bundle.

They also have sales often. Once the were getting rid of the Copic Wides and so the were selling markers that were normally 8$ each for 1.50$ each. They frequently have 2 for 1 deals too. Might help you replenish your supply.


I'm the same way, really struggle talking about myself and art. I'm sure for different reasons, I tend to be shy and fear I may come off as self-loathing.


I must admit I had never heard of A.E London. She has some gorgeous works! She's very highly skilled and I can see why you like her stuff. Definitely found someone new to keep an eye on.

As for myself I love Beatrix Potter, Norman Rockwell, and James Gurney. I love when people draw realism but it still has this touch of stylization to it. You know what I mean? Everything looks realistic but there's something in it that makes it the artist's own.
It's something I hope to achieve someday.

As for style, that's really broad, heh. I can fall in love with just about any style as long as the artist has an understanding of light and form. I have my preferences of course but I've found I can fall in love with styles I've never given much though to, "chibi" for example, as long as the artists shows those understandings.

I tend to appreciate technical skill more, so I guess realism is pretty up there for me, but not necessarily hyperrealism. As I mentioned I like the touch of stylization.


As for your art, well the realism for starters. Yeah, it pretty much goes back to things I've stated, your art displays everything I look for in art.

I also envy people who can show form without the use of heavy contrast, something you do superbly!

I had children's books from Potter when I was young, I think it was Peter Cottontail. Good choice, and I know what you mean by how they present their style. Ot's like another world brought to life, and believably too. That's how I prefer it too.

Thank you for thinking that of my art, that makes me grin. I know I have a few places to gain more control in but I'm happy that right now, it stimulates a good feeling in people.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and those artists. I really enjoy their work too

I had a good number of her books, I think she had a big impact on me. I also forgot to mention Maurice Sendak, I adore his Little Bear illustrations to this day.

You're welcome, every artist no matter how advanced always has room to improve.

That's a cool feeling to get from looking at my art, it's a feeling I get from drawing it too. I never know what's really going to happen on my canvas. Thank you for that opinion

I love that you shared so many artists, I don't think I've heard any of them before, but your taste in art is a lot like mine so I'm going to have fun going through their galleries, thank you.

Art is the best world

I'm not an artist myself, but I've found lots on this site that are pretty awe-inspiring, including:

 stigmata
 toulouse
 kamui
 -lofi
 bassclarineko
 karzrave
and tons more!

Outside the fandom, I like Van Gogh, Robert Kuhn, and many others whose names I can't recall because I'm uncultured like that.

You have some really nice stuff yourself. I hope you're able to expand your gallery.

A lot of my current kicks right now are people who play with shape or color really well. Those are things that I'm a bit weak at, so it's also inspirational. LD Austin, Joe Madureira, and Kekai Kotaki are three that come to mind that fit that right now. David Rapoza's sort of falling to the side, but I still love his linework and texturing waaaay too much. Jean-Léon Gérôme's compositions and colors are fantastic. Caravaggio's dramatic lighting is too good. I think that covers a lot of bases for right now.

I'm such a sucker for realism. But especially stylized realism. Which is probably why it's a little hard for me to get very attached to old masters, since they're very by-the-book and as real as real can get. Impressionism has always been fun, but it was something I was never good at in college. I appreciate it from afar for the energy it has.

Your work, for me, falls into the camps of shape and lighting. I'm in absolute love with how angular your stuff can feel at times, yet always completely believable and full of life. And the values. Ugh. SO good. I'm a sucker for solid layers of value and tight control of them. I wish I had that sort of ability. So your stuff is, like, the dream, the goal. And I don't come across grayscale artists often -- I spend so much time worrying about color recently that it's a breath of fresh air to get a reminder from your gallery of how strong grayscale can be on its own. It makes me want to pick up a pencil and try even harder at traditional works every time. Maybe I will. Hmm.

Hadn't heard of Anne E. London until now! I like. I bet Bernie Fuchs was one of her influences.

I've heard of neither, great time to learn!

Fuchs was going to be a pro trumpet player, but lost his first three fingers on his right hand. Then he went, "Eh, I guess now I'll become one of the most influential illustrators of my time."

One of my character designer teachers, Rik Maki was a baseball player, I think would've been pro too but he had some physical limitations, so he would just draw his team mates a lot until they found out he was super skilled and then got hired by animation companies.

Multi-faceted people intrigue me the most, they see art through many levels and use what they know to inform their viewers directly.

I'm glad you're branching out further and further, letting your shell go. It's nice to also see you're studying skills other than art to balance yourself out.

Man, my favorite artist? I would say old Android Jones, with his 1000 self portraits. Looking at his approaches to the face, color studies, rendering techniques, he reduced a lot of complex information daily to present it in a professional manner. That body of work alone is enough for me to be able to study for years.

I greatly enjoy looking through a lot of game concept art books where the artists are given creative freedom with their designs. People like Yoji Shinkawa, Ayami Kojima, Fumito Ueda knock my socks off with their gestures and technical skill. Japanese concept artists to me push their individual art the furthest at the highest levels, even though I think there are plenty of exceptional artists that have worked on fantastic games. I have a lot of respect for games because it forces you to think of characters in every angle, shape, pose, and if it's not readable, it means you didn't design your character or the setting well.

Mangas also influence me recently. The art of Katsuhiro Otomo, Kentaro Miura, Akira Toriyama are all highly technical. Every page is a masterpiece, and their aesthetics continue to develop as their comics do. It shows they knew what it took to adapt over the years and hone down their pipelines to ridiculous levels of mastery.

Studio 4ºC makes some of my favorite animations like Tekkon Kinkreet, Genius Party, Animatrix: Kid's Story. They convey movements and gestures in motion that are simple to draw, complex to move. It blows my mind. There are plenty of other animations out there that are worthy of noting, but my brain references these films first.

I hope to learn a lot from A.E. London! I'm excited.

yay \w/ sounds like you lead an exciting life. i'm curious to see what else you're gonna come up with in art. i bet you're gonna get big here in no time. :3
i'm bad at talking about art if i have to start and i don't really have many favorite artists [besides stig], i'm more of a take-what-i-can from an artist and run haha. and i'm bad with names so i never remember them even if i fall in love with an artist's style. most of the artists i like are from FA or DA, i'm not big into art history because the subjects they had in the past bore me a bit. i guess human subjects bore me in general. so you can imagine i never cared much to look up past artists.
i don't read comics or graphic novels either because i don't have the patience. so i'm just here like, yeah uh i like this furry artist and this one, who are all these people you're talking about? xD so incultured.
but i'd love to listen. i hope you're going to make some journals in the future on art blabbers. :3

A.E London is incredible, I love energy in strokes that's probably the thing I want to work on most, I get too stiff and worked up with mindless rendering

I'm partial to great use of color too, John Singer Sargent is and will always be one of my favorites

Some more contemporary artists I'm into include George Pratt and Kim Jung Gi
George Pratt those strokes and use of color, I NEED IT
and Kim Jung Gi is just an incredible draftsman

I love the angular quality in your lines, it creates so much interest, and I think you have a lot of dynamism in said lines.
I thank you so much for sharing.

Oh and a few artists on this site I admire

this artist is incredible to me, while I tend to still prefer brush strokes the atmosphere they create is mindblowing and transportive to me, it definitely makes me experience and feel
I hope some how to discover a way to great such a strong atmosphere in my work

I really love how he can achieve such dynamic illustrations with only a few strokes, containing all the information needed for an image
I also hope to harness something like that in my work

I have never heard of A.E London till now! Aaaah London's stuff looks amazing! The brush work just, hnnnnng <3
Words can't even describe it.

I don't really know what my favorite kind of style of art is but these are my favorite artists Anders Zorn, Caravaggio, Bernini, Range Murata, Jiraiya, Albrecht Dürer, Li Guijun... just to name a few honestly. I love art that can be dramatic and tell a story, and the way the atmosphere is presented. I guess Romanticism, Neo-Classical, and Baroque are my favorite styles of art. Honestly talking about this makes me wish I still had some cash left to buy more charcoal and white conte, not to mention more toned paper and more sketch pads. ... I miss my figure drawing class T__T

What I like about your art is how angular it is, and how dramatic it feels to me. The little accents you add here and there make the pieces interesting and it really makes me happy to see that. It's an inspiration to me, and that is always good in my books! For me it takes the eyes all over the place, exploring every little thing.
It's something I hope to achieve some day.

Your work is fantastic. Really glad to see it here, and I'll be following you on Tumblr.

Also I can relate a bit to departing from the art scene for a while in order to get other experiences. I turned down a few extremely good art job positions to join the Marines for a few years and go to Afghanistan, which definitely influenced my work in new ways and gave me story ideas rooted in a physical experience. So I'm kind of trying to repopulate my galleries and rebuild an online presence now too.

As for favorite artists... God, so many, and I go through different phases where I'll be gawking over one artist before moving to another. But I'd say I'm most influenced by French graphic novels and Heavy Metal magazine. Alex Alice, Claire Wendling, Moebius, etc.

The stuff you do in graphite is pretty stunning, by the way. Kind of makes me want to give it a try. I've found pencil drawing to be so frustrating up to now, but ought to try and change it.

Hello, your line work and shapes are beautiful. One of my favorite wildlife painters is Bob Kuhn, and one of the painters that inspires me a lot is Richard Schmid. I took about 2 years off from arting to do things like traveling around Asia and playing competitive TF2. I'm transitioning back into painting right now and plan to hit up 3D.

Again, your work is awesome. :D