I was talking to a friend the other day about how I wanted to work on women with ether pouty-er lips or drawing the upper lip on characters and I then i thought of the characters from Empowered, my friend suggested I use a character from "Porco Rosso" as a ref

I've also listed adamwarren as one of the influences on my style, I think i still have the Playstation Magazines that he did covers for. One of these days I should actually check out the Empowered books.