This is FAR from an exhaustive list of artists I follow, and it's absolutely not a list of all the artists I love. This is simply the 9 artists who work I'm currently studying to help improve my own work! Each of them have something to their styles I want to know more about. going down the list in no particular order:

 SnowballUK 's sense of humor
 Aquadragon35 's cuteness
 FlipyKink 's amazing graphics and visual design
 geckonori 's fast output and consistency with staying on-model
 scottc 's fuckin' AMAZING bulges and shading
 That_Kei_Guy 's linework and huff as hell mawshots
 SpottedSqueak 's internals and bulges, as well as his sense of anatomy
 TheMuffinly 's color/style sense and also his sense of humor
and  beuen 's god-tier anatomy that makes those HUGE HIPS work on their characters, as well as the very warm and friendly mood all of their art has.

some of these portraits I'm VERY proud of, like the ones for  beuen and  TheMuffinly , but a few of them I'm honestly kinda disappointed how they came out. I kinda feel like they dont give the respect to those artists that they deserve. But alas, this isn't meant to be a big fancy piece or anything, just a... I dunno. A gift? A way of saying Thank-you to all these artists who inspire me to work harder and improve with their every pose? A self callout to make myself keep working harder by giving myself attainable goals? Who can say. Whatever the case, I'm glad I did it and I hope they like it if they see it <3