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Question for all artists: what got you into art? What inspired your art to look the way it is now?Jan 14, 2023
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I loved watching Pokémon (indigo league) and then started drawing like it and eventually other things like YouTube and other animes/cartoons shaped my current style!!!
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•I started off really young, in preschool. Used to draw every day. Then I discovered My Little Pony and became a big fan. I drew only ponies for a few years, then got bored of it and moved onto drawing other stuff. When I started watching youtube I discovered Sinix and really loved his painterly style of art (before it I used to draw lineart stuff). Looked for similar art styles on the internet and got really inspired, so here I am now, haven't done lineart stuff in years.
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•Those youtube tutorials drawing "cute" stuff with big ass eyes idfk
I liked watching them, also I had a week long thing where I spend hours trying to learn baymax anatomy and watching multiples tuts lmao it's physically ingrained to my cerebellum atp
I liked watching them, also I had a week long thing where I spend hours trying to learn baymax anatomy and watching multiples tuts lmao it's physically ingrained to my cerebellum atp•
•It's always been a fun way to express my ideas I guess. As for the look, I like how varied cartoon style stuff can be, and anime eyes.
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•I've always knew I liked to draw since kindergarten, but i started to draw regularly because of Pokemon. I love making my own fake pokemon and their gym leaders when i was kid.
Now my inspiration mainly comes from anime, manga/manhwa, or other artist. I think manhwa has influenced my current style the most since i often read them.
Now my inspiration mainly comes from anime, manga/manhwa, or other artist. I think manhwa has influenced my current style the most since i often read them.
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•Animation memes & 2016 gacha stories 
Also I had a friend in elementary school who lied about being different popular art YouTubers and I was like “omg I wanna do that too!” So my entire life is based on LIES LMAO
Nowadays I get most of my inspo from Pinterest, but I really love Prickly Alpaca’s art! Tbh I really can’t place any style inspo other than like Shark66 for coloring & Vernie green for line work. :)
Also I had a friend in elementary school who lied about being different popular art YouTubers and I was like “omg I wanna do that too!” So my entire life is based on LIES LMAO
Nowadays I get most of my inspo from Pinterest, but I really love Prickly Alpaca’s art! Tbh I really can’t place any style inspo other than like Shark66 for coloring & Vernie green for line work. :)
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•I've always drawn but sharing my art online for years rly inspired me to have a solid rhythm and deeper interest into it. In digital art, I really like the feel and look of black lineart, and my preferred medium used to be traditional ink for some years. I'm into fantasy art (I fondly remember black and white ink drawings from books), old comics (like Calvin and Hobbes), 2d video game art, graffiti(!!!), cute stuff and horror vibes, any cute animals and monsters... Chaotic is good! 
️ I aspire to tap into that more in the future. Right now I'm focusing on learning environments and backgrounds, so half of my art will be experimenting with the ️YEAR OF SPACE️ theme, plus I'll also be doing commissions and anything I feel like making.
️ I aspire to tap into that more in the future. Right now I'm focusing on learning environments and backgrounds, so half of my art will be experimenting with the ️YEAR OF SPACE️ theme, plus I'll also be doing commissions and anything I feel like making.•
•ive got this thing (i believe it's called alexythimia?) where it's very difficult for me to understand emotions and feelings, so art is a way for me to express things in the way they come to me rather than trying to find out What's Going On in terms someone else will understand. as for why i draw like i draw, in september/october 2022 i saw a video about jeff the killer and for some fucking reason my brain decided it was time to draw weird stuff . every time i look at my drawing folder i can Tell where the shift happened and it is hilarious
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•So many things inspired me!! MLP got me interested in art because I watched speedpaints from fan artists,though I didn't really draw until I became obsessed with Minecraft...Minecraft. But then the internet also introduced me to anime art and a wanted to draw like that.
My current art is all over the place,but mainly inspired by manga/anime,realism,and surrealism when it comes to my more "serious" art.
My current art is all over the place,but mainly inspired by manga/anime,realism,and surrealism when it comes to my more "serious" art.
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•Speedpaints and animation memes haha, and the fact that it's a nice hobby/eventual career
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•Ive been doing art but it was an on aand off situation. Since I was little but around 1st grade I was like always compared to this one classmate who was reaally good in art, like she was really known for it, I also admire her works but I just quit bc I felt like it wasnt my think bc my friends that time didnt really appreciate my work or support me but its fine since we were only like 1st graders. I moved to another school in 4th grade and my friends there got me interested in arts but not drawing, just crafting, it was really fun tho. And this was the time I got influenced by my friends to watch anime. Then I moved to another school in 5th grade and tried to draw anime characters in my notebooks , this time, I had some classmates support me while others made fun of my work, I didnt take it to heart so it didnt really bother me. Then in 6th grade I tried landscape drawings bc I found them interesting and surprisingly I was really good at them so I just spent time drawing landscapes on my notebooks and sketchbooks. Then in 7th grade I tried digital art—Ive tried pixel art and I loved to draw cute stuff like carrots with a smiley face. in 8th grade I started to draw anime artstyles digitally. Im still working on my artstyle but Im proud of how far Ive come
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•I still remember the day when i bought a manga for the first time from a local store. It is first memories I have from mangas. From there i really liked the artstyle so i started to copy it until i developed my own art style. I think it happened over 10 years ago now. Also I went to art school as a hobby so it really helped.
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•As a kiddo it’d be ma mum, she’s very crafty, we’d draw animals as the zoo together. Then a little older I had a go at drawing characters so I could draw fan art. Then I drew fan art every day for a few years now I’m here :) grabbin lil bits from artists I like n mushing it all together to draw random shit 
(note I also took art at school but it made me hate the subject xD nearly made me stop drawing tbh but hey)
(note I also took art at school but it made me hate the subject xD nearly made me stop drawing tbh but hey)•
•The Kawaii craze back in the 2010s and animes such as the Precure franchise and magical girls really got me into art. I wanted to be able to draw art just like that.
In the pursuit of finding my artstyle, I realised I loved black and white + screen tones in mangas and how you could "see" the colours despite none being there. I decided to try the same thing with my art and I have been happy ever since. (๑•ᴗ•๑)
In the pursuit of finding my artstyle, I realised I loved black and white + screen tones in mangas and how you could "see" the colours despite none being there. I decided to try the same thing with my art and I have been happy ever since. (๑•ᴗ•๑)
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•To make this short, Mew Mew Power and Sonic were my inspirations in styles but when I was a kid, I would express how I felt in my drawings. I find drawing calming and fun to do- and because I wanted to use my art for something big growing up, I continued it and now I am working towards being a self taught indie game developer! :D
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•I think at it's core, I got into art because it's an amazing source of entertainment, and unlike video games, no one will really call me out if I spend all of my time drawing
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•I’ll go first, i was always into art ever since i was a little kid. When i was younger i would watch drawing tutorials for fun.
What really helped me develop my style was looking at this one person on tumblers art who did mlp fanart (i think it was jitterbugjive) i just really loved the facial expressions in their work and i like to think that helped to inspire my art style. I also use thick lines because of a mistake i one day did where i went over a line twice and made it thicker as a result, but i liked the outcome so i did it on the whole drawing.
What really helped me develop my style was looking at this one person on tumblers art who did mlp fanart (i think it was jitterbugjive) i just really loved the facial expressions in their work and i like to think that helped to inspire my art style. I also use thick lines because of a mistake i one day did where i went over a line twice and made it thicker as a result, but i liked the outcome so i did it on the whole drawing.
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