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| Spring 2022 |
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| Summer 2022 |
To list all of my favorite artists and how they inspire me would take forever, but I did change up the list a bit from the original five artists assignment. Most of the artists shown here work digitally, with the exception of the first artist (who sketches and inks her pages).
Q Hayashida is a manga artist known for her works on Maken X Another, Dorohedoro, and Dai Dark. My first introduction to her work was Dorohedoro, and I adored her grungy style and unique character design. Her work tends to be dark but humorous in tone, and involves drawing a lot of action - usually fairly gory- scenes. I can’t draw intimidating muscled characters as well as her (yet), but I sure hope to. If anyone ever enjoyed Chainsaw Man, I highly recommend this series.
Trevor Henderson is another artist who specializes in horror, and especially creature designs. He created the notorious Siren Head, and the podcast Mayfair Watchers Society is about various other monsters of his creation. His works vary from photos (either ones he finds, is given, or takes himself) where he realistically illustrates the monster into the scene, to original illustrations.
Madison Schubert is an illustrator and designer who specializes in horror, punk subculture, and music. My favorite parts of her artwork are her use of vibrant and solid colors, her lineart and use of thicker outlines. She’s made promotional posters for the band Pinkshift before, and sticker designs both original and based on the works of the podcast The Magnus Archives. along with posters based on albums by the Band Ghost, My Chemical Romance, Halsey, and even artwork for web comics like that of Covenant. Which leads us to our next artist.
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| Lineart from Summer 2022 |
Lysandra Vuong is the author and artist of the webcomic Covenant. Their style shifts between their comic work, full-fledged illustrations, and merchandise. Their comic involves a lot of action scenes, character designs (the tattoos on their central characters are all designs they made themselves, and saved as assets for future and easier use for drawing panel-to-panel). Their illustrations have more detail and realistic rendering applied to them, and some of them have a beautiful painterly quality to them. I admire the range of their work, and how they’re very transparent about the process of drawing Covenant.
Miwashiba/Miwasiba is an older influence, primarily their horror game Alicemare (other notable games of theirs being the LiEat trilogy, 1bit Heart, and The Faceless Double, but I had played Alicemare while I was still in middle school). The gothic designs of the main protagonists, and designs of the demon antagonists remained a subconscious influence on how characters were designed in my story.
The last artist I want to bring up is Mari Merino. He is another horror artist, who actually released his novel Midnight over the summer. I enjoy his use of color in their illustrations, character design, and their writing fills me with a sense of dread that I hope to instill in future audiences.
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| Done in three hours after midnight, 2021 |
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| Incomplete character sprite, 2023 |
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| Alternate incomplete character sprite, 2023 |
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