Big sketch project from 2024 I didn't give an official name but generally referred to as the "Possum Style Flex" or "99 sketches, 99 styles."
The idea was relatively simple, albeit a lot of work: draw a single OC (in this case, Appalachia "Appy" Anarchette Possum, the protagonist of a comics project I've been quietly working on for like, three years and counting) in the manner of 99 different artists that have influenced your own artwork, in any way, to any degree. The project took almost exactly a year.
I figured out a lot about my own approaches to different things like shading and body part emphasis while working on it, and some things about others' process through study! It was also fun to research some of the names I didn't know behind some art styles that I did.
Sometime this year I wanna take my nine favorites, refine 'em, and color 'em. Artist list at the end! I also wanna, at some point, do anothe round cuz there are some that I can't believe I missed. Really, two years ago me? No Maxwell Atoms? No Gooseworx? And oof, I really need to get more black artists on my influence radar. (For the names that are typed, it was because the name written down in the sketch itself was either misspelled or, in at least one case, incorrect/miscredited. DESPITE THIS I STILL MISSED A FEW, and they're spelled/credited properly in the artist list.) Artist List (with the work(s) they're most known for/I know 'em most for) - 1-9: Bill Amend (FoxTrot), Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Jim Davis (Garfield), Jhonen Vasquez (JtHM, Squee!, Invader Zim), Rob Liefeld (influential 1980s/90s run in Marvel and later Image), Akira Toriyama (DragonBall), Sophie Campbell (Wet Moon, storied run in IDW Ninja Turtles), Ed Roth (the "Rat Fink" image series), Phil Foglio (Girl Genius) - 10-18: Matt Groening (The Simpsons, Futurama), Eichiro Oda (One Piece), Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon), Dan DeCarlo (Lengthy run on Archie, to the tune of becoming its "house style" for multiple decades), Penn Ward (Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors), Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Junji Ito (Gyo, Uzumaki), Jim Henson (The Muppets), a vast quantity of credited and uncredited illustrators and animators - 19-27: Maurice Sendak (Where The Wild Things Are), Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim, Seconds), Craig McCracken (The Powerpuff Girls, Kid Cosmic), Danny Antonucci (Ed Edd N' Eddy), Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), Ken Sugimori (Early-gens Pokemon key art), Quentin Blake (illustrator for several publishings of most Roald Dahl books), Paru Itagaki (Beastars), Ian Worthington (Big Top Burger) - 28-36: Edward Gorey (Illustrator, cartoonist for first iteration of Addams Family), Jamie Hewlett (early Tank Girl, Gorillaz), Olive Brinker (Rae The Doe), Osamu Tezuka (Black Jack, Astro Boy), Felix Colgrave (Double King, DONKS), Theodore Geisel (alias Dr. Seuss), John Scieszka (many 90s childrens' books including The Stinky Cheese Man and Math Curse), Lisa Hanawalt (Tuca & Bertie, Bojack Horseman), Mike & Matt Chapman (Homestar Runner) - 37-45: James Stokoe (Wonton Soup, Orc Stain), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Shigeru Mizuki (Kitaro), Jamie Smart (Bear), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Fil Barlow (creature designer for multiple cartoons and movies, famously including Ghostbusters), Max Fleischer (and his studio; several older western cartoons including Betty Boop and Popeye), Daisy McGuire (GastroPhobia, PepsiaPhobia, Yellow Brick Ramble), Jen Wang (Koko Be Good, The Prince & The Dressmaker, In Real Life)
- 46-54: Tracey Butler (Lackadaisy), Scott Benson (Night In The Woods), Hayao Miyazaki (and his studio; Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke), Bruce Timm (character design/art direction for several animated DC comics adaptations, famously including Batman TAS), Todd McFarlane (Spawn, much of 90s Spider-Man), Jeff Smith (Bone), Bill Hanna/Joe Barbera (and their studio; several 60s and 70s western cartoons including The Flintstones/Jetsons and Scooby-Doo), Q Hayshida (Dorohedoro), Tim Burton (Illustrator, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy)
- 55-63: Steve Purcell (Sam & Max), Naoto Oshima (key art for 2000s Sonic The Hedgehog media), Yuko Shimizu (sloppily credited here as just "Sanrio," I'll go back and change it if I post a cleaned-up version), Richard Scarry (the Busytown books), Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants), Hirohiko Araki (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure), Joe Murray (Rocko's Modern Life), Arlene Klasky/Gabor Csupo (and their studio; several 90s and 2000s western cartoons including a large amount of Nickelodeon's pre-Spongebob output), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan)
- 64-72: Takeshi Koike (Redline), John Dilworth (Courage The Cowardly Dog), KC Green (Gunshow, The Anime Club), Ed Emberly (illustrator, numerous you-can-draw style books), Chuck Jones (prominent Warner Bros. animator), Yusuke Nakano (here misspelled as "Nanako," key art for N64-era Zelda games) Jack Kirby (extremely prominent/influential 60s/70s superhero comic illustrator, too many examples to list), Camila Fortuna (illustrator), no doubt some very talented designer that I could not turn up a name for (based primarily on the older Ninja Turtles figures but a lot of figures of this era had this sort of Chunky And Maximalist Grimacing Look to them)
- 73-81: Deon Koster (Lethal League Blaze, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk), ONE (One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100), Evan Dorkin (Fun With Milk & Cheese, Eltingville), Tatsuo Yoshida (Speed Racer), Lauren Monger (Habits), Don Bluth (and his studio, many examples of pre-3D-standard non-Disney Western theatrical animation), Rob Schrab (SCUD The Disposable Assassin), Wally Wood (many older EC Horror comics), Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack)
- 82-90: Johnathan Wojcik (Awful Hospital), Steve Ditko (much of early Marvel), Kazuki Takahashi (YuGiOh), Charles Burns (Black Hole and various commercial illustration work including OK Soda), Takeshi Obata (Death Note, Bakuman), Alex Norris (Webcomic Name), Tatuski Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man), Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold), Mary Engelbreidt (illustrator) - 91-99: Tim Jacobus (Goosebumps cover illustrations--if not all of 'em, nearly all), Ryoko Kui (Dungeon Meshi), Mattie Lubchansky (Boys' Weekend), Maya Kern (illustrator), Kazuhiko Shimamoto (G Gundam), Alexandra Steible (art director, Rayman 1), Shaun Tan (illustrator), Heidi Smith (character designer for ParaNorman), Nick Park (and much of Aardman Animation's "house style," Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run)
Rebageling this in light of having a post escape containment recently, cuz IDK I still think it's neat. (Are self-reblogs lame? Do people still do that? I'm doin' it once at least.)











