Hey! I just wanted to ask from whence did your art style originate? Also what programs do you use to make it? Photoshop? Do you use a drawing pad or iPad? Also what artists do you want to draw like, like whose style do you borrow from and study to incorporate into your own?
Okay, that’s a lot of questions. Let me unpack them one-by-one.
I just wanted to ask from whence did your art style originate?
I have no idea. My drawings started off anime influenced right off the bat with Yoshiyuki Sadamoto’s run on the Evangelion manga. Then I incorporated styles here and there as the years went on.
Also what programs do you use to make it? Photoshop?
I use Clip Studio Paint for doodles and formal works. They put the program on sale at least twice a year for 25$ so I suggest for waiting for that. It’s fast, intuitive and effective.
I use Photoshop for finishing (tonal correction, effects, text, web optimization).
I used to use Corel Painter, but it runs slow on my machine.
Do you use a drawing pad or iPad?
I use an old Wacom Intuos 4 Medium. The size is great because it can handle shorter strokes and the pen is nice and chunky. Wacoms are expensive, but they will last you a very long time.
Also what artists do you want to draw like, like whose style do you borrow from and study to incorporate into your own?
There are a lot of artists I love, both contemporary and classical so I’ll just put in a few that come to mind. But more commonly, I like styles with chunky, fat patches of color, lineart with a mix of loose freehand and drastic line variation, and dramatic lighting:
Jakub Rebelka - I discovered him through the Judas miniseries published by BOOM! Studios. Lush colors and simple, beautiful, and well-defined character designs.
Rembrandt and de la Tour - These two artists and their chiaroscuro style made me fall in love with Light. It’s a difficult discipline, but utterly worth it.
Tsutomu Nihei - I vowed to incorporate backgrounds in future works so I looked to Tsutomu Niheifor guidance. I love his vast superstructures and lonely expanses of urban sprawl guided by the suffocating tenets of Brutalism.
Kaamin - This artist’s style feels like the apotheosis of my own style: Loose but defined, splotchy but ordered, messy but disciplined. This artist is a master of color and I’ve printed out a few of their works as personal reference.
I also posted a bunch of my favorite artists here