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The Marks are spreading everywhere

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I'm so SO Happy I got the chance to attend both the Skeletour and the Here Be Dragons tour within a month 🤘

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In Dulci Jubilo🎶

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HELLO

YOUR DRAWINGS ARE SOMETHING MOST BEAUTIFUL AND INCREDIBLE THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN. YOUR DRAWINGS ARE LIKE AIR TO ME, THEY MAKE ME LIVE🙏🙏🙏🙏Just know that I'm your #1 fan and I adore your drawings terribly. You have a really special, incredible, and very enjoyable style.... You have divine drawings. Please draw Roger Waters more often, I have a whole gallery in your drawings with him, I adore them terribly :D! You are the best. Thank you for your attention. you're really a very, VERY special artist

This is definitely one of the loveliest messages I've recieved in a while thank you so much Anon :') I haven't drawn much PF related stuff (aside from requests/commissions) because I simply ran out of ideas :/

....but how could I deny such an uplifting worded ask?? Here you Go :D

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Commission for @marsh0metal : Roger and OC performing What Shall We Do Now? during The Wall Tour

Thank you ^^

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HIIII!!!!! I am writing to you again because you are my favorite artist in the world, you are the best!! 🙏🙏 wanted to ask if you have an inspiration for the drawing style? Are you inspired by anyone? love ya!!!

Heya first of all thank you so so much for this kind message despite my severe lack of tumblr activity at the moment :')

Now buckle up, this is gonna be a long one cause I'm gonna use this opportunity shamelessly to ramble about my favourite comics lmao:

If we're talking about my personal stylistic influences I guess they can roughly be summarized as a mixture using elements of shonen manga, 70s underground comics and French/Belgian classics (école marcinelle) and the occasional other favored artistic influence that doesn't fit neither these categories.

To give a more detailed explanation going chronologically, one of my most important influences is definitely One Piece which I started reading and collecting at 11 (still going). Its art style was one of the first styles I've actively tried to study and emulate back then, especially Oda's whacky character design, his depiction of emotions (for comedic as well as dramatic purposes) and the way he draws movement and action scenes.

Also there was this one manual on "How to draw/create Manga" by Akira Toriyama that I used to read religiously as a teen and took a lot of its tips and instructions for drawing with nibs and ink very seriously. A technique I stick by to this very day because at this point I spent so much time on its training (and because I still suck at Digital art ;w;)

Another very important influence for sure were all the French and Belgian comics such as Asterix and Lucky Luke I've red since early childhood (hell, the very first comic book I've ever got was an Asterix Issue "Asterix in Belgium" when I was 3 and couldn't even read yet but my eyes were successfully glued to the images nonetheless. My parents buying that comic for me at a gas station during a vacation trip possibly unleashing a lifelong obsession remains a vivid childhood memory lol).

But when it comes to actual artistic influence, the comics by Belgian artist André Franquin are the ones I took the most inspiration from. He was best known as a longtime artist for the Spirou franchise and his own spinoff series such as Marsupilami and Gaston. His art style sometimes is referred to as part of the so called École Marcinelle (counterpart to the Ligne Claire style famously used in comics such as Tintin). This style puts a lot of emphasis on stark contrasts, crosshatching and "dramatic" line art. I worked as an assistant secretary in an administration's office for a year after graduating from school and I hated every minute of that job so I really loved reading the Gaston comics, humorous gag stories featuring the title hero's shenanigans and crazy inventions in a publishing office, often resulting in total chaos and destruction. There's also a very tonally different work by Franquin called Idées noires / Franquin's Last Laugh, a collection of short comics with dark and cynical humour. The art is entirely black and white with brilliant use of stark contrasts and silhouettes, I aspire to achieve these inking skills as well as the character's dynamic movements and comedic timing.

Some more miscellaneous influences for the sake of simplicity summarized as "Underground Comic" (hereby counting mostly Anglospherical works targeted towards an adult audience from the 60s to the 90s that definitely break the comic code). I got into comics such as The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Eno And Plum, various series published under Vertigo and the whole Œuvre of artists such as Derf Backderf and Jamie Hewlett. My interest certainly was fueled by one of my teachers from art school referring to my art style as "somewhat reminiscent of 70s underground comix" (to this day personally my most cherished art related compliment I've ever recieved :')). What captivated me the most about the works and series mentioned above is their range from grossout humor, grittiness and mature themes in art and story development. There is just something about these settings and characters that are so entertainingly non sterile and non marketable towards families, I can't quite put my finger on, but it sure is a vibe. People who're somewhat familiar with my own original works and characters know that I love making whacky/pathetic characters in "nefarious" settings. A relative who skipped through my sketchbook containing notes and doodles for my comic project said to me: "Why are all of your scenarios set either in a junk yard, a brothel, a jailhouse or the sewer systems??" I don't know, for the vibes I guess.

Combining and culminating all these various interests and influences seen above and you'll get something like this as seen below - which is a redraw of an older comic page of mine I made recently and is probably most representing the current state of my art style.

...which is not to say this where I stop. There are so many techniques I still aspire to learn for myself and so many more comics and their respective artists I want to study further.

So here's a list of more inspo stuff I hope to emulate at least a little bit going forward because their style scratches my brain in just the right way:

Hugo Pratt. The way he uses shadows and contrasts and also the way he depicts dreamlike sequence in works such as Corto Maltese. His comics are always drawn in a way that they don't have to rely on colour and function perfectly well in black and white.

2. Jacques Tardi. I love his grotesque designs and his usage of patterns. He's also able to depict dark comedy as well as serious tragedies (often based in real life). Humor, violence, detailed drawings...

3. Max Cabanes. His art is in my opinion a near perfect balance between realism and stylization. I also love his incorporation of roughly looking pencil strokes giving his panels a certain edge. He excels depicting dynamic action scenes.

4. Kan Takahama. I could gush endlessly about how much I love her way of storytelling. It is atmospheric yet realistic, plot revelations happen calmly not sensationalized. If I had to describe her works in one word it would be maturity (as in this is what life can be sometimes). Her works remain as some of the most reread comics/manga on my bookshelf.

5. Typex. He is one of the best comic artists of all times (imo) surely for many reasons like his artistic versatility but the most important thing he does is that he uses comic as a medium to its full potential. I consider his biographic novels on Rembrandt and Andy Warhol some of the greatest works of art I've ever red for this reason alone. There are so many pages containing visual story elements that simply wouldn't work in any type of other medium but a comic. And that is something I REALLY hope to achieve in my own works one day: Tell stories in a way that could only be done in a comic.

...and there we have it! My biggest inspirations (so far).

I'm sorry for this borderline novel of a response I tend to get carried away ranting and rambling about my favourite topic ^^ Also apologies for any typo etc. I didn't proof read everything before posting.

As an artist there's probably always some sort of improvement to achieve, I'll end this lenghty bluster with some pics from one of my projects earlier this year where I really tried to work outside of my usual stylistic comfort zone, in this case meaning clean line art and coloring (even though coloring four whole damn pages by hand definitely got some punishment potential. Still, I'm glad I did that project).

For context; this was part of an art historical research project on Baroque art in Catholic Churches of Upper Austria. My main goal was to make the comic as trippy as possible ^^

Thank you so much for your question I hope some parts of my neverending answer was helpful :DD

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I've participated in a Beatles themed Secret Santa project on Insta and I got the prompt "John during the Magical Mystery Tour era"

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Magdalene Study based on Penelope by Max Klinger