Who's your favorite artist?

[KayCustomz]

My teacher in school keeps saying that everyone draws after someone...or keeps assuming its somebody else's style? which brings up the question whos your artist role-model? I barely got one, no ones art really inspirers me. how about you people?

[d!o]

Robert Crumb I adore.

[Landmate]

I usually dont follow a single artist, i pick and choose pieces that I like. Some exeptions would be Shirow, he has been a long time favorite for me.. And Frezzato I love, also Alphonso Mucha. I think I like a certain specific genre/theme and subject matter over a body of artists works. I really dont see myself as an artist yet, i just admire certain visuals and ideas and try to put down the cumulation of what I like on paper. My stuff is all "fanime" for lack of a better word.

[Mr.Magnetichead]

Masamune Shirow (sp?)
Brom
Mike Mignola (Hence Avatar)
H.R. Giger
Ashley Wood

[cucaracha]

I like Kev Walker and Jerry DiTerlizzi.
And I love (esp. the detail) Feng Zhu and Masamune Shirow.

Carl Critchlow also inspires me a lot. Once I copied one of his drawings (and changed it) don't call me a thief :D ;) (not going to sell it or anything...)

[KayCustomz]

I better start checking out you peoples artist, maybe I can get an idea or two

[Sketch]

Ashley Wood
Frezzato
Frezzata
The Biz
Shane Glines
many more

[Fisa]

Originally posted by KayCustomz
My teacher in school keeps saying that everyone draws after someone...or keeps assuming its somebody else's style?

thats funny because the people i revere most are the ones i do not resemble at all. its because i do not have the learned skills to draw or paint like them so I admire it even more.

One of my faves is Tim Burton. His drawing style is really quirky and his design sense seems to be only his.

[KayCustomz]

but its not hard to learn

[Muttonhead]

Crumb
Mucha
Arthur Rackham
Gustav DORE
Durer
Ralph Steadman
Berni Wrightson (less now than before)

And my personal god: Ian Miller

If any of you are unfamiliar with Ian Millers work, you should try to get a hold of some of it. He is hard to find, but he used to do a bunch of stuff for Game Workshop. There is a great book that has a good amount of his work in called RatSpie which I had remembered from my old Games Workshop days, but never purchased, and then was lucky enough to find at Forbidden Planet in NYC. They said that they had found a bunch of them sitting around their warehouse and decided to put them back up for sale! Lucky ME!!!

Here is one of the only things I can find of his work on the web:


Miller (http://www.illustration-agency.com/gallery/graphic/ianm.htm)


-S.A.M.

[clayrodery v.03]

Roy Lichtenstein
El Greco
Ashley Wood
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Michael Basquiat
Andy Warhol
Egon Scheile
Auguste Renoir
Mary Cassatt
Tamara Lempicka
Shawn Barber
Franz Kline
William Kentridge
Jasper Johns

[SkeletonDog]

Enki Bilal
Frezzato
Wayne Reynolds
Paul Bonner
Martin Emond
Brom
Phil Hale

It is true though...I don't try to emulate these guys...I just really enjoy seeing their work...But I guess it all comes though some way or another...

Oh and good ole Larry Elmore...cuz he's the one who got me hooked on this stuff in the first place...

[Lost]

Caravaggio
Barron Storey
coro

[Nimrod]

All that have been said before, and John Singer Sargent... no one mentioned him yet. For shame! Jason will scold you all I'm sure.

Oh and Tim Bradstreet, and Burne Hogarth... almost forgot them!

[jrr]

moe howard was the greatest artist ever. :bash:

[Lono]

Kent Williams
Traves Charest
Phil Hale
Ralph Steadman
Hermann Mejia
Ken Scott
Foster
Ian McCaig
alex ross

i cant think right now.


-Lono

[MrSmith]

sargeant, frazzeta, frank miller, some spanish guy that i cant remember his name...umm....other peoples....

[KayCustomz]

I forgot about frazzeta or frazzeto isn't that the guy who be rippin' it with the fantasy art? if it is, I like his art, too bad its not my style :(

[Vhy]

Depends on my mood...but I've gotta mention Rembrandt seeing as noone else has.

[KayCustomz]

which mood would that be

[nova]

viktor antonov
justin kaufman
joe sorren
phil hale

oh yeah, almost forgot,
moebius
sylvain despertz [nice guy, too]

[Azazel]

My most direct influences:
Katsuhiro Otomo
Wayne Barlowe
Frank Loydd Wright

Everyone Else:
Tim Bradstreet
Alex Maleev
Dave McKean
Ashley Wood
John Foster
Mobeous (sp?)
Bilal
Simon Bisley (his early Slaine stuff, anyway)
Can't remember his name but the guy who did the painted run on ABC Warriors.

[weapon82]

Syd Mead
Ralph McQuarrie
Joe Johnston
Frank Frazetta
J. S. Sargent
William Bouguereau


I also look way up to these artists:
Craig Mullins
Ryan Church
Scott Robertson
Ed Lee
Stephan Martiniere
Harald Belker

[R_M]

myself of curse!
:fruit:

Close after we have
Norman Rockwell
Jim Burns
John Harris
Foster
Seeley

[KayCustomz]

just a thought you guys or girls have a lot of reference books on your artists?

[kaini]

To answer this question is impossible for me, because my list changes all the time. Here's a try though:

Mark Rothko
Paul Klee
Dave McKean
James Jean (!!!!)
Jerome Witkin
Alex Kanevsky
Andrew Wyeth
Randall Exon (!!!)
Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud
Neo Rauch
Harald Sohlberg etc....

[Muttonhead]

Jerome Witkin eh?

Hehe, I had him as a professor at Syracuse University in New York State. He is a very INTERESTING person.

He was my anatomy professor and he liked to take us to the morgue (which was cool, but he seemed to enjoy it maybe TOO much). He also had quite a large collection of human skulls. Nice guy though. His brother is pretty well known too: Joel Peter Witkin, upon whose photographs Nine Inch Nails' video for closer was based on.

-S.A.M.

[clayrodery v.03]

Damn I forgot about the 2 Franks... Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Miller. Hell yeah!

clay

[Fipse]

Difficult - and most haven´t got anything to do with the stuff I´m doing, never felt much "influenced" ...

Harold Foster - with whom all began for me ...
Hieronymus Bosch
Jan van Eyck
Jan Vermeer
Rembrandt
William Turner
Caspar David friedrich
Van Gogh
Edvard Munch
George Grosz
Picasso
Magritte

From more or less contemporary illustrators but I like Frazetta, Michael Whelan, Angus McBride, Gerry Embleton and Graham Turner.

Fipse

[cucaracha]

Bosch heh? :)
I think his little devils and demons are cute in a way.

I saw a book by Frazetta in my City today, maybe I should buy it...

[jester]

So here are mine, didn't realize I love so many...

Jester



William Blake
Leonardo da Vinci
Edgar Degas
Albrecht Dürer
Caspar David Friedrich
Vincent van Gogh
Hokusai
Gustav Klimt
Käthe Kollwitz
Gustav Larsson
Magritte
Claude Monet
Edvard Munch
Pablo Picasso
Rembrandt
Rubens
William Turner
John Lee
Alan Howe
Frank Miller
Craig Mullins
Doug Chiang

[KayCustomz]

I feel left out

[fletchgirl]

wow.. uh,
GIACOMETTI...
degas...
kaethe kollwitz's self portraits... (i couldn't remember how to spell her name, so i looked it up. i'm still not sure it's right. :),
hopper,
the wyths (N.C., Andrew, Jamie)
national geographic. :)
many many more. everybody. eveything.
conceptart.org. very inspirational. check it out. :D

[negativespace]

Yeah Giacometti!

[fletchgirl]

woo hoo!!!! there's another guy too, who's name is right on the tip of my tounge.... right there!---> :p the thing i love is the way he draws hands... everything's really elongated and stretched... it's great, but i totally can't think of his name. he's contemperary... german? help me out somebody? oh, also sebastian krueger. very cool.

[cucaracha]

you mean Dürer or Durer or Duerer ;)

Thant one in the middle is pronounced like the french "rue" without "r"

Hard to say for english speaking people I think :)
check out this related homestarrunner cartoon :D
http://www.homestarrunner.com/cantsayjob.html
(w/ sound)

[fletchgirl]

no, not durer.... although, he's awesome too... hahah, yes yes, coach Z is the source of much amusement yeah, i should put "the brothers chaps" on my list!!!! :D

[KayCustomz]

you guys will be mentioning my name someday!:D

[Clodhopper]

awsome! more artists to look up!

but heres mine:

frank Frazzetta
Sorayama
Luis Royo
Simon Bisley
Stephen Fabian
Steven Stahlberg
Feng Zhu

[oglzogl]

Well, this is my list ;)

Picasso
William Blake
Georgio De Chirico (Metaphysical work)
William De Kooning (late 40s - 50s. I am not real interested in his newer stuff)
Boccioni
Cezanne
Michaelangelo
Durer
Max Ernst
Juan Miro
Goya
Dave McKean
Max Beckman
Francis Bacon
Gorky

.. incomplete, I'm sure.

[KayCustomz]

Has anyone here mentioning stuff, meet there artists yet?

[oglzogl]

I've never met anybody I mentioned on my list (all but one are dead :().. but I shook hands with Neil Gaiman today (Sandman comic writer.. doing a book signing at the local library). Feel pretty damn good about that :)

[fletchgirl]

no... i met Joe Sorren (on Nova's list) and i'm kicking myself for not somehow meeting Al Hircshfeld... but i did get to meet Maurice Noble before he passed away. he was one amazing man, an awsome artist, and the least bitter person (at ninety) i have ever met in the industry.

[Nimrod]

I met Doug Chiang! I went to the Smithsonian exhibition of the Star Wars props and stuff that toured around a few years ago. When we got to the museum, we read that later that night, a 'concept artist who worked on episode 1' would give a small presentation/slideshow. I figured it would be some loser intern guy or something who dre one thing that never even made it into the movie or something like that. But while we were waiting to see the main exhibit, we saw this guy sitting on a bench in the hall, and my friend was like, 'dude! is that Doug Chiang??' and we flipped out. We went over and talked to him. I'd like to think we gave him the shock of his life. I mean as a concept artist, you probably don't expect to get too many random people off the street recognizing you. Anyway it was totally cool, and we got to see the show and meet him again and get our picture taken. wow

[killing.people]

peter chung

any programmer

egon scheile

hardcorepixxx

nivbed

sparth

pudd'nhead

picasso (realism, i hate his abstract crap)

android

rembrant

that elaphant ..

dowdoa (sp?)

norwell

roundeye

el coro!

if you're bad ass and i forgot, f u anyway. :eek:

[davi]

Gods

Egon Schiele
Toulouse-Lautrec
Heinrich Kley
Käthe Kollwitz
Arthur Rackham
Craig Mullins
Enrico Marini
Massimiliano Frezzato
John Singer Sargent



Generals

Luis Royo
Enki Bilal
Tony DiTerlizzi
Jeffery Jones
Kevin llewellyn
Brom
Hyung-Tae Kim
Joe Chiodo
Falcoon
Jon Foster
Phil hale
Kchen
Sparth
Bengel
El Coro
Mike May
Nivbed

[StephenC]

I've actually run into Jason, MArtinere, Feng, and Foster

but nothing beats foster's original drawing...

[KayCustomz]

Nimrod brought up a point I forgot about, doesn't it suck that no one reconizing the artist, seeing somebody walk up to a drawing or painting and saying its hot and wouldn't ever care who the artist was, most of the time. I would run out and pinot out my drawings and say "Thats all me man!!" It is a goal for me to become a famous artist after all, in cartoons.

[fletchgirl]

Egon Schiele!!! that's it!!! that's who i was trying to remember!!!
i used to not like picasso's cubist and abstracted stuff either until we studied cubism in class and had to do a cubist painting. WOW. you can't really appreciate something until you try it yourself. it's like watching professonal sports after you tried to do that yourself for nine years and you realize how much they could still wipe the floor with you. the fact that he and Gris are recognized to be the pioneers of that "abstract crap" means a whole lot to me. so even if you don't like it, don't disrespect it. unless of course, none of that matters to you and you've never learned anything from it or absent mindedly used an abstract thought in anything you've done, then go ahead and call it crap. if that's what you really feel. :D

[cucaracha]

Ouch!

Of course I meant Tony DiTerlizzi, as davi said right, not Jerry... :rolleyes:

[davi]

cucaracha is playing a cat and mouse name game(pun).

[sagerussell]

Dermot power

See "the art of star wars ep II"..

[KayCustomz]

I saw that, its interesting

[cucaracha]

what do you mean, davi? Maybe I used the wrong smiley?
Don't get me wrong :)
cu

[clayrodery v.03]

No crap Dermot Power, that guy rocks the house to end man! Damn, I keep forgeting all these great artists, dag yo

clay

[Bathgate66]

Man, I hope I live for saying this but

Joe Madureira

AND

Gene Colan
Bryan Hitch
Travis Charest
Jim Lee
Claudio Castellini

AND

Arthur Rackham
Andrew Wyeth
N.C. Wyeth

AND

Auguste Renoir
Rodin(sculptor)
Michelangelo
J.S.Sargeant
JMW Turner

[BoBo_the_seal]

Major influences on me:

Brom
Phil Hale
Jon Foster
John Mueller
Terada
Chris Bachalo
Justin Sweet
Mark Silvestri
Travis Charest
James Hawkins (each piece he does pushes me to get better)
Andrew Jones (his daily exploration of his own art is truly inspiring)
Wesley Burt

Heh, I think I’m too much of an art addict to leave out the following (note this does not include the random and categorized art I’ve collect):

http://www.bobotheseal.com/temp/other/reference-artist-dir.jpg

- BoBo

[Mr.Magnetichead]

Originally posted by BoBo_the_seal


- BoBo

Heya bobo :wave:

I've been in love with your work since I first saw the Quake 3 Fortress concepts you pulled together.

Love your work a whoooole lot, just wish you would update your site more:p

Hows Elite Force 2 coming? Have they nearly finished that?

Anyway I saw Mignola in your collection so Im happy!:D

[JoshuaTheJames]

here is one of my favorites!

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1282

check it out!

-Joshua

[GREENHORN]

Josh, Josh, Josh... so predictable!

Well here, I'll be just as predictable...

Numero Uno: N.C. Wyeth!!!!!!!! No one has listed him as one of their favorite artists!! Nuts..thats all I got to say about that!

other greats:

Yes..Leyendecker
Howard Pyle
Arthur Rackham...unbelievable in person
William Harnett
Si Lawrence Alma Tadema
J.W. Waterhouse
Ralph Mcquarrie
Ian McCaig
Michaelangelo(sculptures better than his paintings)
Mucha
Frederick Remington
Alan Lee

And the list goes on.
If you are in Delaware or nearby you have to go to the Brandywine River Museum sometime. They have Norman Rockwells, N.C. and Andrew Wyeth paintings, Arthur Rackham, Leyendecker and his brother, Howard Pyle, and every other concievable major Illustrator you could imagine.

But, Nothing compares to N.CC. Wyeth paintings in person, especially the Treasure Island series. Unbelievable!!!

--J. Murchie

[Gezstar]

Hmm... I'd kind of like to be listing all these past masters etc., but that wouldn't be honest of me. My - probably unfashionable - list goes as follows:

- Shirow Masamune (first reading Appleseed was what convinced me to put real effort into drawing)
- Otomo Katsuhiro (Akira)
- Bengus (Capcom)
- Terada Katsuya (please check this guy out - he's sorely underrated in the West)
- Kim Hyung-Tae (Korean game artist)
- Brian Bolland (the UK's prodigal son!)
- Kev Walker (one of the kings of 2000AD who still actually works there)
- Joe Madureira (the ultimate in uncoolness, maybe, but still one of my favorite artists, and the only one who, to my eyes, has successfully managed to interpret a Japanese aesthetic into American comics... although recently LeSean looks like he might be another)

[Cinsev]

tony diterlizzi, yoji shinkawa, madureira, isric, bengal, and the list goes on...

[pvrhye]

Hiroaki Samura. He's a god. Reclusive as hell however.

Then there's
- Delacroix
- Wayne Reynolds
- D Alexander Gregory
- Toshihiro Kawamoto
- Masamune Shirow
- Rembrandt (the prints, I don't care for the paintings)

The list really goes on and on, but thats what comes to mind.

[Skank]

well, i grew up with these artists:
jim lee
travis charest
frank millar
and a little later, Mad!
those were my first big influences...
now i have a few more

brom
kev walker
adrian smith
paul dainton
el coro
feng
shirow
frazzetta
j. sweet
j. foster

good gawd the list could go on...=)