Influence map memeby =Gold-Seven

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Great meme from `fox-orian - biggest art influences! Here are mine:

First row left to right:

“Blade of the Immortal” by Hiroaki Samura. One of the few mangas I’ve ever read, but incredibly drawn, in a rather realistic style, with wonderful figure work and anatomy you can weep over.

“Prince Valiant” – but not the comics but the animated series! While the comic by Hal Foster is doubtlessly artistically better, I loved the series. And my Feanor is a direct ripoff of Prince Valiant!

Ilon Wikland, Estonian/Swedish illustrator and one of the biggest influence on my art since my childhood days. She illustrated many Astrid Lindgren books, and I just fell in love with her beautifully drawn people – and horses. You can probably tell. (And my birthday is on the same day as hers - February 5th!)

Second row:

Enrico Marini, whose style I simply adore. He did several comics – “Gypsy”, “The Scorpion”, “Rapaces”, and, of late, “The Eagles of Rome”. Incidentally, Aedan does NOT look like Marcus Valerius Falco. Aedan was there first!

Alan Lee, Tolkien illustrator extraordinaire.

Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator of fairytales. My style was definitely influenced by his works.

Below:

Alfons Mucha, Czech painter. I think THAT influence is obvious.

Left of Mucha:

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, whose watercolours I have adored for a long time.

Bottom row:

Inger Edelfeldt, Swedish illustrator, who did the 1985 Tolkien calendar. It adorned our house as my mother read the Lord of the Rings to me, and her images stuck forever in my mind.

Edvin Biukovic, Croatian comic artist. He did lamentably few comics during his short life (he died in 1999), but one of my favourites will forever be “The Phantom Affair”.

Embarassing confessions time! I loved the anime “Georgie” when I was – it gets even more embarrassing – seventeen. Abel, the guy on the right, was an influence for my Maedhros.

Carl Larsson, yet another Swedish artist. Around 1900, he painted beautiful watercolours (rather lineart-heavy) of his children and life in his village. My mother again was a huge fan of his and we always had several large wood-mounted posters of his work hanging in our house.

Blank meme is here: [link]