Who Inspires You the Most?

#21

Pretty much all of that relates to me too, though it would be writing instead of mixing and DJing. Anything that sparks a vision, be it a glimpse of something I pass in a car, or the way two notes come together in a song, or the words themselves, a scene in a movie, or the way someone wears their clothes. Being a writer, almost any scene I see can spark off a tale, which then spawns pictures in my head.

But in terms of people who inspire me, I’d have to say BROM, most definitely, Dorian Cleavenger for his ability to make the grotesque beautiful, and Amano and Miyazaki for their ability to create whole stories in pictures. CG wise… as corny and slightly brown-nosing as it sounds, this whole site continues to be a boiling pot of idea sparkers and motivation as well as inspiration. CGTalk just rocks. :smiley:

#22

-Aubrey Beardsley
-Salvador Daili
-HR Giger
-M.C. Esher

many more but I am more inspired by a two specfic art eras. Victorian and Art Nouveau

#23

everything

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#24

I saw a documentary on Studio Ghibli on the weekend… so currently it’s them. :smiley:

#25
  • Timothy Albee
    • Rashad Redic
    • Terrence Walker

and many others of course…

#26

Poetry. Here’s one of my favourites:

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

‘The Waste Land’ by T S Eliot

#27

Who inspires me? let see.
Antique masters really inspire me. Spechally Leonardo da Vinci, Bosch, Bottichelli, Tintoretto, Tiepolo and Veronese.

There are some more modern ones aswell that inspire me, Dalí and Bergkvist :slight_smile:

#28

Too right Squib! The whole kit ‘n’ kaboodle… (what is a kaboodle?)

#29

Well, I guess my inspirations vary depending on which aspect of my life you are talking about. But, as far as artistically? Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Shinichiro Watanabe, Ed McGuinness, Joe Madureira, Jim Lee, Mike Wieringo, Steve McNiven. Yeah, a lot of them are really recent but, all of them make me want to draw so I can gun for their spots on top of the proverbial heap.:smiley:

#30

For 3D Modeling/Effects: Gray Horsfield (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1402398/)
For 2D Art/Matte Painting: Dylan Cole (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1304499/)

#31

Call me crazy, but I’ve always enjoyed Marc Chagall’s work. Also, that “small” movement of art called impressionism is okay too :wink:

#32

-The world around me
-The people I love
:slight_smile:

#33

Dylan Cole.

Primarily because he painted a lot of the backgrounds in the triology I consider the best movie ever made. His matte paintings are what inspired me to get back into the artsy things instead of the technical web design/programming I’ve been doing since graduating from the savannah college of art and design.

Bob Ross

John Singer Sargent

And my wife who actually believes I have talent… she’s delusional. j/k about last part.

#34

Jonas Thornqvist
Rolhion Jean-Sebastien
Jonkajtys
H.R.Giger

#35

Every time I need some inspiration or to get psyched up about drawing, I go to Travis Charest’s web site and look through some of his images. They’re so beautiful, they make me miss working with traditional media. (If I had the extra money for tons of supplies, I’d do less digital stuff… but I spent all my money on my Wacom and Painter.) He’s got this web comic called Space Girl that he does once a week (or did, I don’t know if he still does it). According to him, it’s just something he does for fun an hour or so a week. Man… if that takes him an hour, I must be stuck in a time warp or something. It would take me at LEAST six or seven hours to do drawings that perfect. (Of course, being at art school for three years has taught me that every artist lies about how long it took him to do a piece.)

#36

Hey! SCAD alumnus! I’m in my last quarter there now.

#37

everyone in here in the CG Choice galleries inspires me a lot, then a lot of music (doesn’t depend on styl, it just has to have something inside - from eminem over rammstein to vivaldi), then love itself of course. sometimes a movie (irréversible, ten minutes older).

in fact everything can inspire me at least to make some ideas in my head.

#38

Just a few artists who inspire and influence my work: Nicholas Hilliard, Jean Pucelle (any 11th to 15th Century illuminated MS), and of course, one of my favorite historical artists, the prolific “Anonymous”.

#39

to be Frank, i dun haf a Thourough ARtist who inspired me everything.
i haf a few stages for each artists i admired. Majority are Japanese. Sorry to the western. I seldom like Westerner Hero stuff. Except Tragic Spawn by Todd McFarlene. haha

Human figure - dragonball’s Akira Toriyama for my early stage character & f.Compo by Hojo Tsukasa, this artist motivate me to start drawing beautiful adult. But i failed.

Mechanical & Environment Design- Blame! by Nihei Tsutomo. ( This is where is start to draw wildly without proper outline anymore)

Story-structure - Katsuhiro Otomo

2D Animation - Katsuhiro Otomo

Today still under Great influenced by Blade of Immortal & Blame!..guess i can’t get this inspiration outta my head so easily.

Any 3D artists ?
Can i say too many of em. Obviously i am still a person who enjoy traditional artwork.

#40

Okay, I’m going to go ahead and mention three names since we’re talking about people, not ‘things’. Don’t laugh at me.

Tim Burton -

Always at the top of the list. Anyone who knows me also knows how much I admire his work, and most of all perhaps - what kind of a creative mood it puts me in. I can never watch any of his movies without at least drawing a little afterwards
and generally, I’ll be drawing a lot. I don’t know what else to say. Just thinking about, for instance, Sleepy Hollow
makes me want to paint.

John Bauer -

My main artistic inspiration since childhood. I was looking through a book with his work as late as last night, and realised that he was probably the first reason for the way I like to draw men: androgynous and beautiful. More than that, though, he painted in a way where I feel at home. The environments, the colours, it feels like he walked through the same woods that I do. I don’t care if he was never as technically advanced as, say, another of my favourites - Bouguereau - for me personally, he’s had a lot more impact.

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I saw The Dark Crystal when I was little and fell insanely in love. I lost track of him after that - there was no such thing as ‘google’ or ‘imdb’ back then for me to find out more about him through
but when I found him again, through his pressed fairy book and his other work
I fell in love with his way of thinking and his work all over again. The books are quirky, original, fun - the fairies are beautiful the way I always wanted to imagine them to be, often whimsical but sometimes dark.