[survey] Your Art, Your Specs. Let's get this started.

[TamTu]

Harro =D. I was just thinking about something. I know lotsa artists and they all have their own way of doing art. Define your art style and way of working.


Name: TamTu Bui
Style: Mixture of realistic western comic book style with mostly animé influences.
Inspired by: Nomura Tetsuya (Square Enix Char designer) and Joe Madureira (various comics. X-men, Battle Chasers)

Materials: 0,3mm leadholder/mechanical pencil, 0,5mm black fineliner for inking, Wacom Graphire II tablet

Software: Adobe Photoshop for CG. Desperately trying to learn Painter and Open Canvas. XD

Your turn.

[Peterodl]

Name: Peter Odlaug

Style: Mainly abstract

Infulences/Role Models: Van Gogh, Matisse, Renoir, Kandinsky, Claus Oldenburg, F.L. Wright, a whole slew of others.

Materials: Acrylic paints and brushes on canvas, wintergreen oils (for transfers), xerox copies, 0,3 mechanical pencil, 6B-6H lead pencils, charcoal, black ink and pens of various widths, copper plates, colored glass, black and white film, N65 Nikon.

Software: Mikriotech scanner and digital camera. Adobe photodelux for touch-ups. Photoshop (when at school computers).

[Swift]

Name: Brittney
Style: Abstract, Macro, Realism, working on manga..

Materials: Cannon Powershot A70 (for now), .5 mechanical lead pencil, .2 wooden pencil, Acrylic paints...

Influeneces: Contemporary artists, modern photographers, CLAMP, Da Vinci, Demas... how 'bout them apples!

Software: Suckage on a Stick. Otherwise known as PhotoStudio.

[Icypopcorn]

Name: Fatima

Style: A cutesy- manga style.

Materials: Pencils, watercolor pencils, Pigment inking pens, paper, watercolor paper, tablet, mouse.

Influences: Several manga-ka such as Obata Takeshi, Arina Tanemura, Toshihiro Ono, ect. ect., as well as several amateur artists.

Software: Mostly I use oekaki, ComicWorks, and open canvas, and I hope to get better at using Adobe photoshop ^^

[Miki-Chan]

Name: Miki-Chan

Style: Oft times anime/manga style with various personal touches. I've also been working on realism.

Inspired By: Miwa Ueda (Peach Girl), CLAMP, Christy Grandjean, Heather Kyoht Luterman

Materials: Average #2 or Soft pencils, RoseArt colored pencils (better than Crayola!), 1.0mm graphic marker, copic sketch markers, prismacolor markers

Software: MSPaint, OpenCanvas 1.1, beginning Photoshop

[Radiant Paws]

Name: Radiant Paws

Style: Freestyle. I think it's a mix of manga/anime, and something else I can't distinguish.

Materials and software: I only use pencils, pens and colored pencils...if anyone respects that.

Inspiration: TV and the strange fantasy pictures in my head.

[lirifox]

Name: Doa

Style: Ranges from realistic-anime to super cute shoujo-anime. Also, landscape painting and the such, plus photography.

Inspired by: Toshiro Ono, The Artist of "Vagabond", the artists and photographers on deviantart I know.

Materials: #2 Pencil, inking pencils, water color pencils, paints, camera

Software: Photoshop 7.0 and Open Canvas 3+

[Aimi]

Name: Aimi (... no really, that's my real name. ^^ Not disclosing last name, tho)

Style: shoujo-manga, definitely. can do real-life drawings too

Inspired by: CLAMP! Yoshitoshi Abe, Fujiko Fujio (creator of Doraemon), Ai Yazawa etc etc etc...

Materials: mechanical pencil (0.5 mm), Wacom Intuos II (tiny 4 x 6"), Pigma Micron pens (assorted widths), crowquill pens/ink

Software: Adobe Photoshop (gotta love academic discounts), Illustrator, and Deleter ComicWorks (using this most of the time now)


um.. yeah, those are my specs. ^^

-Aimi

[Henageshi]

I haven't posted any of my art work but..

Name:: Mallorey

Style:: Not quite sure how to explain. Probably rhe mature chibi-ish anime style. People say that if I ever created an anime the art work would look like Gravitation. EEP! XP

Inspired by:: I can NEVER remember people's names. I love CLAMP, the artist of the Utena movie, and Naoko Takeuchi.

Materials:: PrismaColor markers and colored pencils, mechanical and regular pencil, permanent markers (YES...don't laugh), oil pastels, and black bold pens.

Software:: Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and 7.0. And I suck at it ><

[Bebichu]

Name: Joly
Style: Anime, Western animation -- now attempting a crossbreed of anime-realism (Nomura style!)
Inspired by: Koge-Donbo (Di Gi Charat, Pita-Ten), CLAMP (Mostly CCS), cow (Yukyu Gensokyoku), artist of Sister Princess, Kanan (artist of some DGC doujinshi)
I'm now trying to do some realism and anime -- Nomura's KH style and Hyung Tae-Kim

Materials: 0.5 mm mechanical pencil, regular pencil, a pen (I forgot what it's called), paper, brains, rock, stone, Wacom Intuos

Software: Adobe Photoshop 6, OpenCanvas, Painter

[Tiffa]

^___^

Name: Lina, Tiffa Lei, Tiffany L. Nours

Style: Purist anime/game/manga, classic fantasy realism, anthro, creatures etc. Also photo realism and cartoon of any style.

Inspired by: Everything. Some stages included Sonic the Hedgehog, Sailor Moon, Tenchi, Slayers. Currently acquiring inspiration from EVERYTHING I see as well as focusing on Atsuko Ishida (anime), Kohime Ohse (game) and Arina Tanemura (manga). Alphonse Mucha.

Materials: 0.5 pr 0.3mm mech pencil, blue/red/green/purple col-erase pencil, deleter free pen (equipped with G-pen nibs), black cat #1 ink, regular printer paper, animation paper, 80lb A4 manga paper, ballpoint pen, 0.5-0.8mm copic pens. Inked using animation disk & table. Also use watercolor, acrylic, gauche & prismacolor pencils. Canon A70 for digital photography.

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator (getting to learn vectors), Open Canvas, Paint Shop Pro. Most commonly used are Photoshop & Open Canvas.

Galleries:
KAGE Productions (http://www.kageuniverse.com/smagic/gallery/2004.htm)
Deviant Art (http://tiffa.deviantart.com/)
Elfwood (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/t/n/tnours/tnours.html)
Epilogue (http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/list.pl?gallery=10099)

[Fiona C]

Name: Fiona
Style: Manga, cartoony, and attempts at making it more life-like
Inspired by: Clamp, Takeuchi Naoko, and you guys here at VACU (where trying to get better and improve upon life-like-ness is concerned) XD

Materials: HB pencil, whatever paper I can get my hands on, usually lined, though, since it helps me with my proportions, and a black pen. Scanner to scan in. >D

Software: Adobe Photoshop to edit and re-size before uploading. Canon ScanGear Toolbox to Scan the work in.

[Katie]

Name: Katie George

Style: Anime, mostly. Sometimes with a more western-comic look. Sometimes just plain realism. Depends on what I'm drawing.

Inspired by: Masashi Kishimoto, CLAMP, Yoshihiro Togashi (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Materials: 0.7mm lead Mechanical Pencils (ghetto, I know.), Aiptek tablet (getting a Wacom soon =3), .01 Sakura Micron pen, set of Zig scrapbook pens (.005, .01, .03, .05, and .08 ), printer paper.

Software: Adobe Photoshop 6.0, OpenCanvas 1.1, trying to learn Painter 7... too haaaard...

[Aelf]

Name: Claire E. Sears or Aelf

Style: It all can be a bit eclectic at times. Painting - Semi-abstract (mostly my paintings have lights, people, buildings and stuff like that in them) and illustration/comics - sort of anime/manga style (I like doing exaggerated perspectives with these).

Inspired by: General anime/manga, Yoshitaka Amano, Brom, Alan Lee, Arthur Rackham, Hiroshige, William de Kooning, Sean Scully, Erte and Tamara de Lempkica, and anything that contemporary artists do.

Materials: HB, 2B, 4B pencils; 0.1, 0.5, brush, pen, Indian ink; and lots of mixed media - watercolour, gouache, acrylic paints; oil pastels, paints and bars; soft and hard pastels, crayons/coloured pencils. I work on all types of surfaces too from sketchbook to canvas to digital. I like making a mess!

Software: Paint Shop Pro 7, and trying to learn Photoshop now.

[TamTu]

Name: TamTu Bui
Style: Anime, mostly. Sometimes with a more western-comic look. Sometimes just plain realism. Depends on what I'm drawing.
Inspired by: Masashi Kishimoto,

Materials: 0.7mm lead Mechanical Pencils (ghetto, I know.), Aiptek tablet (getting a Wacom soon =3), .01 Sakura Micron pen, set of Zig scrapbook pens (.005, .01, .03, .05, and .08), printer paper.

Software: Adobe Photoshop 6.0, OpenCanvas 1.1, trying to learn Painter 7... too haaaard...


YOU STOLE MY NAME :O

[Jing]

Name: Jing
Style: Manga-ish (blended with some American arts)
Inspired by: Tite Kubo, Osamu Tezuka,Yasuhiro Nightow.

Materials: #2 (soft) and 0.7 mechanical pencils, cheap printer paper (or any I can find), various Impressions sketch diaries, fine black inked Sanford pens.

Software: Paint, Dell Photo Editor (these suck so I never really edit art)

[Tsubasa-no-kami]

Name: Annie, Anii, 'Lena-san, Anniechiii, Annabelle, Tsu, & HEY YOU!

Style: funky, quirky, chibis, girly, random, doodly, shiny, glowing, sketchy, ever changing and ever learning anime inspired

Inspired by: various japanese & korean manga-kas, as well as my friends and every day experience.

Materials: paper, pencils, sakura pens, rice paper, bristol board, india ink, stamps, white ink, wierd nibs, tones, watercolor, prismacolor and crayola colored pencils, copic markerz, evil posessed scanner, LOTS OF ERASERS, & imagination

Software: Wacom Tablet, Shii Painter (p-chat), Oekaki (BBs), Adobe Photoshop, Open Canvas, Paint Shop Pro & Comic Works

[hideko_dahlia]

Name: hideko / Kaylene

Style: Um... Depends on my mood-- I do everything from photomanip to anime/manga to realism to... other stuff. I like flowy lines, though.

Inspiration: Friends, fellow art students at my school, Yoshitaka Amano, various anime/manga artists, Bottecelli, DaVinci, Raphael, ... others...

Material: Sketchbook, pencils, hotel pens (they have to be from a hotel!), normal pens, Prismacolor markers, Crayola anything, found objects... And my spiffy camera. Oh, and I love scratchboards.

Software: Photoshop LE (currently, but I want to update it...), Painter 6, Paint, Illustrator, oekaki, Aiptek tablet (9x12)...

[misu]

Name: Misu

Style: Its all about chibis ^^\/ but when I feel like it I'll draw something more shoujo like.

Inspired by: Akira Toriyama, Megumi Tachikawa, Yutsuko Chusonji & Akihito Yoshida

Materials: Sakura Micron Markers, can't work without them O_O. mechanical and regular pencils and prisma markers,

Software: Corel

[Aeris_angel_21]

Name: Aeris
Style: Manga/Anime style
Inspired by: My sister & Satoshi Kon.

Materials: Pencils, Xerox paper, unruled writing tablets, and colored pencils.

Software: Adobe Photoshop and MS paint.

[Kilanya]

Name: Luna
Style: WEIRD.
Inspired by: Traditional Chinese art, anime, my friend Chael.

Materials: pencil & paper. paintbrush, paint, rice paper.

Software: Adobe Photoshop


My most prominent style is definitely traditional Chinese watercolor. I suck at anime art.

[Deiji]

Name: Daisy (Deiji)
Style: Mainly manga and anime style but with reference of real life with things i have trouble with drawing, such as hands and feet or objects.
Inspired by: Natsuki Takaya, CLAMP (chobits) and other various animes.

Materials: pencil & paper, Graphic pens and if i want to colour by hand, waterpaints.

Software: Adobe Photoshop and Paintshop pro 7.0

(i'm actually working on an original manga/douj titled A.I --something. I've been raking my brain for a title but i want A.I in it xD it goes with the storyline lol. Can anyone help?? >>;)

[Tom]

Name: To·mas

Style: Um... my own style?

Inspirations: Jo Chen; Jhonen Vasquez; only to be specific-- but pretty much almost everything/body inspires me.

Tools: Paper; various canvas; pencil; pen; charcoal; oil pastels; oil paints; watercolors; mouse; Painter; Photoshop

Wants: A tablet. -sob sob-

-Tom-

[Velvy]

Name: Velvy
Style: Not sure, but it has been described as dreamy by some
Inspired by: Yoshitaka Amano, J-rock artists, FRUiTs, and a great many other things

Materials: Graphic pens, pastels, acrylics, Prismacolor pencils

Software: Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro 7

[Kei]

Name: Kevyn McCarthy

Style: Pretty much anime but ive done some realistic style art .

Inspired by: Masashi Kishimoto, Akira Toriyama (MY GOD)

Materials:any type of thin Mech. Pencil. Fine tiped pens, and really sharp pencils XD.

Software: well all my computer has is microsoft paint... but i have ultimate FX for some stuff :? Had photo shop but it was deleted and repair guy lost the photoshop disk

[Klaymen1]

Name: Klaymen
Style: I have no style I do what I want! 8)

Materials: Whatever I get my hands on
Software: Gimp

[TESM]

Name: Matt H., TESM

Style: Usually a sad-depressing realism, but not true realism. Some aspects influenced by anime, and mostly self taught art.

Medium: I have versed myself fairly well in most mediums. I like pencils (any ol kind) and pens for sketching, but get into the .05mm mechanical pencil and .03 fine-tip sharpee inking pen, a graphite rod (sometimes) and others... but i predominantly do pencil sketches. i use color less so i can get down form and material first.

Programs to make art with (as well): Flash MX

[Matt Alan]

Name: Matt Alan

Style: Exaggerated Realism

Inspired by: Dragonlance illustrators, Hinako Ashihara, Anii-chan, Kerri Grogan, people around me.

Materials: standard ink pen, prisma color pencils, pencils, charcoal, watercolor, oil, acrylic, soft pastel, ink

Software: I never use a computer for art.

[kt_rocks]

Name: kt

Style: Anime, random

Inspired by: People who draw Kill Me Kiss Me and Fruits Basket, and random me.

Materials: 0.5 pencil lead, roseart colored pencils, ruler, technical pens, nib pens, and 0.38 gel pen (=D!)

Software: I hardly ever use it, but Adobe Photoshop.

[katt]

Name: Katt
Style: bastardized style of Anime, realism and idealism
Inspired by: Yabuki Kentaro, Jo Chen, my brother, and lots and lots of music
Materials: mechanical pencils, sketching paper, stratford/copic linear/sakura inking pens in various widths, copic/tria/prismacolor art markers
Software: Adobe Photoshop 7

[Togepi]

Name: Togepi
Style: manga/comic, realistic
Inspired by: fantasy, stories - style mainly inspired by Narumi Kakinouchi [Vampire Miyu] and Naoko Takeuchi [Sailormoon].
Materials: colour pencils, watercolour paint, normal [writing] pencil
Software: Adobe Photoshop

[kt_rocks]

Name: Caitlin (kt)
Style: Manga/Anime, weird things
Inspired by: Natsuki Takaya (Fruits Basket, mainly) and the person who drew Kill Me Kiss Me, hehe
Materials: .05 mechanical pencil, .38 pen, colored pencils, technical pens, pen nibs, and other junk, but I hardly use them XD!
Software: If I did use it, it would Adobe Photoshop

[Luckee Cookie]

Name: "Luckee Cookie"
Style: very anime/manga influenced, sometimes ... I don't know, sepose I've got my own style but I'm not sure what it would be called or what not.... because sometimes it just ends up being cute, but morbid :\
Inspired by: the guy that does the character concepts for FF series, Ghilibi (oh crap, i have a feeling I've misspelled it *_*)
Materials: I usualy just draw right from pen onto paper but I also use watercolors and pencil crayons from time to time ^_^ (oh, and my trusty pencil too :p but inking pen is #1)
Software: Adobe Photoshop

[Anju]

Name: Anju
Style: Anywhere from realism to anime to random dots-ism =]
Inspired by: ehm...I can't think of a specific person....><
Materials: mechanical pencils, photoshop, wacom tablet, mouse, ballpoint pens
Software: Adobe Photoshop for CGing, ballpoint pen/mechanical pencil for linework and some realism...

[Turynn*]

Name: Turynn

Style: Big eyes, lots of shimmer, shoujo~ish love-sim-cg-wannabe >_<

Inspired by: Too many to list @__@. Umm.. Kurot and everyone at PGN... random love sim cg ^o^;....

Materials: Mechanicle pencils, Tachikawa pens & nibs, brown acrylic ink, prismacolor pencil, copic marker, white eraser, kneadable eraser, Wacom Grapphire II tablet

Software: psp7, openCanvas 1, openCanvas 3.6 PLUS ( still have to download the upgrade to oC4+), ps7 (don't use coz I dono how but I do have it...)

[fjgamer]

Name: Joshua Adam Maines AKA FJGamer AKA Jam

Style: Realistically formed characters with manga influences. I tend to use thick black outlines.

Inspired by: Akira Toriyama, Hideki Miyashita, Oku Hiroya, Masamune Shirow, Yu Watase, and too many others...

Materials: dull #2 pencil, notebook paper...

Software: Open Canvas (v1 - honestly, it's crap in japanese...), MSPaint (pixel art?), Macromedia Flash 5 (use it all the time), Macromedia Flash MX (v7 - never use it), Adobe Photoshop (rarely used), and many other utilities I can't think of right at this moment.

[The Great Mr. Chibi]

Name: The Great Mr. Chibi

Style: Commonplace non-Asian anime crap.

Inspired by: If I could, I'd LIKE to be inspired by Ken Akamatsu. As such, whatever catches my eye. I mess up so much, it's hard to tell.

Materials: .5 mm Pencil, Homebrew Lightbox, Wacom Intuos 2 Tablet

Software: Photoshop Elements 2 (Though, if that glitches, I have a series of other programs I use-- Photoshop 6, Open Canvas, Painter)

[Charil]

Name: Charil Zweig

Style: Anime ^^; Mostly shoujo, I would guess; I don't think it really has a genre ._.

Inspired By: Some people tell me "Nagamo Nanaji", or someone? in my more 'revamped' style... not sure who they are ^^' I've also been told my style resembles Escaflowne ._. Other than that, I don't have a real inspiration, like "Wow, I really want to draw like them~!" I just... draw how I like to draw ^^;

Except I do take inspiration from songs :P

Materials: Mechanical graphite pencil, copic multuliners. Colouring, both coloured pencils, whatever brand I find laying around, and Photoshop 7. Toning: Digital and non-digital, deleter brand. Non-digital really wears on me, though ^^;

Software: Photoshop 7, for colouring and toning :) I've tried others (OpenCanvas, Paint Shop Pro) but I usually stick with the first thing I try; don't like change ^^;

[Wolverine]

Style: Mixture of jap and western comic book style mainly but experiment a lot to fit with whatever project I do. I mostly do pixel art these days like sprites, backdrops and portraits.

Inspired By: Jim Lee, Masamune Shirow, Chris Bachalo, John Romita Jr, Joe Madureira, Andy Kubert, Adam Kubert, Kawajiri anime

Materials: HB Pencil and A4 Sketchpad. (Gotta get around to buying mechanical pencils at some point)

Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 for general art and scanning, Pro Motion V5.1 for pixel art and animation

[Cefaclor]

Name: Cefaclor
Style: stickmania
Inspired by: Elaina
hardware: paper, pencil. This is some serious stuffs

[Ruk]

Name: L. Adam Bell
Style: Animé-ish with bits of Western comic art influence, black and white photographs
Influences: Masters of the Universe, Thundercats, Sailor Moon, Spider-Man, X-Men, Batman
Materials: Your standard lead pencils n' ink pens. No more, no less.
Software: Epson scanner, 4.1 MP Sony Cybershot, and GraphicConverter for Mac OS X.

I've got the bare bones as far as materials and software go, but I think my unique art style makes up for it.

[Flip_Knight_01]

Name: Jeff
Style: anime with my own weirded sketching style. yep, very weird.
Influences: Cousins who got me drawing comics in a very young age, many animes with a feel of Dragonball Z-ish, watching/learning martial arts
Software: Adobe Photoshop 7.0

So far my coloring and webcomic story helps my load of bad art. Im still on practicing mode, with mixing both rough sketching and basic anime styles.

[Juudan]

Name: Lou Zhang
Style: Surrealistic Anime
Inspired by: Tetsuya Nomura, Hyung Tae Kim, Yi Lee, Takeshi Obatta and Yonekura Kengo.
Materials: 0.5mm Mechanical pencil for my pencil sketches and Wacom Insuos2 Tablet for everything else.
Software: Painter9, Adobe Photoshop Elements, OpenCanvas and PaintBBS for Oekaki. =D

[U-1]

Name: Jared J.Lee/ U-1

Style: sylizied realisim with a hint of japanese anime.

Inspired by: Jim Lee,Akiman, Nishimaru Kinu, Edayan, Masami Oobari.

Materials: 4h pencil, Wacom tablet,4 indian inkFaber Castell artist pens (brush pen,small,fine, medium),Staedtler pens(0.1,0.3,0.5,0.7)

Software: Adobe Photoshop 7 for CG.

[LingTina]

Name: LingTina

Style: Realism, and manga. Also a mix between the two.

Inspired by: Obata Takeshi, Takeuchi Naoko

Materials: General's 2H pencil, HB mechanical pencil, India Ink, Penholder, nibs, bamboo brushes, and an Aiptek HyperPen.

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Procreate Painter Classic

[Peliqua]

Name: Peliqua/Alex
Style: Similar to that of Masashi Kishimoto (Creator of Naruto). Faces can be angular, similar to the style of Kubo Tite (Bleach, Zombie Powder).

Materials: HB/2B pencils, Wacom Graphire3 Tablet, um.. eraser?

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS, trying to obtain/learn Painter.

Inspired by: My idol, Masashi Kishimoto. I find his rise careful yet breezy style very attractive and versatile.
Allso, the Korean artists 'Josh Club'... ( www.joshclub.net ),
Imperial Boy ( www12.big.or.jp/~botan/index.shtml ), MAXX (www.maxxsoul.com).

Also, Japanese illustrators 'D.K' ( www.mypage.naver.co.jp/flowerss/ )
Yu Kagei, and Hirofumi Fujiko.
These artists are truly masters, to me.

[Jaychan]

Name: Jay

Style: Semi-realism and anime

Inspired by: Coey, Clamp, and luciole

Materials: HB mechanical pencil, Stadler Ink, Prismicolor pencils, markers, and watercolor pencils.

[fairuza]

Name: Fairuza

Style: Semi Realism.

Inspired: Francis Bacon, Tetsuya Nomura, Takayoshi Sato.

Materials: Mechanical pencil,colored pencils

Software: Pixia :D

[KitsuneSqueak]

Name: KitsuneSqueak

Style: Manga-influenced.

Inspired by: Everything I come across. ^-^

Materials: .5 or .7 mechanical pencil, deleter pen + nibs for inking

Software: Adobe Photoshop 5.5, saving up for CS 2

[Brad Tajiri]

Name: Brad

Style: Super Deformed (Mostly known as Chibi)

Inspired by:

Western - Todd McFarlane, Erik Larson, Jack Kirby, and Mike Mignola

Eastern - Akira Toriyama, Katshurio Otomo, Eiichiro Oda, and Shotaro Ishinomori

Materials: A ball-point pen, no.2 pencil and eraser. Rather simple stuff really. Hope to get a tablet soon so I can stop using my mouse.

Software: Macromedia Flash 5 and Photoshop 7.

[Masako-kun]

Name: Masako-kun

Style: 7-head Anime

Inspired by: Akira Toriyama, Kia Asamiya, Kazuhiro Takamura

Materials: Just a mouse! *squeek* :3 Sometimes work with pencil and pad but mostly digitally based artworks for me.

Software: Macromedia Flash 5 and Photoshop 7.

[Runai]

Bit late to the party here, but nice thread idea =D

Style: Nothing particular. It tends to change a lot ^^;

Influences: Hiroaki Samura (Blade of the Immortal); Yoji Shinkawa (MGS/ZoE concept); Yoshitaka Amano (FF concept)

Inspiration: Music (a big'n); countless games, anime, movies and books; conversations with a good friend; aspects of human personality!

Tools: Any type of pencil; brush pens; Wacom tablet

Software: Photoshop; Painter (not often though)

[TamTu]

UPDATE. I got a new tablet and have tried out lots of other software >D

Name: TamTu Bui
Style: Mixture of realistic western comic book style with mostly animé influences.
Inspired by: Nomura Tetsuya (Square Enix Char designer) and Joe Madureira (various comics. X-men, Battle Chasers), Kubo Tite.

Materials: 0,3mm leadholder/mechanical pencil, 0,5mm black fineliner for inking, Wacom Intuos 3 A4 tablet

Software: Still Photoshop for coloring, mostly. BUt I'm definitely going to experiment =D. Alias Sketchbook for digital sketches.

[X23s Savior]

Name: Anthony

Style: Any style that suits my mood or taste at that moment...but mainly centered around anime, but I also do realistic images of Scenery and such.

Materials: Pencils, Smudge sticks, Colored pencils, Charcoal Pencils, and Paper.

Influences: Natsume Ando (zoidiac PI manga), Uno Makoto (Zoids Chaotic Century) Akira toriyama (DBZ, Dr. Slump)

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Arcsoft Photostudio 5

[Lesley Morgan]

Name: Lesley Morgan
Style: Unclassified. I do a lot of things, varying from anime-style to classic realism, technical designs to environments :) Have to have a lot of genres to come by as a conceptartist, hehe..
Inspired by: Too many to name. Vyle, Viag, Hyung Tae Kim, Katsushiro Otomo (creator of Akira), and as good as all of the classic artist. And I'm inspired a lot by cultures such as the Asian or the Mayan and Egyptian ones.

Materials: regular 3H, HB and 4B pencil, 200gr paper, charcoal, G-nib inking pen, Wacom Intuos 2 tablet.

Software: PS CS, OC3, Painter. I usually have all three programs up and running when CG-ing :) Each has a particular treat I need.

[Deiji]

Name: Daisy Ryan (Deiji >>;; )
Style: Manga and anime style.. working on original manga.
Inspired by: hugely inspired by Natsuki Takaya (Fruits Basket manga artist), also Ken Akamatsu and CLAMP

Materials: Any pencil i can get hold of, Graphic pens, and (if coloured by hand) Letraset markers

Software: Adobe Photoshop (7.0), really want to get an Oekaki program, Open Canvas and Painter x_x

[Adidaas]

Name: Adidaas(Richard Viet Nguyen)
Style: Wannabe Anime And Manga mixed with bad skillz
Inspired By: Anime, My brother who's a lot better artist, ridiculously good deviantart folks

Materials: any kind of led pencil that uses 0.5 or 0.7 led, a giant eraser, a scanner
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro

[Nessy]

Name: Lilli
Style: Sort of...um...illustration...y? (I wish I could describe myself better....)
Inspired by: Brett Helquist (illustrator of "The Series of Unfortunate Events,") Camille Longino (the single person in my life who has had the most effect on me & my artwork,) and Darrell K. Sweet (illustrator of "The Elfstones of Shannara.")
Also, to some extent, the style of the anime "Shoujo Kakumei Utena."

Materials: Mechanical pencil, pigment-less eraser (colored erasers hate me, for whatever reason,) Micron pens ranging .005 - 2, Prismacolor & Prang colored pencils, Prismacolor & Tria markers, Wacom tablet

Software: Paint Shop Pro for cleaning up scanned art; Illustrator for digital inking and vector work; Photoshop for "soft-style" and "cell-style" CG; Open Canvas for digital sketching, the typical Open Canvas style CG, and also for cell-style & digital inking, when I am feeling lazy.

[KITA]

Name: K I T A
Style: I've been told it looks like a merge of western comics and Japanese manga, though I always thought it lent more towards manga (this came from a marvel comics fanboy in my last drawing class . . . .)
Inspired by: Various Japanese mangaka, nearly every one I come across lol Though I don't think my personal style looks like any of them.

Materials: Wacom Graphire 3; micron pens; mechanical pencils; prismacolor colored pencils; sumi ink; nib pens (I'm particularly fond of g-pens)

Software: Painter Classic I find good for sketching, I use OpenCanvas 1 sometimes, and I'm trying to teach myself to use Photoshop for CG

[Miyuchan]

Name: Lauryn Sawyer (aka Miyu)
Style:A lot of anime styles and occassionally world of warcraft

Materials: Mostly my Wacom Intuios 2 Tablet. ^_^

Software: Adobe Photoshop, GIMP and Oekaki board's Shii Painter Pro

FWEE!! This is fun!

[ClymAngus]

Name: Clym Angus

Style: Photo montage.
Inspired by: Constable, Dali (the whole surrealist movement really), Piccasso, Terry Gillian, Wahol on the occassion.

Materials: A good sturdy HB. Scissors glue and old magazines, more recently a mouse. Tried a tablet, didn't get on with it very well.

Software: Photoshop, illistrator for vector work, image ready (god I love that programme) as many filters as I can lay my sweaty little hands on.

[Gabi Star]

Name: Gabi Star

Style: Lowbrow

Inspired by: Mark Rhydin, Daniel Merrium

Materials: A canvas, hammer and nails, sewing thread, candle wax, oil paint, linseed oil, pallet knives

Software: Photoshop, though I tend to do more traditional work.

[Okuro]

Name: Okuro

Style: Anime/manga. Cute, but also has some realism.

Inspired by: Hiromu Arakawa, OceanX, Watsuki Nobuhiro.

Software: Adobe Photoshop.

[CaroChan]

Name: Caroline M.-R.

Style: Shojo-Manga/Anime

Inspired by: Arina Tanemura, Clamp, Isabelle and Anna(friends ^^-)

Materials: pencils (4H - 6B), colourpencils, aquarelle-pencils, watercolour, lots of drawinf ink, copic marker ciao, soft pastells, pencil-rubbers graphic table
(Do you know what i mean by my materials? XD"" If not, please kill me for my bad english Xx")

Software: Photoshop 7.0, Photoshop 9.0, Adobe Photoshop CS 2, Paint (XD), Oekaki (Animated Paint BBS)

[SakuraLee]

Konnichi wa, these are my specs
Name: Sakura Lee

Style: Manga, anime shojo style. I aim for cute pictures but at the same time complicated shading, I try not to pick easy pictures.

Inspired by: Koge Donbo, Yukiru Sugisaki and Clamp really good doujinshi (anime/manga fanart!!!!) drawers, my brother (although he is never to know this... hehe :))

Materials: A regular HB (Basic right? :))

Software: Paint shop pro for some tough touch ups. Normally just some random photo editor.

Ja ne

[Bjorn]

Name: Bjorn Sparrman

Style: Um... Pencil and paper stuff, scanned, reprinted, inked, rescaned, printed, painted or markered. Usualy of complicated maticulous stuff. Or strait edged pottery/ orgoanic metalwork.
Film, if that counts.

Inspired by: Roy Lichtenstien, Yoshitoshi ABe (Serial Experiments Lain) Um... Tom Clark. the nozes of Bisco Hatori.

Materials: Pencil set 5H to 6B Prisma color markers with Prisma coloured pencils. Watercolour, Acrylic sometimes. Oil Pastels for strong colour. Sumi on rice paper. Um... Clay and silica. Mild steel. Video Camera?

Software: Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Pramiere Pro for moving picture

hmmm lots of words....

-Bjorn

[CKMel]

Name: Melody
Style: A kind of cutesy anime/manga style. Aiming for shoujo, but I just can seem to get out of that cutesy area XDD;;...

Materials: Usually a .7 mechanical pencil, and either sketchbook/printer paper.

Influeneces: Lots of manga-ka like Rumiko Takahashi, and Hatori Bisco, but my greatest influence has been Ken Akamatsu... His art is just soo cute XD... Though I wish that I could draw some more serious/action-type scenes D: ...

Software: Photoshop CS.

[Hara]

Name: Mala
Style: Anime... uh I know there is more.
Inspired by: Argg to many to list.. Tanemura Arina... Haradaya, Tetsuya Nomura, Hyung Tae Kim

Materials: .5mm Mech Pencil, Wacom Tablet

Software: Photoshop 7.0, Image Ready

[Tenshi_Baby]

Style: Anime style, I can also branch into a more western cartoon art. (This fairly odd parents, only taller. exaggerated features.)

Inspired by: Sailor Moon (That's what got me started drawing anime style)
Rumiko Takahasi, Ken Akumatsu, and more I can't remember~


Materials: Mechanical pencil, prismacolor markers, colored pencil, pens...
Not being to specific there. >_<;

Software:Photoshop, Open Canvas, Illustrator

[madchipmunks]

Name - Joe D.
Style - Abstract/Grunge and Vector art
inspired by mamoru oshii
materials - ultra fine point sharpies and drawing pencils
software - photoshop cs2 , gimp , and imageready

[Laki]

Harro =D. I was just thinking about something. I know lotsa artists and they all have their own way of doing art. Define your art style and way of working.


Name: Laki, or Kitto :3
Style: Anime/manga mostly. Some western, I guess.
Inspired by: Maki Murakami, Kaori Yuuki

Materials: 0.5mm mechanical pencil, Higgins black ink, pen nibs, and holders...(yea, I use the pens that u hafta dip in the ink x3), and neopiko markers, but rarely...and ultra fine point sharpe markers too, when I'm lazy x_X;

Software: Adobe Photoshop...

:rose

[Isolde_Michi]

Name: Isolde Michi

Style: Cutsey, everybody pretty-manga-like

Inspired by Tanemura Arina and various anime and manga series.

Materials: .5 mm lead pencil, ultra fine point black sharpies, fine point colored sharpies, colored pencils, and erasers.

Software: none

[Rosegirl18]

Name: Rosegirl18

Style: Gothic Lolita, fashion-inspired, "manga-style"

Inspired by: Yazawa Ai, Anna Sui

Materials: 0.5 mm lead pencil, 4B thick pencil, 0.5 and 0.38 mm black pen for inking.

Software: Paint Shop Pro 9

[Lilium]

Name: Jeishii Kanzaki
Style: anime/manga/Western comics style
Inspired by: Yoshitaka Amano, Naoko Takeuchi, CLAMP, various American comic artists

Materials: 0.5mm mechanical pencils for sketching/drawing, .07 mechanical pencils for thicker lines, .05 and .07 ink pents for lineart, Faber Castel PITT artist India Ink brush-pens in grayscale for grayscale art, Color pencils (Prismacolor for the good ones, Crayola for the not-as-good), Wacom Graphire II tablet

Software: Adobe Photoshop, flash, and online okekaki boards for CG

[Takkun909]

Name: Takkun909 or DP(actual NN)

Style: animation/manga/storyboard/pop art/photography/clothing designe

Inspiration: Todd McFarlane, Bones, Oh Great!, Hajime Ueda, CLAMP, martial arts, and various artists and animators.

Materials:4B-2H Graphite pencils, .7 and .5 mechanical pencils, Deleter ink, pen nib, copic Multiliners(.03 to .7), Copic markers, Prismacolor markers, watercolor, wacom tablet.

no diviant art right now had to discontinue it about 6 months ago and havent been able to update. here is my old page, i'm not to happy with how the anime pics turned outbut at the time they were some of my first comp coloring trys. http://dparts.deviantart.com/

[Jinha]

Name: Jin

Style: Anime

Infulences/Role Models: My first influence was Digimon xD

Materials: Wacom Tablet

Software: Photoshop Elements 3 for adding text and doing animations. Corel Painter X for regular CGs :3

[Kazuki]

Name: Kazuki
Style: Anime/Manga/Western
Inspiration: Nomura Tetsuya Plus Various Animes..
Materials: .5 Pacer if on paper, and a Wacom tablet for computer
Software: Adobe Photoshops Cs2.

[meeyon]

Name: iyami ame
Style: strongly korean-based art - often described as "less realistic than manga art", or "very stylized" (and my least favourite- "cute/SD")
Inspired by: lee young you, yun kouga, takahito harada, pyoyoyon rock (for style)
also inspired by ai yazawa & koge-donbo (but not for style reasons)

Materials & Software : whatevertf i can get my hands on :] i love to try anything and eveyrthing, but i prefer more basic tools usually.

[Kai-chan]

Name: Kai
Style: Anime, with an occasional Fantasy/Magic/Fairy touch
Inspired by: Mia Ikumi, Pink Hanamori , Rumiko Yoshida , Amy Brown, The art of World of Warcraft.
Materials: Fountain Pen, Gel Pen, Sometimes Pigma Microns, 6b Sketching Pencil, Various markers
Software: ImageReady, Open Canvas, and soon, Photoshop.

[avalonknight]

Name: Chester Kwan

Style: shoujo dominant anime, chibi art, modern, gothic. Overall stylized.

Inspiration: Tomoko Hayakawa

Material: Sketch pens (.01, .03, .05, .07), mechanical pencil and eraser.

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Flash.

[ryodo89]

Name: Masaki Ryodo

Style: Manga-style with a bit of personal style and influence from game arts

Inspired by: Artworks from the Rockman Series

Materials: Pilot 2020 Supergrip 0.5 mechanical pencil, HP ScanJet 3400C scanner, Acer Travelmate 3280 laptop

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2

[Sapphire]

Name: Pam
Style: Um... I'll get back to you on that one. I change from time to time and I don't really have a name for anything I do.

Influence: Artists on CG society, and books I read.

Materials: #2 Pencils, plain paper, sketch book, kneaded erasers, espon printer/scanner, wacom 6x8 Intuos tablet + mouse.

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, openCanvas 4 (finally!), AobeIllustrator CS2, Manga Studio 3.

[Yugure]

Name: Yugure of the Twilight

Style: realistic-attempted anime

Inspired by: Pokemon & Sailormoon (first animes LOL) Tetsuya Nomura (his art is cool) CLAMP (their anime-eyes are pretty~~) and Namine's scetches (ya rly)

Materials: pencils, colorpencils, computer stuff (listed below), crappy pens T_T

Software: Adobe CS3 (YESH!) and a huge awesome tablet of d00m.

<3 true-aerith.deviantart.com

[Hikari-san]

Name: Ski(Sky) Hikari

Style: realistic and anime mixed together most of the time and changing each time I find something new to mix in with my style to make it better

Inspired by: hmm I have to say the first anime that I watched ever which was tenchi moya when I was in first grade though I didn't start drawing until 4th/5th grade

Software: photoshop CS2 and Tablet

~ hikari-aka-ryoma-kun.deviantart.com

[.Kikku.]

Name- Kikku/Bethy

Style- Stylized Anime. But my style seems to change a little every couple of months.

Materials- I don't draw much on paper anymore since my scanner broke. x-x
But when I do I use .5 mechanical pencils and prismacolors... Forgot what inker I use.

Software- Flash MX, OpenCanvas PLUS, Photoshop 7.

[mikaX2]

Name: mainly known as Lynn

Style: manga, but I used to do lots of still life sketches lol. But my realism skills are made of fail so I just stick with manga :P

Inspired by: my brother. He's the one who always hogged the computer and let me play PG-13/M games when I was like, 7. That made me a gaming/violence/anime-manga-manhwa/PC game freak. C:
i was also inspired by Dragon Ball (not Z!), sailor moon, kirby, tetsuya nomura, my ultra amazingly anime talented friend Anita, koge donbo, pokemon, and various korean things...

Materials: B/HB pencils, B/HB mech. pencils, a big soft eraser. and my computer thingies VVVVVV

Software: my trusty mouse (I will never truly revert to a tablet >:C ), a sucky tablet that I still love, Paint Tool SAI, MS Paint, openCanvas 1.1/trial ver.4 PLUS, sometimes adobe photoshop 7, animation shop 3.
I mainly use MS Paint, oC 1.1, and SAI, using my mouse and tablet. whoo.

[Sasuya]

Name: Sasuya

Style: Sasuya Style. AWWW YEAH. Anything really. Realism, graffitti, pop art, manga, abstract, pretty much everything =D

Inspired by: This girl that I went to church with. =) It was a long time ago. She used to draw manga and after that I tried drawing a lot of it. Yes, I am yet another manga/anime drawing person thingy...

Materials: Anything around. "A good artist can create art with anything" (I don't know where I got that quote from) It depends on what I'm drawing. Usually .5 mechanical pencils, eraser, Copic pens, ballpoint pens (not often) and Neopiko markers.

Software: Usually Adobe Photoshop CS2 although I haven't been cging anything lately. =(

[DemonLordShugo]

Name: DemonLordShugo (and Shugo is my real first name), and I'm a guy by the way

Style: sorta- cutesy (I know it's strange for a guy), SD, a combo between Osamu Tezuka, Akira Toriyama, Junko Mizuno, and Kagami Yoshimizu's drawing styles , graffiti, abstract, superflat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superflat)

Inspired by: Akira Toriyama (DRAGONBALL, main influence) Osamu Tezuka, Hajime Ueda, Kagami Yoshimizu (Lucky Star), Koge Donbo, CLAMP, Junko Mizuno, Shotaro Ishinomori (Cyborg 009), Bow Ditama (Mahoromatic, Kiss X Sis), Mine Yoshizaki (Sgt. Frog, Arcade Gamer Fubuki), Ken Akamatsu, Koushi Rikdo, Oh! Great and numerous others

Writing Style inspired by: Satoru Akahori (MAZE the Megaburst Space, Saber Marionette, Cyber Team in Akihabara, Sorcerer Hunters, Mouse, Knights Lamune & 40 Fire etc.)

Materials: pencils, mechanical pencils, thin Sharpie marker, colored pencils, Copic markers

Software: Photoshop

[Para_bolic]

Name: Para_bolic

Style: Mostly new shonen type stuff... I do enjoy doing realism every once in a while, though.

Inspired by: Ken Akamatsu (my freaking manga idol), Oh!Great, Tetsuya Nomura, Koshi Rikdo, Takashi Hashiguchi, Takeshi Obata

Materials: Prismacolor Copy-Not Non-Photo Blue (so the sketches don't wind up in the scan and I don't have to erase), Dixon Ticonderoga Black #2, Sakura Liners, Copy Paper, Blue Line Pro Comic Book Art Boards

Software: Photoshop CS4, Manga Studio EX 3.0

[exdevlin]

Name: exdevlin

Style: anime-ish, with more realism, American comic-book, and Korean influences

Inspired by: Hyung-Tae Kimg, Tetsuya Nomura, and so many many others >.<

Materials: Ballpoint pen, or 0.5mm mechanical pencil

Software: Photoshop CS3, Corel Painter IX, OpenCanvas.

[AmyAnn]

Name: AmyAnn

Style: Cutesy yet serious manga

Inspired by: CLAMP, Naoko Takeuchi, Shiei, Arina Tanemura and many other artists of whom I can't remember the names of.

Materials: A simple pencil, a normal black pen (sometimes a projector writing pen), cheap colouring pencils and an eraser and sharpener. I'm really basic.

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS for colouring, shading or CGI work.

[Midnightmoonproductions]

Name: Aziro Fusima

Style: Manga/Anime but I definantly add in my own phail factor in there XD

Inspired by: O.O Lot's of people but I guess I'd say Arina Tanemura is my main

Materials: Mechanical pencil, #2 pencil, Pen, Paper, imagination, phail factor, and of course my good old computer

Software: Gimp shop (I haz no monies XD), and MS paint.

[mongtsatsa]

Name: mong

Style: Anime/manga, but I've been trying to break out of that and develop my own style. When I draw anything other than humans or is non-representational, I dabble into pop art, realism, abstract, and some traditional Chinese art.

Inspired by: I try to get inspired by everything. I do try to learn from some Art Nouveau, traditional Japanese woodcuts and patterns, Jim Dine, Hyung-tae Kim, CLAMP and so on.

Materials: My sketchbook, mechanical pencil, eraser mainly. I use almost anything, depending on the picture. [Except for acrylic paint. Acrylic paint and myself do not mix.]

Software: GIMP, Inkscape for computer graphics. I don't have a scanner. DX

[Aziral]

Name: Ichigo Neko

Style: Anime and manga. I would fail at anything else. XD;

Inspired by: Many manga/anime artists lol. *otaku*

Materials: Paper, pencils, kneadable rubber, Finetip pens, Faber Castell Water colors, Crayola(XD), Bamboo Fun Wacom Tablet.

Software: GIMP, MS Paint, Corel Painter IX, scanner. =D

[Archeia]

Name: Nessiah

Style: Varied if needed, mostly manga and...pixel art

Inspired by: Koyou Shurei, Medieve (http://medieve.leafo.net), Chainer (KBLGXM), sweetmoon, phoenix-feng, Alphes (Tasogare Frontier), Corel (http://woofycakes.deviantart.com), FF7 (not the art but story so...), Takehito Harada, sweetmoon, Matsushita Yoko, Jiuge, deland-fox, dajhail, GUST, Studio Gihbli (come on who doesn't XD), One Night Stand, zioru, moricchi, ZUN, Endling, Sunaho Tobe and moar

Materials: Mechanical Pencil 2B, dying canocraft scanner, Wacom Graphire 4 4x6 (sale for 99$ I was so lucky that time ;w;)

Software: PaintTool SAI, Photoshop 7, Open Canvas 4.06E, MSPaint for sprites, imageready for animations, Manga Studio EX

[traviata]

Name: Traviata
Style: My own personal manga-style
Inspired by: Naoko Takeuchi, Ai Yazawa, Artgerm (http://artgerm.deviantart.com/) (on dA)

Materials: pencil, paper, and Wacom Intuos III tablet for inking/coloring

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3, occasionally Painter X, though I'm sure I'm not utilizing it to its full potential... working on learning OpenCanvas, but it's kinda a lost cause since I have to boot up in my Windows partition in order to use it T_T

[Dinkar]

Name: Nitque
Style: Manga
Inspired by: Watase Yuu, Kishimoto Masashi

Materials: .5 Mechanical Pencil, Sketch Pencils, Paper, Scanner.

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 for both CG, and manga toning.

[Circe]

Name: Circe

Style: Partly manga and partly realistic and partly...I don't know xD.

Inspired by: My weird dreams. 80s sci-fi movies.

Materials: Pencil, paper, drawing canvas, scanner

Software: Adobe Photoshop

[jljeremiah]

Name: JL Jeremiah
Style: A mix of western and eastern styles
Inspired by: Dan Scott, artist of Warhammer 40K
Materials: Graphic pencils, sharpies, WACOM 25x12 Intous2 Tablet
Software: Adobe Photoschop CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Corel Painter 9

[CriscoKnight]

Name: Alex

Style: American cartooning/ comic noir/ anime

materials: Normal pens (any color). any pencil (any size), Just about any paper, and a half broken teenyweeny used wacom intuos 2 tablet

inspiration: GaoGaiGar, Hokuto no Ken, DbZ, my music, many games from half life 2 to chronotrigger and lost odyssey

Programs used: Adobe flash Cs4, Open Canvas, Microsoft paint

Frusteration levels while creating: Just under 9000

[Koinu]

Name: Cara
Style: Anime, cartoon, and sad attempts at realism
Inspired by: ...uh... I don't know.. if I have any, they're shortlived, honestly.

Materials: 0.5 Mechanical Pencil, Drawing/Sketching/Computer Paper, Wacom Tablet, Whatever pens I have that don't smudge, and Colorific colored pencils.

Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, Canon scanner, Adobe Photoshop CS3, MS Paint, ShiPainter (only in Paintchat & Oekaki boards), Flash 8

[LadyShizuka]

Name: LadyShizuka
Style: Fantasy like, nothing real real except really good at horses for some reason.
Inspired by: All beautiful anime, I get inspired by anything really.

Materials: various pencils, pens and ink, markers, mouse ...
Software: Adobe Photoshop cs2 -- Trying to learn more about photoshop...

[Cliffe]

Name: Cliffe

Style: I dunno how to discribe it, it is kinda a cortoonish with a realistic touch in my opinion.

Inspired by: Video Game and Movie concept art, mainly the art of Halo, Half Life, Mass Effect, Narnia and the art of Dinotopia.

Materials: Mechanical and colored pencils, pens, markers, Wacom tablet

Software: Adobe Photoshop 7

[Hikaroo]

Name: Hikaroo

Style: Fluffy, squishy, girly anime stuff. D:
Inspired by: CLAMP & Arina Tanemura (Full Moon), as well as the Disgaea art style.

Materials: 0.7 mechanical pencil, Sakura Microns from 005 to 08,

Software: Open Canvas, MSPaint, Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop 7.0, Wacom Bamboo tablet, canon scanner of sorts...

[failedjuliet]

Name: failedjuliet

Style: Anime with some things severely wrong with it
Inspired by: Gunnmgally, Sweetmoon

Materials: Copic Multiliner, Various pencils, watercolors, Genius 8x6 tablet

Software: Photoshop, Paint Tool Sai, Oekaki

[TamTu]

I now swear by my Cintiq, Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop.

[gahooly]

Name: gahooly
Style: Varies. Sometimes I do landscapes, abstract, western comic or manga style when it comes to drawing people. And sometimes I just like drawing cartoons (B
Inspired by: I don't really have any inspirations. Yoshitaka Amano is by far my favorite artist but I would never try to draw like him. It would just be wrong.

Materials: Mechanical pencils, micron pens, prisma markers and colored pencils, charcoal sticks, and if I'm feeling adventurous I might use the wacom tablet but I fail at the wacom.

Software: Photoshop. Though I usually just stick to traditional paper and pencil

[Tori421]

Name: Tori D.

Style: animanga style... [rarely]semi-realism

Inspired by: my otaku neighbors when i was 8 who started drawing >_O oh and pokemon, sailor moon, and dbz x3

Materials: paper, pencils[mechanical/drawingpencilstuffs], liner pens, erasers, tablet stuffies..

Software: ...corel painter essentials, MSpaint :3

/totally new to digital art+likes traditional better/

[DarkKnightGrave]

Pen Name: Joseph Gravemind

Style: Anime-style with a hint western comics.

Inspired by: Video Games, Anime, and my friend Tyrranux (http://tyrranux.deviantart.com/)

Materials: Pencil, Charcoal, Ink, and paper

Software: GIMP 2.0

[Resa]

Harro =D. I was just thinking about something. I know lotsa artists and they all have their own way of doing art. Define your art style and way of working.


Name: Theresa Krause
Style: Mostly cartoony, or Realism, with slight abstract, along with surrealism.

Inspired by:Naoto Ohsima, Jhonen Vasques

Materials: 0.7 lead mechanical pencil, 0.3-1 inking pens, Watercolor Paints, Prismacolor Colored Pencils and Markers, Wacom tablet.
Software: Photoshop Illustrator, MS Paint, Open Canvas 1.1

[shenli]

Name: L.M.Silva
Style: Anime/Comic hybrid (Can switch to different styles)
Inspired by: Jeffery 'CHAMBA' Cruz, Omar Dogan and Nakamura Yusuke
Materials: Mech. pencil, Pigma pens (Various sizes), Copic markers (rare) and Wacom Graphire4
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS4, PaintTool SAI, MangaStudio

:3

[ErBoi]

Name: Erik B. (I don't like to use my last name very much)
Style: Anything. Show me something, I'll try to replicate it. I like styles that manage to be very simple and unique but still look really good.
Inspired by: Sean Galloway for having a style that matches what I've just described. Akira Toriyama's an inspiration too, the style isn't really simple but it is very distinct and looks awesome when drawn well.
Materials: Mechanical pencil, col-erase pencils, "drawing" pencils (I usually like the 4-6B range), Cintiq 12WX Wacom tablet.
Software: PaintTool SAI, GIMP, various others.

[1mfilms.com]

NAME: Parker, aka DJ PJ

STYLE: realistic proportions w\ cel-shading

INSPIRED BY: my dreams (lol)

MATERIALS: Wacom tablet (I only do digital stuff)

SOFTWARE: LightWave 3D, Vegas Pro, Photoshop (I also know Maya, Modo, Cinema 4D, ZBrush, and Mudbox)

[kijonaia]

Name: Jessica Door
Style: Mostly anime and Disney, as well as some fellow deviants on deviantART(such as Moemai and Jubilations)
Inspired by: Moemai, Jubilations, Manamaraya(now PaintedBees), WildSpiritWolf, Evana, etc. All from deviantART. lol I'm a bigger fan of the people who seem real and are young but soooo talented!

Materials: Mostly, I use my Wacom Bamboo tablet, but I also do SOME traditional work on occasion, for which I use basic HB/H/B pencils, gum eraser/normal eraser, and Sakura Microns of varying sizes.

Software: PaintToolSAI, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe AfterEffects CS5, GIMP 2.0, OpenCanvas, etc.

[Mamisch]

Name: MaritH
Style: Differs
Inspired by: Gaëlle Boisonnard, Fursy Teyssier, Nature, special people I meet
Materials: Indian ink, Henna, Jagua, pencils and all that sorts of stuff... Nikon D5000
Software: Photoshop CS4

[StarliteOtaku]

Name: Akari
Style: Anime (specifically chibi)
Inspired by: Atsushi Ohkubo, Z-Raid (on dA), and many, many, many others...
Materials: Mechanical pencil, fine-tipped Sharpie, colored pencils, Bamboo Create Tablet
Software: PaintTool SAI, Gimp 2

[choupanko]

Name: Chou (dA: here. (http://iChoulicio.deviantart.com))
Style: I can't describe it. It's anime-like, but not Japanese-style itself either. It changes according to my mood, but my style's a rather mature animanga style minus the shoujo sparkles.
Inspired by: Nomura Tetsuya (Square Enix Char designer), Atlus (Persona/SMT series), Yun Kouga and a local artist named Kaoru.
Materials: 0.5 mechanical pencil, Artline pen collection, Faber-Castell's Technical Pens and my small collection of Copics.
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Paint.NET, Manga Studio EX 4.0 and Paint Tool SAI.

[Rogue Angel]

Name: Rogue-Angel (DA here (http://rogue-angel.deviantart.com/).)

Style: Anime. Mostly Manga style line art work.

Inspired by: Lots. I mean lots. However I strive to produce work like Jouji Manabe (Outlanders, Drakuun, Caravan Kid, Ring x Mama, Tail Chasers among many others. Mostly H-Doujins I might add.)

Materials: 0.5mm Pentel P205 mechanical pencil

Software: Expression3, Adobe Photoshop CS5.5

[Mrsaturn513]

Name: Matthew
Style: sort of Studio Ghibli style anime, attempting realistic.
Inspired by: Kyoto Animation, Studio Ghibli
Materials: No. 2 Pencils and mechanical pencils, Fine and brush artist pens, Pencil Sharpener, Vinyl Eraser, Sketchbook, Sometimes I Colored Pencils, Bamboo Create Tablet.
Software: Sai Paint Tool
I don't think i'm really that great though.

[Kauritsuo]

Name: Karley Or Kauritsuo
Style: My style's a bit of a mutt. Disney, Western with Anime flare!
Inspired by: Aaaahh... I really can't tell you.. JUST WAY TOO many ;A;

Materials: .5 Mechanical Pencil, 24HD Cintiq, iMac, Intous 3 tablet

Software: Photoshop 5.5 mostly, Wanna get into working with SAI and Testing out this new software called "Mischief"