[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

[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

[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